How to remove .qewe File Virus

Tips for .qewe File Virus removal

.qewe File Virus is a huge risk ransomware infection from DJVU/STOP ransomware family. It operates by encrypting stored files and demanding ransom payment for the decryption tool/software. During encryption, it appends the filenames of the encrypted files using .qewe extension. For example, a file a named 1.jpg becomes 1.jpg.qewe. Following to this, the ransomware creates _readme.txt file and drops it on the desktop.

The text presented on _readme.txt file states that the files have been encrypted. The only way to get the files back is to contact to the .qewe File Virus developers and pay for the tools that they promote. The tool costs $980. However, the users are asked to get a benefit of 50% discount on this for a limited period of 3 days or 72 hours. For the contact, two email addresses along with a telegram account belong to the crooks are provided in the note. Before the payment, the users are asked to send 1 encrypted file having less than 1 MB in size and must not contain any valuable information. The crooks claim to provide free decryption of this file as a proof that the decryption tool is really working. At the end, the note warns the users that if they use any third party tool or restart the device, they will lose the last hope of the data decryption. The full text presented on the note is provided below:

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]

Reserve e-mail address to contact us:

[email protected]

Your personal ID:

We highly recommend you not to contact/pay to the crooks under any circumstances. These people are not going to pay you the ransom fee even if you fulfil all their demands. They will scam you and disappear leaving you without your files, once the payment is received. The safest option is to remove .qewe File Virus and use existing backup for the data recovery. The malware removal is necessary to prevent it from further files encryption. Also, this will ensure that you will not find any interference of the malware during the files recovery. The ransomware removal will also prevent several more severe issues such as:

• Risk of privacy: The ransomware can collect the stored personal information that is used later on in designing unique ID number for each victim individually.
• Performance down: The malware conducts various malicious activities on the system background to active its full functionally. Such processes require huge energy utilization that it acquires from the CPU and GPU resources that lead the abrupt increasing of the CPU meter and hence lead the performance down, data loss and can even permanent system crashes
• Additional malware intrusion: various other malicious malware can intrude in due to the vulnerability created by the malware inside the device

By taking these things into consideration, you should not delay in .qewe File Virus removal. Follow below mentioned manual malware removal instruction or use some reputable antivirus tool to proceed with its removal process. After the malware removal only, think of the files recovery or otherwise the backup you use for the recovery may also get affected. In case, you do not have any backup file, use data recovery tools that are nowadays designed with special functionally added and can recover the damaged or locked files.

Malicious files get placed on targeted devices

Malicious actors, who were earlier more focused on email campaigns before, evolve various news ways for the ransomware distribution. Now they mostly rely on the method in which malicious sites with triggers allow downloads of malicious scripts and start infections like this. In addition to this, pirated sites, and torrent services that allows spreading malware payload via files attached to software packages become one more common technique that is used nowadays. In most cases, online games, cheats, software cracks, and license numbers when downloaded triggers the infection. The best solution for avoidance of these infections can be paying attention to sources and choosing the official sites, not torrent or other sharing services. Illegal downloads and licensed versions are never a good idea.

Remove .qewe File Virus

Manual malware removal guide is provided below in step by step manner. Follow it so that you will not find any trouble during removal process. You can use some  reputable antivirus tool to automatically remove .qewe File Virus from the device.

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

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

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

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