What is TFlower Ransomware?
TFlower Ransomware is a dangerous computer infection that no one wants to encounter. Unfortunately, users often find themselves dealing with ransomware even if they cannot stand them. What can we make of it? It means that we have to step up our system security so that things like TFlower Ransomware would never enter it. Luckily, it is possible to learn more about ransomware distribution and avoid similar programs. However, first and foremost, you need to remove TFlower Ransomware from your computer. For the manual removal instructions, please scroll down to the bottom of this description.
Where does TFlower Ransomware come from?
TFlower Ransomware is a rather generic infection, and it isn’t much known about it. However, we can assume that this infection would rather target businesses than individual users. The point is that businesses would be more likely to pay the ransom (especially the smaller ones), and financial profit is the thing that ransomware creators are aiming for.
Therefore, if you don’t want your system to get infected with TFlower Ransomware, you need to educate yourself and your employees about the dangers of ransomware infections. What’s more, it is important to understand that anyone could get infected with it at any time.
Ransomware often travels via spam email attachments. It means users have to download and install the likes of TFlower Ransomware themselves. So, you have to learn how to recognize potential malware infections that somehow perch at the top of your inbox.
For the most part, spam emails that distribute ransomware come with urgent messages. Someone tells you to open the attached file immediately. For example, it could look like an online shopping invoice or some financial report you need to check. However, you can always backtrack to see whether you really have been waiting for that email. Or maybe you don’t know the sender at all? If that is the case, you clearly should stay away from the attached files. If anything, you can always scan them with a security tool. If the tool finds the files dangerous, you can most definitely remove them.
What does TFlower Ransomware do?
It goes without saying that this program encrypts files the moment it enters the target system. Although ransomware programs usually add extensions to the encrypted files, TFlower Ransomware does something different. The program adds a “*tflower” marker at the beginning of the file, as opposed to an extension that is usually added to the back of the filename.
Either way, you will easily see the files that were affected by the encryption. After all, the system will not be able to read them anymore, and all the file icons will change as well.
Aside from that, you will also see a ransom note. Each ransomware program displays one because that is how they inform users about what they are supposed to do. Here’s what TFlower Ransomware says:
Dear Sir/Ma,
Sorry to inform you but many files of your COMPANY has just been ENCRYPTED with a STRONG key.
This simply means that you will not be able to use your files until it is decrypted by the same key used in encrypting it.TO get the DECRYPT TOOL for your COMPANY, you have to make payment to us so as to recover your files.
The ransom note goes on to say that you need to pay 15 BTC to a given Bitcoin address. Approximately, that is over 125,000 USD, and it is probably a price any company would pay for their important data. However, you probably know by now that paying doesn’t solve anything. What’s more, its TOR site link is down, so it is very likely that they wouldn’t issue the decryption key even if you were to pay the ransom.
How do I remove TFlower Ransomware?
Deleting this infection from your computer is not that challenging, but you have to make sure that you remove all the dangerous files, so please scan your computer after the manual removal. As for your files, if you have a file backup on an external drive, just delete the encrypted files and transfer the healthy copies back. If you do not have one, please address a professional who will guide you through a number of file recovery options.
Manual TFlower Ransomware Removal
- Go the Downloads folder.
- Delete the most recently downloaded files.
- Delete suspicious files from Desktop.
- Press Win+R and type %TEMP%. Click OK.
- Delete the most recent files from the directory.
- Scan your computer with SpyHunter.
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