How Do I Recover Files That Have Been Replaced By a Virus and Get Rid Of The Virus?

I was trying to open Adobe After Effects recently but it was taking a lot of time to load. I checked task manager and found several instances of the background process "Ashampoo Snap" opened. I opened the file location and surpri… Continue reading How Do I Recover Files That Have Been Replaced By a Virus and Get Rid Of The Virus?

How to decrypt encrypted data from .repl ransomware on Windows? [duplicate]

My PC is infected with some sort of ransomware.
I managed to take out the root processes of the virus (which encrypt and change all document, images and video files to *.repl files) but recovering the infected data is a bit difficult and n… Continue reading How to decrypt encrypted data from .repl ransomware on Windows? [duplicate]

Formatting potentially infected USB stick before plugging it into trusted devices

As stated in the title – is formatting my own USB stick on a separate computer with live-Ubuntu enough to prevent malware infection?

I work as computer technician and sometimes my pendrives must be plugged into potentially unsafe compute… Continue reading Formatting potentially infected USB stick before plugging it into trusted devices