How to remove Kevin ransomware

What is Kevin ransomware?

Kevin is a recently-discovered ransomware program. This term explains the primary aim of this virus: to extract money from its victims by the means of ransom. To accomplish this, Kevin ransomware performs a simple sequence of actions.
The first step is to encrypt the files. As such files cannot be accessed, they can be considered “stolen”. Then, it renames the encrypted files to highlight that an attack has taken place. To be more precise, the hacker’s e-mail address and .kevin file extension get added to the end of each filename.
Finally, the virus also creates a ransom note, named “ReadMe_kevin.txt”. This rather brief note can be read on the image above, and doesn’t really contain anything except the aforementioned e-mail address.
So, should you contact the criminal? Probably not. First, this will this encourage him to carry out future attacks; attacks that might target you again. Second, these people are neither trustworthy nor honorable. They’re criminals after all. Many of them stop replying after receiving, without bothering to decrypt the files at all.
For this reason, you should explore other ways to remove Kevin ransomware and decrypt .kevin files. Our guide aims to aid in this process of exploration.

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