Một tập tin YKcol là một tập tin được mã hóa bởi virut ổ khóa, con ngựa Tơ-Roa sử dụng bởi tội phạm ảo.Nó chứa một tập tin người dùng, như.PDF hay tập tin.WM2, được mã hóa bằng virus Locky.Tập tin YKcol ngày càng phổ biến trong phần thưởng và giống với tập tin.lockKY.

The Locky virus is highly dangerous malware. It is commonly referred to as ransomware, where the purpose of the virus is to take your files hostage and force you to pay the perpetrator (typically by way of bitcoin) to unlock your files. The virus is commonly introduced through spam emails titled "Status of invoice" with a .7Z attachment, which is a .VBS file compressed with 7-Zip compression. If you download the 7Z file and decompress it, the VBS file is run and the virus begins scrambling your files, renaming them with the ".ykcol" extension, and encrypting them. The virus then generates a .BMP (ykcol.bmp) or .HTM (ykcol.htm) ransom note informing you of the takeover and what you need to do to recover your files. Unfortunately, there is no program currently available to effectively restore your files. If you backup your files you can execute a full system restore. Otherwise, the only known way to decrypt your infected files is to pay the perpetrator for the private key and decrypt program. NOTE: YKCOL is LOCKY backwards.