If you have working backups of your encrypted files or you are not going to try and recover lost files, then scan your computer with one or several antivirus and anti-malware programs or reinstall the operating system altogether.
Read the guide below to explore other ways to remove Hairysquid ransomware and decrypt. You should know, however, that paying the hackers is not your only option. But the note does say that they expect to be paid in BitCoin. The hackers do not tell the victim how much they will have to pay they state that the price is based on how many “office files” were encrypted. However, it is rather long, so we also wrote a summary. You can read the text of the note on the image above. This file is a ransom note it contains the hackers’ demands and their contact information. The virus also creates a text file called “READ_ME_DECRYPTION_HAIRYSQUID.txt”. To illustrate, a file called “image.png” would be renamed to “”. Hairysquid file extension (which is where the name of the virus comes from). Most ransomware viruses rename the files they’ve encrypted, and Hairysquid is not an exception. Some of them also make additional threats, such as leaking your private information on the internet Hairysquid ransomware, however, does not.
This category of viruses encrypt all files on the infected computer and demand money to decrypt them. Hairysquid is a harmful program (a virus) that falls under the ransomware classification.
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