Decrypting Files Affected by Ransomware Virus on Windows PC - Encryption Algorithm and Virus Extensions

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First of all let's start with "what does ransomware mean?"And"how does this virus behave?".
Ransomware, is a virus that affects all operating systems Windows, for several years now. Through his behavior and through solution solutions almost nonexistent, ramsomware is one of the most virus destroyers, known until this hour. It infects a large number of computers, via downloading and downloading dubious applications on websites, then almost irreversibly encrypting all data stored on the hard disk Windows Infected PC. You can lose important documents of any kind, pictures, audio files, databases and other files that can be stored on your hard drive.
By the beginning of this year, the encryption algorithm for most types of ramsomware virus was unknown. A decryption key being almost impossible to create, and the attempts by recovery of encrypted files, to which various extensions of the virus were added, were in vain.
The ransomware viruses known by this hour are not very few. 7ev3n, 8lock8, Alpha, aUTOLOCK, BitCryptor, BitMessage, Booyah, Brazilian Ransomware, BuyUnlockcodes, Cerberus, Chimera, CoinVault, Coverton, Crypren, Crypt0L0cker, CryptoDefense, CryptoFortress, CryptoHasYou, CryptoHitman, CryptoJoker, CryptoMix, CryptoTorLocker, CryptoWall 2.0, CryptoWall 3.0, CryptoWall 4.0, CryptXXX, CryptXXX 2.0, Crysis, CTB-Locker, DMA Locker, DMA Locker 3.0, ECLR Ransomware, EnCiPhErEd, Enigma, GNL Locker, Hi Buddy!, HydraCrypt, Jigsaw, JobCrypter, KeRanger, KEYHolder, KimcilWare, Kriptovo, KryptoLocker, Le Chiffre, Locky, Lortok, Magic, Maktub Locker, MireWare, Mischa, Mobef, NanoLocker, Nemucod, Nemucod-7z, OMG! Ransomcrypt, PadCrypt, PClock, Powerware, Protected Ransomware, Radamant, Radamant v2.1, RemindMe, Rokku, Samas, Sanction, Shade, Shujin, SuperCrypt, Surprise, TeslaCrypt 0.x, TeslaCrypt 2.x, TeslaCrypt 3.0, TeslaCrypt 4.0, TrueCrypter, UmbreCrypt, VaultCrypt, WonderCrypter, Xort.
However, there is also a good thing if we can call it that. The big one of these dreams uses the same encryption algorithm, or a very close one, which has undergone only minor changes.

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About 2-3 months, a common database is in place that identifies types of ransomware viruses, their extensions, and the encryption algorithm. At this database he works voluntarily, hackers from all over the world, to stop this virus time in the near future.

Link to the database - This database is maintained by @nyxbone (Twitter)

Careful! If your PC is infected with a ramsomware and you are asked for money to decrypt the files, it's not a good idea to pay. It is very possible that after you pay, the files remain encrypted.

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