All-in-One Ransomware

The All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool is a file-wiping Trojan that advertises itself as being a utility for removing file-locker Trojans like the Scarab Ransomware or Hidden Tear. Its real features involve deleting the internal data in all of your PC's files multiple times. Users should avoid installing security software from all non-trustworthy sources, keep backups for the safety of their media, and let anti-malware products delete the All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool when they find it.

Trojan Marketing on Technicalities

Social media is the next platform for a Trojan campaign where the marketer is pretending that he's providing a valuable service: saving networks from file-locker Trojans and other forms of ransomware. The ugly reality is that the All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool is capable of deleting these types of threats – but only because it erases everything on each computer's drives, which makes the system recovery into a moot issue. The payload, unusually, has no profit-related features or motivations and is a callback to old styles of viruses and Trojans that often performed ill-minded 'pranks' for the gain of no one.

The All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool is an LUA-based program whose development and promotion is from a so-called 'mEGAlYthIc pRoDuCtIoNS' or Megalythic Productions. This company, if it exists, has no online history before this Trojan's campaign. Posts advertising the fake tool on Reddit include some reasonably social engineering techniques, such as claiming that the product isn't a replacement for a complete anti-malware service and fulfills the role of a niche, lightweight tool for dealing with highly-specific classes of Trojans. The user also emphasizes network-related features, which would make the All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool an appealing freeware product for small businesses.

However, the All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool contains no features concerning uninstalling software or identifying threats. Malware experts verify its only function of note, besides a fake UI, is a file data-replacing feature that wipes the contents of each file in each drive in a loop that repeats up to one hundred times. The interface isn't highly professional and even uses the Comic Sans font, but these shortcomings aren't detrimental to its disguise of being a program from a small, part-time developer who isn't competing with the AV industry's services necessarily.

Cleaning Your Future of an All-Are-None Data Attack

The All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool has the same level of coding expertise as the product of an archetypal 'script kiddy' approximately, and bears a much closer resemblance to amateur-level threats like the TotalWipeOut Ransomware, rather than state-terrorizing, file-wiper Trojans like Shamoon. Its limitations aren't much of an impediment to its capacity for damaging files, though, and malware researchers find recovery options for your data as being improbable. In emergencies, users can reboot through an emergency USB recovery device for examining their systems for any in-depth restoration of files.

The All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool is only advertising itself throughout Reddit, which is a social messaging platform that users can post to freely with few consequences for misinformation or criminal behavior. Frequenters of that service should remember the value of checking the authenticity of developers and products before opening a download or installing any new programs. Anti-malware services should detect this program as being a threat and remove the All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool from your computer, just like most Trojans.

The technical accuracy of the All-in-One Ransomware Removal Tool's 'service' is akin to calling a bazooka a wart remover tool. When the cost of getting rid of a Trojan includes getting rid of everything else on your entire network, the point of the procedure is lost.