Nlikuwa nahitaji idm so nikaingia thepiratebay. First 3 or 4 searches ilikuwa na v 6.30 or something with 1000+ seeders. Apparently it was a shady ass installer which ended up installing a malware— a .mmpa ransonware.
Fvuk! Should’ve followed my instincts 'cause the moment nli-extract before installing, nlishuku something was off about this software.
It has encrypted all my files kwa mashini by adding .mmpa extension.
Google search and apparently ni virus mpya (from what I could gather), and so far no working solutions. System restore doesn’t work. Decryption tools too ni dead end.
Good thing documents and pictures nilikuwa nime-back up kwa drive.
As for music, videos na collection ya softwares, I’ll have to download them again.
Only solution was to format, since hizi website zingine na videos YouTube, hawana any useful information isipokuwa kuniuzia anti-virus(es) claiming it will clean my pc.
Lesson learnt: tread carefully when downloading softwares, especially in TPB.
Any recommendations on decent sites to download softwares za windows will be highly appreciated.
I would recommend you down-rate the download on TPB before someone else fall this. For humanity and community sake do this right away if not done yet. Kindly…
In this era of ransomware people ought to have a VM you can use to unpack any warez downloaded from the net. You just create a snapshot, copy the files to it and execute. If it begins to encrypt, you just revert VM to the last good state. Even if that fails, in a worst case you only lose the VM. There’s a very small risk that it may detect a sandbox and fail to execute, but its rare and only the most sophisticated kind of ransomware does this.
Attempting to install warez directly where all your important documents are is like dry frying a drunk whore you met at a club.