HappyLocker Ransomware Removal Guide

HappyLocker Ransomware is a threat to personal files. If it ever enters your computer, you will find it impossible to open videos, music, pictures, documents, spreadsheets, and other files. You could no longer open them because they will all be encrypted by this ransomware infection. To be honest, it is not so shocking that HappyLocker Ransomware acts like this because all ransomware infections do that. Also, specialists at 411-spyware.com have found that it is based on the Hidden Tear code, which is known to be an open-source ransomware infection originally created for educational purposes. This educational ransomware encrypts files too, so HappyLocker Ransomware acts this way as well since it is created on its engine. All ransomware infections seek to extort money from users. Some of them only lock screens and then ask users to pay money, whereas others encrypt valuable personal files and then demand a ransom. As you already know, HappyLocker Ransomware is a file-encrypting ransomware infection. Do not transfer money to cyber criminals owning this threat because it will not be deleted from the system. Also, it might be very true that the offered file decryption tool will not be sent to you even if you pay money, so, in the opinion of researchers, users should keep their money and definitely not send it to cyber criminals.

It will not take long to realize that there is a ransomware infection inside the system because you will see that your important files encrypted. HappyLocker Ransomware uses the AES encryption to make sure that users cannot decrypt those files themselves without the special key. Also, it adds its own extension next to original extensions of those encrypted files, for instance, myvideo.mpeg.happy. If it is already inside your computer, you must know that it has encrypted almost all files stored there. Luckily, it does not corrupt the operating system because it does not touch Windows files. Of course, you will not only find a bunch of locked files on the system, but should also detect two new files READDDDDDD.txt and READ.png after the infiltration of the ransomware infection. Both these files contain a short message saying that users have to open http://ysasite.com/happy/ and then follow the provided instructions. Users who open this web page immediately find out that they have to purchase the decryptor to unlock files. At the time of writing, it costs 0.1 Bitcoin (~ 70 USD). Buying this tool does not mean that users could unlock their files because cyber criminals might not send this software to users even though they make a payment. What you can do in this case is to recover files from a backup after the deletion of HappyLocker Ransomware. The free decryptor does not exist at the time of writing, but there is a possibility that it will be created in the future, so you should not hurry to remove those encrypted files if you are not going to transfer money to cyber crooks and do not have your files backed up.

According to specialists, it might be very true that users allow HappyLocker Ransomware to enter their computers themselves by downloading Instant Satoshi BOT for getting free Bitcoins. Keep in mind that there is no such thing as free money in the future. In most cases, such programs are created to spread malicious software only. Even though it is very likely that HappyLocker Ransomware has been dropped by Instant Satoshi BOT, it might be true that it is distributed through spam emails as well. Just like other ransomware infections, it might travel as a spam email attachment. Ransomware infections will do anything to sneak onto computers, so users should acquire security software and keep it enabled on their computers to protect their systems from harm.

Removing HappyLocker Ransomware will not help you to unlock files it has encrypted, but it is still very important to fully delete it so that it could not encrypt files you create in the future. It is quite hard to delete ransomware infections manually, so we recommend using the manual removal guide we have prepared exceptionally for our readers. Of course, we understand that not all the people desire to eliminate such a serious computer infection manually. If you are one of these users, go to remove HappyLocker Ransomware automatically. You will not be able to do that without the legitimate malware remover, so install it first.

Remove HappyLocker Ransomware

1. Locate the malicious file or Instant Satoshi BOT.
2. Delete it.
3. Remove two files from Desktop: READDDDDDD.txt and READ.png .
4. Clear the Recycle bin.