That's very funny... Barry should know that EXCUBITS "applications" are not really applications at all... they are FileSystem level drivers (needing installation and mgmt) that require significant configuration via INI files. You need to be ready for stuff like this... or you WILL HAVE the follicle issues mentioned above...
Does FIDES work on a system using Sandboxie? I thought the two drivers might be incompatible. Macrium's offering is supposed to be a few weeks away. My feeling is if its a separate program to install I would use FIDES instead, but only if it won't interfere with Sandboxie. I am comfortable with setting up rules using the INI file.
As @Peter2150 mentioned, we should probably move the Pumpernickel (FIDES) discussion off to THIS THREAD where it's currently being discussed.
If a person doesn't keep any backups on their machine, this new feature wouldn't be much use, would it?
Great news! I got a bit chicken with the latest outbreaks and installed antivirus since I couldnt find an easy solution to protect Macrium backups if the malware makers decided to target Macriums backup files. I couldnt bother with off line backups since I like the backups to be automatic without having to bother about them. Backups should just work once set up, set and forget. (and Macrium has yet to fail me after many, many restores through the years)
I guess I always thought that if I had made FULL Images and password protect them that Ransomeware would be removed by booting with my rescue DVD and doing a restore. Just how does Ransomeware effect a MR image?
External storage drives are dirt cheap and just plain good sense IMO. It doesn't necessarily just have to do with potential malware but with any other surprise malfunction it's always a good practice to ALSO keep a duplicate of your clean backups OFFLINE and OFFSYSTEM. Macrium Reflect is absolutely fantastic of course and worth the extra protection too.
I use an internal HDD...Drive D:...but copy the image to a 128GB USB3 thumb drive several times a month. I would suspect that would be good.
True, but if you're keeping them OFF (and slightly inconvenient) due to RansomeWare, then the new protection mechanism should remove that requirement.
The same way it affects any other file... it didle's its DATA until it can't be read normally by the application designed to read it. If it thought MRIMG files were as important to the user as the user's docs, music, pics and videos were... it would encrypt them as well, it just doesn't have that FileType on its hit list... yet.
That's good for protection against component failure, but when those devices are connected to the System, they are vulnerable.
Several times a month? No, that's not good for a flash drive, which has a certain write/erase cycle. Once it reaches that cycle, the thumb drive will be dead. Thumb drives are designed to temporarily hold some files for data transfer, not as a destination storage device.
I have to agree and here is why, just as explained. That practice is great but the hardware life cycle with thumb drives are very limited by comparison to say a cigarette pack sized external drive which is infinitely better fashioned and expressly for such purposes as backup/restore storage.
Well...I guess I better hope I do not get any Ransomeware! I could look for an EXTERNAL USB3 drive I could use for backup. Perhaps 1 that is even powered by USB.
USB3 has a higher power spec than USB2 did, as a result, there are many buss powered USB3 external drives available. ...and the device death talked about above concerns only the ability to WRITE to the flash device... any DATA already resident will remain readable as in READ ONLY mode.
I use 2 external 2,5" USB 3.0 drives that are powered through USB and copy data to them once a week. Each week I use the other drive for backup.I just copy-paste data and then unplug it.
