What is Nemty Ransomware?
Nemty Ransomware might not look like much, but it is a dangerous computer infection that will encrypt most of your personal files and hold them hostage. It doesn’t look like the ransomware epidemic will end any time soon, so you need to arm yourself with nerves of steel and fight this infection right now.
You have to keep in mind that there is always a chance you might need to start building your data library anew. Nevertheless, that is no reason to despair. Follow the instructions below this description to remove Nemty Ransomware from your system for good, and then make sure you do not get infected with similar programs again.
Where does Nemty Ransomware come from?
To make it possible to avoid similar infections in the future, we have to know how Nemty Ransomware entered your system in the first place. Security researchers seldom can pinpoint the exact infection vector of a random ransomware infection if it is not that wide-spread. However, we do know for sure that is suspected to spread through Remote Desktop Protocol, so it probably means that users receive the installer file willingly, although they are often not aware of that.
If you are used to receiving files from people or networks via RDP connection, you should always stop for a second before opening the received file. Sure, everything is fine if you know it comes from a reliable sender. But what if the file arrives unexpectedly, or you have no idea who sent it to you? Then it would be a good idea to scan that file with a security tool just to see if it is reliable. If the file is dangerous, the security application of your choice will save you the trouble of dealing with a malware infection.
What does Nemty Ransomware do?
If, unfortunately, you do get infected with this program anyway, it will not be possible to stop the encryption process even if you understand what’s going on. The program will launch a full file encryption and it will go through all file extensions it can affect.
On the other hand, there are also files that Nemty Ransomware leaves alone. As far as we know, the infection doesn’t touch LOG, CAB, CMD, EXE, LNK, DLL, URL, and several other file types. It also skips ProgramData, AppData, Windows, Microsoft, and Common Files folders. Therefore, it is clear to see that Nemty Ransomware leaves system files intact. It is a common practice for most of the ransomware infections because they still need your computer to work properly. After all, if the system experiences an ultimate failure, they cannot collect ransom payments. As far as the ransom payments go, this is how Nemty Ransomware asks for it:
Your files are encrypted, and currently unavailable. You can check it: all files on your computer has extension .nemty
By the way, everything is possible to restore, but you need to follow our instructions.
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When you open our website, follow the instructions and you will get your files back.
Nemty Ransomware expects you to access their website through the TOR browser. This browser allows users to connect to various sites anonymously. However, the ransom note doesn’t say anything about how much they expect you to pay for the decryption key. Not like you should ever consider contacting them in the first place.
Paying the ransom only encourages these crooks to continue making similar infections. Also, they might just collect your money and run way without even issuing the decryption key. So please remove Nemty Ransomware from your system and forget about even contacting these criminals.
How do I remove Nemty Ransomware?
During our research, we didn’t see this program drop additional files. Thus, you just need to delete the file that installed the ransomware on your computer if you want to remove Nemty Ransomware for good.
As for your files, if you have a file backup, you can transfer the healthy copies of your data back into your computer. If not, please check all the storage places where you might have saved the latest versions of your files. Normally, it is possible to restore quite a lot of data because we tend to save files everywhere. In the future, be careful about the files you receive from unknown senders, and do not forget to invest in a powerful antispyware tool.
Manual Nemty Ransomware Removal
- Remove unfamiliar files from Desktop.
- Open the Downloads folder.
- Delete the most recently downloaded files.
- Press Win+R and the Run prompt will open.
- Type %TEMP% into the Open box. Click OK.
- Remove the most recent files from the directory.
- Use SpyHunter to run a full system scan.
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