denvercardonations
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I suspect that the files in my laptop might have gotten a "ransomware" type of malware or something similar, because hundreds of documents show like this, with gibberish:
![all-document-show-with-gibberish.png](/data/attachments/0/679-6e016b3e86a1e8faa1d134a263af5f52.jpg)
That is what hundreds of txt, doc, ppt, rtf, pretty much all documents now look like. The only thing I can find in researching this, is that the ransomware will change the document encoding and to get it decoded you have to pay them to decode it.
I did change my computer name/workgroup recently, I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Newly created documents are file....has anyone else encontered this? Or possibly the registry has been changed?
![all-document-show-with-gibberish.png](/data/attachments/0/679-6e016b3e86a1e8faa1d134a263af5f52.jpg)
That is what hundreds of txt, doc, ppt, rtf, pretty much all documents now look like. The only thing I can find in researching this, is that the ransomware will change the document encoding and to get it decoded you have to pay them to decode it.
I did change my computer name/workgroup recently, I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Newly created documents are file....has anyone else encontered this? Or possibly the registry has been changed?