A ransomware is a piece of malware that will lock your machine by encrypting your files and even database. Some will prevent you to load browser or any app that is seems as a way to get help. You will need to pay a fee either monetary or some ways that violates your privacy and security to get your files and control back.

Ransomware comes in via three(3) main methods :

		As an attachment in your email
	Ransomware could be modified from variants and sent via targeted emails. Sometimes ransomware are downloaded from an agent which are designed to avoid detection by common Antivirus.
		From the internet
	Surfing pornographic, free serial keys and other questionable sites are open invitation to get your system infected. Downloading popular hacked applications via bittorrent is also a common gateway for such infection.
		It is planted
	This is the hardest ransomware to detect simply because it was planted there by a visitor or someone known to the owner of the machine.

We have great news for you. For most of the variants and even modified versions of the top ransomware found, there is now a solution that rids you from getting infected.

RIP Ransomware. No money for you, but here are some flowers. Kasperksy version 8 onwards now comes with anti-ransomware detection. Find out now how this new solution can protect you from getting a digital ransom note and protect your precious data.