Today pushed my luck even more than usual: using a client without any antivirus i downloaded a Torrent Magnet link from a website i had not used in the past,

in seconds i was infected by Ransomware, pretty much as described here:



i decided to clean the PC the hard way, still without any antivirus

Shortly after having practically lost control of the PC i managed to CTRL+ALT+DEL to get a Windows Boot/Lock Screen and then i tried restarting

This stopped the memory resident portion of the virus and i even managed to locate the executables in

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%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Temp


after that i was still reluctant to restart because the registry related portion of the malware was still present meaning i could be locked off the PC provided the virus would be calling to missing files.

Well, truth be told things were worse than that, although i create a system restore point upon restart i had this new issue

Workstation kept rebooting due to an error even on Safe Mode, and disabling the automatic restart introduced me to this new type of BSOD

CODE
STOP: c0000135 the program can't start because %hs is missing. Try reinstalling the program


This Blue Screen Of Death is typical for such malware / ransomware : once you are not paying your exit from jail they demolish the prison !

So i looked around and to my good luck and gain of knowledge here come(s) the solution(s)

Source : How to fix STOP: c0000135, %hs error without registry editor


Source : STOP: c0000135 error - Solved using Registry Editor.


Cheers









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