Mircop Ransomware Removal Guide

Mircop Ransomware means serious danger if it finds a way to your computer. This ransomware infection can show up without your knowledge and encrypt your most important files within a few minutes, not leaving you any chance to abort. Unfortunately, as of yet the only two options for you to recover your files are either to pay the insanely high ransom fee these criminals demand or to copy your backup files from an external drive if you have any. However, you should know that criminals do not often keep their words. Also, technical issues may emerge mostly when criminals have to hide their tracks and shut down their Command and Control servers, which store the decryption keys necessary for the decryption of the files taken hostage. We suggest that you remove Mircop Ransomware the moment you realize it has infected your computer. This may mean that you will lose all your files, but this may still be the only solution if you ever want to use your computer again.

If you want to prevent similar nightmares from happening, you need to install a professional anti-malware program or learn how this ransomware spreads on the web. As a matter of fact, this malware uses the very same technique as most of its peers – spam e-mail attachments. This means that this infection is distributed as a malicious executable file in spam mails. You need to know that even if you think that your spam filter can weed out such mails, unfortunately, this one will most likely sneak through and end up in your inbox. Otherwise, you would not be here reading this article and your computer could not be affected.

Such spam email is not necessarily easy to spot because these criminals use deceptive techniques to make sure that you think you are dealing with an important mail that has an important attachment that you must view right away. So this spam can pretend to be coming from reputable companies, including mailing companies (FedEx), airlines (American Airlines), hotels (room reservations), and so on. The message will make you feel like you really need to download and check the attached file, which can be a text file (a Word document with malicious macro code), an image file, or a video file. If you ever feel suspicious about such a mail or its attachment, do not open it; because once you download this malicious file and run it, you will actually let this dangerous infection loose. Unfortunately, even if you delete Mircop Ransomware right away, it could not help your situation with the encryption because your files will be most likely already taken hostage.

Once this ransomware is activated, it targets all your pictures, documents as well as your personal folders in the following directories: %userprofile%\music, %userprofile%\videos, %userprofile%\documents, %userprofile%\music. All your files get encrypted with an RSA encryption that is virtually impossible to crack without the private key that is stored on a remote secret server. Your encrypted files get a “Lock.” beginning; thus, they will look something like: “Lock.myimage.bmp.” When the damage is done, your desktop background image changes and you learn that your files have got encrypted and you have to pay a very high fee to get them back.

In fact, this ransomware poses as an attack from the Anonymous hacker group and also shows a “Guy Fawkes” masked man to convey this idea. This ransom note actually says that “You’ve stolen 48.48 BTC from the wrong people, please be so kind to return them and we will return your files.” If you did not catch it first time, let us repeat in other words: You have to pay 48.48 BTC that is approximately 31,700 USD in order to be able to decrypt your files. This is why we assume that Mircop Ransomware mainly targets big corporations because it just does not make any sense to demand this kind of money from any average individuals. Most probably you would not be ready to pay this much for some old documents and pictures downloaded from Facebook, right? But these criminals try to appear to be the kind you do not want to mess with so they add: “… don’t pay and be prepared.” Uh, scary. Of course, if a major company is hit by such a malware threat where large amounts of project files and databases may be lost, it is possible that they would be ready to pay this fee. We advise you however not to hesitate but remove Mircop Ransomware ASAP; although, this is your decision to make.

We have also discovered that this ransomware has the ability to steal important personal information through major browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera as well as Skype. This information can be used to commit online crimes, for example. Since this is a new infection, there seems to be decryptor yet. So if you do not have this kind of money to pay for your files and you do not have a backup copy either, it is most likely that you have to say goodbye to your files even if you remove Mircop Ransomware right away.

As a matter of fact, it is not even too difficult to eliminate Mircop Ransomware. All you need to do is locate the downloaded malicious file and delete it. Yes, that is all since this ransomware does not lock your screen and does not block your system processes either. Please use our guide below if you need any help with this. If you want to protect your computer from similar nightmares, we suggest that you be more careful with your clicks and the websites you visit. Other than that, it may be a good time to consider installing a malware removal application, such as SpyHunter, or any of your choice. But make sure that you use a reputable one because the web is filled with rogue security tools.

How to remove Mircop Ransomware from Windows

1. Press Win+E.
2. Locate the downloaded malicious file.
3. Delete the executable file.
4. Empty your Recycle Bin (right-click on the desktop shortcut and choose “Empty Recycle Bin”).
5. Restart your computer.
6. If you have a backup, this is the right time to transfer your clean files back to your computer.