How to Remove Enter Virus File Ransomware (+File Recovery)

How to Remove Enter Ransomware?

There’s a new ransomware going around the web, plaguing users. It goes by the name Enter. That’s because, once it strikes, you find your files with an ‘enter’ attachment, at the end. If you have a document called ‘work,’ it becomes ‘work.enter.’ Once that happens, you can no longer access your document. Let’s elaborate. Ransomware infections are horrible companions. They invade your PC via deception. Then, once inside, wreak utter havoc. After the infection infiltrates your system, it corrupts it. It encrypts every single file, you keep on your computer. Documents, pictures, music and video files, everything. It gets locked. As stated, the tool adds an ‘enter’ extension at the end of each file. Thus, rendering it inaccessible. After the extension is in place, you get a ransom note. Sometimes, the infection even replaces your Desktop wallpaper. And, puts a picture of the note there, instead. That note contains the ransomware’s demands. It announces its existence, and explains your predicament. The infection lets you know that, the only way to unlock your data, is compliance. It demands a ransom, and requests the payment to get made in Bitcoin. You might even get a deadline for the completion of the transfer. Supposedly, if you follow its requests, you’ll get a special decryption key. Apply it, and your files get free from the ransomware’s hold. It seems simple enough, but it’s not. Enter is a nasty cyber threat, crafted by nasty cyber criminals. Believe nothing it promises. And, as harsh as it may seem, forsake your files. Accept that they are lost to you, and cut your losses. Don’t give money to these extortionists. Don’t play into their scheme. Say goodbye to your data, and move on. It’s a tough choice o make, but it’s the right one. A fight against a ransomware is pretty much impossible to win. It’s rigged against you from the start.

How did I get infected with?

The Enter infection slithers into your PC, undetected. It does so, because it preys on your carelessness. Like most cyber threats, its success rests on your lack of due diligence. The tool relies on your distraction, haste, and gullibility. It needs you to throw caution to the wind, and leave your fate to chance. To skip reading terms and conditions, or look into what exactly you give the green light to. To not look for the fine print, or double-check everything. It needs you to rush, and rely on luck. Why would you oblige? Don’t make it easier for the threat to gain entry to your system. Next time, you receive an email that urges you into downloading an attachment, be wary! Before you click a specific link, be cautious. When installing freeware, be extra careful. Attention goes a log way, and it can save you countless troubles. Don’t disregard the importance of vigilance. Caution helps to keep an infection-free PC. Carelessness may result in your data getting locked with the ‘enter’ extension.

Why is Enter dangerous?

Enter follows a classic blackmailing scheme. It invades your PC, then puts your data under lock down. It may even mess with your Internet access, to make it extra difficult for you, to deal with your situation. The infection backs you into a corner, and hopes you fall for its trickery. Don’t. Do NOT send the cyber kidnappers even a single dime. If you do, you’ll only further your grievances. That’s because you’ll lose money, and gain nothing in return. Here’s the thing. Say, you choose to trust the cyber criminals. Say, you decide to pay the ransom. What happens next? You either get a decryption key, or you don’t. And, it either works, or it doesn’t. On the off chance, everything goes your way, and you get the key that works. What then? You’re addressing a symptom of the infection, not the infection itself. Even if you get rid of the encryption, the encryptor remains on your PC. And, what’s to stop it from striking again? Don’t you think there are too many risks to take a chance? Do yourself a favor, and accept defeat. Ransomware infections are among the worst cyber threats. They’ve earned their notoriety as formidable opponents. So is the Enter one. Cut your losses, and don’t risk further damage.

Enter Removal Instructions

STEP 1: Kill the Malicious Process

STEP 2: Reveal Hidden Files

STEP 3: Locate Startup Location

STEP 4: Recover Enter Encrypted Files

STEP 1: Stop the malicious process using Windows Task Manager

• 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.

• Locate any suspicious processes associated with Enter encryption Virus.
• Right click on the process
• Open File Location
• End Process
• Delete the directories with the suspicious files.
• Have in mind that the process can be hiding and very difficult to detect

STEP 2: Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

STEP 3: Locate Enter encryption Virus startup location

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”
• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to:

Navigate to your %appdata% folder and delete the executable.

You can alternatively use your msconfig windows program to double check the execution point of the virus. Please, have in mind that the names in your machine might be different as they might be generated randomly, that’s why you should run any professional scanner to identify malicious files.

STEP 4: How to recover encrypted files?

• Method 1: The first and best method is to restore your data from a recent backup, in case that you have one.

• Method 2: File Recovery Software – Usually when the ransomware encrypts a file it first makes a copy of it, encrypts the copy, and then deletes the original. Due to this you may try to use file recovery software to recover some of your original files.
• Method 3: Shadow Volume Copies – As a last resort, you can try to restore your files via Shadow Volume Copies. Open the Shadow Explorer part of the package and choose the Drive you want to recover. Right click on any file you want to restore and click Export on it.