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Can Anti-Viruses stop RATS that have their connection established?
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<blockquote data-quote="HarborFront" data-source="post: 1049697" data-attributes="member: 55987"><p>Documents and Photos folders in C: drive are good targets for stealers and ransomware</p><p></p><p>If you can store the items externally under different folder names and leave the Documents and Photos folders empty there will be nothing to steal or encrypt.</p><p></p><p>And stealers are more stupid than ransomware. Ransomware will encrypt even if you have password protection or encryption applied. It'll just walk over you and cover you up.</p><p></p><p>Whereas when stealers approach a password-protected file/folder they will just stop there because they are not programmed to break passwords............I doubt they break password. Yah, they can carry the Documents and Photos folders home but those are empty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HarborFront, post: 1049697, member: 55987"] Documents and Photos folders in C: drive are good targets for stealers and ransomware If you can store the items externally under different folder names and leave the Documents and Photos folders empty there will be nothing to steal or encrypt. And stealers are more stupid than ransomware. Ransomware will encrypt even if you have password protection or encryption applied. It'll just walk over you and cover you up. Whereas when stealers approach a password-protected file/folder they will just stop there because they are not programmed to break passwords............I doubt they break password. Yah, they can carry the Documents and Photos folders home but those are empty. [/QUOTE]
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