Uninstall PoisonFang ransomware

What is ransomware

PoisonFang ransomware file-encrypting malware, often known as ransomware, will encrypt your files. Threat may result in serious consequences, as the files you can no longer access could be permanently damaged. It’s pretty easy to infect your device, which only adds to why it is so dangerous. If you recall opening a strange email attachment, clicking on some suspicious ad or downloading a program promoted on some shady page, that is how it infected your system. Soon after contamination, the encoding process starts, and afterwards, you’ll be requested to pay a certain sum of money for data recovery. The ransom varies from ransomware to ransomware, some demand $1000 or more, some could settle with $100. Consider everything carefully before giving into the demands, even if it asks for very little money. It isn’t 100% guaranteed you will get your data back, even after paying, considering there’s nothing stopping cyber crooks from just taking your money. There are many accounts of people receiving nothing after giving into with the requests. This might easily reoccur, so instead of paying, consider buying backup. You’ll be presented with many backup options, you just need to choose the one best matching you. For those who did take the time to back up files prior to contamination, simply terminate PoisonFang ransomware and recover files from where they’re stored. This isn’t the last time you’ll get infected with some kind of malware, so you have to prepare. To keep a computer safe, one must always be on the lookout for potential threats, becoming familiar with their spread methods.

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How does ransomware spread

Many file encrypting malware use rather basic spread ways, which include spam email attachments and corrupted advertisements/downloads. Occasionally, however, more sophisticated methods might be used.

Since you may have gotten the file encrypting malicious program via email attachments, try to remember if you have recently downloaded a weird file from an email. Malicious software would just need to add the infected file to an email, and then send it to hundreds/thousands of people. It is not odd for those emails to talk about money, which encourages many people to open it. In addition to grammatical mistakes, if the sender, who should certainly know your name, uses greetings such as Dear User/Customer/Member and strongly pressures you to open the file added, you have to be careful. Your name would be automatically inserted into an email if it was a legitimate company whose email ought to be opened. Expect to see company names like Amazon or PayPal used in those emails, as known names would make the email appear more real. If you recall clicking on some dubious adverts or downloading files from suspicious sites, that’s also how you could have picked up the infection. If while you were on a compromised site you pressed on an infected ad, it could have triggered the data encoding malware download. Or you may have gotten the ransomware along with some file you downloaded from an unreliable source. You should never get anything, whether it’s software or updates, from dubious sources, such as ads. If an application had to update itself, it would not alert you via browser, it would either update automatically, or send you a notification via the software itself.

What does it do?

An infection leading to permanent file loss isn’t an impossible scenario, which is what makes a file encoding malicious program so harmful. Once it is inside, it will take minutes, if not seconds to find the files it wants and encrypt them. All encoding files will have a file extension attached to them. The reason why your files might be permanently lost is because strong encoding algorithms might be used for the encoding process, and it isn’t always possible to break them. A ransom note will then appear on your screen, or will be found in folders that have encrypted files, and it should explain everything, or at least try to. The ransom note will offer you a decryption key, for a price, of course, but our recommendation would be to ignore the demands. By paying, you would be trusting crooks, the people who are accountable for locking your files in the first place. Not only would you be risking losing your money, you would also be funding their future criminal activity. And, more and more people will become attracted to the business which is believed to have made $1 billion in 2016. You might want to consider investing the money requested into some type of backup option. These kinds of infections can reoccur again, and you wouldn’t have to worry about data loss if you had backup. Delete PoisonFang ransomware if it’s still inhabiting your computer, instead of giving into requests. These types infections can be avoided, if you know how they are spread, so try to familiarize with its spread ways, in detail.

PoisonFang ransomware elimination

For the process of entirely eliminating the ransomware, you will need to acquire anti-malware software, if you do not already have one. If you want to delete PoisonFang ransomware manually, you could end up further damaging your computer, which is why we cannot recommend it. It would be better to use anti-malware software because you wouldn’t be endangering your device. The tool would locate and terminate PoisonFang ransomware. So that you know where to begin, instructions below this report have been placed to help you. Unfortunately, the malware removal tool isn’t able to restore your files, it will only erase the threat. It should be mentioned, however, that in certain cases, malicious software specialists develop free decryptors, if the data encoding malicious software is decryptable.

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Learn how to remove PoisonFang ransomware from your computer

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

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

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