This right here is the modulus operandi of future attacks. Obviously I will not double click BritneySpears.exe but I might definitely execute app installer which looks legit. This was my first Virus infection in years and I don't even remember when the last I was infected. It is worthless junk which just sits there and takes up resources on all Windows PCs. Even CNet would have been said mighty defender in a sarcastic way. I downloaded it from Ammyy Admin's website as it is the first google search result. I had asked their support to get access of my pc through TeamViewer (which I already had installed) but he was trained to say it was not on their pc. Or they just said get it off the net? Did they give you a link to the actual site (yeah its crappy) or did you grab it from like cnet or something? So did they point to where they have a copy they distribute to their customers. The company you got your cert from? Who suggest you use this software? Do they own a legal license since clearly they are using it for business use. Which I am curious what company that was. Seems that was what was suggested by the support team he called. My advice to fellow Neowinians: Do not use Ammyy Admin for remote access needs. Which makes me think that they are hand in gloves with the ransomware coders. I did a little google search on this Ammyy Admin website and apparently they get hacked every month or so when they randomly start packaging this Cerber ransomware in their executable. Let them rot in hell while I move on with my life. My backup was of yesterday's so I did not lose any data. I did a clean 3 pass format and reinstalled Windows again. Full system scan after encryption revealed nothing. The damn antivirus didn't even know what was going on. All files were renamed to some gibberish alphanumerical names with cerber3 extension. My wallpaper changed to Cerber Ransomware. After 1/2 hr, my PC speakers were alive with voice "Your PC has been encrypted" go to this link on Tor and pay 2 bitcoins to decrypt your data. Ran it and the guy remotely solved my issue. So I went to the Ammyy website and downloaded the file. The guy was helpful and asked me to install this freeware Ammyy Admin which is TeamViewer alternative. Today I needed help with installing digital signature certificate and I couldn't.
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