Remove Spora Ransomware

Spora Ransomware as its name says it, it’s a ransomware; one of the worst kind of viruses available in the IT world today. What Spora Ransomware’s developers are looking for is quite simple, to crypt all your personal files… meaning pictures, videos, word documents, and so on that won’t be available to you if you’re infected.

When you restart your computer you’ll find yourself welcomed by a website (like the one shown below) with a message explaining that all your data has been encrypted. To recover such files you are asked to pay.

Spora Ransomware goes after Chrome users, by means of telling them that they need an alleged update to be able to read certain websites. We had recently reported this issue. You can read our article here: “The HoeflerText font wasn’t found“.

As if this wasn’t enough, you’ll find a lot of websites that will make you hope you can recover your files. Be careful because this are all lies. Sadly there’s no way (as up today) to recover them. You might try with Shadow Explorer, hoping that it will recover one of Windows’ backups, but be aware that chances of this working are very low.

What you can and must do is remove Spora Ransomware as quickly as possible, as well as copy all encrypted files to an external hard drive, with the hope that one day you’ll have the right key.

How to remove Spora Ransomware ?

Remove Spora Ransomware with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.

• Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
  Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
• Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
• Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
• If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Spora Ransomware.
• When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
• When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.

Remove Spora Ransomware with AdwCleaner

AdwCleaner is a useful tool made to eliminate unwelcome toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner requires no installation and can be ran in a instantaneous to scan your pc.

• Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
  Download AdwCleaner
• Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
• Click on the Scan button.
• After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
• Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.

Remove Spora Ransomware with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like Spora Ransomware.

• Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
  Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
• Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
• Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Spora Ransomware.
• When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
• Reboot your computer if prompted.

Remove Spora Ransomware with HitmanPro

HitmanPro is a second opinion scanner designed to rescue computers that have become infected with viruses, spyware, Trojans, rootkits and other malware, despite continuous protection from up-to-date antivirus software.

• You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
  Download HitmanPro
• Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
• Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
• HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for Spora Ransomware malicious files.
• When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove Spora Ransomware virus.