Windows file recovery Is safe to recover files from ransom-ware infection?

Ransom-ware is less common than common virus infection. Yet we still have chance to have ransom-ware infection. The ransom-ware cause more serious computer problems than the virus. It can prevent you to access your computer, encrypt your files and demand a ransom, or you cannot access to your files. You cannot use your files on the computer and your computer even cannot work normally. If one have very important files on the computer, most of people will choose to pay a large amount of money to get rid of the ransom.

What should we do when we suffered a ransom-ware?

First, you should not pay the money. The ransom is a cyber crime and it’s not so easy for them to stop after you pay the ransom. It’s useless to talk about integrity with criminals. If you paid the money, it is to encourage their crime. Even if they de-encrypt your computer and your files, they have more money to develop their technologies and have more way to ransom others. On other hand, even you pay the ransom money, you probably cannot get all your files back. Therefore, when we have a ransom-ware on computer, we should not pay the money, please try to use a data recovery software or use the Windows built-in software to recover them. Even though you may not recover your files by yourself, it’s better than to give the money to the criminals.

What is ransom-ware?

Ransom-ware is designed by hacker or criminals to lock users computer and files to ransom money. If you have ransom-ware on your computer, your computer screen will be locked. It will give you a warning message to tell you your computer has been locked and give you the way to unlock the computer to pay a sum of money. It also gives you the time limit and payment method.

It gives you a error warn and leaves a contact phone number. If you dial the phone number, it requires a large amount of money to fix this problem.

It gives a fake security threat warn so that mislead you to download their software.

It tells you that your files are encrypted and you need to buy a key to get back your files.

How the ransom-ware enter your computer?

If you visit the malicious website or download some malicious software, you may download the ransom-ware unconsciously.

You may careless to open an unfamiliar email, and click the links in the email or download the attachment.

The ransom-ware may carried by other storage devices you connected to computer.

Is safe to recover files from ransom-ware infection?

Even though data recovery software do not necessarily can recover all the files successfully from ransom-ware, it is still a good choice.

Generally, you can recover your files with Windows built-in features like, previous versions, backup and restore. But some ransom-ware will also encrypt or even delete the backup versions on your computer. If you cannot recover your files in this way, you can try to use a data recovery software.

Recover deleted file from ransom-ware with Hdata recovery software.

Run Hdata recovery software and choose a recovery mode. You can choose the mode of Deleted files accidentally or Hard drive partition lost or crash, or Universal recovery.

Then scan the infected partition and wait for the end of scanning. You should not interrupt the scanning process.

Preview files and then select the files you need to recover them.

Choose a recovery path to save the files. You should not put them on the infected partition.