Donald Trump Ransomware Removal Guide

Someone has obviously made a bad joke with Donald Trump Ransomware because this malicious infection has nothing to do with the presidential hopeful. However, the malware developers were obviously hoping to get higher infection rates by using one of the most popular search keywords this season.

Fear not, this program is not as dangerous as its counterparts, and you can remove Donald Trump Ransomware without much trouble. At the bottom of this description, you will find the manual removal instructions. If you do not feel confident enough about deleting this program on your own, you can always invest in a powerful antispyware tool that would do the job for you automatically.

You must have installed this program on your computer when you downloaded some attachment from a spam email message. Spam emails have increasingly been really crafty lately, and so users are often fooled into opening various files that should not be opened. For example, it may seem that you need to download a file that looks like some online shopping invoice or a report on your account balance. Take note that your financial institution would rather give you a safe link than send you a file in an email. If you must open some attachment, it is better to scan the file with a security antispyware application in advance. If you do not have a security application on your computer, it is about time you got yourself one.

We are somewhat lucky because Donald Trump Ransomware does not work the way it is supposed to work. Based on its code, the program should be encrypting your files using the AES encryption algorithm, but it cannot do that. Instead, it scans your computer looking for the malicious file that installed it, and then it “encrypts” the folder than contains the file. It also encodes a number of files with the base64, adding the .ENCRYPTED extension to them. However, this is just a hoax. The files are not encrypted, and you can restore them simply by renaming them. Another way to “decrypt” the affected files is to click the “Unlock Files” button on the program’s interface.

The Donald Trump Ransomware interface will cover your desktop, and it will look like you are really in trouble because of the message that your files have been locked. Not to mention that the program has a long list of files it should target. The list includes a lot of extensions, such as .dat, .dat_mcr, .mca, .Ink, .pub, .pptx, .php, .html, .yml, .sk, .txt, .mp4, .vb, .swf, .ico, .xcf, bukkit.jar, .log, .sln, .ini, .dll, .xml, .tex, .assets, .resource, .java, .js, .css, .gif, and many others. Yet, we would like to remind you once again that the program does not and cannot affect your files, so you should focus on removing it from your computer.

To terminate the infection, you need to locate the original infection file you downloaded yourself. It should be in your Downloads folder, unless you have some other directory designated for your downloaded files. If you cannot find the file, use a powerful antispyware tool to scan your PC and find the infection source. Consequently, you can remove Donald Trump Ransomware automatically, too.

How to Remove Donald Trump Ransomware

1. Click the X button at the top right to close the program.
2. Go to your downloaded files’ storage directory.
3. Locate the malicious installer file and delete it.
4. Scan your computer with the SpyHunter free scanner.