Ditto. I just helped a neighbor with some issues they had on their laptop. He managed to get one of these Crypto viruses (Crowti) and it was a royal pain to try

Ditto. I just helped a neighbor with some issues they had on their laptop. He managed to get one of these Crypto viruses (Crowti) and it was a royal pain to try to remove. Luckily he didn't really use nor have many needed personal files on the machine and the criminals allow you to restore one file to show you they can in fact decrypt your files. He only needed one file from the machine, that's the one we restored. After getting the file and pointlessly trying to remove the virus and other junk that got installed I realized I couldn't trust the machine even if I truly thought I removed it completely so I wiped it, repartitioned it and reinstalled everything.