Locked hello anyone with experience in dealing with RANSOMWARE. Does HDD or STORAGE REQUIRED TO BE LOW LEVEL FORMATTED PRIOR TO a fresh win10 reinstallation

[Don AL]

thank you in advance

 

[Uncle Mac]

Just format drive when you get to screen with drives listed. I wouldnt format storage or you wll loose stuff

 

[parvinder 2018]

Yes. Format is the best option but i am not formating my disc because of data i am infect. 20% from ransomeware my data was incripted
Eg.- xx.mp4.xml. Many dicripter not working i am just removing incripted files and format my c drive and scan with kaspersky,malwarebites resque cd then fine

 

[Don AL]

Yes. Format is the best option but i am not formating my disc because of data i am infect. 20% from ransomeware my data was incripted
Eg.- xx.mp4.xml. Many dicripter not working i am just removing incripted files and format my c drive and scan with kaspersky,malwarebites resque cd then fine

thanks but its infected even dropbox files and one drive files. so ya.. no choice but to format.

 

[Don AL]

Just format drive when you get to screen with drives listed. I wouldnt format storage or you wll loose stuff

I'm lovel level formatting the secondary drive thou. anyways not much files so shud be ok. thank you

 

[Cyler]

No need to LOW-level format. Just do a normal/quick format. There is no low level anyway it's just zero-fill wipes which in your case it's not needed and it's waste of time and lifespan of disks if they are SSD.

Even then tho the issue should not be considered resolved unless you found the entry point. For example, it can be a file in an email attachment or something you downloaded. If you use it again, you will get infected again. Keep in mind that ransomware like any virus can only infect and spread via Executable files (of any type) and not images or music or video etc. So if you have such files not encrypted, you should back up those (and only those) making sure no executable will remain from your old installation.

 

[SydneyM]

No need to LOW-level format. Just do a normal/quick format. There is no low level anyway it's just zero-fill wipes which in your case it's not needed and it's waste of time and lifespan of disks if they are SSD.

Even then tho the issue should not be considered resolved unless you found the entry point. For example, it can be a file in an email attachment or something you downloaded. If you use it again, you will get infected again. Keep in mind that ransomware like any virus can only infect and spread via Executable files (of any type) and not images or music or video etc. So if you have such files not encrypted, you should back up those (and only those) making sure no executable will remain from your old installation.

The wise man @Cyler. Lucky we have a good team on board TeamOs.

 

[choli]

First wipe out entire partition you have by formatting it.
No need to use low level format.

Second, now you can reinstall windows 10.
After reinstall your OS, now can delete all data from your cloud storage.

 

[Don AL]

No need to LOW-level format. Just do a normal/quick format. There is no low level anyway it's just zero-fill wipes which in your case it's not needed and it's waste of time and lifespan of disks if they are SSD.

Even then tho the issue should not be considered resolved unless you found the entry point. For example, it can be a file in an email attachment or something you downloaded. If you use it again, you will get infected again. Keep in mind that ransomware like any virus can only infect and spread via Executable files (of any type) and not images or music or video etc. So if you have such files not encrypted, you should back up those (and only those) making sure no executable will remain from your old installation.

thank you very much for your input.

 

[faiza]

normal format is ok ..