Remove .FTCODE extension virus

About this infection

.FTCODE extension virus will encode your files, since it’s ransomware. You have got a very serious infection on your hands, and it might lead to severe issues, such as you losing your files for good. Furthermore, contaminating your system is fairly easy, thus making data encoding malware a very dangerous contamination. If you have recently opened a weird email attachment, pressed on a suspicious advert or downloaded a program promoted on some shady web page, that’s how it infected your system. After the encoding process is finished, it’ll request that you pay a specific amount of money for a for a method to decode files. You might be requested to pay $50, or $1000, it all depends on which ransomware you have. If you’re thinking about paying, look into alternatives first. We very much doubt cyber criminals will feel obligated to assist you in recovering your data, so they may just take your money. There are many accounts of users receiving nothing after giving into with the requests. Instead of giving into the requests, you should buy backup with that money. There are plenty of options to pick from, and you’re sure to find the most appropriate one. And if by accident you had backed up your files before the contamination took place, just terminate .FTCODE extension virus before you recover files. You will run into malicious program like this everywhere, and you will probably get contaminated again, so you have to be ready for it. In order to guard a system, one must always be on the lookout for possible threats, becoming informed about how to avoid them.

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Data encoding malicious software spread ways

doesn’t use complicated ways to spread and generally sticks to sending out malicious email attachments, compromised adverts and corrupting downloads. That does not mean creators won’t use sophisticated methods.

You probably got the infection through email attachment, which might have came from an email that looks completely real at first glance. Once the infected file is opened, the ransomware will be able to start the encoding process. You can usually find those emails in the spam folder but some people think of them as credible and transfer them to the inbox, thinking it’s credible. The use of basic greetings (Dear Customer/Member), strong pressure to open the file attached, and many grammatical errors are what you should look out for when dealing with emails from unfamiliar senders that contain files. To explain, if someone important would send you a file, they would would know your name and would not use general greetings, and you wouldn’t have to look for the email in spam. Huge company names like Amazon are often used because people know of them, thus are more likely to open the emails. Via malicious advertisements/downloads may have also been how you contaminated your device with the file encrypting malicious program. Certain websites may be harboring infected advertisements, which if pressed may trigger malware to download. And attempt to stick to valid download sources as often as possible, because otherwise you are jeopardizing your device. You ought to never download anything, not software and not updates, from adverts or pop-ups. If a program needed to update itself, it would do it automatically or notify you, but not through browser.

What happened to your files?

Malicious program specialists often warn about how damaging data encoding malicious software could be, most importantly, its ability to permanently encode files. And it takes minutes to have your data encrypted. The file extension added to all affected files makes it highly obvious what occurred, and it usually indicates the name of the ransomware. Your files will be locked using strong encryption algorithms, which might be impossible to break. A ransom note will then launch, or will be found in folders that have encrypted files, and it should explain everything, or at least attempt to. The ransomware note will encourage you to buy a decryption utility, but whatever the price is, we do not advise paying it. You’re dealing with crooks, and how would you go about stopping them from just taking your money and giving you nothing in exchange. Not only would you be risking losing your money, you would also be funding their future criminal projects. The easily made money is regularly luring more and more people to the business, which reportedly made more than $1 billion in 2016. Consider investing the demanded money into reliable backup instead. In case of a similar situation again, you could just get rid of it without being anxious about potential data loss. Just pay no mind to the demands and remove .FTCODE extension virus. You can dodge these kinds of infections, if you know how they spread, so try to familiarize with its spread ways, at least the basics.

How to delete .FTCODE extension virus

Keep in mind that anti-malware tool will be required to entirely get rid of the ransomware. You could accidentally end up harming your device if you try to manually delete .FTCODE extension virus yourself, so doing everything yourself isn’t suggested. Using anti-malware software would be a safer option because you would not be risking damaging your system. Such security tools are made to delete .FTCODE extension virus and all other similar threats, so it shouldn’t cause issues. Instructions to help you will be given below, in case you are not sure how to begin. Just to be clear, anti-malware will only be able to get rid of the infection, it’s not going to restore your data. But, you ought to also keep in mind that some data encoding malicious program can be decrypted, and malware specialists may create free decryption utilities.

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Learn how to remove .FTCODE extension virus from your computer

• Step 1. Remove .FTCODE extension virus using Safe Mode with Networking.
• Step 2. Remove .FTCODE extension virus using System Restore
• Step 3. Recover your data

Step 1. Remove .FTCODE extension virus using Safe Mode with Networking.

• a) Step 1. Access Safe Mode with Networking.
• b) Step 2. Remove .FTCODE extension virus.

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 .FTCODE extension virus.

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 .FTCODE extension virus 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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