What is Energy Ransomware?
Energy Ransomware is a regular computer infection that can easily lock up your files. This program was designed to hold your files hostage until you contact the people behind it and pay the ransom fee. However, paying the ransom would not solve anything because you would only allow these criminals to create more programs that would terrorize other users worldwide.
Follow the guidelines below to get rid of Energy Ransomware, and don’t forget to invest in a licensed security application that would help you protect your system from other similar programs. Your system’s security should be one of your top priorities.
Where does Energy Ransomware come from?
There is no clear distribution vector for this infection, but we can assume that Energy Ransomware employs the same distribution vectors as all the other programs from this category. The most common way for a ransomware program to reach its target is using spam email campaigns.
Spam emails from unknown senders and sometimes even your colleagues land in your inbox, and then you get tricked into opening the attached documents that happen to be ransomware installer files. How could it be possible to receive these spam emails from your colleagues? Well, if their account data gets leaked or hacked, hackers could make use of that information to generate social engineering attacks. They can pretend to be your colleagues and send out emails with malicious attachments from familiar email addresses.
With that, you would be more likely to interact with the content that you find in the spam email. Of course, most of the sophisticated email service providers filter spam emails into the Junk folder. However, some of the spam email campaigns employed by ransomware for distribution could look quite believable. Not to mention that if they do employ social engineering, your email service provider would not recognize your colleague’s email as a spam, despite a weird subject line.
Either way, the point is that everyone could avoid the likes of Energy Ransomware, but we just need to be careful if we want to achieve that. When an email comes with an attachment from an unknown sender, double-check before you click the file. If an email comes from someone within your company or corporation, check whether the contents are reasonable. Maybe you’ve never communicated with that person before? Why would they be trying to contact you? And there’s also the final line of defence: you can scan the received file with a security tool before you open them.
What does Energy Ransomware do?
As far as the behavior of this infection is concerned, there isn’t anything unique about Energy Ransomware. When it enters your system, it looks for the types of files it can encrypt. This scan takes several moments, and after that, Energy Ransomware will start encrypting your files. Our research team has found this program targets files in the following directories:
- %ALLUSERSPROFILE%
- %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
- %USERPROFILE%\Documents
- %USERPROFILE%\Pictures
These are the default directories for personal file storage. Thus, if that’s where you keep your files, you will probably find them encrypted if Energy Ransomware enters your system. And while most of the ransomware programs come with elaborate ransom notes, this program doesn’t beat around the bush. It just drops a TXT format file HOW_TO_DECYPHER_FILES.txt, and here’s the contents of the file:
To recover your data contact the email below
potentialenergy@mail.ruKey Identifier:
Number of files that were processed is: XXX
So, this program doesn’t tell you how much you are expected to pay for the decryption tool. You would only get to know it when and if the crooks behind the infection would contact you.
How do I remove Energy Ransomware?
This program doesn’t drop any additional files anywhere when it gets launched on the target system. Therefore, you just need to remove the file that installed Energy Ransomware on your computer. If you are too confused about which file could have launched the infection, scan your computer with the SpyHunter free scanner. You will get a list of files you need to remove, and you will be able to terminate the infection.
If you have a file backup, you can also delete the encrypted files, and then proceed to transfer healthy copies back into your computer. However, if you are not that lucky, please consider exploring other file recovery options.
Manual Energy Ransomware Removal
- Delete the most recent files from Desktop.
- Go to the Downloads folder.
- Remove the most recent files from the said folder.
- Press Win+R and type %TEMP%. Click OK.
- Clear the directory and scan your computer with a security tool.
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