AVG announces 6 new tools to free your data from ransomware

Ransomware has gone mainstream with several high-profile attacks. It essentially locks your data away and demands money to free it – essentially mob protection money. While some tools have been released to aid frantic people in these times, most versions have gone unfixed. Now AVG, the free antivirus company, has come out with six new tools designed to fight this affliction. Each is for a different form of this malware, AVG states "Our new free tools are for the decryption of six current ransomware strains: Apocalypse, BadBlock, Crypt888, Legion, SZFLocker, and TeslaCrypt". That doesn't cover all of the flavors that are… [Continue Reading]