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Cryptovirus defenses?


phaolo

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1 hour ago, vinifera said:

passwords and limited accounts won't help

when crafted smart, any malware can login as SYSTEM which overrides both UAC and your ... whatever account protected thing :P

Man some of them  are prevented

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Do ransomware infectors use system-level file-encryption services?  Services that wouldn't be available on win-9x/me?

Does your file system need to be NTFS in order for a ransomware infector to be successful?

I thought I read somewhere that these infectors use their own custom routine to open target files and encrypt the first 32kb of the target file.  That means the encryption can happen fast, and be independent on the file size (even large multi-media files need not be fully read and re-written in encrypted format).  Do we know what is really going on when Locky and other ransomware infectors are messing with files?


 

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