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<blockquote data-quote="Bonorex" data-source="post: 901370" data-attributes="member: 87946">I agree that ransomware protection is a good addition to a backup software.&nbsp; And this is also the reason why I purchased the paid license of Macrium, when it was on sale. I like Macrium&#039;s approach, because its Image Guardian technology simply protects backup files from being modified by any application, and it doesn&#039;t add real-time layers, that could conflict with antivirus&#039; modules.&nbsp; This complements very well my KIS protection. Although I save backup images on two external drives, I like having a system copy saved on the internal HDD, for faster image restoring. The system images are saved in a folder locked by KIS, together with some useless jpg files. Even if&nbsp; ransomware attack would get past KIS folder protection, it would first start encrypting the jpgs, being system images protected from modification by Macrium&#039;s Image Guardian. I guess that KIS behaviour blocker would notice these jpg massive changes and stop the attack.&nbsp; Of course, no defense is 100% unbreakable, but I love this triple-protection, because it&#039;s also light on RAM and CPU resources. Acronis&#039;s solution would simply not do for me, because it would probably interfere with KIS and I would never replace KIS real time modules for Acronis&#039;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bonorex, post: 901370, member: 87946"] I agree that ransomware protection is a good addition to a backup software. And this is also the reason why I purchased the paid license of Macrium, when it was on sale. I like Macrium's approach, because its Image Guardian technology simply protects backup files from being modified by any application, and it doesn't add real-time layers, that could conflict with antivirus' modules. This complements very well my KIS protection. Although I save backup images on two external drives, I like having a system copy saved on the internal HDD, for faster image restoring. The system images are saved in a folder locked by KIS, together with some useless jpg files. Even if ransomware attack would get past KIS folder protection, it would first start encrypting the jpgs, being system images protected from modification by Macrium's Image Guardian. I guess that KIS behaviour blocker would notice these jpg massive changes and stop the attack. Of course, no defense is 100% unbreakable, but I love this triple-protection, because it's also light on RAM and CPU resources. Acronis's solution would simply not do for me, because it would probably interfere with KIS and I would never replace KIS real time modules for Acronis'. [/QUOTE]

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