- Dec 27, 2014
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According to this article at German magazine "Heise", there's a new site (Tox) making it pretty easy to produce new ransomware viruses. As each of them is unique, there might not be a AV-signature at the time it might arrive on the computer.
So how to protect myself against this new threat? Or is it just scaremongering?
As to protection, my Laptop is equipped with Kaspersky IS 2015, MBAM Pro, Hitman Pro + Alert, updates /sigs for each software as well as Win 8.1 are installed as soon as they appear (usually).
Scans are regularly done.
I use eM-Client to receive my mails, and move all unknown / suspicious mails to spam to blacklist them and delete them afterwards (without opening).
Browser is current Chrome with AdBlock Plus, LastPass, WOT, HTTPS Everywhere and KIS Plugin activated.
Looking forward to you reply.
P.S.: Here's the link to the article (German though):
http://www.heise.de/security/meldun...assgeschneiderte-Krypto-Trojaner-2668860.html
So how to protect myself against this new threat? Or is it just scaremongering?
As to protection, my Laptop is equipped with Kaspersky IS 2015, MBAM Pro, Hitman Pro + Alert, updates /sigs for each software as well as Win 8.1 are installed as soon as they appear (usually).
Scans are regularly done.
I use eM-Client to receive my mails, and move all unknown / suspicious mails to spam to blacklist them and delete them afterwards (without opening).
Browser is current Chrome with AdBlock Plus, LastPass, WOT, HTTPS Everywhere and KIS Plugin activated.
Looking forward to you reply.
P.S.: Here's the link to the article (German though):
http://www.heise.de/security/meldun...assgeschneiderte-Krypto-Trojaner-2668860.html