Password to Unlock Files Held Hostage by Ransomware Trojan Revealed   6/2/2006 - 1,078 views, 2 Comments

Summary: Archiveus is the newest of a string of Trojans being dubbed "ransomware" because they lock and hold your files hostage until you either purchase something from the ransomware's author or pay the ransomware's author money outright. Here is the password to unlock your files which have been locked by the ransomware Archiveus.

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We’ve written several stories in the past about what is now being dubbed “ransomware”, Trojans which hold your files hostage for ransom, some of which was attributed to a security hole in Internet Explorer which let the ransom Trojan in.

The most recent article was just a few weeks ago, with the appearance of Trojan ransomware Ransom-A.

Now the password for one of the newest ransomware Trojans, “Archiveus”, has been discovered and is being made public.

The password for the Archiveus ransomware trojan is:

mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw

According to All Headline News, that password “should restore all the hijacked files.”

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2 Comments »

  1. yo hope this works

    Comment by taz — 6/9/2006 @ 6:47 am

  2. where do you enter this password at

    Comment by jeff — 6/11/2006 @ 8:57 am

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