Kaspersky Restore Utility 【RECOMMENDED】

| File Type | Ransomware A (Legacy) | Ransomware B (Modern, full-overwrite) | Ransomware C (Delete+TRIM) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Small .txt files | 92% recovery | 0% (overwritten) | 0% | | .jpg photos | 78% recovery | 12% (partial headers) | 3% (fragments) | | .docx (ZIP structure) | 65% recovery | 0% | 0% | | .pdf | 81% recovery | 8% | 1% |

Keep a copy of restore.exe on a USB drive before you get infected. If you wait until after, downloading it onto the compromised machine might overwrite the very sectors you need to recover. kaspersky restore utility

But physically, on a spinning disk or flash storage, “writing back” doesn’t always overwrite the exact same physical sectors. Sometimes the OS writes to a new location and marks the old sectors as “deleted” (but not erased). | File Type | Ransomware A (Legacy) |