RobinHood Ransomware Removal Report (Data Recovery Steps Included)

Reasons Behind Developing RobinHood Ransomware

 

RobinHood Ransomware is a name of newly-discovered file-encryption cryptovirus. It is also known as Help Yemen Ransomware. This ransomware is especially programmed by the cyber criminals in order to force the victimized computer users to pay ransom money which is around 14 thousand US Dollars in order to help Yemeni peoples. More interestingly, the cyber security analysts reported about this malware is that it is supposedly developed as a file-encryption program to fight against the new crown prince of Yemen – Mohammed bin Salman. After successfully encoding the victim's files, the cyber extortionists behind RobinHood Ransomware demands 5 Bitcoin approximately equal to $13921 based on the current exchange rate at the time of writing this article.

However, paying ransom money is never suggested to the computer users attacked with this dangerous ransomware virus. This recently generated virus is specifically programmed by the team of con artists who do not really care about the current situation of Yemen and the politics, but only aims to extort money from the victim's of RobinHood Ransomware. According to the developers of this nasty virus, the victimized system users have to more options instead of paying ransom money which is around 14,000 US dollars. In the first option, the hackers suggest victims to give up all their valuable data and in the second option, they have to Tweet a post condemning the administration of Yemeni leader – Mohammed bin Salman and then make around 100 people to re-tweet it. The ransom note displayed by this malware is identified as “READ_IT.txt”. In such circumstances, you shouldn't give up your valuable data instead remove RobinHood Ransomware from your system ASAP.

RobinHood Ransomware : Distribution Sources

Furthermore, the malware attacks targeted computer with number of different ways. In most of the cases, the cyber criminals employ malvertising, exploit kits, illegal or fake downloads and the most popular one spam email attachments for the propagation of RobinHood Ransomware. Nevertheless, hackers utilizes spam email campaign which consists malicious attachments along with virus payload that helps them to infect the targeted machine with most hazardous file-encoding virus. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to be very cautious and never rush for opening the email delivered on your junk box and comes from unfamiliar sources. According to the research report, the malware should especially distributed in Saudi Arabia, but the fact is that, it can infect the computer's in all around the world, including United Kingdom, Japan, Portugal and the United States.

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How To Remove RobinHood Ransomware Virus Manually

Step 1 : Restart your computer in safe with networking

• Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key continuously.

 

• You will find the Advance Boot Option on your computer screen.

• Select Safe Mode With Networking Option by using arrow keys.

• Login your computer with Administrator account.

Step 2 : Step all RobinHood Ransomware related process

• Press the Windows+R buttons together to open Run Box.

• Type “taskmgr” and Click OK or Hit Enter button.

• Now go to the Process tab and find out RobinHood Ransomware related process.

• Click on End Process button to stop that running process.

Step 3 : Restore Your Windows PC To Factory Settings

System Restore Windows XP

• Log on to Windows as Administrator.
• Click Start > All Programs > Accessories.

• Find System Tools and click System Restore.

• Select Restore my computer to an earlier time and click Next.

• Choose a restore point when system was not infected and click Next.

System Restore Windows 7/Vista

• Go to Start menu and find Restore in the Search box.

• Now select the System Restore option from search results.
• From the System Restore window, click the Next button.

• Now select a restore points when your PC was not infected.

• Click Next and follow the instructions.

System Restore Windows 8

• Go to the search box and type Control Panel.

• Select Control Panel and open Recovery Option.

• Now Select Open System Restore option.

• Find out any recent restore point when your PC was not infected.

• Click Next and follow the instructions.

System Restore Windows 10

• Right click the Start menu and select Control Panel.

• Open Control Panel and Find out the Recovery option.

• Select Recovery > Open System Restore > Next.

• Choose a restore point before infection Next > Finish.

Hope these manual steps help you successfully remove the RobinHood Ransomware infection from your computer. If you have performed all the above manual steps and still can’t access your files or cannot remove this nasty ransomware infection from your computer then you should choose a powerful malware removal tool. You can easily remove this harmful virus from your computer by using third party tool. It is the best and the most easy way to get rid of this infection.

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