The old home PC has been held to ransom, and all documents and piccies have been encrypted. Fortunately for me, the music has been untouched, and so has email. I have salvaged some vital documents which were sent as attachments to emails, and as far as I can see, I've only lost one vitally important file.

I have a new PC which is what I'm on now, and it has highlighted the importance of backing documents up to a separate drive. I shall certainly be doing this in future.

OK, to the future. Has anyone any suggestions for programmes to remove this Trojan? Preferably low cost. The two worst case scenarios are taking it to a computer specialist, or salvaging what I can, and binning it. I haven't listed any of the TXT file details of it, for obvious reasons, but it mentions a Tor Browser. Don't know if that identifies it.

So, what good protection programmes do people use? This PC is using Ad-Aware free anti-virus, and I had Spybot S & D on the old one. I'm open to suggestions. Posting your recommendations may help other people with computer security, so bung 'em up here. I'm considering making a sticky thread for recommendations, for this very reason.

OK folks, the floor is yours.