This virus is on your computer, the central government has issued an alert, keep these things in mind

Ransomeware Alert: If you work a lot on the computer, then this news is important for you. Actually for the last few days a virus named Diavol PC is active in the country. The Government of India has also issued an alert regarding this virus. It has been said in this alert that hackers transmit this malware to the computer through email and then the ransom game starts. In case of non-receipt of money, thugs damage your data.

Understand Diavol PC Virus First

In an alert issued by the government’s agency Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), it has been told that this virus is targeting the Windows computer. Once this virus enters the computer, then the control of the entire system goes to the hackers. Hackers lock your computer as soon as you get control. After this, in the name of unlocking it, he demands money from the computer owner.

works like this

CERT-In has told in its advisory that this ransomware (virus) named Diavol is compiled with Microsoft Visual C / C ++ Compiler. It creates the file with Encrypted User Mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls. It knocks on your computer through email. Hackers give a link to OneDrive in the email. This link takes you to another page to download a Zip file. The ISO file on this page contains LNK files and DLLs, which, when opened, make the system vulnerable to malware.

What is Ransomware

Ransomware is a ransom demanding virus. Hackers make it in such a way that it encrypts all the files on any computer. Due to this the owner of the computer is not able to use them. After this the hackers demand a hefty ransom in return for removing them.

take this caution

Precaution is the best way to avoid this virus. You should take this precaution.

• Pay more attention to your email. Do not open the incoming mail from any unknown email id.
• Do not even download the attachments given in such mails.
• If it is not necessary, do not share your email ID everywhere or on public websites.
• Keep a good anti virus software in the computer and keep scanning from time to time. So that you can know that there is no virus in the system.