‘Say Hello To Little Virus Brings A Lot Of Problems’ Ransomware

Posted: June 26, 2013

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Ranking:	13,333
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	974

First Seen:	June 26, 2013
Last Seen:	October 10, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware is a variant of the previously-identified 'Everything On Your Computer Has Been Fully Encrypted' Ransomware, and like it, encrypts your files (or rearrange their code in a structured manner to make them unusable) to force you to pay for a key that will return them to normal. While the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware, unlike an FBI ransomware Trojan or a typical Ukash Virus, is relatively honest about why the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware wants your money, that doesn't mean you should spend money on paying a criminal who has no reason to follow up on his word. As an alternative, SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend a combination of traditional anti-malware strategies for removing the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware, following by the dutiful implementation of various freely-available decryption utilities.

The 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware: a Semi-Honest Ransom Demand

As a new variant of Trojan:Win32/Harasom.A or Troj/Agent-ABMG, the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware implements the basic attacks one would anticipate from most forms of ransomware Trojans: disabling some other applications automatically (such as basic Windows security/maintenance utilities) and displaying an unmissable warning message announcing its intentions. This message claims that the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware has encrypted your files via a method that's impossible to brute-force, even going so far as to delete the unencrypted original data through an unrecoverable method. Of course, SpywareRemove.com malware experts note that anyone who's smart enough to keep a remote backup for all important files should be able to recover from the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware's attack easily.

While the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware may encrypt your files if instructed to do so by its remote server (through which the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware also may download other malware or upload stolen information), the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware exaggerates the difficulty of removing its encryption attack. Most major PC security companies provide various forms of decryption tools that can restore any files affected by such attacks after the PC threat is removed, and, in any case, there's no reason to assume that paying the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware's criminal manager will encourage him or her to give you a functional decryption password.

Putting Down the Not-So-Small Problem that Comes with 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware

The criminal designing 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware's pop-ups should, perhaps, be applauded for not pretending that his attacks are part of a government legislative effort (as most ransomware Trojans are prone to attempting). However, this doesn't make paying the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware's ransom demand any more likely to help your computer, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers suggest ignoring the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware entirely in favor of reliable anti-malware solutions.

You most likely will need to block the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware from starting before you can use anti-malware software to delete the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware. Booting your PC from a secondary source, such as a removable hard drive or a secondary OS, should be enough to disable 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware so that the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware can be removed. While removing the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware doesn't decrypt your files, it must be stressed that most PC security companies offer some degree of decryption tools – especially for widely-distributed types of ransomware Trojans like the 'Say Hello to Little Virus Brings a Lot of Problems' Ransomware.

Technical Details

Additional Information

The following messages's were detected:

#	Message
1	Say Hello To Little Virus Brings A Lot Of Problems! Hello! My name is Max Sokolov if you see this message it means that my little virus running on your computer. I started to create this virus since 2010, at the moment the code is so refined that no one in the world can not stop it. All your personal files (photo, documents, databases) have been encrypted by a very strong cipher. You can check this by yourself – just look for files in all folders;) Virus encrypt your file using Advanced Encryption Standard and 256 symbols randomly generated password and delete source files using DOD 5220.22-M. (DOD 5220.22-M is the Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard – You can’t recover your files – Never). Virus sent this randomly generated password to our secure server and delete this password from your computer. (You can’t get this password – NEVER) This password is unique for each computer and stored on our secure server (and then erasing from this server and sending to us) and in each encrypted file. If you think that you or some specialist get this password from encrypted file – this is unreal even for government services, because here using 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard. To brute-force an AES-256-ECB encryption key in a known-plain text attack, using all possible combinations, on a CrayXE6 with one million Opteron 6282 SE cores, it would take up to ~ 78,344,731,523,332,652,678,509,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to complete the known-plain text attack. You want to ask, what do i need? I’m the only one who can save your PC;) Your will be able to resume your normal day to day operations without any interruption. I ask to transfer a small amount (min $50 or $60) with payment systems Moneypak, Vanilla Reload Network or Reloadit. To remove lock and decrypt your files you need to do next step: 1.Buy Moneypak, Vanillareload or Reloadit card. 2.Send me email with your ID number and card code (you can use mobile internet from your cell phone or another PC to send email) 3.Wait 1-5 hours while i will send you reply email password to unlock and decrypt your files. Send your Moneypak/Vanilla/Reloadit code to Email evilevilmaxsokolov@yahoo.com. Once i receive your payment and check it authenticity, i will send you reply email password to unlock and decrypt your files.

Message

Say Hello To Little Virus Brings A Lot Of Problems!
Hello! My name is Max Sokolov if you see this message it means that my little virus running on your computer. I started to create this virus since 2010, at the moment the code is so refined that no one in the world can not stop it. All your personal files (photo, documents, databases) have been encrypted by a very strong cipher. You can check this by yourself – just look for files in all folders;) Virus encrypt your file using Advanced Encryption Standard and 256 symbols randomly generated password and delete source files using DOD 5220.22-M. (DOD 5220.22-M is the Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard – You can’t recover your files – Never).
Virus sent this randomly generated password to our secure server and delete this password from your computer. (You can’t get this password – NEVER)
This password is unique for each computer and stored on our secure server (and then erasing from this server and sending to us) and in each encrypted file. If you think that you or some specialist get this password from encrypted file – this is unreal even for government services, because here using 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard. To brute-force an AES-256-ECB encryption key in a known-plain text attack, using all possible combinations, on a CrayXE6 with one million Opteron 6282 SE cores, it would take up to ~ 78,344,731,523,332,652,678,509,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to complete the known-plain text attack.
You want to ask, what do i need?
I’m the only one who can save your PC;) Your will be able to resume your normal day to day operations without any interruption. I ask to transfer a small amount (min $50 or $60) with payment systems Moneypak, Vanilla Reload Network or Reloadit. To remove lock and decrypt your files you need to do next step:
1.Buy Moneypak, Vanillareload or Reloadit card.
2.Send me email with your ID number and card code (you can use mobile internet from your cell phone or another PC to send email) 3.Wait 1-5 hours while i will send you reply email password to unlock and decrypt your files.
Send your Moneypak/Vanilla/Reloadit code to Email evilevilmaxsokolov@yahoo.com. Once i receive your payment and check it authenticity, i will send you reply email password to unlock and decrypt your files.