How To Prevent Patcher Ransomware From Entering In Your PC

What is Patcher Ransomware?

Patcher Ransomware is a type of Ransomware which is known to have harmful effects on system performance. It’s a kind of virus that infects any PC and can easily hamper its overall working.

Patcher Ransomware basically spreads and finds its way into your system through spam emails, free download sources, hacked websites and pop-up advertisements. It is a potentially unwanted application which gains entry onto vulnerable computer machines by “Bundling” method. It changes the default browsing page and search engine and keeps running in the background without user’s permission and drastically effects system speed and performance.

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How Patcher Ransomware enters your system? 

Looking at the pace of digital advancement, hackers have developed a new trick for cyber-attack these days. The trick ensures that after installing a particular software the users will not require to pay any license fees. At times, Ransomware also enters your system as riskware patcher files which allow the user to run commercial software without a license.However contrary, to the promises made these offers are not legitimate and carry potential threats in the form of the harmful virus getting injected into your system.

Once the user downloads such software’s it launches the Ransomware which attacks the system security. In particular, they target personal and confidential information, encrypts them using a set of complicated algorithms, making it unusable. Once the files are encrypted cyber attackers ask the system owner to pay ransom for decrypting the files and related data. 

In addition to Ransomware, there is a high possibility that your system gets infected with the virus, malware, Trojan and threats which gets onto your system while downloading from illegitimate sources.

Distribution technique used by Patcher ransomware

1. It comes bundled with free downloaded applications from malicious websites and makes way for another harmful virus as well.
2. Spam email which contains contaminated hyperlinks and attachments.
3. Infected game servers and misleading Flash Player updates.
4. Torrent sites offering free download facility.
5. External media and memory cards.

How Does Patcher Ransomware Work?

Generally, Virus is disguised as a genuine EXE files and enters your system through spam email, malicious web links. These patcher.exe files open the path for various harmful virus and affect the safety of your computer drastically. Their main aim is to take full control of your computer and pass confidential data to hackers.

System performance is drastically affected as this virus can delete, modify and block important data, it also degrades your system performance and network connectivity.

Win32/Hacktool Patcher is the most commonly seen form of patcher virus and is widely used by cybercriminals to gain remote access to your computer system. Once Malware enters your system it disables all the pre-installed system security including Antivirus and Firewall to avoid detection.

Common Symptoms of Patcher Ransomware

Once attacked by Ransomware your system performance will start giving you clues. Below mentioned are few symptoms for your reference.

1. Once the Ransomware is downloaded, you will start getting frequent Pop-up messages and blank screens asking for Ransom.
2. PC processing speed and performance goes down drastically as patch.exe files and related virus uses extra CPU space.
3. Under the effect of the harmful virus, browsers will often tend to redirect you to irrelevant sites.
4. Increased number of unsolicited add and doubtful popups will be seen.
5. Certain installed applications may stop working.
6. It can also change your default browser page and search engine.