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No. Once you got the ransom message, it is too late. First make sure you have completely removed the virus. then delete the converted files and restore them from your backups.
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No. Once you got the ransom message, it is too late. First make sure you have completely removed the virus. then delete the converted files and restore them from your backups.

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@kimputer and @rindi ... there is no backup of the files since this is personal laptop, and the shadow explorer (previous versions) show no files. i tried system restore with no luck.
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@kimputer and @rindi ... there is no backup of the files since this is personal laptop, and the shadow explorer (previous versions) show no files. i tried system restore with no luck.

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An after the fact comment, &nbsp;use crashplan &nbsp;(free) for your home computers. It is free to backup to another computer or an external drive. If you want to backup to cloud then it's approximately 150/year for unlimited storage.
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An after the fact comment,  use crashplan  (free) for your home computers. It is free to backup to another computer or an external drive. If you want to backup to cloud then it's approximately 150/year for unlimited storage.

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Dears,<br />
my client laptop was infected with CTB locker virus, which changed all file (office files, jpg, audio, etc...) extension to .fddrpw ... i.e. text.xls.fddrpw .... when i try to rename the extension from test.xls.fddrpw to test.xls ... the file become unreadable.<br />
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is there a way to remove the extension fddrpw from ALL files, and become readable? since the virus encrypt them.
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Dears,
my client laptop was infected with CTB locker virus, which changed all file (office files, jpg, audio, etc...) extension to .fddrpw ... i.e. text.xls.fddrpw .... when i try to rename the extension from test.xls.fddrpw to test.xls ... the file become unreadable.

is there a way to remove the extension fddrpw from ALL files, and become readable? since the virus encrypt them.

CTB Locker virus

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

Anti-Virus Apps

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge; it has also come to include programs that engage in various kinds of electronic fraud. Anti-spyware is software that removes or blocks that software; some common vendors include Malwarebytes, McAfee, Spybot-Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware and BitDefender.

Anti-Spyware

Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it. In an encryption scheme, the intended communication information or message, referred to as plaintext, is encrypted using an encryption algorithm, generating ciphertext that can only be read if decrypted. For technical reasons, an encryption scheme usually uses a pseudo-random encryption key generated by an algorithm. An authorized recipient can easily decrypt the message with the key provided by the originator to recipients, but not to unauthorized interceptors.