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I recently got a virus called cryptowall, the version is the most recent being the 4.0 edition and there is no solution online, do you guys know any ways to fix this, any free anti virus softwares i can use to REMOVE the virus as it currently is impossible to un encrypt the data with out paying them money. If i did try to break the encryption with brute force, it would take forever. 

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Try these but your virus seems pretty bad, how did you get it (if you might know)

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/malicious-software-removal-tool-details.aspx

 

https://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

Also try this:

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-cryptowall-4-0-virus/

 

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get rid of the disk drive and start a new fresh  windows install on ssd and dont download that porn or torrent site again. 9/10 you a Shit out of luck in these. Dont click shit and dont visit websites that could harbor these kinds of things.

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I recently got a virus called cryptowall, the version is the most recent being the 4.0 edition and there is no solution online, do you guys know any ways to fix this, any free anti virus softwares i can use to REMOVE the virus as it currently is impossible to un encrypt the data with out paying them money. If i did try to break the encryption with brute force, it would take forever. 

Wow, uhhh, you may have to loose eveerything as that's pretty bad. 

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I recently got a virus called cryptowall, the version is the most recent being the 4.0 edition and there is no solution online, do you guys know any ways to fix this, any free anti virus softwares i can use to REMOVE the virus as it currently is impossible to un encrypt the data with out paying them money. If i did try to break the encryption with brute force, it would take forever. 

Well one thing I can recommend is if you decide to pay them or you reinstall windows, make sure to get ublock origin and only download from trusted websites. Also make sure you have an anti virus, but judging on what you've said, it sounds like you didn't have anything. Also get anti malware which you can get for free. 

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