How To Remove Dme ransomware (+ Decryption Methods)

Best Guide To Restore files from Dme ransomware

Threat Summary:

Name: Dme ransomware

Threat Type: Ransomware , File Virus

File Extension: .dme

Ransom Demanding Message:   Pop-up window, FILES ENCRYPTED.txt

Cyber-criminal Contact: [email protected], [email protected]

Symptoms: Cannot open files stored on your System, file name has been changed with .dme extension, A pop-up Window and ransom note appears on the System screen after encrypted files.

Distribution Methods: Spam email attachments, Trojan, Download Software, Update System Software.

Removal Tool: To eliminate this infection we are highly advice to scan your system with reputable antimalware tool.

Dme ransomware is a highly dangerous computer infection that belongs to Dharma Ransomware family.  It is designed and distributed by the team of cyber hacker with the sole motive to encrypting files on targeted System and force victims into paying ransom money. It is mainly targets Windows Operating system. It is able to infect all types of System that work on Windows XP, Windows7, Windows8.1 and the most latest version Windows 10. It gets silently enters into your system without any your knowledge. It commonly spread through spam email attachments. Once install into your System it will lock down all your personal and System files by using the strong encryption algorithm. During the encryption process it rename their file names by appending victim’s ID, [email protected] email address and the “.dme” extension at the end of every encrypted files and makes them totally inaccessible for the users. As a rule after encrypted all files, it provides instructions  on how to contact its developers by creating or displaying a ransom note FILES ENCRYPTED.txt” text file and a pop-up window.

Ransom Note FILES ENCRYPTED.txt” text file stated victims that their files have been encrypted by the powerful encryption algorithm so that accessing even single file is completely inaccessible for the victim. The only way to decrypt file is to purchase unique decryption key from the cyber-criminal. Victim have to contact cyber-criminal for instruction on how to purchase a decryption tool via the [email protected] or [email protected] email address. When victims contact cyber criminals they receive details like as price of the decryption tool and crypto currency wallet address. The prices of the decryption key is not specified in the ransom note it is only depends on how quickly victim will contact to the developer.  They also offer one non valuable file for free decryption which does not exceed from 1 MB. They also warned, if victim will attempt to rename files or decrypt them with some third party recovery software then they can loss their data permanently.

Text presented in Dme ransomware‘s pop-up window:

YOUR FILES ARE ENCRYPTED

Don’t worry,you can return all your files!

If you want to restore them, follow this link:email [email protected] YOUR ID –

If you have not been answered via the link within 12 hours, write to us by e-mail:[email protected]

Attention!

Do not rename encrypted files.

Do not try to decrypt your data using third party software, it may cause permanent data loss.

Decryption of your files with the help of third parties may cause increased price (they add their fee to our) or you can become a victim of a scam.

File Types Encrypted By . Dme ransomware:

.doc, .docm, .docx, .ppt, .pptm, .pptx, .psd, .pst, .ptx,.xlk, .xls, .xlsb, .xlsm, .xlsx, .zip, .gif, .htm, .html, .iso, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .kdc, .lnk, .mdb, .mdf, .mef, .mk, .mp3, .mp4,.avi, .mkv, .bmp, .1c, .3fr, .accdb, .ai, .arw, .bac, .bay, .cdr, .cer, .cfg, .config, .cr2, .crt, .crw, .css, .csv, .db, .dbf, .dcr, .der, .dng, .dwg, .dxf, .dxg, .eps, .erf, .mrw, .nef, .nrw, .odb, .ode, .odm, .odp, .ods, .odt, .orf, .p12, .p7b, .p7c, .pdd, .pdf, .pef, .pem, .pfx, .php, .png, .r3d, .rar, .raw, .rtf, .rw2, .rwl, .sql, .sr2, .srf, .srw, .tif, .wb2, .wma, .wpd, .wps, .x3f and many more.

Should Victim Pay Ransom Money?

Victims are highly advice should not trust on cyber-criminal and never attempt to send ransom money to them. The main reason behind is it their all claims are false and bogus and there is no any proof that they will send decryption key after received payment. The more you pay the more it will demand. It can disable your anti-virus and firewall programs. It will make you completely defenceless and leave you no option rather than paying ransom money. It is highly possibilities that your system can get infected by this nasty virus again. In most of the cases victim has got scammed.

What Victim Should Do?

As we known that paying money to the hacker is highly risky and there is no any proof that they will get back all files just after received ransom money. In most of the cases cyber-criminal cuts all the communication just after received ransom money. So the paying money to the hacker is not good for victim. In this situation victims are highly advice to remove Dme ransomware as soon as possible to avoiding the further encryption. After that they can use back if have to restore files. If there is no any backup then they can use third party recovery Software to recover all encrypted files.

How did Dme ransomware Distributed Into your System:

Dme ransomware is mostly gets installed into the targeted System via the spam email attachments, Trojan, Software download and fake Software updating tools. Cyber offender use spam email campaign to distribute the malware infection. Spam email contains malicious attachments or downloads links for malicious files. The malicious files sends  via email are  Microsoft, PDF documents, download links for malicious files, exe, archive files like ZIP, RAR, And  Java Script and so on. These files seems important , official and sent from reputable organization. When recipients open these file then the malicious infection attack into your System. Trojan is mainly designed to cause chain infections. Download software from third party site, fake update System Software from irrelevant sources are also cause the infiltration of malicious infections.

How To Protect your system from Dme ransomware:

It is recommended to avoiding the received email which sent from unknown sender. It is important to know the sender name and address. If any file seems suspicious please do not open them. It is advice to check the body content including grammatical error and spelling mistakes. Users must stop the installation of freeware program from third party downloader site. It is recommended to read their terms and license agreements as well as select custom or advance options. It is important to update the System software from relevant sources or direct links. It is highly suggested to scan your System with automatic removal tool.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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

Step 2: Delete Dme ransomware using “System Restore”

Step 1: Remove Dme 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 Dme ransomware using “System Restore”

Log-in to the account infected with Dme 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 Dme 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 Dme 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 Dme 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 Dme 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 Dme 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 Dme 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 Dme 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 Dme 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.