What is Ragnar Locker Ransomware?
Ragnar Locker Ransomware is a regular ransomware infection that will encrypt your files in hopes of receiving a ransom payment from you. Currently, there is no public decryption tool available, so it might be challenging to restore the files that were affected by this program. Nevertheless, that shouldn’t stop you from removing Ragnar Locker Ransomware from your system. If you do not want to do it manually, get yourself a licensed antispyware tool that will remove this and other potential threats at once. You have to invest in your computer’s security because there’s just too much at stake these days.
Where does Ragnar Locker Ransomware come from?
It doesn’t look like Ragnar Locker Ransomware belongs to any other well-known ransomware family. Whichever it might be, the point is that this program employs the usual ransomware distribution measures. It means that it probably enters the target system via spam email attachments.
It also means that users download and install Ragnar Locker Ransomware on their computers themselves. Of course, no one in their right mind would ever want to install this program, but you have to understand that the installer file for this infection might look like a regular document file.
So, now let’s imagine that someone works with Excel or PDF files every single day and that they have to deal with multiple attachments they receive from their colleagues or clients. Sometimes opening the attachments is an automatic reflex. And it is very likely that people don’t even read what’s written in the email before they open the file. Hence, Ragnar Locker Ransomware and other similar programs might be extremely dangerous threats to small businesses that definitely deal with multiple attachments every single day.
To prevent Ragnar Locker Ransomware from entering your system, you should definitely consider scanning all the attached files you receive via email. It is not that hard to do. Although it might take longer to open the files, you would clearly save yourself the trouble of dealing with Ragnar Locker Ransomware and other similar infections.
What does Ragnar Locker Ransomware do?
This program follows the basic ransomware infection patterns. It encrypts drives and partitions and then deletes Shadow copies. Although regular users hardly know anything about Shadow copies, the principle is that if you have the Shadow Volume Copies enabled, you often can restore deleted or damaged files from that volume. Therefore, by deleting Shadow copies, Ragnar Locker Ransomware makes sure that you cannot use it to restore your data. In fact, that’s something most of the ransomware infections do.
On the other hand, there are also a handful of files and folders that Ragnar Locker Ransomware doesn’t affect at all. As far as we know, this infection doesn’t encrypt folders that contain the following names: Windows, Windows.old, Tor browser, Internet Explorer, Google, Opera, Opera Software, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, $Recycle.Bin, ProgramData, and All Users. This shows that this program still needs your Internet connection and your system itself to function even after your files have been encrypted.
Why would it need that? Well, Ragnar Locker Ransomware needs to collect the ransom payment, right? The infection requires you to pay the ransom by displaying the following ransom note:
If you reading this message, then your network was PENETRATED and all of your files and data has been ENCRYPTED by RAGNAR_LOCKER!
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Your files are NOT DAMAGED or LOST, they are just MODIFIED. You can get it BACK as soon as you PAY.
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* You should get in contact with us within 2 days after you noticed the encryption to get a better price.
The ransom note goes on to say many other things, and how to contact these criminals, but it doesn’t say exactly how much you need to pay for the decryption. In fact, you should never consider it in the first place.
How do I remove Ragnar Locker Ransomware?
The most important thing in this situation is to remove Ragnar Locker Ransomware as soon as possible. After that, you might want to explore various file recovery options. Of course, if you have a file back-up, restoring your data is not a problem. However, if you do not keep copies of your files, it would be a good idea to address a professional who could help you with the issue.
Manual Ragnar Locker Ransomware Removal
- Remove the latest files from Desktop.
- Go to the Downloads folder.
- Delete the most recently downloaded files.
- Press Win+R and type %TEMP%. Click OK.
- Remove the latest files from the directory.
- Run a full system scan with SpyHunter.
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