Foxy Ransomware is file-encrypting ransomware. The most common way used by ransomware to infect is spam emails and bogus downloads. Ransomware will encode your files as soon as it infects your operating system and ask for money, which is why it's considered to be one of the most dangerous threats out there. If back up is something you routinely do, or if malware analysts create a free decryptor, file-recovery would not be hard. Other than that, it can be impossible to recover your data. Paying the ransom may appear to be an acceptable option to certain people, but we must warn you that it might not lead to data recovery. Crooks already locked your data, what's stopping them from becoming even more nasty by not decrypting your data after payment. Since paying isn't a reliable file recovery way, you ought to just remove Foxy Ransomware.
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