[Ed. note: I had mixed feelings about running this story. It reads like a slashvertisement, but might be of genuine use to some members of our community (or people whose systems they help support). Decided to give it a try — please provide feedback in the comments.]
Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware review: A free tool that actually works:
Ransomware is malicious software that can lock your computer and files while demanding a ransom be paid to unlock it. This sort of attack can be much more serious than a typical virus or malware attack because much of the time, you end up losing all of your files that weren't backed up. Ransomware can be especially hard to prevent because it typically comes disguised as another trusted file.
Anti-ransomware software comes packed in with most of the best antivirus software or PC security packages including Windows Security. Anti-ransomware software needs to get very frequent updates to stay in front of threats. Since ransomware often comes disguised as something a user wants, they can let it through the first lines of security before they know there's a problem.
Kaspersky's Anti-Ransomware Tool looks for behavior and commonly infected files to offer a last line of defense on your system. It's also backed by a cloud-connected set of definitions to stay updated without waiting for a scheduled definitions update.
Always updated Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool
Bottom line: When it comes to PC security, you can never be 100% sure your PC is risk-free, Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool adds another layer of security with an up-to-date and well-reviewed knowledgebase of safe and risky applications. It's also able to watch out for suspicious app behavior in case a threat is new enough that it hasn't been detected yet.
The author notes some shortcomings in the tool, as well, so it's a mixed recommendation. Read the full article for details. Would you get/use it?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @10:43PM (7 children)
No thanks, I'd rather not put the fox in charge of the hen house.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday July 20 2020, @11:59PM (6 children)
I don't trust the russkies, but would trust the ________.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @12:23AM
Sentinelese.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday July 21 2020, @12:35AM (2 children)
"...but would trust the..." I've had pretty good luck trusting Fins, Swedes, Norwegians, Dutch and the French.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @08:43AM
You trust the French?
Of the countries you listed there, they're the ones with the secret service (DGSE) most likely to surreptitiously install crap on your systems...this is the country who, back in the day, were so paranoid that they refused to allow any form of encrypted traffic to-fro a certain establishment with international connections as they hadn't the wherewithal at the time to crack/MitM it..
Of course, with sloppy password reuse amongst academics, and the fact that they monitored all external telnet(no encryption remember, so no ssh..)/pop/imap connections from the site, they had quite a stash of username/passwords for a hell of a lot of accounts in other countries to play with..amusingly, this included accounts in another country whose paranoia of a different level had led them to gate access to a lot/all (I never found out which) of their establishments through one Internet visible server which allowed only ssh access from a subset of the rest of the planet, and only allowed ssh connections to then be made to the various 'internal' establishments the users were authorised for, so thanks to the good old telnet from France to our site, then ssh from us to the homeland, the system of the differently paranoid country wasn't as secure as they probably thought it was..
The games people played back in the day....
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 21 2020, @10:53AM
But I have too many tales of how I wouldn't trust the French further than I could catapault them, and would certainly like the chance to find out exactly how far that is. I do believe the phrase "fucking useless" passed my lips many dozens of times when I was working over there.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:25AM (1 child)
I don't trust the russkies, but would trust the absolute certainty of death, taxes, that misery loves company, and that my government does all of those the best.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by tizan on Tuesday July 21 2020, @05:11PM
That is the dream any form of competence in government...the US government is utterly incompetent even in doing bad things. It wastes plenty of money trying to do these things that the ruskies are good at but we have seen the competence of the US in secrecy and non secrecy stuff. A contractor walking around NSA servers with USB sticks and downloading stuff....right and then goes and hide in Russia.
They are the worst but Hollywood has managed to make them sound like super hero geniuses.....which they are not.
Just look how they are dealing with protestors in Portland...they had a premature ejaculation in front of naked Athena (https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1284410621283328000?s=20) if they were any "1984" good these protests would not even start !
We can hope that they are allowing us still to talk because of the 1st amendment and not because of utter incompetence in being the super russia.
Enough ranting now.