Archiveus Virus Cracked
The Archiveus Ransomware virus has been cracked. For those that have not heard of this virus, this was a particularly nasty virus that would encrypt files from your “My Documents” folder and not share the key unless you paid a ransom to the virus author. If you find yourself or a friend afflicted by this, the code to unlock these files is mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw. These type of viri are particularly nasty. I would suspect that Archiveus is only the first of many. Therefore, let me take a minute to encourgage everyone to update their AV definitions, install all the latest patches, enable a spyware logger, and for God’s sake practice some safe computing. If you dont’ recognize the sender, don’t click on the VBS attachment. And even if you do recognize the sender, be sure to scan everything or to even look at using signed/secured email.
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