How To Remove .Kodc File Virus And Restore Infected Files

Proper Guide To Delete .Kodc File Virus From Computer

.Kodc File Virus is another deadly ransomware program that has been specially designed by a team of potent Cyber criminals to encrypt users’ essential files and then extort huge amount of illicit profits from them. It’s a new variant of well-known STOP ransomware and is capable of infecting almost all types of data including images, videos, audios, PDFs, documents etc. This nasty crypto-virus threat uses a very powerful encryption algorithm to lock your essential files and appends “.Kodc” extension with each of them as suffix. After that, you will not be able to open any of such files without using the decryption software that is kept on attackers’ server.

Once the encryption process is completed, .Kodc File Virus puts a ransom note “ _readme.txt” on the desktop and asks you to pay an amount of ransom to get the required decryption tool and open the encoded data. To prove that the decryption is possible, crooks offer to decrypt a file for free but, the file should nor contain any valuable information. The ransom note also includes email addresses to contact the attackers and get details on money transaction. You will have to pay a ransom amount of $980 to the hackers but if you contact them within 72 hours, the amount will be halved and then the price of the software is $490.

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:
[email protected]

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Should You Pay the Ransom?

.Kodc File Virus doesn’t leave any option to you other than dealing with the criminals. However, whatever the circumstance might be, you should never make any sort of payment to the attackers as you have absolutely no guarantee that they will provide you the necessary tool/key even after taking the ransom. It has been seen that such types of Cyber actors often disappear once the payment is made or provide bogus application to the victims in the name of decryption tool which only harms the device badly upon getting installed. So, never trust on the crooks under any situation.

How To Recover The Infected Files:

As far as restoring the compromised files is concerned, you should use a genuine data-recovery application. There are various third-party programs that are very useful in recovering the infected or lost files, you should also use any of such tools to get your data back. Moreover, you are lucky enough and have a recently made backup, you can also try to restore some amount of infected files. But the first thing you need to do here is to remove .Kodc File Virus from the device as the longer it remains in the system, it keeps compromising your other crucial data.

Quick Glance

Name- .Kodc File Virus

Type- Ransomware, Crypto-virus

Description- Deadly crypto-malware that encrypt users’ crucial files and then ask them to pay off for the decryption key.

Extension- “.Kodc”

Ransom note: “ _readme.txt”

Attackers’ Contact- “[email protected]”

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

How Does This Threat Enter Your System:

Such types of crypto-viruses intrude the targeted device though various deceptive techniques such as spam email campaigns, fake software updaters, Trojans, questionable download sources, unofficial software activation tools etc. However, the most common method used by hackers to distribute ransomware programs is by sending emails that contain malicious attachments. Crooks generally attach MS office, exe files, PDF documents, archive files like RAR, ZIP and JavaScript files. Once you open the attachment, those malevolent files install some perilous application. And therefore, it is necessary to stay away from suspicious mails coming from unknown source. But at the moment, just take a quick action and remove .Kodc File Virus from the machine completely.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Step 1: Remove .Kodc File Virus through “Safe Mode with Networking”

Step 2: Delete .Kodc File Virus using “System Restore”

Step 1: Remove .Kodc File Virus 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 .Kodc File Virus using “System Restore”

Log-in to the account infected with .Kodc File Virus. 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 .Kodc File Virus 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 .Kodc File Virus 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 .Kodc File Virus 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 .Kodc File Virus, 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 .Kodc File Virus.

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 .Kodc File Virus?

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 .Kodc File Virus 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 .Kodc File Virus 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.