What is Honor Ransomware?
Honor Ransomware might encipher user’s files, then rename them and replace their original extension with .honor, for example, a file called picture.jpg could turn into uqa1-.honor and so on. Unfortunately, data affected by this threat becomes unusable, and thus the user becomes unable to open it. The only way to restore enciphered files is with a decryption tool, but it does not look like the malware’s creators are offering it. Apparently, they do not drop any ransom note in which they would suggest paying for a decryption tool. Therefore, our researchers at Anti-spyware-101.com advise deleting the malicious program right away. After Honor Ransomware is erased, it should be safe to transfer backup copies if the user has any. As you see the enciphered files cannot be recovered, but they can be replaced with undamaged copies of them. To find out more information about the threat we invite you to read the rest of this text, and if you need any help with its deletion, you should take a look at the removal instructions available below this report.
Where does Honor Ransomware come from?
At the moment of writing, no one can say how exactly Honor Ransomware gets installed. However, our specialists say there are a few possible ways. To begin with, same as other malicious programs that encipher user’s data, it could be spread through Spam emails. Moreover, users may also encounter it while downloading unreliable setup files, interacting with questionable advertising content, etc. Naturally, to protect the device from such threats our researchers advice staying away from untrustworthy web pages and paying more attention to the files received via email. Additionally, it would be smart to install a legitimate antimalware tool that could protect the system and warn you about possibly malicious content.
How does Honor Ransomware work?
At first, the malicious program should drop files named data recive, secret.txt, and secretAES.txt, and so on in the % USERPROFILE% \Desktop location. Besides, the described files on your Desktop, the infection could add a value name titled “adr” in the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce location. Our researchers explain such a value name might be created to enable the infection launch itself automatically after each system restart. Afterward, Honor Ransomware may start enciphering data found on the device. To be more accurate, the malware should only affect user’s personal files, for example, pictures, photos, archives, etc.
Normally, after doing so, the threats similar to Honor Ransomware would drop a ransom note saying the user needs to pay a particular sum of Bitcoins to get a decryption key or urging to write to the malicious program’s creators and find out how to receive the decryption tool. Needless to say, we never recommend paying the ransom as there are no guarantees the cyber criminals will keep up to their promises. Luckily, in this case, you do not even have to think about it whether you should or should not risk your savings. It would be best to eliminate the infection immediately because keeping it on the device could endanger files you may yet create or place on the computer.
How to eliminate Honor Ransomware?
There are two possible options to get rid of Honor Ransomware. For starters, the user could try to locate and remove all data belonging to the malicious program manually. This process might appear to be a bit difficult, but if you feel you can handle it, we offer the instructions available at the end of this report. The second option would be to install a legitimate antimalware tool, perform a full system scan and then erase all detections including the ransomware by just pressing the given deletion button.
Remove Honor Ransomware
- Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
- Select Task Manager.
- Search for the infection’s process.
- Select this process and click End Task.
- Leave Task Manager.
- Press Windows key+R.
- Insert Regedit and click Enter.
- Look for this path: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
- Find a specific value name titled adr.
- Right-click it and select Delete.
- Leave Registry Editor.
- Press Windows key+E.
- Go to the following paths:
%TEMP%
%USERPROFILE%\desktop
%USERPROFILE%\downloads - Find the file that infected the device.
- Right-click the malicious file and press Delete.
- Look for the following directory: %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
- Search for files titled: data recive, secret.txt, secretAES.txt, and sendBack.txt.
- Right-click them separately and press Delete.
- Exit File Explorer.
- Empty your Recycle bin.
- Restart the system.
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