The Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware has added a new feature that makes it easier to encrypt all files, even those that are opened and locked by another process.

In some instances, the files open well on different browsers and in file desktop apps like Excel but fail in other Microsoft apps.

You can simply right-click a file and open the application with the selected file already in place. ThisIsMyFile is a great portable utility to unblock or delete locked files.

How to Open Encrypted Files. Microsoft Windows' built-in encryption utility is designed to protect files from being open, read or modified by other users and computers.

An LDB file, also called an access lock file, prevents multiple users from making changes to a database at the same time. Access normally deletes LDB files when a user closes a shared database.

There are no offical .dsl's that I can find and I'm unable to get apt-get/synaptic to work ('could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open' -- of course, that points to the ro knoppix virtual ...

When you open the information window for the file, you can check the Locked check box to prevent the file from being edited, even by people who otherwise have access to it.