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How to decrypt the files/documents that are encrypted by locky virus/spyware?

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Question added by Aadil Dedmari , IT Administrator & Programmer , Saudi Rubber Products Co.
Date Posted: 2016/03/20
Muhammad adnan Qumar
by Muhammad adnan Qumar , IT engineer , Synopsis Solutions Ltd

  • Open your task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
  • Locate the process of the Ransomware. Have in mind that this is usually a random generated file.
  • Before you kill the process, type the name on a text document for later reference.
  • Navigate to your %appdata%/roaming folder and delete the executable.
  • Then open your Windows Registry Editor and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Locky\\id HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Locky\\pubkey HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Locky\\paytext HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Locky\\completed

The virus temporary creates an “svchost.exe” process with the Description “svchost.exe”. When the encryption of your files finishes it deletes itself from the system.

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Emad Mohammed said abdalla
by Emad Mohammed said abdalla , ERP & IT Software, operation general manager . , AL DOHA Company

i fully agree with the answers been added by experts..........thanks.

zakarya manchar
by zakarya manchar , maintenance technician , المجمع الصناعي لاسمنت الجزائر

Take the drive to a data recovery specialist who should be able to use a hardware solution such as (Salvation Data) to remove the password or in the least be able to perform an extensive/intensive forward/reverse scan of your drive to recover the data.

Nikhil Agrawal
by Nikhil Agrawal , Information Security Engineer , NT Global Solutions

Malwarebytes and HitmanPro can detect and remove this infection, but these programs cannot recover your encrypted files due to the nature of asymmetric encryption, which requires a private key to decrypt files encrypted with the public key.

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
by Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

agree with answer given by mr. Muhammad adnan Qumar 

 

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