WING Virus Ransomware Removal

The Wing virus belongs to the ransomware type of infection. Harmful software of this type encrypts all the data on your PC (images, text files, excel sheets, music, videos, etc) and adds its own extension to every file, leaving the Readme.txt text files in every folder with the encrypted files.

What is known about the Wing virus?

The scheme of renaming is this: contact-email.[victim_id].wing. In the course of encryption, a file named, for example, “report.docx” will be changed to “[email protected]”.

In each directory containing the encoded files, a Readme.txt file will appear. It is a ransom money memo. Therein you can find information about the ways of contacting the racketeers and some other remarks. The ransom note most probably contains instructions on how to purchase the decryption tool from the tamperers. You can get this decoding tool after contacting [email protected] via email. That is pretty much the scheme of the malefaction.

Wing Overview:

The Readme.txt file coming in package with the Wing malware states the following:

Your system has been encrypted by our team, and your files have been locked using our proprietary algorithm !


* Please read this message carefully and patiently *


* If you use any tools, programs, or methods to recover your files and they get damaged, we will not be responsible for any harm to your files !


* Note that your files have not been harmed in any way they have only been encrypted by our algorithm. Your files and your entire system will return to normal mode through the program we provide to you. No one but us will be able to decrypt your files !


* To gain trust in us, you can send us a maximum of 2 non-important files, and we will decrypt them for you free of charge. Please note that your files should not contain important information. Your files should be in a format that we can read, such as .txt, .pdf, .xlsx, .jpg, or any other readable format for us.


Please put your Unique ID as the title of the email or as the starting title of the conversation.


* For faster decryption, first message us on Telegram. If there is no response within 24 hours, please email us *


Telegram Id : -


Mail 1 : -


Mail 2 : -


You will receive btc address for payment in the reply letter


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! Important !

 

Please dо nоt wаstе thе timе аnd dо nоt trу to dесеive us , it will rеsult оnly priсе incrеаsе!


Plеаsе nоte that we are professionals and just doing our job !


Wе аrе alwауs оpеnеd fоr diаlоg аnd rеаdy tо hеlp уоu !


UniqueID: -


PersonalID: -

In the picture below, you can see what a folder with files encrypted by the Wing looks like. Each filename has the “.wing” extension added to it.

How did my computer get infected with Wing ransomware?

There are many possible ways of ransomware injection.

Nowadays, there are three most popular methods for tamperers to have the Wing virus acting in your system. These are email spam, Trojan introduction and peer networks.

• Another option for ransom hunters is a Trojan virus scheme. A Trojan is a program that gets into your PC pretending to be something else. Imagine, you download an installer for some program you need or an update for some software. But what is unpacked reveals itself a harmful agent that encrypts your data. As the installation package can have any name and any icon, you’d better be sure that you can trust the resource of the things you’re downloading. The optimal thing is to trust the software companies’ official websites.
• As for the peer file transfer protocols like torrent trackers or eMule, the threat is that they are even more trust-based than the rest of the Web. You can never know what you download until you get it. So you’d better be using trustworthy resources. Also, it is reasonable to scan the folder containing the downloaded files with the antivirus as soon as the downloading is complete.

How do I get rid of ransomware?

It is crucial to inform you that besides encrypting your files, the Wing virus will most likely install Vidar Stealer on your computer to seize your credentials to different accounts (including cryptocurrency wallets). That program can derive your credentials from your browser’s auto-filling data.

How сan I avoid ransomware attack?

Wing ransomware has no endless power, neither does any similar malware.

You can protect your system from ransomware injection within several easy steps:

• Ignore any letters from unknown mailboxes with unknown addresses, or with content that has likely no connection to something you are waiting for (can you win in a money prize draw without participating in it?). In case the email subject is likely something you are expecting, check all elements of the questionable letter with caution. A hoax email will surely have mistakes.
• Never use cracked or unknown software. Trojan viruses are often shared as a part of cracked software, most likely as a “patch” which prevents the license check. But potentially dangerous programs are very hard to tell from reliable software, as trojans may also have the functionality you need. You can try to find information about this program on the anti-malware forums, but the optimal way is not to use such programs at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

🤔 Is it possible to open “.wing” files?

Unfortunately, no. You need to decipher the “.wing” files first. Then you will be able to open them.

🤔 The encrypted files are very important to me. How can I decrypt them quickly?

If the “.wing” files contain some really important information, then you probably have them backed up. If not, there is still a function of System Restore but it needs a Restore Point to be previously saved. There are other ways to beat ransomware, but they take time.

🤔 What to do if the Wing virus has blocked my PC and I can’t get the activation code.

🤔 What can I do right now?

Some of the encrypted data can be located elsewhere.

• If you exchanged your important files through email, you could still download them from your online mail server.
• You may have shared images or videos with your friends or relatives. Simply ask them to send those pictures back to you.
• If you have initially downloaded any of your files from the Internet, you can try downloading them again.
• Your messengers, social networks pages, and cloud storage might have all those files too.
• It might be that you still have the needed files on your old computer, a notebook, mobile, memory stick, etc.

USEFUL TIP: You can use data recovery utilities¹ to get your lost data back since ransomware arrests the copies of your files, deleting the original ones. In the video below, you can see how to use PhotoRec for such a restoration, but be advised: you can do it only after you eradicate the ransomware itself with an antivirus program.

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