What is Wal Ransomware?
Your operating system needs to be protected at ALL time because a single crack in your virtual security can help Wal Ransomware attack. The cybercriminals behind this dangerous infection know exactly how to find these cracks, and they are likely to use RDP vulnerabilities specifically to drop the infection without your notice. They could also trick you into executing the infection yourself using misleading spam emails. It does not take much to create a convincing email message and attach a dangerous file attachment to it. If you are tricked into believing that the file is harmless, you might let in the infection yourself by accident. Unfortunately, once it is in, you are unlikely to be able to stop it. The encryption process is quick, and so you might not understand what is going on at all. Of course, once files are encrypted, they cannot be read, and a unique extension is added to their names, which are the best indicators that you need to remove ransomware from your system. So, do you need to delete Wal Ransomware?
How does Wal Ransomware work?
Wal Ransomware belongs to the Crysis or Dharma Ransomware family, which continues to grow and now consists of Zatrov Ransomware, Vesrato Ransomware, Masodas Ransomware, and many other well-known infections. Our research team at Anti-Spyware-101.com works hard to find them all, so that removal guides would be available to all victims. If you want to learn more about one of these threats, find the guide using the search box at the top, or post a comment below to request it. Without a doubt, many similarities exist. For example, they all use the same messages to inform the victims of what is expected of them. First, we have the .TXT file that is likely to be created everywhere where the encrypted files are. "FILES ENCRYPTED.txt" is the name of the file that Wal Ransomware creates. Additionally, this infection also launches a window with an email address as the title, and this window should show up whenever you restart the computer because it is added to Startup and it also has a Run key in the Windows Registry. You can learn how to delete these components using the manual removal guide below.
The files with the “.id-{unique id number}.[decryptdocs@protonmail.com].wal” extension appended to their names are encrypted, which means that they cannot be read due to changes within the data of the file. This is usually done to secure files, but, when cybercriminals are involved, they use it to lock up the files so that they could demand a ransom. We do not know how much the Wal Ransomware attackers want, and we do not know which Bitcoin wallet they are using to accept the payments from victims. Those who are interested in paying the ransom need to email decryptdocs@protonmail.com or decryptdocs@airmail.cc to get this information. Without a doubt, we do not advise interacting with cybercriminals at all because we do not think that this would lead you anywhere. Most likely, if you contacted the attackers and then paid the ransom, you would be left empty-handed, and we are sure you want to avoid that. On top of that, later on, the attackers could try to expose you to misleading emails once more, and that could cause further issues.
How to delete Wal Ransomware
Our research team strongly recommends removing Wal Ransomware from your operating system, which, hopefully, will not be hard to do. The first option we propose is deleting the infection manually. To make the process easier, we have created a guide that shows the steps that must be taken. Obviously, not every victim of Wal Ransomware will have enough experience to modify the Windows Registry and identify malware files with random names. Therefore, the second option might be more suitable. This option is to install an anti-malware program that will automatically delete Wal Ransomware from your operating system. This is the option we recommend because the right anti-malware program can simultaneously eliminate malicious threats and secure your system against dangerous invaders. Another tip for you from us is to create backups for every single personal file you own. If backups exist and are stored outside the device where the original files are placed, you will never lose files again. Of course, it might be too late for that now if your files were encrypted, but keep this in mind for the future.
Removal Guide
- Tap Win and E keys on the keyboard at the same time to launch Explorer.
- Enter these paths into the bar at the top and then Delete the file named Info.hta:
- %APPDATA%
- %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
- %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
- %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
- %WINDIR%\System32\
- Enter these paths into the bar at the top and then Delete the malicious {unknown name}.exefile:
- %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
- %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
- %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
- %WINDIR%\System32\
- Tap Win and R keys on the keyboard at the same time to launch Run.
- Enter regedit into the dialog box to launch Registry Editor.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
- Find values linked to Info.hta and {unknown name}.exe files and Delete them.
- Empty Recycle Bin.
- Install and run a trusted malware scanner to check your system for malicious leftovers.
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