Remove VirtualBoardSearch Malware

What is ransomware

VirtualBoardSearch Malware ransomware is a file-encrypting piece of malware that will do a lot of harm. If your computer becomes infected, you may permanently lose access to your data, so do take the infection seriously. Also it’s quite easy to infect your computer. Spam email attachments, malicious adverts and fake downloads are the most common reasons why ransomware can infect. Once it completes the encoding process, victims are asked to pay a ransom, and if they comply, supposedly, crooks will help them recover files. How much is asked of you depends on the file encrypting malware, you may be demanded to pay $50 or a some thousands of dollars. Paying isn’t encouraged, no matter how little you are requested to pay. There’s nothing preventing criminals from taking your money, providing nothing in exchange. If your data still remains encrypted after paying, we wouldn’t be shocked. Investing the demanded money into credible backup would be wiser. You’ll be presented with a lot of different options, but it should not be difficult to pick the best option for you. You may restore data from backup if you had it available prior to infection, after you delete VirtualBoardSearch Malware. These threats won’t go away any time soon, so you will have to prepare yourself. If you wish to stay safe, you have to familiarize yourself with potential contaminations and how to safeguard your system from them.

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How does data encoding malicious software spread

People normally corrupt their devices with ransomware via malicious files added to emails, interacting with infected advertisements and obtaining software from sources they shouldn’t. Nevertheless, you can come across more sophisticated methods too.

Since you might have gotten the ransomware via email attachments, try and remember if you have recently obtained something weird from an email. Once you open the corrupted file, the ransomware will be able to begin encoding your files. Because those emails commonly use topics like money, plenty of users open them without even considering what could occur. You can expect the ransomware email to contain a general greeting (Dear Customer/Member/User etc), grammatical errors, prompts to open the attachment, and the use of an established business name. To explain, if someone whose attachment you need to open sends you an email, they would use your name, not common greetings, and it would not end up in the spam folder. You might see company names like Amazon or PayPal used in those emails, as familiar names would make users trust the email more. It’s also likely that you clicked on some malicious ad when on a suspicious website, or obtained a file or program from some dubious source. Certain ads might be infected, so it is best if you stop clicking on them when visiting questionable reputation pages. You could have also downloaded the ransomware accidentally when it was concealed as some kind of software/file on an unreliable download platform, which is why you should stick to official ones. You should never get anything, not programs and not updates, from dubious sources, which include ads. Programs generally update themselves, but if manual update was needed, you would be notified through the application, not the browser.

What does it do?

Because ransomware is able to permanently encode your data, it’s classified to be a highly dangerous infection. The ransomware has a list of target files, and it will take a short time to find and encrypt them all. If not for other signs, the weird file extension attached to the files will make everything clear. Strong encryption algorithms will be used to make your data inaccessible, which makes decrypting files for free pretty hard or even impossible. When the encryption process is finished, a ransom note should appear, and it should explain how you should proceed. The ransom note will offer you a decryption key, for a price, of course, but we suggest you ignore the demands. Cyber criminals may just take your money without providing you with a decryptor. Additionally, you’d be giving financial support for the cyber criminals’s future projects. The easily made money is constantly luring more and more people to the business, which is estimated to have made more than $1 billion in 2016. Instead of paying the ransom, invest the money into backup. These kinds of infections could reoccur again, and you would not have to worry about data loss if you had backup. If you have made the choice to ignore the requests, you’ll have to eliminate VirtualBoardSearch Malware if you believe it to still be inside the system. If you become familiar with how these threats are distributed, you should learn to avoid them in the future.

VirtualBoardSearch Malware termination

You are strongly suggested to download anti-malware program to make sure the threat is completely eliminated. You may have decided to remove VirtualBoardSearch Malware manually but you might end up further damaging your computer, which it is not suggested. Implementing anti-malware software would be a much better choice because you would not be endangering your device. Those programs are designed to locate and terminate VirtualBoardSearch Malware, as well as similar threats. You will find guidelines to help you, if you are unsure about how to proceed. Bear in mind that the tool will not help with file recovery, all it will do is ensure the infection is no longer present on your system. However, free decryption utilities are released by malware specialists, if the file encrypting malware is decryptable.

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Learn how to remove VirtualBoardSearch Malware from your computer

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

Step 1. Remove VirtualBoardSearch Malware using Safe Mode with Networking.

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

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 VirtualBoardSearch Malware.

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 VirtualBoardSearch Malware 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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