Will Malware Fighter 4 catch ransomware such as TeslaCrypt?

[MontyW]

My father-in-law got a very nasty infection with TeslaCrypt 3.0 also known as

• .micro file extension
  
• RSA-4096
  
• help_recover_instructions+klh
  
• Trojan.Agent.Trace
  

This encrypts all files and demands ransom of €500 for password/ code to unlock files. He did not pay and I wiped his hdd and reinstalled Win7. He lost all his files and photos, and also his back-up external hdd was also infected. But all his files he had emailed with Hotmail so he could recover them and I have all his photos.

 

He was using McAfee (free).

 

I want to know if Malware Fighter 4 will catch ransom-ware such as TeslaCrypt? That is what I have now loaded on his PC.

 

[enoskype]

Hi MontyW, welcome to IObit Forum! :-)

 

Please have a look at Latest malware reported by users that IMF can remove topic, you can have an idea of the latest malware IMF is capable of catching.

 

I may have missed it but I don't think TeslaCrypt is caught by IMF. I hope I am wrong! Perhaps IMF PRO with bitdefender engine, but I strongly advise using a well known anti-virus software. (Check the site specifically for TeslaCrypt. It has many variants)

 

Cheers.

 

 

[Cicely]

Hi MontyW,

 

Sorry for my late reply.

 

Have you you removed TeslaCrypt 3.0? We have collected the related information in database 1533 on 2016-03-29. If you have not removed it, please update to this database to remove it directly.

 

Thanks for helping us improve our products.

 

 

[Saigonera]

I wonder why you are so concerned about removal of the ransomware. It is rather about data recovery as it wants you to pay lots of money or else your files remain unreadable.

[Cicely]

Hi Saigonera,

 

Sorry I could not fully understand your post, since you said "It is rather about data recovery", did you talk about IObit Malware Fighter?

 

Thanks.