<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" >What is a ransomware virus? </h1>
Ransomware is a kind of hacker through technical means to encrypt the important data files in the victim's machine, and finally force the victim to pay the hacker a ransom for file decryption, after the hacker receives the ransom, further assist the victim to recover the encrypted data, so as to achieve the purpose of the virus illegal profit extortion, ransomware virus is one of the most popular virus types in recent years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > there are several types of ransomware viruses:</h1>
A. Encrypting files inside the attack machine using encryption algorithms (popular)
B. Encrypt disk partitions directly (less)
C. Prevent users from logging into the operating system normally after hijacking the operating system boot area (less)
