The Best Ransomware Protection of 2017

I don't test and never did test in a VM.

For my purposes that's too easy and although a safer way out it's because I like a real system to actually take/feel the punches if there's going to be a fight.

Of course that also takes into account a ready-image when things go south, and they often do with any malware on a RAW system.

To answer the last question I WILL and DO trust certain AntiRansomware on a live production rig but NEVER TEST MALWARE OF ANY SORT on the same.

 

On a dedicated test machine, yes, and would prefer this over a virtual machine any day. On my personal workstation? Never.

 

Well since there is VMaware stuff out there you have to test on a real system, but since you use MR it shouldn't matter.

 

I just had a crazy thought or better yet question.

Testing on a live system with VM how can you be 100% sure that some of today's really crafty stuff doesn't find a way onto the host unseen and at worse snuggle in there until a certain time before going active on the host?

I almost left out that I absolutely have run m-ware on a production environment under Shadow Defender.

Don't ask me how but for some reason old SD still seems to hold up very well.

 

In a virtual environment the guest os runs in a separate environment from the host os.

Ransomware infecting the guest os can only harm that system. You can shut down the infected vm it installed to and remove it poof - its gone!

I wouldn't advise ransomware testing on your host os. No telling whether your security software can recognize and block it before it starts encrypting files.

 

I'm always under the shadow.

 

That's good then. Sort of like Shadow Defender but far more feature rich and wide reaching (installing O/S's, saving images etc)

I only tinkered with Virtual Box and even VMware but that was a long long time ago and although seemed pretty flawless those VM's taxed their portion of the system resources. I imagine they are much better now at handling that then before.

File infectors of any sort are notorious as is ransomware.

Looks like @Peter2150 has had a few go arounds testing various antiransomware programs that left him rather flat and not impressed.

 

I'm running Oracle VB on Windows 10.

 

How do you like it? Do you test anti-ransomware apps in it to test their ability?

I agree with Pete that it's too late once a system gets poked by this stuff but I also respectfully disagree that it's too late if a formidable enough antiransomware app also has a qualifying rollback procedure built-in to them too.

 

No. I run Linux on it.

A good antiransomware app like KAR should not only be able to block the attack but to roll back files to their previous state.

 

It seems like Webroot didn't do well here https://malwaretips.com/threads/webroot-secure-anywhere-vs-wtf-ransomware.71962/

 

Me too. A month ago I noticed MS will let you download and install windows 10 and others in VB. They say it will stop working after 90 days and so be sure to create a snapshot. Not sure why a snap shot would keep working after 90 days.

Easter: on my machine VB still runs slower then my real OS but think it always will and I am running 16 gigs of RAM

 

https://fossbytes.com/best-anti-ransomware-tools-software/

 

The best ransomware protection is to install SRP. Simple and forget it protection.

 

All I've been using is common sense for emails and a script/ad blocker for the web browser, and that's been working fine for me. And with full system images as well as my personal and important data backed up offline, I've really no concerns.

 

I have never heard of McAfee Ransomware Interceptor, is it any good?

https://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/interceptor.aspx

 

They said Avast was one of the best anti ransomeware tools around so it must be true....lmao

 

I just looked at a utube video using the mac interceptor....
McAfee Ransomware Interceptor (Pilot) ..... Here is another video with the Mac Interceptor ...
Fight Back Against Ransomware

 

https://malwaretips.com/threads/bri...e-mcafee-ransomware-interceptor-review.65392/

 

And was it any good? I'm going to check it out later, but the end result isn't always clear in these kind of videos.

 

BTW, NeuShield Data Sentinel looks quite interesting, does anybody know more about it? They claim to have a unique protection method, it's called "mirror shielding".

https://www.neushield.com/products/