I wanted te use an older version of my vb2010.net project.
The project could not be opened. Inspection of the .vb files shows that they are encrypted or scrambled. Normally you can open these files with a text editor like Notepad. Now it shows only a lot of random characters.
The last 5 previous project versions: all the same. I had stored them on Onedrive and later in Dropbox.
And I had a backup on an external CD-rom from may 2023.
But also these files show after restore that they are corrupted. in the same way.
Now I am wondering what is happening. Ransomware? The file extensions are not changed. I did not get any message or e-mail about a ransom attack or claim.
Could there be something else that caused the encryption that I am not beware of?
Or are there perhaps tools that can analyze if the files ar infected or what has happened?
My virus scanner (Trend Micro) shows no viruses.
In attach an example of a .vb file.
The project could not be opened. Inspection of the .vb files shows that they are encrypted or scrambled. Normally you can open these files with a text editor like Notepad. Now it shows only a lot of random characters.
The last 5 previous project versions: all the same. I had stored them on Onedrive and later in Dropbox.
And I had a backup on an external CD-rom from may 2023.
But also these files show after restore that they are corrupted. in the same way.
Now I am wondering what is happening. Ransomware? The file extensions are not changed. I did not get any message or e-mail about a ransom attack or claim.
Could there be something else that caused the encryption that I am not beware of?
Or are there perhaps tools that can analyze if the files ar infected or what has happened?
My virus scanner (Trend Micro) shows no viruses.
In attach an example of a .vb file.