What do you guys think of this new solution to ransomware? http://www.easysyncsolutions.com/cryptomonitordetails.html
It looks interesting, too bad about the ugly GUI. The so called "count protection" was offered by Neoava Guard as well, back in the days. I'm not sure what to think about "Entrapment Protection". I wonder how it compares to HMPA's CryptoGuard.
HI DC For me I consider it totally unnecessary. I just one of the sucker emails with a zip attached. I checked and was crypto stuff. Emsisoft EIS was first to shut it down. Disabling EIS HMP.Alert shutting it down. Disabling that Appguard protected the stuff. Pete
Salutations, Just try and it slow the PC! Additionally, had a conflict with Emsisoft and Sandboxie. Uninstall for the time being. Will try it again tomorrow!
Peter, I run AG and EAM too so I am protected as well. Just wanted to throw this out here for discussion, always entertaining and educational having the experts on here discussing software such as this. We may not need this protection but others might.
Developer is by one of the members of Bleeping Computer, a decryption expert. He's been helping people there to deal with Crytowall, Cryptoguard, etc. , given time to develop I'm sure it will a effective tool.
Developer says that he has Emsisoft and Sandboxie on his development machine with no problems. Also says that a classic UI will soon be available that will bring down CPU usage.
Salutations, Here is what on my PC"s, EAM,Sandboxie,MBAE,Hitman Pro Alert, Pro,Kerish Doctor,Shadow Dedender, and K-meleon,IE. I was thinking that it may be the Browser that is having the problem. After lunch I will reinstall and see what happen. Moose's World
Salutations, Tried with FlashPeak Slimjet and K-meleon Browsers. The problem is with sandboxie! If you enable sandboxie, there is a real slow down with the above browsers. Big time! So if the develop of the software and/or sandboxie fixes this problem. I will try again down the road. But for now, I am going to uninstall! Moose's World
Not surprised it doesn't work with SBIE. He will have to contact SBIE and then figure out what to put in SBIE to make them compatible. HMPA has that MBAE is ??
Salutations, http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/for...ansomware-before-it-encrypts-your-data/page-2 Waiting on a the fixes so, that I can re-install without any headaches! Moose's World
IMO most important protection against ransomware is backup, backup, backup. I have redundant backups of all my data and system, they are in external drive, USB thumb drive, and cloud. Most of them are locally encrypted by legitimate encryption programs like Veracrypt. I usually don't have documents or pictures on my system anyware, so even if ransome infected me, they might see nothing to encrypt. If they keep undetected and survived until I mount one of drives to backup and I decrypted it, then they can encrypt those contents―still not much of problems, now as I see the ransomware, I will simply rollback my system before infection, and tho I lost part of latest backup data, still I have previous version of data intact and other latest data are still safe. I disabled cryptgurad in HMPA, this function or CryptMonitor will be good for novices or those who can't loose latest documents, but for me they're no use. Current flood of ransomeware infection and information about it indicates how many ppl don't have redundant backups, just like PUP dominant shows how many ppl are careless about software installation.
Salutations, Hope that someone sent developer this link below: http://malwaretips.com/threads/cryptomonitor-free-vs-cryptowall-3-an-excessively-brief-test.44535/ so that he can look into this? Moose's World
My thought is that solutions for something as dangerous as crypto-ransomware should be tested carefully before trusting them. I would not rely on a new, untested product, especially a free version which has disabled advanced features.
HitmanPro.Alert 3 was reviewed against various crypto-ransomware families here: https://www.mrg-effitas.com/wp-cont...ffitas_Real_world_exploit_prevention_test.pdf
True but not a strictly accurate comparison with Cryptomonitor. In the free version of HMPA v3 Cryptoguard is simply off, not crippled.