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What is Eijy ransomware

Eijy is a malicious program that encrypts all files on the victim’s computer. These types of viruses are called ransomware, because the hackers who made the virus will offer to decrypt the files – for a price. Eijy, in particular, belongs to the STOP/Djvu ransomware family. Most ransomware programs in this family are virtually indistinguishable from each other – for example, Zfdv is another virus in this family and it behaves almost identically.
The hackers communicate their ransom demands by making the virus leave a note on the victim’s desktop. As expected, the note is very similar to STOP/Djvu ransomware programs’ notes, and is called “_readme.txt”. It asks for $980 in ransom, through the price is halved during the first 72 hours after infection (a manipulative tactic to make the victims more likely to pay by creating a sense of urgency). The image above contains the full text of the note – that said, there’s not much more to it.
Eijy ransomware (and indeed most ransomware programs in general) change the extension of the files they encrypt to make sure the victim notices that something has happened. Eijy gives the files the .eijy extension – this means that a file called “1.jpg” would be renamed to “1.jpg.eijy”.
The guide below will offer you practical advice on dealing with this threat. It will explain how to remove Eijy ransomware and how to decrypt .eijy files.