The Lock2017 Ransomware is a working piece of crypto-threat that is able to encrypt a large number of files in a very short amount of time. This is the reason why users whose computers get attacked by the Lock2017 Ransomware may end up losing a significant fraction of their data before they find out that there is something fishy going on. When the Lock2017 Ransomware starts its attack, it will not announce its demands immediately. Instead, it will encrypt files in the background silently, and also rename them by appending the extension ‘.id-[victim’s ID number[10_NUMBER_VICTIM_ID][email protected][email protected].’ The types of files that the Lock2017 Ransomware targets is not known at the moment, but preliminary tests show that popular office documents, images, multimedia files, archives, and backup files are encrypted by the Lock2017 Ransomware’s attack successfully.
Once this step is complete, the Lock2017 Ransomware will display a ransom note that is contained in the file ‘README.txt.’ Usually, this file is placed on the user’s Desktop so that the victims of the Lock2017 Ransomware should look there if they don’t see the ransom message immediately. The note si rather lengthy, but it doesn’t contain very valuable information. In fact, the Lock2017 Ransomware’s authors have not even provided their victims with information about the money they’d demand to provide the decryption. Instead, they tell users to send a message to either [email protected] or [email protected] and include their unique identification number in the email’s body. After this is complete, they should get additional instructions in the next 24 hours.
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Contact us by email only, send us an email along with your ID number and wait for further instructions. Our specialist will contact you within 24 hours.
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Although the Lock2017 Ransomware’s note does not mention anything about money, it is clear that this is what the authors of the Lock2017 Ransomware will be after. Usually, crypto-threat operators demand hundreds of dollars from their victims and promise them that they’ll be provided with decryption instructions as soon as the transaction is complete. This solution may seem convenient, but even paying, users are not guaranteed to get the decryptor in the end. Instead of trusting cyber crooks who locked thousands of your files, you should proceed to remove the Lock2017 Ransomware with the assistance of a trustworthy anti-malware scanner. As for the encrypted data, there isn’t a reliable and free method to recover it for now. Some file restoration utilities might be able to restore some of your files partially, but full recovery is unlikely to be possible unless you have a backup copy of your data. Regardless of this, victims of the Lock2017 Ransomware should preserve the encrypted files in case malware researchers manage to crack the Lock2017 Ransomware’s encryption algorithm.
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