How to remove END of ISRAEL ransomware virus

END OF ISRAEL ransomware corrupts files, provides no chances to decrypt them

End of Israel virus is a malicious computer program that acts like a ransomware^[1], although it is actually a wiper virus (just like Not Petya^[2]). In other words, the ransomware corrupts victim’s files not to receive a ransom, but to make the victim lose them for good. The program is developed in .NET and the debug path shows that the virus was created by someone named Ahmed.

During the encryption process, the malware appends .israbye.israbye.israbye.israbye.israbye.israbye.israbye file extension to each file. When the victim attempts to open this file, a short message in Notepad appears:

Fu*k-Israel, [computer name] You Will never Recover your Files Until Israel disepeare

The ransomware also launches “israbye” message that says END OF ISRAEL and provides a message below it. The message says:

You will recover your files when we recover Palestine, When we recover Al AQSA, When we recover our victims, our souls, our freedom.

It is clear that this ransomware was developed by someone hating Israel and since there are no ways to pay the ransom or contact the criminal, it is impossible to recover files. Clearly, there is no need to keep the ransomware in the system, either.

We highly recommend that you remove End of Israel ransomware virus today using FortectIntego. If course, you can use a different anti-malware software, just make sure that you’re using an up-to-date version of it. At the moment, this virus’ detection ratio is 38/63.

To implement END OF ISRAEL ransomware removal, you might need to put your computer in Safe Mode with Networking first. Some computer viruses can’t be removed in normal regime because they attempt to deactivate various security programs from running.

Avoid infecting your computer with ransomware

END OF ISRAEL virus was noticed spreading via malicious spam. Besides, cyber security researchers^[3] inform that the virus might hide in malicious or illegal software bundles or cracks. Finally, other techniques such as malvertising or phishing could be used, too.

There are several safe browsing rules that can help you to avoid ransomware and similar malware. You just need to bypass untrustworthy Internet sites and avoid installing random programs from the Internet. Before you decide to open any file you downloaded from the Internet, think twice whether the download source was trustworthy.

Finally, you should apply a couple more layers of protection. Firstly, you need a decent anti-malware software to keep malicious programs at bay, and a data backup to recover your files in case the original ones accidentally get corrupted.

Remove END OF ISRAEL ransomware

Remove End of Israel ransomware virus today because there is no reason to keep it any longer. The virus works as a wiper, and its purpose is to destroy your files. Now that it succeeded to do so, there’s nothing you can do. Delete the malware from the system so that we could start discussing possible data recovery options.

In case your files were corrupted, and END OF ISRAEL virus removal is completed by now, you need to think how are you going to restore your files. If you had a data backup – congratulations, your chances of recovering data are the highest. However, if you didn’t have a data backup, you will need to try alternative data recovery solutions.