Evillock Ransomware Removal Guide

Users will definitely get flustered when the likes of Evillock Ransomware enter their systems. This malicious ransomware application will not let you sleep until you pay the ransom fee. This ransom fee is supposedly necessary to restore your files and your computer to its former glory. However, what good would it do if you allow cyber criminals to run away with your money? No good, definitely. Therefore, you should stand firm and ignore the ransom message. Instead, do everything you can to remove Evillock Ransomware from your computer and then protect your system from similar infections that might target both, your personal information and your money.

One of the most upsetting things about this infection is that users allow it to enter their systems accidentally. In other words, Evillock Ransomware would not be able to infect your computer if you did not open the door yourself. How does that happen? Evillock Ransomware employs spam email campaigns to spread around, so unless you open an attachment that carries the malicious infection, the program in question would not be able to infect your computer.

Why do users think they need to open these attachments? This happens mostly because the file that carries Evillock Ransomware looks like a legitimate document from some reliable company. The attachment will be an executable file, but it will look like an MS Word, Excel document or a PDF file. So users will open it without any second thought, and then the ransomware infection will enter their computers.

Once that happens, Evillock Ransomware will locate all the file formats it can encrypt, and it will run the AES encryption. When the encryption process is complete, all the affected files will have the .EvilLock extension added to their filenames. Needless to say, you will not be able to open those files anymore. Also, the following notice will be plastered on your screen:

As you can see some of your files have been encrypted!
Encryption was made using a unique strongest AES key.
If you want to restore your files you need to BUY the key, it costs 0.3 BTC.

The criminals behind this infection give you three days to transfer the ransom fee. Otherwise, they threaten to delete the key, and after that restoring the files should become impossible. However, you can still refer to a skilled technician to see if Evillock Ransomware has deleted your Shadow Volume copies. If not, it is possible to restore your files from those. If the program has deleted them after all, then it is still possible to retrieve the files provided you have an external backup. It might be some external hard drive or a removal device. Also, quite often users save a lot of their files on cloud servers online.

If you think about it, you will realize that you probably have a quite a few files saved in your inbox, or somewhere else. You can transfer those healthy copies of your files back to your computer AFTER you remove Evillock Ransomware and everything associated to it from your system.

It might be hard to locate all the malware-related files on your own, so you can also employ a reliable antispyware tool to do that for you. Make sure you do everything you can to protect your PC from harm.

How to Delete Evillock Ransomware

1. Open your Downloads folder.
2. Find and remove the most recently downloaded files.
3. Run a full system scan with SpyHunter.