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What is the term for a virus that encrypts a user's files and demands payment for decryption?

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Spyware

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Ransomware is a type of malicious software that prevents you from accessing your system or personal files and demands a ransom payment to be released.

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"Which is the term for a virus that encrypts a user's files and demands payment for decryption?"
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IEEE Computer Society ↗World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ↗

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