Cryptopay@aol.com is one of the worst computer virus you will never want to encounter in your whole life. It is listed as the top file-encryption infection that sneaks into computer silently. Our tech team found that Cryptopay@aol.com is packed on third party freeware and spam email attachments. At the moment you run the freeware installer or open attachments of spam emails, Cryptopay@aol.com will be loaded in a flash.
Once that has happened on your system, it will drive you to crazy. Cryptopay@aol.com will encrypt all your personal files if you do not remove it in time. Your documents, photos, emails, PDF files, music, movie, video and other types of files will be all diseased. With time going on, you will find that more and more files cannot be open any more. Cryptopay@aol.com shows you warning messages to tell you that you have to pay money to acquire Bitcoins and send the money to their account if you want to restore the encrypted files. It warns that you will be able to restore any files if you do not buy the decryption key, and they will ruin all your files if you try any other way to recover your files. But it has been revealed that, even you pay the fees to exchange the decryption key, the restoring of your files cannot be guaranteed. You may pay for nothing and still lose all your files. Therefore, it’s best not to send any money to these cyber criminal.
At this moment, removal of Cryptopay@aol.com will be the right action you should perform, thus you will have chance to decrease the number of encrypted files and guarantee the safety of your system. In most instances, when you try to open a program or a file, it will urge you to pay about or over pay around $400 to recover your files with similar warning message like this:
“All files including videos, photos and documents, etc on your computer are encrypted.
Encryptions was produced using a unique public key generated for this computer. To decrypt files, you need to obtain the private key.
The single copy of the private key, which will allow you to decrypt the files. Located on a secret server on the Internet; the server will destroy they key after a time specified in this window. After that nobody and never will be able to restore files. “
In worse case, Cryptopay@aol.com even completely locks down the infected PC by claiming that the user has been involved in illegal online activities. What they want is to force users to pay ransom money. It is used to help cyber criminals who sit remotely accumulate wealth from users through BitCoin. But you should keep in mind, if you pay money to the hacker for files decrypting, you banking account and other sensitive info can be stolen and you will suffer from more severe issues.
