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What Is Freezing ransomware?

Freezing ransomware is a virus designed to block files for benefit of innocent users. Freezing ransomware penetrates the system, finds important files and encrypts them, making them useful. After encryption, you will not be able to use these files as before. Freezing ransomware is called freezing because its encryption procedure adds a temporary freeze extension. When you notice that your important files are locked, a ransom note will appear on your desktop and give the user one week to contact the criminals by email. If you come across this, do not believe this note! Developers just want to lure money from you and leave you with an infected system. The only thing you need to do to save your system from infection is to remove Freezing ransomware. Our article will help you with this. READ MORE

What Is TODAR ransomware?

TODAR ransomware is a virus for all versions of Windows: Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Firstly, TODAR ransomware looks for files with certain extensions for encryption, usually, these are some important documents that you use often. TODAR ransomware immediately marks the files with a Todar extension to make the files useless. After encryption, they can not be used. When it completes file encryption, TODAR ransomware will show a note requesting a ransom. We warn you that these are evil tricks of TODAR ransomware in order to lure your money. The only thing you need to do to save your system from infection is to remove TODAR ransomware. Our article will help you with this. READ MORE

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