Remove Stax ransomware And Restore Data

Stax ransomware: Simple Uninstall Guide

Stax ransomware is a file-locker aiming to threaten victims into transferring the money to their account upon encrypting their crucial files. In most cases, these payments don’t result in any data recovery because attackers don’t care about users’ mercy at all. The Stax virus belongs to the Djvu ransomware family and often appends the unique “.stax” extension on the infected filenames. After sneaking into the Windows PCs, it can encrypt documents, videos, audios, pictures, and other essential data using a strong cryptographic algorithm. Criminals might claim that they have decryption tools available in order for victims to make the payment, but this is not true.

Stax ransomware Displays Ransom Note After Encryption:

The “_readme.txt” file, which is the ransom note for Stax ransomware, provides contact and payment details to the affected users. The price of the decryption tool depends on how fast they will contact the attackers. In full, it is $980, but upon establishing the hackers within 72 hours, it will be $490. The note includes [email protected] or [email protected] email addresses using which victims can contact the crooks. There is also offer for test decryption. Users can send one encrypted file that should not contain any valuable information. Hackers will decode it and send it back to prove that the data recovery is possible.

Never Trust Cyber Offenders:

Once infected with Stax ransomware, only certain decryption tools would allow victims to regain access to their essential data. Criminals behind the attack claim to have such a tool and promise to provide it for the affected users once the Bitcoin payment is transferred. Nonetheless, there is no reason to trust such people at all. If you decide to pay ransom to the crooks, you may end up losing your money and files as well. The choice of contacting these hackers is not the best since they can send you another malware piece instead of the decryption tool.

Remove Stax ransomware From Device:

Here in such perilous situation, first of all, you should try to perform Stax ransomware removal from the system since the longer it stays inside, it keeps ruining your other crucial data. Once done with the virus termination, you can then easily recover the infected files if you have backed them up. However, if you don’t have a proper backup, there is still a chance to get them back. For this, you should try a third-party recovery software. These file-recovery tools don’t always provide the best results but can still be used, as they did help people at several occasions.

Propagation Of Stax ransomware:

Quite often, Stax ransomware or other crypto-viruses are distributed via fake software updaters, emails, malicious files downloaded from unreliable sources, Trojans, software cracking tools. Spam emails sent by cyber criminals usually have malicious files or dubious links attached to them. These virulent files could be in multiple formats, e.g., MS Office or PDF documents, executables, archives, JavaScript, and so on. Once the virulent file or the link is opened, it triggers the download and installation of the Stax virus.

To avoid this, you should not trust every email that is delivered to your inbox from unknown addresses. Quite often, the deceptive mails are presented as ‘official’, ‘important’, or ‘urgent’ in order to trick recipients into downloading and opening the malevolent attachments. So, it is important to check the legitimacy of the suspicious mails first before opening it. Also, rely only on official and verified download sources, and use tools provided by legitimate developers to update or activate running apps. If the malware has already intruded your device and locked down all your crucial data, you must remove Stax ransomware from the PC as quickly as possible.

Message Presented In The Ransom Note:

ATTENTION!

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

All your files like pictures, 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.

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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.

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Antimalware Details And User Guide

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

Step 2: Delete Stax ransomware using “System Restore”

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

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