Ransomware

[Jason76]

How do you feel about it? What can be done to stop it? Have any of you or your family, friends, ran into it?

 

[Florence Green]

This an interesting topic that you asked about. Well because Ransomware is a form of malicious software that locks up the files in your computer, encrypts them, and demands that you pay to get your files back. WannaDecryptor, or WannaCry, is a form of ransomware that affects Microsoft’s Windows operating system. My computer was attacked by WannaCry two years ago and i lost lots of important files in the process. However, i am now more alert and i have mastered to notice the signs beforehand like for example, do not open e-mails from strangers, delete junk e-mails without opening them, open Compass or MS Word file with caution and many more other useful tips which you can find.

 

[Jason76]

Another thing involves staying away from peer-to-peer platforms.

 

[Corzhens]

It seems to me that a ransomware will ruin your hard disk. Even if there is an instruction for you to remit money so you can receive the keycode, it is like adding insult to injury. What if you paid and nothing happened? I'm worried about it although I had read that a ransomware can only enter an old Windows system.

 

[Steve Jobs]

I have a love/hate relationship with ransomware. I hate it because it is morally and ethically wrong, and often becomes a devastating loss for many people, however, my business provides ransomware protection and has provided my business in a lot of business.

 

[lunorian]

I use anti virus and don't download things from random sites.

 

[Dominix_]

As far as I understand, the antivirus is not able to protect the system from ransomware since this is another type of malware by.
Here's how it works, by example RedBoot ransomware:
Blackmail viruses like RedBoot have evoked a serious discussion in the IT security circles. These types of cyber-culprits cause much more damage than mainstream ransomware as their adverse effects go beyond personal data encryption alone. The above-mentioned infection, for instance, additionally corrupts the Master Boot Record and skews the partition table to render the machine inoperable. Some researchers argue that perpetrating programs with such a depth of impact make victims highly skeptical regarding their chances for recovery, hence the crooks earn less than they would if the pest simply enciphered files without blocking computers altogether. And yet, the makers of RedBoot don’t seem to care and keep spreading their Petya-ish baddie regardless.

 

[lunorian]

As far as I understand, the antivirus is not able to protect the system from ransomware since this is another type of malware by.
Here's how it works, by example RedBoot ransomware:
Blackmail viruses like RedBoot have evoked a serious discussion in the IT security circles. These types of cyber-culprits cause much more damage than mainstream ransomware as their adverse effects go beyond personal data encryption alone. The above-mentioned infection, for instance, additionally corrupts the Master Boot Record and skews the partition table to render the machine inoperable. Some researchers argue that perpetrating programs with such a depth of impact make victims highly skeptical regarding their chances for recovery, hence the crooks earn less than they would if the pest simply enciphered files without blocking computers altogether. And yet, the makers of RedBoot don’t seem to care and keep spreading their Petya-ish baddie regardless.

Anti-virus blocks ransomware, beyond that I have a custom daemon that searches for programs that are write locking 100s of files and kills the processes and gives me option to delete the file that was running which limits the impact of ransomware.

 

[Gus]

I keep important stuff backed up on external hard drives and flash drives. I wouldn’t pay a ransom for something I already have access to.

 

[MrDawn]

I think ransomware sucks. I've been fortunate so far. But if it ever happened to me, I have no idea what I'd do to be honest. It's happened to a few computers at my work and they just have the IT guy fix it. Other than that I don't know how he does it.

 

[MasterA]

I have never been affected by ransomware because I have a very careful browsing habit. I also use Bitdefender and they have ransomware protection even though I don't know how good the protection actually is.

 

[Yarik]

Never have been infected with one.

 

[teamGlide]

i heard about it but never actually seen it or know anyone who experienced it

 

[naclo3samuel]

Another thing involves staying away from peer-to-peer platforms.

I will disagree strongly here - while P2P platforms might be occasional sources of malware, I don't see a way in which the P2P base construct is in any way less secure then our common TCP website request scheme we use today. Moreover, it is actually easier to modify a custom P2P network in a way which is safe than to control arbitrary javascript that could be present on standard webpages (contrary to popular belief, it is by no means ever necessary to pro-actively open an email attachment to actually get infected).

The only thing that is going to stop malware such as ransomware (that relies on modifying unrelated user information) is strong sandboxing. This has been repeated many many times by sophisticated people, yet no easy to use and powerful sandboxing solution that is available to the general public has been developed (not that I know of). Until we finally come up with a universally easy to configure and use sandboxing solution, malware of this kind will be as plentiful as it is now