How To Remove ALKA ransomware And Recover Infected Data

Simple Steps To Delete ALKA ransomware From Computer

ALKA ransomware is one of those destructive malware infections which encrypts users’ crucial files and then asks them to pay the attackers a sum of ransom to unlock it. Similar to other notorious threats of same category, it also often enters the targeted PCs secretly without users’ approval and then conducts a series of malicious activities in the background. It encodes your crucial data such as videos, audios, images, PDFs, documents etc. by using a very powerful encryption algorithm and appends “.alka” extension with each of them as suffix. After that, you will not be able to open any of such files without using the decryption tool that is kept on attackers’ server.

Once the encryption process is completed, ALKA ransomware puts a ransom note “_readme.txt” on the desktop and asks you to pay an amount of ransom money in order to get the required tool. The price of the decryptor is $980 but if you contact the hackers within 72 hours through the email address provided with the note, the price will be halved and you will only have to pay $490 in BitCoins. Criminals also offer to decrypt a file for free in order to prove that the decryption is possible but, that file should not contain any valuable information. ALKA ransomware authors promise that once the payment is made, you will be delivered the decryption software.

Text Presented in The Ransom Note:

ATTENTION!

Don’t worry, you can return all your files!
All your files like photos, databases, documents and other important are encrypted with strongest encryption and unique key.
The only method of recovering files is to purchase decrypt tool and unique key for you.
This software will decrypt all your encrypted files.
What guarantees you have?
You can send one of your encrypted file from your PC and we decrypt it for free.
But we can decrypt only 1 file for free. File must not contain valuable information.
You can get and look video overview decrypt tool:
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Price of private key and decrypt software is $980.
Discount 50% available if you contact us first 72 hours, that’s price for you is $490.
Please note that you’ll never restore your data without payment.
Check your e-mail “Spam” or “Junk” folder if you don’t get answer more than 6 hours.

To get this software you need write on our e-mail:
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Should You Pay The Ransom?

You certainly don’t want to lose your crucial data and might consider dealing with the hackers but still, we highly advise to not do so. Remember, the only motive of the hackers is to extort illicit profits from the victimized people, you have absolutely no guarantee that you will obtain the required decryption even after paying the ransom. Moreover, even if crooks provide you the necessary tool that works, the virus will still remain in the machine and can strike again for further revenues. And thus, never make any sort of payment to the criminals and focus on removing ALKA ransomware from the computer as soon as possible.

Ways To Recover The Data And Other Malevolent Acts of ALKA ransomware:

As far as restoring the infected files is concerned, use a backup made on any external drive. However, some people may not have a proper backup so in that case, you should try to retrieve the compromised data via a data-recovery application. Apart from locking your crucial files, this dangerous crypto-threat also creates tons of junk files in the hard drive of your PC which consume huge amount of memory resources and drag down the overall system performance severely. It is able to deactivate all the running security services and making the machine vulnerable for more Online parasites. ALKA ransomware can be a big hazard for your privacy too as it can bring spyware into your computer which tends to track users’ Online activities, steal personal and confidential data and expose them to vicious hackers for evil purposes.

Quick Glance

Name- ALKA ransomware

Type- Ransomware, Crypto-virus

Description- Hazardous parasite which tends to encrypt users’ essential files and then ask them to pay off for the decryption key.

Extension- “.alka”

Ransom Note- “_readme.txt”

Symptoms- All of your important files and data are locked and can’t be opened without using a private key.

Distribution-Spam email campaigns, Executable files etc.

Damage- Causes permanent data loss and can also drop other pernicious infections onto the compromised device.

Removal- Manual and automatic guidelines as provided under this article

Intrusion of ALKA ransomware:

Cyber criminals spread such types of crypto-virus via multiple illusive methods such as spam email campaigns, Trojans, fake updaters, untrustworthy software download channels and unofficial activation tools. However, at most of the occasions, they distribute such infections by attacking malevolent files or including website links that are designed to download perilous files to emails and sending them to numerous users. They camouflage those mails as official, important and try to trick users into opening the attached file. When opened, that file installs hazardous program (in this case, it is ransomware). And therefore, you should ignore suspicious emails coming from unknown sender as you never know what they contain. But at the moment, just take an immediate action and delete ALKA ransomware from the work-station by following the effective removal steps given below.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Step 1: Remove ALKA ransomware through “Safe Mode with Networking”

Step 2: Delete ALKA ransomware using “System Restore”

Step 1: Remove ALKA ransomware through “Safe Mode with Networking”

For Windows XP and Windows 7 users: Boot the PC in “Safe Mode”. Click on “Start” option and continuously press on F8 during the start process until the “Windows Advanced Option” menu appears on the screen. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” from the list.

Now, a windows homescreen appears on the desktop and work-station is now working on “Safe mode with networking”.

For Windows 8 Users: Go to the “Start Screen”. In the search results select settings, type “Advanced”. In the “General PC Settings” option, choose “Advanced startup” option. Again, click on the “Restart Now” option. The work-station boots to “Advanced Startup Option Menu”. Press on “Troubleshoot” and then “Advanced options” button.  In the “Advanced Option Screen”, press on “Startup Settings”. Again, click on “Restart” button. The work-station will now restart in to the “Startup Setting” screen. Next is to press F5 to boot in Safe Mode in Networking.

For Windows 10 Users: Press on Windows logo and on the “Power” icon. In the newly opened menu, choose “Restart” while continuously holding “Shift” button on the keyboard. In the new open “Choose an option” window, click on “Troubleshoot” and then on the “Advanced Options”. Select “Startup Settings” and press on “Restart”. In the next window, click on “F5” button on the key-board.

Step 2: Delete ALKA ransomware using “System Restore”

Log-in to the account infected with ALKA ransomware. Open the browser and download a legitimate anti-malware tool. Do a full System scanning. Remove all the malicious detected entries.

In case if you cannot start the PC in “Safe Mode with Networking”, Try using “System Restore”

• During the “Startup”, continuously press on F8 key until the “Advanced Option” menu appears. From the list, choose “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” and then press “Enter”

• In the new opened command prompt, enter “cd restore” and then press “Enter”.

• Type: rstrui.exe and Press “ENTER”

• Click “Next” on the new windows

• Choose any of the “Restore Points” and click on “Next”. (This step will restore the work-station to its earlier time and date prior to ALKA ransomware infiltration in the PC.

• In the newly opened windows, press on “Yes”.

Once your PC gets restored to its previous date and time, download the recommended anti-malware tool and perform a deep scanning in order to remove ALKA ransomware files if they left in the work-station.

In order to restore the each (separate) file by this ransomware, use “Windows Previous Version” feature. This method is effective when “System Restore Function” is enabled in the work-station.

Important Note: Some variants of ALKA ransomware delete the “Shadow Volume Copies” as well hence this feature may not work all the time and is applicable for selective computers only.

How to Restore Individual Encrypted File:

In order to restore a single file, right click on it and go to “Properties”. Select “Previous Version” tab. Select a “Restore Point” and click on “Restore” option.

In order to access the files encrypted by ALKA ransomware, you can also try using “Shadow Explorer”. In order to get more information on this application, press here.

Important: Data Encryption Ransomware are highly dangerous and it is always better that you take precautions to avoid its attack on your work-station. It is advised to use a powerful anti-malware tool in order to get protection in real-time. With this help of “SpyHunter”, “group policy objects” are implanted in the registries in order to block harmful infections like ALKA ransomware.

Also, In Windows 10, you get a very unique feature called “Fall Creators Update” that offer “Controlled Folder Access” feature in order to block any kind of encryption to the files. With the help of this feature, any files stored in the locations such as “Documents”, “Pictures”, “Music”, “Videos”, “Favorites” and “Desktop” folders are safe by default.

It is very important that you install this “Windows 10 Fall Creators Update” in your PC to protect your important files and data from ransomware encryption. The more information on how to get this update and add an additional protection form rnasomware attack has been discussed here.

How to Recover the Files Encrypted by ALKA ransomware?

Till now, you would have understood that what had happed to your personal files that got encrypted and how you can remove the scripts and payloads associated with ALKA ransomware in order to protect your personal files that has not been damaged or encrypted until now. In order to retrieve the locked files, the depth information related to “System Restore” and “Shadow Volume Copies” has already been discussed earlier. However, in case if you are still unable to access the encrypted files then you can try using a data recovery tool.

Use of Data Recovery Tool

This step is for all those victims who have already tries all the above mentioned process but didn’t find any solution. Also it is important that you are able to access the PC and can install any software. The data recovery tool works on the basis of System scanning and recovery algorithm. It searches the System partitions in order to locate the original files which were deleted, corrupted or damaged by the malware. Remember that you must not re-install the Windows OS otherwise the “previous” copies will get deleted permanently. You have to clean the work-station at first and remove ALKA ransomware infection. Leave the locked files as it is and follow the steps mentioned below.

Step1: Download the software in the work-station by clicking on the “Download” button below.

Step2: Execute the installer by clicking on downloaded files.

Step3: A license agreement page appears on the screen. Click on “Accept” to agree with its terms and use. Follow the on-screen instruction as mentioned and click on “Finish” button.

Step4: Once the installation gets completed, the program gets executed automatically. In the newly opened interface, select the file types that you want to recover and click on “Next”.

Step5: You can select the “Drives” on which you want the software to run and execute the recovery process. Next is to click on the “Scan” button.

Step6: Based on drive you select for scanning, the restore process begins. The whole process may take time depending on the volume of the selected drive and number of files. Once the process gets completed, a data explorer appears on the screen with preview of that data that is to be recovered. Select the files that you want to restore.

Step7. Next is to locate the location where you want to saver the recovered files.