Finally, you've gained access to his files... but the filenames are all encrypted! Oh, no!
You only have one chance to open the files! Which one should you open and why? (Hint: the file sizes have nothing to do with your answer!)
Answer
This is
the result of doubling the character codes of all the characters in the following names:
Wrong,Incorrect,ThisIsIt,NotIt,IsntImportant,Nonexistent,Virus.
So I think you want
the third one.
Verification:
put
''.join(chr(2*ord(c)) for c in 'Wrong Incorrect ThisIsIt NotIt IsntImportant Nonexistent Virus').replace('@',' ').replace('\x92','_').replace('\x9c','_')into a Python 3 interpreter --@is what a space turns into, and characters 92 and 9c are the ones that are being displayed as little boxes.
The main difficulty here was
with transcription -- in several cases it wasn't clear whether we're looking at a capital or a lowercase letter, for instance. I actually noticed some time ago that a lot of the characters seem to have even character codes, but some of them appeared not to because I had guessed wrongly at what they were :-).
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