Filecoder - Ransomware

[Ink]

WeLiveSecurity (ESET) - Holding your Data to Ransom

The reason why we’re bringing up this old issue is that we’ve noted a significant increase in Filecoder activity over the past few summer months and in this blog post we hope to address the many questions we’re getting about this issue.

ESET LiveGrid® telemetry shows us that the weekly number of Win32/Filecoder detections have risen by over 200% since July 2013 from the average numbers in January through June 2013.

To continue reading, use the URL provided at the beginning of this post.

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Unpacking, if you're interested

http://www.malwaredigger.com/2013/06/the-case-of-win32filecoder-ransomware.html

 

[MalwareVirus]

is it possible to ransomware or other virus to manipulate my passward protected Anti-virus ?
As eset suggest to passward protect your AV.

 

[rebel4life]

hiya or you can have 2 passwords to get into your computer i use UAC password to open my computer and then a master password using dashlane 2.0 might work good but very interesting about giving a password for your security system

 

[MalwareVirus]

@rebel4life
Thanks for share