Remove .Todarius Virus Ransomware (+File Recovery)

.Todarius – Details

The presence of a Ransomware cryptovirus inside your computer can be a very unpleasant, rage-inducing and problematic experience, especially if there are many highly-important files stored in your PC’s hard-drives that haven’t been backed up. An example of such a virus is .Todarius Virus Ransomware – a particularly nasty piece of malware with advanced malicious code that can quickly and silently encrypt and thus render inaccessible all of your personal documents, video, audio and image files, spreadsheets, presentations and other similar potentially important pieces of data. The goal of this virus is, of course, financial gain through illegal means. The encryption process of your files (.Todarius) is rather a means to an end rather than end in and of itself. The main purpose behind all of this is to make the user pay for the access key that will supposedly release their locked-up data. The said key is in possession of the hackers and they want their victims to pay a certain amount of money to “purchase” it from them. No matter how the hackers frame their demands and what the supposed premise of the payment may be, it is more than obvious that this is nothing more than a blatant blackmailing ransom scheme. On top of that, the sum that is requested could be quite sizeable and, to make it even worse, it’s possible that even the payment may not be enough to bring the user’s access to their own files back. After all, as soon as the money is received by the blackmailers, their goal is completed and they can easily decide to not send any form of decryption to their victims (if such a decryption has ever really existed).

By now, you should be able to see where the problem with the ransom payment is – you simply cannot know if this would actually work in your favor and if you’d really get your data restored. The one certain thing if you pay is that your money would be gone and even if the files in your computer remain in their inaccessible state, there would be no refunds.

Can I Remove .Todarius myself?

Sadly, there is still no universally effective method that can allow the victims of Ransomware such as .Todarius , .Kiratos, .Verasto to reliably counteract such infections. The problem is that once the encryption is already placed on the targeted files, recovering the files may not always be possible. We already mentioned how even the payment of the ransom may not really get the job done. Because of that, we have tried to offer you an alternative course of action through our removal guide for .Todarius in case you have gotten attacked by this cryptovirus. The guide should allow you to remove the malicious program (.Todarius) but in order to recover the files that are under lockdown, you will need to try additional steps after the infection is removed. This is where a backup source of your data would be invaluable (connect to backups only after .Todarius is fully removed). If you do not have a backup, then things get tricky – there are potential methods that may aid you in the recovery of some of your files but we can’t give you promises about how effective they may be. Still, it’s important to remove the virus so that your new files won’t get locked and our guide will help you do that.

SUMMARY:

Remove .Todarius Virus Ransomware

1: Preparations

Note: Before you go any further, we advise you to bookmark this page or have it open on a separate device such as your smartphone or another PC. Some of the steps might require you to exit your browser on this PC.

2: Task Manager

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to enter the Task Manager. Go to the Tab labeled Processes (Details for Win 8/10). Carefully look through the list of processes that are currently active on you PC.

If any of them seems shady, consumes too much RAM/CPU or has some strange description or no description at all, right-click on it, select Open File Location and delete everything there.

Also, even if you do not delete the files, be sure to stop the process by right-clicking on it and selecting End Process.

3: IP related to .Todarius

Go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Open the hosts file with notepad.

Find where it says Localhost and take a look below that. 

If you see any IP addresses there (below Localhost) send them to us here, in the comments since they might be coming from the .Todarius.

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4: Disable Startup programs

Re-open the Start Menu and type msconfig.

Click on the first search result. In the next window, go to the Startup tab. If you are on Win 10,  it will send you to the Startup part of the task manager instead, as in the picture:

If you see any sketchy/shady looking entries in the list with an unknown manufacturer or a manufacturer name that looks suspicious as there could be a link between them and .Todarius , disable those programs and select OK.

5: Registry Editor

Press Windows key + R and in the resulting window type regedit.

Now, press Ctrl + F and type the name of the virus.

Delete everything that gets found. If you are not sure about whether to delete something, do not hesitate to ask us in the comments. Keep in mind that if you delete the wrong thing, you might cause all sorts of issues to your PC.

6: Deleting potentially malicious data – .Todarius

Type each of the following locations in the Windows search box and hit enter to open the locations:

%AppData%

%LocalAppData%

%ProgramData%

%WinDir%

%Temp%

Delete everything you see in Temp linked to .Todarius Ransomware. About the other folders, sort their contents by date and delete only the most recent entries. As always, if you are not sure about something, write to us in the comment section.

7: .Todarius Decryption

The previous steps were all aimed at removing the .Todarius Ransomware from your PC. However, in order to regain access to your files, you will also need to decrypt them or restore them. For that, we have a separate article with detailed instructions on what you have to do in order to unlock your data. Here is a link to that guide.