How to remove SLAM ransomware

What is  SLAM ransomware

SLAM ransomware will encode your files, because it is ransomware. Threat can result in severe consequences, as the data you may no longer access could be permanently damaged. In addition, infecting a system is very easy, which is one of the reasons why ransomware is thought to be very damaging. Opening spam email attachments, pressing on malicious ads and bogus downloads are the most common reasons why file encrypting malware may infect. Once the encoding process is completed, a ransom note will pop up, asking you to pay for data decoding. The amount of money asked depends on the data encrypting malicious software, the demands may be to pay $50 or the price could go up to a couple of thousands of dollars. Whether you’re asked for a lot of money, or a small amount, complying with the demands isn’t suggested. Relying on cyber criminals to recover your files would be naive, since there’s nothing preventing them from simply taking your money. There are plenty of accounts of users getting nothing after giving into with the requests. Investing the demanded money into credible backup would be wiser. While you’ll be presented with a lot of different options, it shouldn’t be hard to pick the best option for you. And if by chance you had backed up your files before the contamination took place, simply delete SLAM ransomware before you recover files. It is critical that you prepare for these kinds of situations because another similar contamination is probably going to happen again at some point. If you want to stay safe, you have to familiarize yourself with potential threats and how to protect yourself.

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File encrypting malware distribution ways

Although there are special cases, most ransomware tend to use the most basic ways of infection, such as spam email, infected adverts and downloads. That doesn’t mean authors will not use sophisticated methods.

It is possible you opened an infected file added to an email, which would prompt the data encrypting malicious software to launch. Essentially, this method is just attaching a file to an email and sending it to many users. As those emails often use sensitive topics, like money, plenty of people open them without even thinking about what may occur. What you can expect a file encrypting malicious software email to contain is a general greeting (Dear Customer/Member/User etc), noticeable mistypes and errors in grammar, strong encouragement to open the file added, and the use of a famous company name. A company whose email is vital enough to open would not use general greetings, and would instead write your name. It would not be surprising if you see known company names (Amazon, eBay, PayPal) be used, because when users notice a familiar name, they are more likely to let down their guard. It’s also possible that you interacted with some dangerous advertisement when on a dubious website, or obtained a file or program from some dubious source. Certain web pages might be hosting infected advertisements, which if engaged with could trigger malicious downloads. And try to stick to official download sources as much as possible, because otherwise you may be jeopardizing your system. You should never get anything, not programs and not updates, from adverts or pop-ups. If a program had to update itself, it would do it automatically or alert you, but not via browser.

What happened to your files?

An infection may result in permanent file loss, which is what makes it such a damaging threat. Once it is inside, it will take minutes, if not seconds to find the files it wants and encrypt them. All files that have been encoded will have an extension added to them. While not necessarily in every case, some file encoding malicious software do use strong encoding algorithms for file encryption, which makes it difficult to recover files without having to pay. When all target files have been locked, a ransom note will appear, with information about what has happened. You will be offered to buy a decryption utility, but that isn’t the recommended choice. Remember that you are dealing with hackers, and how would you stop them from just taking your money and not providing you a decryption key in exchange. You would also be financing crook’s projects, in addition to likely losing your money. The easily made money is regularly luring crooks to the business, which is thought to have made more than $1 billion in 2016. Instead of paying the ransom, we encourage buying backup. And if this type of infection occurred again, your files wouldn’t be endangered as you could just access them from backup. If you have made the decision to not put up with the demands, you’ll have to delete SLAM ransomware if you believe it to still be inside the system. You can dodge these types of threats, if you know how they spread, so try to become familiar with its distribution methods, at least the basics.

SLAM ransomware removal

To check if the infection is still present and to get rid of it, if it’s, anti-malware utility will be needed. You could involuntarily end up harming your computer if you attempt to manually delete SLAM ransomware yourself, so doing everything yourself isn’t advised. Using anti-malware software would be a safer choice because you wouldn’t be risking damaging your system. Such security programs are made to uninstall SLAM ransomware and all other similar threats, so you should not encounter any issues. However, if you aren’t sure about where to start, guidelines can be found below. Just to be clear, anti-malware will merely get rid of the infection, it cannot help with file recovery. But, you ought to also bear in mind that some file encoding malicious software is decryptable, and malware researchers could create free decryptors.

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Learn how to remove SLAM ransomware from your computer

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

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

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