How to recover files after Vault virus?

But there are still cases when malware or computer virus bypass all levels of protection. And there are viruses that are easy to overcome, and there are those that will take a long time to deal with. One of these is the Vault virus. Today we will talk about how to get rid of this harmful virus. Vault is a ransomware virus. This virus infects the computer and then begins to encrypt the files on it. Almost all files are affected by this virus and after that .vault is added to their extension. This virus infects almost all types of documents that you have on your computer. And you won’t be able to work with them, because when you open many of them you will see something like this.


Most often, the Vault virus gets onto your computer through email. Let's say you receive what appears at first glance to be an important letter and you open it. And in this letter there is some kind of attachment. By opening it, you launch a virus onto your computer.

As soon as you discover the Vault virus on your computer, immediately stop working on the Internet and try not to open folders. You can remove the virus using any high-quality antivirus or other similar program, for example, healing utility Dr.Web CureIt. At this point, there should be no difficulties, since Vault is extremely easy to remove.

But the files remain infected. In this case, you need to go to the Temp folder. In it you will see the following files: 3c21b8d9.cmd, fabac41c.js, VAULT.txt, Sdc0.bat, VAULT.KEY, CONFIRMATION.KEY. Delete everything except the last two and after that clear startup and computer registry using CCleaner programs.

The last two files are not deleted because the first file is the encryption key and the second is a file that contains information about the number of encrypted files. In a desperate situation, these files are transferred to the attackers and they provide you (for a fee) with a key to decrypt the files.

Is it possible to independently recover files encrypted by the Vault virus? In fact, there are very few ways to do this. The very first thing that can help with this is restoring files to their previous versions. But not all computers have this feature enabled.

If the files were stored in network or cloud storage, then it is worth checking the recycle bins. In most cases the files will be there. The Vault virus is a very insidious malicious tool, after which there is little chance of recovering infected files.