DISK DATA RECOVERY

Are you familiar with CryptoLocker? Maybe you’ll say no. But when we ask you whether you’ve attacked by computer virus, the answer may certainly be a yes.
 
What is CryptoLocker? Actually, it is a kind of ransomware designed to infect Windows computers. When you’re attacked by this ransomware, your computer screen will be locked and you’ll not be able to access any files in it.
 

 
As CryptoLocker becomes popular, more and more users are dying to know whether CryptoLocker file recovery is possible and how it can be completed. Before offering the exact way to recover files from CryptoLocker virus, we’d like to talks about ransomware at first.
 

Things to Know before CryptoLocker File Recovery

As you can imagine, both CryptoLocker and other ransomware are very harmful. Here, we’d like to list the possible damages that ransomware will bring to our device.
 
Now, let’s walk you through the basic types of ransomware (classified according to different impacts) and the problems they will cause.
 
1. Affect the normal use of systems: it often forces users to pay money by locking system screen. Only after the payment was sent to certain account, can users get back its permission to access system.
 
This type of ransomware includes PC Cyborg, QiaoZhaz (Trojan/Win32.QiaoZhaz) and so on.
 
2. Intimidate users: such software may be disguised as anti-virus software to trick users and asks them to pay for its “anti-virus software”. Or it may be disguised as local law enforcement agencies to force users to pay ransom by claiming that the user breaks the law.
 

 
This type of ransomware includes FakeAV (Trojan[Ransom]/Win32.FakeAV), Reveton (Trojan[Ransom]/Win32.Foreign), etc.
 
3. Encrypt computer files: this kind of ransomware seems to be the most popular one in recent years. It often adopts high-strength encryption algorithm to encrypt users’ files; the user can only decrypt them with provided method after paying.
 
The most classic ransomware of this type is CTB-Locker family (Trojan[Ransom]/Win32.CTBLocker).
 

Effective Solution to Ransomware Data Recovery

 

 
At first, remove your attacked hard drive from original computer carefully and connect it as an external drive to another clean computer.
 
CryptoLocker file recovery process: download and install MiniTool Power Data Recovery -> select “Lost Partition Recovery” from main window -> choose the target disk to scan by pressing “Full Scan” -> wait for the completion of scan -> check needed files from scan result -> press “Save” and set a storage location to end ransomware data recovery.
 
Note: if you need to recover files from an existing partition, you’d better choose “Damaged Partition Recovery”.
 
Now, you must have mastered the way to recover files from CryptoLocker virus or other ransomware attack. Please try it yourself.