In order to fight ransom malware Kaspersky Lab specialists designed a special utility Kaspersky WindowsUnlocker. The utility can be launched when your computer is started from Kaspersky Rescue Disk and allows working in graphic and text modes of Kaspersky Rescue Disk.

When working with the computer a banner (ad's module) appears on the screen and requests sending SMS to a specified phone number, it means that your computer is infected with ransom malware. Such malware is created to block access to a computer or restrict access to some functions and request a ransom to restore computer functionality.

The Kaspersky WindowsUnlocker utility is designed to disinfect registries of all operating systems installed on the computer (including operating systems installed on different partitions or in different folders on one partition) and disinfect user registry trees. Kaspersky WindowsUnlocker does not perform any actions with files (in order to disinfect files you can use Kaspersky Rescue Disk).

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