CryptoManiac Ransomware : Remove Ransomware In Few Clicks

What Makes CryptoManiac Ransomware A Scary Ransom Virus?

 

CryptoManiac Ransomware is infamous as a dangerous program that is known to encrypts and lock data to trying to make a payment in exchange of decryption key to unlock data. It unknowingly intrude into system without your knowledge. Once it gains access to your system then it start making various important changes into system and its components. It start configuring your PC to find out to collect the targeted files and data types to encode them. Right after completion of search process it start the encryption process using AES encryption cipher algorithm to encode data and after following successful encryption it locks all your files and then after display a ransom note on affected computer desktop screen and demand amount of $500 in order to unlock your files by purchasing a decryption key from the attackers after payment of ransom money. It also makes changes into system settings and registry editor to easily carry out their vicious deeds.

CryptoManiac Ransomware : Short Analysis

Name	CryptoManiac Ransomware
Type	Ransomware
Risk	High
Ransom demand	$500 in Bitcoins
Distribution	Spam emails attachments, malicious scripts, infected links or advertisements etc.
Infected systems	Windows OS
Detection Tool	Free Scanner to detect CryptoManiac Ransomware

How Did CryptoManiac Ransomware Ended On My Computer?

According to security researchers malicious email attachments are the main reasons to drop the infection files into your system to got infected. The malware developers specially designed emails that may look like an email from office or a shopping receipt from online site. The attackers tricks you to download onto your machines to follow their vicious activities to manages your files security. Sometimes attachments may contains malicious scripts which may drop executable on system that automatically execute and start making annoyances on machine. More reasons are through clicking on various unknown websites that might got infected or hijacked, accidental clicks on advertisements or pop-ups, using fake updates, outdated system programs or OS, uses of expired system exploit kit and so on.

As you read above how does CryptoManiac Ransomware get inside of system and what it does right after the intrusion. So if you want to stay safe then you need to avoid to open spam emails and downloads of their attachments that send by unknown. You also do not make clicks on random display links or advertisements that might contain malicious. Hence you should use a strong anti-malware to remove CryptoManiac Ransomware from system to immediately clean computer from malware.  

Free Scan your Windows PC to detect CryptoManiac Ransomware

Remove CryptoManiac Ransomware From Your PC

Step 1: Remove CryptoManiac Ransomware in Safe Mode with Command Prompt

• First of all disconnect your PC with network connection.
• Click restart button and keep pressing F8 key regularly while system restart.

• You will see “Windows Advanced Options Menu” on your computer screen.

• Select “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” and press Enter key.

• You must login your computer with Administrator account for full privilege.

• Once the Command Prompt appears then type rstrui.exe and press Enter

• Now follow the prompts on your screen to complete system restore.

Step 2: Remove CryptoManiac Ransomware using MSConfig in Safe Mode:

• Power off your computer and restart again.
• While booting press the “F8 key” continuously to open “Windows Advanced Options Menu”.

• Use the arrow keys to select “Safe Mode” option and press Enter key.

• Once system get started go to Start menu. Type “msconfig” in the search box and launch the application.

• Go to the Startup tab and look for files from %AppData% or %Temp% folders using rundll32.exe. See an example below:

C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Users\username\appdata\local\temp\regepqzf.dll,H1N1

• Disable all the malicious entries and save the changes.
• Now restart your computer normally.

Step 3 : Kill Malicious Process Related To CryptoManiac Ransomware

• Press Alt+Ctrl+Del buttons together.

• It will open the Task manager on your screen.
• Go to Process Tab and find CryptoManiac Ransomware related process.
• Click the End Process Now button to stop the running process.

Step 4 : Remove CryptoManiac Ransomware Virus From Registry Entry

• Press “Windows + R” key together to open Run Box.

• Type “regedit” and click OK button.

• Find and remove CryptoManiac Ransomware related entries.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run

Now hopefully you have completely removed the CryptoManiac Ransomware virus from your computer. If you are still get ransom message from the threat or unable to access your files, then it means that virus still remain into your computer. In such situation you don’t have any other option except removing this virus using any powerful malware removal tool.

Whereas if you have any backup of your infected or encrypted files, then you can also reinstall your Windows OS. This will erase all your files and data as along with the CryptoManiac Ransomware infection. You will get a completely empty computer system with no files. Now you can use your backup to get your files. If you don’t have any backup then using malware removal tool is a better option for you.

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