Ransomware rollback for Windows
Vow Rollback snapshots your important folders within about a minute of every change and raises an alarm when files start turning into ransomware gibberish. Your good history is frozen, and the rollback shows exactly what it will put back before anything happens.
The problem
Ransomware, a deleted folder, a sync that went sideways: the damage takes seconds, and last month's copy doesn't bring back this week's work.
Ransomware scrambles your documents and photos, renames them to strange extensions and leaves a ransom note in the folder.
A backup from last month can't bring back this week's invoices, essays or photos. The gap is where the pain is.
A folder deleted by accident, a spreadsheet saved over, a sync tool that wiped the wrong copy. Same problem, same panic.
Folder-blocking features ask you to keep a list of every program allowed near your files, and to update it whenever something changes.
Ransomware rollback usually comes inside a security suite with a renewal every year, whether you ever need it or not.
Backups can stall without a word. You only find out the day you need them, which is the worst day to find out.
Vow Rollback fixes all of it.
How it works
Choose a folder once. Every change is kept from then on, and undoing damage takes two clicks.
Drop a folder on the window, or click Documents, Desktop or Pictures. The first snapshot starts right away and every change after that is kept.
When files turn into noise, gain ransomware extensions or a ransom note appears, the window comes to the front and your good history is frozen.
The last good snapshot is already picked. Check exactly which files are put back, recreated or moved aside, then press Roll back.
Features
Built for the moment you open a folder and nothing opens, and for every smaller disaster in between.
Every change is snapshotted within about a minute, bursts right away. Only changed files are read, and each version is stored once, compressed.
Spots files whose content turned to noise, 200+ known ransomware extensions, ransom-note names, sudden bursts and optional hidden bait files.
On alarm, snapshots and clean-ups stop so the good history can't be pushed out, and the last good snapshot is marked for you.
Before any rollback you see every file that will be put back, recreated or treated as newer. No surprises, ever.
Files made since the good snapshot (encrypted copies, ransom notes) are moved to a quarantine folder, never deleted.
The folder as it is now is snapshotted first, so even a rollback can be undone. Or restore into another folder instead.
Search the whole history, see each version's time, size and fingerprint, and restore one, save a copy or open it read-only.
Bring back one deleted file, a selection or all of them, straight from the history.
24 practice documents are attacked in a temp folder, caught and restored byte for byte. Your own files are never touched.
Unlimited keeps a complete copy of the vault on an external drive or network share, and never deletes to match a vault that looks wiped.
Light & dark theme
Rollback comes with a crisp light theme and a calm dark theme. Switch with one click, or let it follow your Windows setting by itself. It remembers your choice.
Screenshots
Real screenshots of the real app, in both of its themes: 6 light, 6 dark. Click any picture to see it full size.
Light theme
Dark theme
Who it's for
Keep the Pictures and Documents folders one rollback away from any disaster.
Invoices, quotes and client folders snapshotted all day, without a server or an IT contract.
A thesis saved over at midnight? Bring back the version from twenty minutes ago.
Project folders versioned automatically, with exclusions for build output and node_modules.
Windows Security tries to stop the attack; Vow Rollback keeps the versions to undo it.
Set it up once. The alarm explains what to do, and every restore is free.
Compare
Why a simple, previewed rollback beats a kernel driver, an allow-list or a yearly suite.
| Feature | Vow Rollback | Typical backup & rollback tools |
|---|---|---|
| Rollback previewed before it runs | Exactly, file by file | Rarely |
| Files made since the attack | Moved to quarantine, not deleted | Varies |
| Kernel driver required | No | Often |
| Allow-lists of apps to maintain | None | Common with folder blocking |
| Proves the defence works | Built-in fire drill | Rarely |
| Shows when the last snapshot ran | Always on screen | Not always |
| Your files are uploaded | Never: your PC and your own drive | Yes, for online backup services |
| Price | Free every day, or $9.95 once | Usually a yearly suite |
"Typical" describes what we found across the most-downloaded alternatives when we built Rollback. Your mileage with any one of them may vary; ours won't.
Pricing
That is not a typo. Software this powerful usually means a monthly subscription; Rollback is $9.95, once, for life: it's almost a giveaway. Use it free for as long as you like, and unlock Unlimited only if you need more.
1 folder, 3 days of history, the alarm and every rollback.
Almost a giveaway. Less than a takeaway lunch for software this powerful: no subscription, no renewals, yours for life on 2 PCs.
Any number of folders, 30 days of history, automatic drive copy.
Payments by Stripe: we never see or store your card. Questions? Ask a real person.
Clean software
Most "free" Windows downloads pay for themselves with ads, bundled extras or your data. Vow Rollback doesn't need to: it's paid for honestly, once, by the people who find it useful.
Download Rollback freeStep-by-step guide
Protect a folder before trouble strikes, then undo encryption, deletions or bad saves, step by step.
Step 1: get it freeDownload it from this page and run the installer. It needs no administrator rights and no account, and offers to start protecting your folders when you sign in.
Drop the folder on the window, or click Documents, Desktop or Pictures. The first snapshot starts at once, and every later change is snapshotted within about a minute.
Disconnect from the network and run a full scan with Windows Security or your antivirus. Your history is already frozen, so nothing good can be pushed out.
The Restore page opens with the last good snapshot selected. Check how many files will be put back, recreated and moved to quarantine, in place or into another folder.
Press Roll back and confirm. The folder is snapshotted first so the rollback can be undone, then your files come back. Close the alarm once the cause is gone.
Technical details
FAQ
No. It keeps versions of your files so damage can be undone, and raises an alarm when files look encrypted. It can't name or stop the program doing the damage, so keep Windows Security (or your antivirus) on, and keep a drive copy for disk failures.
Yes. You can protect 1 folder with 3 days of history, and the ransomware alarm, the fire drill and every restore are always free, plus 5 manual snapshots a day. Unlimited, a one-time $9.95 USD payment, adds any number of folders, up to 30 days of history, automatic drive copies and unlimited manual snapshots.
It looks for several signs at once: files whose content turned into noise and lost its file type's header, renames to 200+ known ransomware extensions or many files getting the same new extension, ransom-note file names, bursts of changes, and optional hidden bait files. One odd file never raises the alarm; two kinds of sign, or many encrypted files, do.
Only the changes made between the last snapshot and the attack. With snapshots after every change that gap is about a minute, and the screen always shows when the last snapshot ran.
The vault is protected by obscurity and integrity checks, not by Windows permissions, so ransomware running as you could reach it, as it could any per-user backup. That is what the drive copy (unplugged now and then) and the vault integrity check are for, and the history freeze stops new snapshots replacing good ones.
Press "It was me, not ransomware" and snapshots carry on as normal. Bulk renames or edits you made yourself can look alarming, so the choice is always yours.
Vow Rollback needs no kernel driver, no subscription and no allow-list of apps. Protection starts in one click, every rollback is previewed exactly before it runs, newer files are quarantined rather than deleted, and a built-in fire drill shows the defence working.
Yes. It is made and published by XTO Pty Ltd, an Australian company. There are no ads, no bundled software and no account, it needs no administrator rights, and uninstalling asks separately whether to keep your snapshot vault.
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