Rapid Ransomware 🔐 (. Rapid File) — Removal Guide

What is known about the Rapidvirus?

Rapid will append its extra .rapid extension to every file’s title. For example, a file entitled “photo.jpg” will be changed to “photo.jpg.rapid”. Just like the Excel file named “table.xlsx” will be changed to “table.xlsx.rapid”, and so forth.

In every directory with the encoded files, a recovery.txt text file will be created. It is a ransom money note. Therein you can find information about the ways of paying the ransom and some other remarks. The ransom note usually contains instructions on how to buy the decryption tool from the racketeers. That is how they do it.

In the image below, you can see what a directory with files encrypted by the Rapid looks like. Each filename has the “.rapid” extension appended to it.

How did Rapid ransomware end up on my PC?

Nowadays, there are three most popular ways for evil-doers to have the Rapid virus working in your system. These are email spam, Trojan infiltration and peer file transfer.

If you access your inbox and see letters that look like familiar notifications from utility services companies, delivery agencies like FedEx, web-access providers, and whatnot, but whose mailer is strange to you, be wary of opening those letters. They are very likely to have a harmful item enclosed in them. Therefore, it is even more dangerous to download any attachments that come with emails like these.

Another thing the hackers might try is a Trojan virus model². A Trojan is a program that infiltrates into your PC disguised as something different. For instance, you download an installer for some program you need or an update for some service. But what is unboxed turns out to be a harmful program that encrypts your data. As the update wizard can have any title and any icon, you have to make sure that you can trust the resource of the stuff you’re downloading. The best way is to trust the software developers’ official websites.

As for the peer-to-peer file transfer protocols like torrents or eMule, the danger 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 a good idea to scan the directory containing the downloaded items with the antivirus as soon as the downloading is finished.