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This is a detection for a ransomware trojan.  It encrypts files on the harddrive, creates a text-file indicating what has happened, and gives email addresses to send the ransom money to.

Found documents are encoded and a text file named read_me.txt is placed in the directory containing the following text:

Hello,    your   files   are   encrypted   with   RSA-4096   algorithm
You  will  need  at least few years to decrypt these files without our
software.  All  your  private  information  for  last  3  months  were
collected and sent to us.
To decrypt your files you need to buy our software. The price is $300.
To  buy  our software please contact us at: %s and provide us
your  personal code %d. After successful purchase we will send
your  decrypting  tool,  and  your private information will be deleted
from our system.
If  you  will not contact us until 07/15/2007 your private information
will be shared and you will lost all your data.
Glamorous team.

Author: Tom Chambers. This article was last read on: 05 January 2009.