Ooops, your files have been encrypted!

I turned on my work laptop over the weekend, and I have the virus that has been all over the news . How do I get rid of WannaCry 2.0?

I have a message that says:

Ooops, your files have been encrypted!

It tells me that I don't have long before my files will be deleted. There's no way I'm paying these scammers!!!

What are my options for getting the files decrypted? I will have backups from when I last synced my laptop in the office, but that was two weeks ago. I don't have any local backups, but I would like to try and recover my documents as my company will just format the laptop.

Can anyone let me know how I got infected in the first place? I don't go to dodgy sites, so I don't know how I got it.

 

I think people have had to rely upon data back ups rather than being able to decrypt.

I guess that if anyone had come up with a decryption method, without the key known only to the perpetrator, they would be publicising their decryption service.

If you Google, you will find fuller technical description than I can give here, but in a network, once infected, this malware can spread to devices on said network without any requirement of user initiating any download.

 

link: (Sorry, did not have this to hand, yesterday)

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...covery&usg=AFQjCNFCbH7SsMnU11kIrLWbuqR8yhgJKA

 

Your files may not be encrypted. they may have just had the file exstention renamed by a fake ransomware.
My neighbor's XP 32 bit computer which was infected with fake ransomware. I took a close look at her files that she could no longer open. The file extensions had all been renamed. Out of curiosity a tried "right click open with." The PDF files opened with Adobe Reader. This fake ransomeware just changed the file extensions. She knew what program to open each file so I did not go to the trouble of changing the file extensions on hundreds of her files.