How to remove ROGER Ransomware

Files encrypted by ROGER Ransomware: Is there any solution?

Are you looking for the solution to remove ROGER Ransomware from System? Have you ever noticed this dubious file virus in your System? Don’t be panics, please read this article carefully. I am sure this article will help you to remove ROGER Ransomware from computer completely & safely. According to Cyber security experts & researchers, it is very notorious malware and computer infection that is belongs to Ransomware family. It encrypts/locks all files of your System hard drives by appending .ROGER File Extension and drops ransom note as “FILES ENCRYPTED.txt” on your computer screen. Let’s start the discussion about this malware in detail.

Threat Summary

Threat Name: ROGER Ransomware

Threat Type: Ransomware, File Virus, Crypto-Malware

Description:  Able to lock all files of your System and demands huge amount of ransom money for decryption.

Distribution methods: Bundles of freeware or shareware, malicious ads or popup messages and many other tricks

Motives of Crooks: Aims to collect your personal information as well as steal your money from your wallet or e-wallet

Removal solution: To remove ROGER Ransomware or similar malware, we recommended you to scan your System with powerful antivirus software and use powerful data recovery software to restore all files locked by ransomware.

Let’s take have a look at message displayed on ransom note:

YOUR FILES ARE ENCRYPTED

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

If you want to restore them, follow this link:zombietry4o3nzeh.onion/?ticket=Rt31ws32vJLxvwudeH_1E857D00

Use Tor Browser to access this address.

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.

What is ROGER Ransomware (Crysis/Dharma Ransomware’s variant)?

It is also known as .ROGER File Virus that is new version of Dharma/Crysis Ransomware. According to security experts & researchers, this dubious file virus get enters into your System accidently from various methods of bundling & social engineering and leads major damages in your computer. It easily alters your Windows PCs and does malicious infection in your computer without permission. It is hard to detect/delete this infection by most of the antivirus software running in your computer because this malware blocks major genuine application of your computer. In simple word, we can say that you can’t work on your System comfortably as usual like before due to its dubious behaviors. If your System has detected this malware, then you should try to remove ROGER Ransomware from System immediately.

More details about ROGER Ransomware

This dubious Dharma Ransomware’s variant drops the multiple copies of itself in each folder of your computer hard drives and makes all files encrypted. It encrypts/locks all files including documents, databases, ppt, xlx, css, html, text, images, audios, videos, games, pdf and other files of your System hard drives. When you try to open such locked files, then you get ransom note on your machine. It does bogus promises to decrypt or recover all files locked by ransomware immediately, once you pay ransom money to them. But it is bogus at all. You should never believe on them at any cases. If you have created backup of your all files by using very strong backup & recovery software, then it is good for you.

Ransom note contains information about ransomware, how you can recover files encrypted by ransomware, tech-support’s email ID and ransom money details as well. Initially, hacker behinds ROGER Ransomware attack gives free decryption test for 2-4 files of your computer that successfully decrypt these files. After that, it asks you to pay certain amount of ransom money to decrypt your files. It provides email Id [email protected] on its ransom note and asks you to contact their technical experts for decryption.

We recommended you to stop contacting them via such bogus email ID or other media and avoid paying any amount of ransom money to them for decryption. According to Cyber security experts & researchers, ROGER Ransomware is very dangerous Dharma Ransomware’s variant creation of malware programmer who wants to gain some illegal online profit and cheat with innocent users. They never do any mercy with you. It uses the name & LOGO of some trustworthy companies on its ransom note for making believe on them. But it provides bogus services. You should never trust on them. Its main aim is to collect your some information such as IP address, URLs search, user name, password, banking information and more details as well. So you should scan your System with powerful antivirus software that has the ability to delete all junk files or viruses from System.

Distribution Methods: How your System gets infected from ROGER Ransomware?

The Ransomware is mostly get install in your System from malicious email messages, infected email attachments and bundles of free software packages which you are downloaded from internet. It can come in your machine via malicious ads or popup messages, malicious hyperlinks, fake software updates or pirated software, infected external media drives, social media, downloaded media files, files sharing network, porn or adult related websites, hacked or third parties’ websites and many other tricks. You should be careful while surfing online and click on ads or popup after double reading. It is possible to remove ROGER Ransomware from System with our easy removal solution.

Frequently asked question: Users’ questions regarding ROGER Ransomware attack

Question 1: My document is locked with suffix .ROGER. The types of the locked document including pdf, docx, xzl, jpg, and so on, Could you provide me with some useful advice?

Answer: ROGER Ransomware is new variant of Dharma/Crysis Ransomware that spreads the copies of itself in each folder of your computer and makes all files locked by .ROGER File Extension. It claims there is only option aviable to decrpt encrypted files that is to pay demanded ransom money to them. You should never trust on their fake promises and avoid paying any amount of ransom money to them.

In case if your System has infected with ROGER Ransomware, you should scan your System with strong antiirus software firstly. After scan complete, you should to go for data recovery solution from external media drives where you have saved the backup of your personal files. If backup is not available in any storage media, then you can use strong data recovery software to restore files locked or damaged by ransomware.

Question 2: My all files encrypted and renamed to id-5EFB9272.[[email protected]].ROGER. How could I fix it?

Answer: This new version of Dharma Ransomware is able to encrypt all files stored in your computer by appending unique victim’s ID added with tech-support’s email ID and .ROGER File Extension i.e., id-5EFB9272.[[email protected]].ROGER File Extension and asks you to read the instruction given on ransom note which may help you to decryt your personal files locked by ransomware.

No doubt, ROGER Ransomware is very harmful & powerful crypto-malware that is made using strong encrption algorithm techniques by cyber crooks. But it is possible to get of ROGER Ransomware or other related Ransomware belongs to Dharma Ransomware. You should at first start malware removal process. Once scan complete, you can recover your personal data by using strong data recover software. Here, we are providing both solution i.e., you can easily removal all types of files associated with ROGER Ransomware and recover encrypted files of your machine as well.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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

Step 2: Delete ROGER Ransomware using “System Restore”

Step 1: Remove ROGER 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 ROGER Ransomware using “System Restore”

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