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A change that’s been occurring in the scareware industry over the last few years is that most scareware today also classifies as ransomware.... Without advanced malware cleaning skills, a system infected with ransomware is usable only to give in to the blackmailer’s demands to pay. In this blog post I describe how different variants of ransomware lock the user out of their computer, how they persist across reboots, and how you can use Sysinternals Autoruns to hunt down and kill most current ransomware variants from an infected system.