Jhon Woddy Ransomware

Jhon Woddy Ransomware is one of those computer infections that can seriously turn your day into a nightmare. This malicious program enters your computer with the intention to make some money for its creators. Luckily, it cannot steal your personal and financial information, so you can relax about that. In fact, you can choose to not pay the ransom fee because succumbing to the malware requirements is never a good idea. Your main task right now is to remove Jhon Woddy Ransomware from your computer as this infection will not leave you alone no matter how many times you will restart your PC.

Ransomware programs usually encrypt a list of files and basically keep them “hostage,” demanding that the affected user paid for a decryption key. The decryption key is a code that allows the user to unlock the encrypted files. Unfortunately, this is probably the most annoying part of any ransomware infection because only the criminals have the original decryption key. There are quite a few public decryption tools out there, which empower users to unlock their files without paying the ransom fee, but the problem is that each new infection requires an individual decryption code, so unless you have one, it might be virtually impossible to restore your files.

This is actually the reason computer security experts maintain how important it is to keep a system backup. What we mean is that you should always save copies of your most important files in an external hard drive or somewhere online. However, if you have your online storage mapped as one of your system drives, the files over there could also be encrypted, depending on which directories a ransomware program is programmed to scan and encrypt. Therefore, having several backups, especially in the form of an external HDD would definitely increase the chances of preserving your files intact.

If you are wondering how Jhon Woddy Ransomware and other similar programs manage to slither into your computer, we regret to tell you that users quite unwittingly allow these infections to enter their systems themselves. Of course, we are not trying to say you did that on purpose, but ransomware apps are really good at tricking users into thinking that their installer files are important and users must open them. How do they get to you in the first place? Well, ransomware programs usually spread via spam email attachments.

Here you would say that your spam mail gets filtered into the Junk folder automatically, but not all email providers can do that, and not all spam emails get caught by this filter. When a message looks like a notification from a financial company or an invoice from an online shop, it might as well land in your main inbox. Such an email message will urge you to download and open the attachment, so that you could check the sent document. The moment you do that, Jhon Woddy Ransomware gets installed on your computer, and it launches a full system scan.

The ransomware program needs to scan your computer, so that it could locate all the files it can encrypt. Our security specialists say that this program affects the picture, video, and document file types. Some of the .dll and .exe files could be encrypted as well, so it means that you may not be able to run some of your favorite programs once the encryption is complete. Nevertheless, the Windows operating system will continue to function properly because the ransomware creators need your computer to work in order to receive the ransom fee.

Do you have to pay the fee? Jhon Woddy Ransomware requires you to pay around $270USD for the decryption code. It may not seem like such a big sum of money, but here we would like to point out that the chances of Jhon Woddy Ransomware issuing the code are rather slim. It is a lot more likely that the people behind this infection will snatch the money and run away, leaving you with a crippled computer at hand.

Therefore, keep your money to yourself and get a powerful antispyware tool that will help you remove Jhon Woddy Ransomware for good. Users may attempt to delete the ransomware infection manually, too, but there are quite a few malicious files out there that will have random filenames, and it might be difficult to identify them and, subsequently, delete them.

How to Delete Jhon Woddy Ransomware

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager.
2. Click the Processes tab and find the malicious process.
3. Press the End Task button to kill the process.
4. Close Task Manager and open the Downloads folder.
5. Locate the most recently downloaded files.
6. Remove the files and use SpyHunter to scan your PC.
7. Empty your Recycle Bin.