How to Uninstall CryptoDefense Virus - Files Are Encrypted

CryptoDefense Description

CryptoDefense is a ransom virus which locks your personal files. All your personal files including documents and photos can be locked by CryptoDefense. Users are asked to pay the ransom in order to get back your files.

CryptoDefense injects its malicious files and registry entries to your system as soon as it is installed. It also changes your start-up items so that it can be activated with your system booting. Users are not recommended to pay the ransom, because this is a computer virus in essential, you cannot get your files back even though you pay it. On the contrary, you are suggested to remove CryptoDefense virus as soon as you can to protect your computer.

You are lucky if you have backed up your files on external hard drive. Or, you may lose your files forever. To be honest, nobody can decrypt your files at the moment. What you can to is to remove the CryptoDefense virus, or you cannot save files on your infected computer anymore.

CryptoDefense Is A Computer Virus

1. CryptoDefense drops malicious files and registry entries to your system;
2. CryptoDefense changes your start-up items;
3. CryptoDefense locks your personal files;
4. CryptoDefense aims to ransom your money;

How to Uninstall CryptoDefense Virus?

Approach one: manually remove CryptoDefense Virus.

Step 1: Try if you can uninstall it from the Control Panel. Start menu >> Control Panel >> Programs >> Uninstall a program >> Uninstall

Step 2: If CryptoDefense is not on the list of your control panel, you need to stop its process, remove its files and registry entries.

1. Launch Windows Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc, search for CryptoDefense processes and right-click to end them.

2. Click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, Search for and delete these files created by CryptoDefense:

%Program Files%\ random
%AppData%\Protector-[rnd].exe
%AppData%\Inspector-[rnd].exe
%AppData%\vsdsrv32.exe

3. Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type regedit in Run box and click “OK” to proceed. When Registry Editor is open, search and get rid of the following registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[random].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ CryptoDefense virus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System ‘DisableRegistryTools’ = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system ‘EnableLUA’ = 0

Step 3: Restart your computer.

Approach two: completely remove CryptoDefense Virus  with SpyHunter.

Step 1. Download SpyHunter to your computer to remove CryptoDefense Virus and protect your computer in the future.

Step 2. Install SpyHunter on your computer step by step.

Step 3. After the installation, do a full scanning to detect all harmful files.

Step 4. Remove all detected malicious files associated with CryptoDefense Virus.

Tips: Perhaps many people would like to manually remove CryptoDefense Virus by themselves, but actually, for most of users, manual removal is not the best choice. Because manual removal is so complicated that it is easy to make mistakes to cause further harms to the infected computer. To avoid this problem, I strongly recommend SpyHunter to you. Using SpyHunter to remove CryptoDefense Virus is easier and faster. For SpyHunter is designed specifically to remove CryptoDefense Virus and other virus.

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