Satyr Ransomware Virus - How to remove

Satyr Ransomware – dangerous computer infection that can cause a lot of damage. Actually, this infection can result in the loss of your personal files for good. It employs a strong cryptography to lock files on infected computer and then demands the ransom to be paid. Even though it might be worth to pay some amount of money in exchange of your important files, you can never trust cyber criminals – they can simply scam you.

Instead of that, you should improve the security of your computer and look for alternative methods to remove Satyr ransomware virus and decrypt your files. Actually, this post is dedicated to do just that – we will try to provide you with valuable information about this virus and methods how to solve the problem, so if you are interested, please stay tuned.

Encrypting files with .Satyr extension

If you have at least a basic knowledge about ransomware infections, you should already know that each ransomware virus use some kind of unique extension that is added to the end of encrypted files. Usually this extension also determines the name of the virus. Eventually, the extension of Satyr ransomware is .satyr.

What does it mean? It means after successful infiltration, Satyr ransomware will automatically scan your computer for files that can be encrypted and then start encrypting process. It will employ strong cryptography to lock your files and add .satyr extension to the end of every single one of them.

For instance, if you had a file named document.txt, now it will be named as document.txt.satyr and you won’t be able to open it because it is already encrypted. After that, a new file called “Read Me.txt” will be automatically placed on your desktop. It is a ransom note with instructions how much and when you have to pay. Original copy of the file text:

Security tips
All your files have been encrypted due to a security problem with your PC. If you want to restore them, write us the Telegram: @tony_montana10928 and send personal ID KEY: –
For Decrypt Your Personal Files Send 0.018 BTC to this address: 19VDobG8akrbtM3VRJAGREJbKqxKB3WvM2

You have to pay for decryption in Bitcoins. The price depends on how you write to us. After payment we will send you the decryption tool that will decrypt all your files.

As always, cyber criminals prefers the ransom to be paid in Bitcoins – cryptocurrencies are more difficult to track, so that explains it all. Even though 0.018 BTC only converts to around $150 (usually ransoms vary from $1000 to $2000), we still not recommend to pay it. As we have already mentioned, you can’t be sure that your files will be decrypted after paying the ransom.

According to their plan, you should pay the ransom and receive unique decryption tool that will reverse the process of encryption and make your files available once again.

In reality, things can turn out the other way. That’s why we recommend you to look for alternatives and take care of the security of your computer in order to assure that this won’t happen again. First of all, you have to wipe the virus from your system – download Spyhunter and scan your computer with it. Either one of those programs will be able to detect and remove the virus.

Next, move on to the files. There is no way to decrypt them using some sort of free decryptor at the moment, so the only way you can do it is by turning your computer back in time. That can be done by performing a system restore. However, there is one crucial condition – you have to have a valid copy of your hard drive.

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