Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware

If it is not too late, you have to strengthen your virtual security immediately because the malicious Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware is on the loose. This dangerous threat can encrypt your personal files before you even realize what is happening. This ransomware does not pick and choose which files to encrypt. Instead, it goes after all of your photos, documents, and other personal files. Once they are encrypted, you are informed about that via a TXT file message. Needless to say, cyber criminals do not corrupt your files without a real purpose. In fact, the malicious ransomware was created just so that money could be extorted from you. The thing is that when your files are being encrypted, a decryption key is created as well, and you have to have it if you want to release your files. There is no other way of decrypting your files! Cyber criminals know that you do not have many options, which is why they act in an aggressive manner. At the end of the day, you MUST remove Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware, and this is what we discuss.

When Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware encrypts your personal files, it adds the “.{Xbotcode@gmail.com}” extension to them, which is where the name of this threat comes from. This email address is used for communication, and cyber criminals want you to email them to get the “decryption program.” Will they give you this program right away? Of course, they will not. Cyber criminals have not gone through all that trouble of creating the threat just so that they could record your email address, which, by the way, they might do, and so you have to be cautious. The ransomware was created to extort money from you, and the creator of Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware will do that by demanding a ransom payment in return of the allegedly available decryption key. As soon as the communication is established between you and the ransomware developer, you will get a new email asking for a payment. Whatever you do, do not jump into paying the ransom without thinking things through. After all, you do not know if the decryptor will be provided to you or if it will work. Maybe you will still need to remove your personal files after paying all that money.

The READ_ME.txt file created by Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware is the TXT file that represents the ransom, but there is another file that this infection created, and it is called “ransom.jpg”. This file is displayed in the middle of the screen, and it reads: “You have been hacked!” This should leave no questions about the malicious intentions behind this threat. Of course, the criminals behind the ransomware are not trying to hide themselves, and they want to make it perfectly clear that they expect you to pay money, which, of course, is illegal and malicious. Unfortunately, the victims of Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware do not have any options. If you do not want to pay the ransom requested via the ransom note, all you can do is look into third-party decryption software, and, at the time of research, such software did not exist. Otherwise, all you can do is remove the ransomware with all encrypted files. Sure, you can keep these files stored in a separate folder in case a decryption code emerges at some point in the future, but you should not get your hopes up.

If you are not going to follow the demands of cyber criminals, you have to delete Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware from your operating system right away. Have you paid the ransom fee? Were your files decrypted? If that has happened, you need to be even more careful about the elimination of this infection because you do not know when it could start encrypting your personal files again. We strongly recommend installing anti-malware software to have the malicious ransomware deleted from your operating system. There is also the option of removing Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware manually, but we do not advise following the instructions below if you are inexperienced. If you manage to erase the ransomware using this guide, do not forget to employ anti-malware software to keep your operating system protected in the future. If you do not take care of this matter, malicious infections could slither in again.

Remove Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware

1. Simultaneously tap Win+E keys to launch Explorer.
2. Right-click and Delete the malicious .exe file, which could be located in one of these directories (to access it, enter the path below into the Explorer’s bar):
   • %WINDIR%\Syswow64\
   • %WINDIR%\System32\
   • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
   • %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
   • %USERPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
   • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
   • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
3. Simultaneously tap Win+R keys to launch RUN.
4. Type regedit.exe and click OK to launch Registry Editor.
5. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
6. Right-click and Delete the value linked to the malicious .exe file (check the value data to find out).