How to Completely Remove Information Resources Management Association Ransomare from Your PC

Your computer keeps being locked by the Information Resources Management Association ransomware? If you find no effective way to get rid of the infection to make your computer work properly, you can take a look at this post which will tell you how to unlock your computer by completely removing the Information Resources Management Association ransomware out of your infected computer.

Information Resources Management Association is a computer ransomware that is designed by the unscrupulous hackers to extort money from the innocent PC users. Once it gets into your computer, this Trojan can modify your system settings including registry entries, startup configurations, security settings, administrative settings and others. So when infected with this ransomware, it will be locked all of a sudden with a bogus notification displayed on the screen. The notification warns that your computer has been locked due to the fact that it is used to view and distribute forbidden content. In order to unlock your computer, you must pay a fine of 250 dollars, otherwise all data about your violation of laws and your personal IP address will be sent to the court where you will be sued and even put into the jails. This is certainly not true. Even you pay for the fine required, you will still find your computer locked! 

How to Remove Information Resources Management Association Ransomware

The following are the steps to manually remove the malicious ransomware from your computer. However, if you are a novice user, we highly recommend that you do not adopt this way due to its complexity.

Step 1: Restart your infected computer. Press the F8 key (before Windows starts to boot up) multiple times until the Windows Advanced Options Menu appears on the screen. Select “Safe Mode with Networking” and press Enter.

Step 2: Press the keys CTRL+ALT+DEL together to open the Windows Task Manager. Select the tab of “Processes” and search for the processes related to Information Resources Management Association is a computer ransomware. Terminate all those malicious processes by right clicking them and clicking on the “End Process” option.

Step 3: Click the “Start” menu and select “Run”. Type “regedit” in the dialog box and click Ok. The Registry Editor opens. Then search for and delete the following registry entries.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\[random numbers]

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Shared Tools \ MSConfig \ startupfolder\[random names]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\”Shell” = “[SET OF RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Shared Tools \ MSConfig \ startupreg\[random names]

Step 4: Click Start-Control Panel and navigate to “Folder and Search Options”. Select the “View” tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders and drives”, non-tick the “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)” and click OK. Then find out and remove following malicious files.

%Temp%

%system%\[random characters].dll

C:\Users\Stuart\AppData\Local\Temp\[random names].exe

%Documents and Settings%\[User name]\Desktop\[random name].exe

Step 5: Reboot your computer to implement the changes.

If you don’t want to use manual removal way as above, we recommend you use the automatic way that is using a removal tool. A reliable removal tool can perform a complete scan of your system and completely remove Information Resources Management Association ransomware from your computer. It is much easier and more effective.