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LMAS virus

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My pc got afftected with lmas virus all my files are encrypted.. pls help to decrypt them

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You are having a bad day, probably will get worse…

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Read this, especially the entire first page
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/671473/stop-ransomware-stop-puma-djvu-promo-drume-help-support-topic/
and here https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/748506/lmas-ransomware/

Do not pay the ransom, hopefully you have a good backup on a separate disk.
Wiz

Can you share how this happened?

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Help others avoid your misfortune. Tell us how this happened.

Lmas

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I was trying to download crack Keygen file for a software and I downloaded a zip file and trying to install exe I ignored warming about bad file ended up in lmas attack

Thank you for revealing this.

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And being honest. I hope the recovery works out.

This exact mechanism is discussed in linked articles

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in my post above. Recovery may be possible, but from what I read is not very likely unless you have extensive backups. You may be looking at a total re-format and re-installation of Windows, at the least you probably should find a known clean PC and download one of the major antimalware companies (like Emsisoft, McAfee, Norton, Avast etc.) cleaning disks that you burn to DVD or USB, boot your infected PC with that and let it attempt to remove the malware. Recovery of the damaged files is the big unknown.
Never, ever download cracked software, key generators etc. This has been a favorite attack vector of malware distributors for the 40+ years I’ve been involved in computing (we used to give warnings on the old BBS systems back in the early 1980s…yes, I’m old!, Hehe)
Good luck, and there are probably several forum discussions about formatting and re-installing Windows, just do a search!
Wiz

This article may help

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I did an internet search and found this:https://sensorstechforum.com/lmas-virus-file/

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