Ransomware is a special type of malware.

It's kind of new and different compared to other malware.

While most malware is quiet, downloading silently in the background, hiding itself from

the victim, Ransomware is the opposite.

The moment it installs on your system, it announces it's there in the loudest and boldest

way possible.

Ransomware locks down your computer completely, rendering it unusable.

The purpose is to shout out that it has taken over your machine and until you pay a fee,

you're not getting it back.

There are so many stories right now about businesses and government departments that are

getting hit with Ransomware and it costs them hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix.

Russian Railways got hit, banks, hospitals, governments, towns, and the mobile phone operators

got hit.

Universities in China were hit, FedEx got hit in the US, Telefonica in Spain, and Renalt

in France.

They're all infected and their data was held ransom.

But what about the everyday person?

The person who has a laptop and uses it in evenings and after work and goes on the internet

to do shopping and other stuff.

What happens when we are targeted by an internet thug?

The story is about exactly that.

It's a story about individual users being hit with Ransomware on their own computers and

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