How To Remove Love$ Ransomware And Recover Infected Files

Simple Steps To Delete Love$ Ransomware From Computer

Love$ Ransomware is a type of file-encrypting virus that belongs to the family of Dharma Ransomware and was reported recently by security researcher Jakub Kroustek. It has been created by a group of vicious hackers to serve their wrong motives. It’s a very harmful threat for the computer system and sneaks silently into your device without any approval. This hazardous crypto-malware is very effective and useful for the Cyber actors by which they can easily generate revenues. It encrypts your important files and documents using a powerful cryptography and makes them unable to open and read.

The infected files can be easily identified as this notorious Ransomware renames them by adding victim’s ID, [email protected] email address and appending “.love$” extension with the name of each of them. Following successful encryption, Love$ Ransomware leaves a ransom note “FILES ENCRYPTED.txt” on each folder that contains the locked data and also displays a pop-up Window.  It asks you to contact the attackers via the email addresses provided with the note and pay them an amount of ransom to get the required decryptor and open the locked data. The amount of ransom is not listed in the notes but it has to be paid in BitCoins.

Text Presented in The 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 1E857D00

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.

Text Presented in The FILES ENCRYPTED.txt File:

all your data has been locked us

You want to return?

write email [email protected] or [email protected]

Should You Pay The Ransom?

Criminals ask you to pay the extortion as early as possible because after some time, decryption will be impossible as the infected data will be completely deleted. Here in such pernicious circumstance, many users agree to deal with the hackers but often end up with getting fooled by them. Keep in mind that paying ransom to the attackers is not a clever thing to do under any situation as you have absolutely no guarantee that they will deliver the required software even after taking the extortion. There are several instances when crooks just disappeared soon after the transaction of the payment and caused victims to lose both files as well as money. So, never trust on the hackers and try to remove Love$ Ransomware from the device without wasting any time,

How Does This Threat Enter Your System?

The most common tactic through which such kind of file-encoding viruses get spread is spam email campaigns. Cyber actors deliver spam emails on the targeted devices that pretend to come from reputable companies in order to increase their chances of deceiving a large number of people. Such emails contain vicious attachments in forms of executable files like .exe, archive files like ZIP or RAR, MS office or PDF documents etc. The moment you open the email and click on the attachment, it gets triggered and leads to the malware infiltration.

Tips To Prevent The Ransomware Intrusion:

In order to stay away from Love$ Ransomware or other similar file-encoding threats, you need to be very attentive while surfing the Internet. If you ever receive an email message which you were not expecting to get, you should be very attentive as it might be coming from Cyber actors. In case of this possibility, avoid tapping on any hyperlinks that are included in the mail and never open any attached files without scanning them with anti-malware program. Besides, you might also get this virus due to clicking on malicious ads, sharing peer to peer network, playing Online games and so on. And therefore, stay away from these malevolent sources to keep the device harmless and secured.

Threat Details

Name: Love$ Ransomware

Type: Ransomware, Crypto-virus

Description- Destructive malware that aims to encrypt users’ crucial files and then ask them to pay off for the decryption key/tool.

Extension- “.love$”

Ransom demanding message- FILES ENCRYPTED.txt, pop-up window

Attackers’ Contact- [email protected], [email protected]

Symptoms: Users can not open files available on their desktop, previously functional files now have different extension, A ransom demanding message is displayed on the desktop screen. Users are asked to pay an amount of ransom to unlock their encoded data and files.

Distribution methods: Spam emails, Torrent websites, peer to peer network sharing, unofficial activation and updating tools.

Damage: All files are encrypted and cannot be accessed without paying ransom, Additional password stealing Trojans and malware infections can be installed along with ransomware infections and other malware.

Removal: To remove this virus from the system, we advise you to use a reliable anti-malware tool. Once malware gets removed, you can recover your files by using existing backup or data-recovery software.

Other Harmful Traits of Love$ Ransomware:

Love$ Ransomware drags down the overall computer performance severely as it consumes huge amount of memory resources and increases the usage of CPU. It causes the system to respond slower than ever before and take more than usual time to complete any task. This nasty crypto-malware has ability to deactivate all the running security services and Windows Firewalls and open backdoors for more notorious parasites. It may easily bring other Online infections such as adware, rootkits, worms, spyware, Trojans etc. in your computer and turn the device into a malware-hub. It messes with important system files which assure efficient computer functioning and prevents many installed apps as well as drivers from working in a proper manner. And hence, don’t waste any time. Just take a quick action and remove Love$ Ransomware from the machine without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Step 1: Remove Love$ Ransomware through “Safe Mode with Networking”

Step 2: Delete Love$ Ransomware using “System Restore”

Step 1: Remove Love$ 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 Love$ Ransomware using “System Restore”

Log-in to the account infected with Love$ 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 Love$ 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 Love$ 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 Love$ 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 Love$ 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 Love$ 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 Love$ 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 Love$ 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 Love$ 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.