What is MoneroPay Ransomware?
MoneroPay Ransomware, which is also sometimes referred to as SpriteCoin Ransomware, is a nasty malicious application that is distributed as a cryptocurrency miner. Specifically speaking, it is promoted as a tool for mining SpriteCoin, a digital currency that does not even exist. Because of this, it is not at all surprising that some users themselves allow the ransomware infection to enter their systems. If you have also installed MoneroPay Ransomware expecting that it will help you to earn some money, remove it immediately because it does not act as the miner and will never become a useful piece of software. It is only distributed by cyber crooks to extract money from users more easily. If you have already encountered this threat, do not even think about sending money to malicious software developers. You should primarily focus on the MoneroPay Ransomware removal. If you do not erase it from your system, it will continue working on your computer. Restarting the computer is not an effective solution to the problem in this case because it is one of these ransomware infections that create entries in the system registry to be able to start working automatically when the Windows OS launches. It means that you will disable it only by removing all malicious components from the system. We will help you to delete the ransomware infection (you will find more about its removal if you read the last paragraph), but we cannot promise that you could unlock your encrypted personal files because free decryption software does not exist and transferring money to cyber criminals is a nonsense.
What does MoneroPay Ransomware do?
As you already know, MoneroPay Ransomware is often distributed as the SpriteCoin cryptocurrency miner. It can be downloaded directly from http://pagebin.com/xxqZ8VES. It is promoted as spritecoin.zip, an archive that has four files (spritecoinwallet.exe, spritecoind.exe, cryptonight.dll, and boost.dll). When spritecoinwallet.exe is launched, a new window that tells users to enter the “desired wallet password,” i.e. to set up the cryptocurrency miner, appears. Do not waste your time inserting these details because your personal files will still be encrypted. The encryption of files is performed in the background, so users find out about the successful entrance of the ransomware infection only when they notice a black window with a ransom note opened on their screens. If they manage to close this window (it can be closed only by killing the malicious process in Task Manager), they also notice that their personal files, including pictures, documents, music, etc. have a new extension .encrypted.
MoneroPay Ransomware demands 0.3 Monero (103 USD at today’s price) from users. It is not a very huge amount of money, but you should still not send a cent to malicious software developers because the chances are high that these encrypted files will not be unlocked for you. Crooks want your money and can promise anything to get it, but they might change their minds and do not give you the decryptor when they receive your money. Therefore, we suggest that you do not pay a cent to them. This might mean that you could not unlock your data, but, at least, you will not lose your money for nothing. Free decryption software does not exist either, which means that you can only restore your files from a backup (if you have it) after you remove the ransomware infection fully from your system.
Where does MoneroPay Ransomware come from?
Researchers working at anti-spyware-101.com say that MoneroPay Ransomware is usually distributed as the cryptocurrency miner. Of course, it might be promoted in a different way as well. For example, it might be spread via spam emails as an attachment. Also, it might slither onto users’ PCs if their RDP credentials are unsafe, security specialists say. If you have already encountered MoneroPay Ransomware, it does not mean that you cannot prevent new malicious applications from entering your computer. You just need to be more cautious to avoid malware. Also, our security specialists recommend having security software enabled.
How to remove MoneroPay Ransomware
It is possible to remove MoneroPay Ransomware manually, but you will, first, need to close the black window opened on your Desktop so that you could erase this threat. Then, you will need to remove the Value representing this threat from the system registry. Last but not least, you will have to take care of all malicious components it drops. If you do not have time for the manual MoneroPay Ransomware removal, you can erase this infection automatically. In such a case, one full system scan will be enough to clean the system.
MoneroPay Ransomware removal guide
- Tap Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
- Open the Processes tab.
- Find the MoneroPay Ransomware process and kill it.
- Close Task Manager and launch Run (press Win+R).
- Insert regedit and click OK.
- Move to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
- Locate the MoneroPay Value, select it, and delete it.
- Close Registry Editor.
- Remove spritecoinwallet.exe, spritecoind.exe, cryptonight.dll and boost.dll.
- Delete all recently downloaded suspicious files (they should be located in %USERPROFILE%\Downloads or %USERPROFILE%\Desktop).
- Empty Recycle bin.
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