Remove [email protected] Ransomware

How to Remove [email protected] Ransomware.

When [email protected] first enters the computer it immediately begins to search all connected hard drives. Once the enumeration completes the virus will start to encrypt all popular and useful data. The [email protected] will make your files unopenable and change their extension to *.fff. This types of infections are the among the nastiest malware codes ever created. The enryption of the files will start immediately. Below we will explain the way this particular infection operates. Ransomware viruses have existed for 20 years, but they only became widespread in the past few years. The two famous groups were named CryptoLocker and Cryptowall. Experts estimate that those two ransomware infections alone did damage for more than 20 million dollars.

If you have been infected, the ransomware will change all your most used files with .fff extension and thus take them for ransom. Every document or picture will be rendered inaccessible. It will leave a text file named VIRUSFUCKEDYOURFILES with the following information:

• Hello
  If you wish to get all your files back, you need to pay 3 BTC.
  How to get bitcoins?
  1. google bitcoin ATMs
  2. google localbitcoins dot com
  3. google: buy bitcoins
  This is the only way to get your files back.
  There’s no way to decrypt them without the original key.
  The price is non-negotiable.
  After paying 3 BTC and emailing the confirmation of payment you will be provided with a decoder.
  If you don’t trust me, you can email one of your files, I will decode it and send it back to you.
  However, if the file you’re requesting to decode is valuable, I will send you either a quote from it or a screenshot.
  I apologise for any inconvenience caused.
  Let me know if you want to proceed.
  Thank you for cooperation.

What can I do?

The first thing it to get rid of [email protected] ransomware, because any new files you transfer will also get encrypted. Unfortunately, just deleting the virus will not bring your files back. What you can actually do is recover the originals. It depends on the empty space of your HDD at the time of deletion and also how many data was written on the drive before the infection.

THe other thig is you just delete all the data if it is not so important to you and start from scratch. Just make sure you delete the virus afterwards lest you be faced with another “VIRUSFUCKEDYOURFILES” message.

Attention! You should be aware that all of your accounts and passwords were likely compromised. Viruses are designed to collect every piece of private information. We advise you to change all your passwords, once you clean your computer, especially if you make online banking or shopping.

How Can I Remove [email protected] virus?

Compatible with Microsoft

SpyHunter is the recommended removal tool for the [email protected] Virus. You can use the free scanner to detect the parasite, however if you want to delete it automatically you need to register the antimalware program.
What if SpyHunter failed to Detect or Remove the infection? – Find out here how to use the FREE Support.

Remove [email protected] infection Manually

1. Open your task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
   Locate the process of the Ransomware. Have in mind that this is usually a random generated file.
   Before you kill the process, type the name on a text document for later reference.
   Navigate to your %appdata%/roaming folder and delete the executable.
2. Then open your Windows Registry Editor and navigate to
   1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
   2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
   3. Delete any suspicious key pointing to an executable in the %TEMP% tirectory or the %appdata% directory
3. You can alternatively use your built in msconfig program to check the entry point of the virus. Please, have in mind that the names in your machine might be different as they might be generated randomly.