Delete ScorpionLocker ransomware

About this infection

ScorpionLocker ransomware ransomware is a file-encrypting piece of malicious software that can cause a lot of damage. Contamination might mean, you may permanently lose access to your data, so infection is no simple matter. It’s quite easy to get infected, which makes it a very dangerous malware. If your computer is infected, it’s quite likely you opened a spam email attachment, clicked on a malicious advert or fell for a fake download. After data is successfully encoded, it’ll ask you to pay a ransom for a decryptor. Between $100 and $1000 is likely what you’ll be asked to pay. Before rushing to pay, take a few things into account. There is nothing stopping criminals from taking your money, providing nothing in return. You certainly wouldn’t be the only person to get nothing. Look into some backup options, so that if this were to reoccur, you wouldn’t risk losing your data. You’ll be presented with many different options, but it should not be difficult to find the best option for you. You can recover data after you uninstall ScorpionLocker ransomware if you had backup already prior to the threat infiltrating your computer. These kinds of contaminations are hiding everywhere, so you will have to be ready. In order to keep a machine safe, one should always be ready to come across possible threats, becoming informed about their spread methods.

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How does file encrypting malware spread

Generally, data encoding malicious program is obtained when you open an infected email, press on an infected advertisement or download from unreliable sources. Nevertheless, it is possible for ransomware to use more elaborate methods.

It’s possible you opened a malicious email attachment, which would cause the ransomware to initiate. The infected file is simply attached to an email, and then sent out to hundreds of possible victims. Those emails might seem important, often covering money topics, which is why people open them in the first place. In addition to errors in grammar, if the sender, who should certainly know your name, uses greetings like Dear User/Customer/Member and strongly encourages you to open the attachment, you have to be careful. To explain, if someone whose attachment you should open sends you an email, they would use your name, not common greetings, and you would not need to look for the email in spam. Crooks also like to use big names like Amazon, PayPal, etc so that users become more trusting. If you remember pressing on some dubious advertisements or downloading files from suspicious web pages, that is also how the infection might have managed to get in. If you were visiting a compromised web page and pressed on an infected ad, it could have caused the data encrypting malware to download. Or you might have gotten the file encoding malware along with some file you downloaded from an unreliable source. Sources like ads and pop-ups are infamous for being not trustworthy sources, so avoid downloading anything from them. If a program was in need of an update, it would notify you via the application itself, and not through your browser, and usually they update without your interference anyway.

What does it do?

Because ransomware is able to permanently lock you out of your files, it’s considered to be a highly damaging threat. File encryption doesn’t take a long time, ransomware has a list of target files and can find all of them immediately. Weird file extensions will appear added to all affected files, and they will commonly indicate the name of ransomware. Some ransomware do use strong encryption algorithms on your files, which makes it difficult to recover files for free. You ought to then see a ransom note, which should explain what has happened. You’ll be offered to buy a decryption program, but that is not the suggested option. What’s stopping cyber criminals from simply taking could just take your money without giving you a decryptor. Furthermore, you would be giving crooks money to further create malware. The easily made money is regularly attracting cyber crooks to the business, which is thought to have made $1 billion in 2016. Think about investing the demanded money into trustworthy backup instead. If this kind of situation occurred again, you could just ignore it without worrying about losing your data. If you are not going to comply with the requests, proceed to terminate ScorpionLocker ransomware in case it is still operating. If you become familiar with the spread ways of this threat, you ought to be able to dodge them in the future.

ScorpionLocker ransomware elimination

For the process of fully terminating the ransomware, you’ll need to obtain malicious program removal software, if it isn’t already present on your computer. Unless you know exactly what you are doing, which is probably not the case if you are reading this, we do not advise proceeding to erase ScorpionLocker ransomware manually. Employ professional removal software to do it for you. The utility would detect and eliminate ScorpionLocker ransomware. So that you know where to start, guidelines below this article have been placed to help with the process. Sadly, those tools can’t help you recover your data, they’ll just erase the threat. But, you ought to also know that some ransomware is decryptable, and malware researchers may release free decryptors.

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Learn how to remove ScorpionLocker ransomware from your computer

• Step 1. Remove ScorpionLocker ransomware using Safe Mode with Networking.
• Step 2. Remove ScorpionLocker ransomware using System Restore
• Step 3. Recover your data

Step 1. Remove ScorpionLocker ransomware using Safe Mode with Networking.

• a) Step 1. Access Safe Mode with Networking.
• b) Step 2. Remove ScorpionLocker ransomware.

a) Step 1. Access Safe Mode with Networking.

For Windows 7/Vista/XP

1. Start → Shutdown → Restart → OK.
2. Press and keep pressing F8 until Advanced Boot Options appears.
3. Choose Safe Mode with Networking

For Windows 8/10 users

1. Press the power button that appears at the Windows login screen. Press and hold Shift. Click Restart.
2. Troubleshoot → Advanced options → Startup Settings → Restart.
3. Choose Enable Safe Mode with Networking.

b) Step 2. Remove ScorpionLocker ransomware.

You will now need to open your browser and download some kind of anti-malware software. Choose a trustworthy one, install it and have it scan your computer for malicious threats. When the ransomware is found, remove it. If, for some reason, you can't access Safe Mode with Networking, go with another option.

Step 2. Remove ScorpionLocker ransomware using System Restore

• a) Step 1. Access Safe Mode with Command Prompt.
• b) Step 2. Restore files and settings.

a) Step 1. Access Safe Mode with Command Prompt.

For Windows 7/Vista/XP

1. Start → Shutdown → Restart → OK.
2. Press and keep pressing F8 until Advanced Boot Options appears.
3. Select Safe Mode with Command Prompt.

For Windows 8/10 users

1. Press the power button that appears at the Windows login screen. Press and hold Shift. Click Restart.
2. Troubleshoot → Advanced options → Startup Settings → Restart.
3. Choose Enable Safe Mode with Command Prompt.

b) Step 2. Restore files and settings.

1. You will need to type in cd restore in the window that appears. Press Enter.
2. Type in rstrui.exe and again, press Enter.
3. A window will pop-up and you should press Next. Choose a restore point and press Next again.
4. Press Yes.

While this should have taken care of the ransomware, you might want to download anti-malware just to be sure no other threats are lurking.  

Step 3. Recover your data

• a) Using Data Recovery Pro to recover encrypted files.
• b) Restore files through Windows Previous Versions
• c) Using Shadow Explorer to recover files

While backup is essential, there is still quite a few users who do not have it. If you are one of them, you can try the below provided methods and you just might be able to recover files.

a) Using Data Recovery Pro to recover encrypted files.

1. Download Data Recovery Pro, preferably from a trustworthy website.
2. Scan your device for recoverable files.
3. Recover them.

b) Restore files through Windows Previous Versions

If you had System Restore enabled, you can recover files through Windows Previous Versions.

1. Find a file you want to recover.
2. Right-click on it.
3. Select Properties and then Previous versions.
4. Pick the version of the file you want to recover and press Restore.

c) Using Shadow Explorer to recover files

If you are lucky, the ransomware did not delete your shadow copies. They are made by your system automatically for when system crashes.

1. Go to the official website (shadowexplorer.com) and acquire the Shadow Explorer application.
2. Set up and open it.
3. Press on the drop down menu and pick the disk you want.
4. If folders are recoverable, they will appear there. Press on the folder and then Export.

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