How to Remove Locker 1.2 Ransomware - Best Removal Guides

Locker 1.2 can be regarded as a malicious ransomware that is able to encrypt your important files and display a pop-up messages to your screen saying that your important files are encrypted since you have done something against the law. You are asked to pay money to decrypt them, or you will face data loss and put into prizon. Frightened by it, some of the computer users may pay money as it requires. But on the contary, it won't decrypt files for you, but bring your more infections to mess up your system. You still can't get access to your PC.

What will Locker 1.2 do to your PC?

As soon as it comes into your PC, it will lock your screen and display an alert asking you to pay money to decrypt your files. As a matter of fact, it has no ability to decrypt your files. The solitry goal of this ransomware is to get profits from innocent users by cheating them to trust what it claims and frighten them. There is no way to get your files back. What you need to do is to remove Locker 1.2 from your PC completely.

Why is your PC infected by Locker 1.2?

The most common way of distributing Locker 1.2 is by free applications or software that can be downloaded on the third-party websites. Usually, Locker 1.2 comes bundling with those programs. When you download and install them onto your PC, you may be carelessly added them to your PC with deault installation process.

How to Remove / Uninstall Locker 1.2

Method one: manually remove Locker 1.2 from the infected computer.

In case any mistake might occur and cause accidental damages during the virus removal, please spend some time in making a backup beforehand. Then follow these steps given as below.

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together and stop Locker 1.2
 processes in the Windows Task Manager.

2. Find out the following files relative to Locker 1.2
 and then delete them all.

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe

%Temp%\random.exe

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
3. Search the following registry entries in your Registry Editor and then remove all of them.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"

4. Restart your computer and check the effect.

Method two: Automatically get rid of Locker 1.2  

Step One: Install SpyHunter

1) Download SpyHunter here or click the below button to download the file.

2) Double click on SpyHunter-Installer.exe to install the program.

3) After the installation, click Finish.

Step Two: Fix all the detected threats with SpyHunter

1) Open SpyHunter and click Scan Computer Now to allow the program to start a scan on your computer.

2) SpyHunter will now start scanning your computer as shown below.

3) When the scan is completed, all the threats in your computer are successfully detected. Click Select All and then click Remove button to uninstall it.

Step Three: Optimize Your PC

If you want to speed up the performance of your computer, remove your privacy items produced by online searches, delete junk files and uninstall malware, you are advised to have a reliable optimizer such as TuneUp Utilities, Advanced SystemCare, RegCure Pro and 360Amigo System Speedup. Here takes RegCure Pro as an example.
1) Download RegCure Pro here or click the below button to download the file.

2) Run the RegCureProSetup Application and click the Yes button to install the program step by step.

3) When the program is successfully installed, double click on its desktop shortcut to open it. On the Overview tab, check all the scan settings and then click on the Click to Start Scan button to run a system scan on your computer. The first system scan will take some time, please be patient.

The screenshot of the system scan progress is shown below.

4) When the system scan is done, click on Fix All button to completely remove all the performance problems in your computer.

Reminder: SpyHunter is a legitimate and effective antivirus program that can give your PC real-time protection. You can download SpyHunter here and run a scan on your computer after its installation is complete. RegCurePro is professional in optimizing your system so that you can study,work or enjoy yourself on the computer without any interruption.