Ransomware is a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. For instance, all of a sudden, your computer monitor greets you with a big red image, demanding that if you do not pay $250.00 to an unknown party in the next 48 hours, everything you know and love on your computer will be locked, encrypted or erased.
 
To help keep any virus at bay, please report anything unusual to Campus Support at 479.968.0646 or campussupport@atu.edu. For more information on this issue, visit: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/latest-teslacrypt-ransomware-adds-the-ccc-extension-to-encrypted-files/