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<blockquote data-quote="ebocious" data-source="post: 837523" data-attributes="member: 75834"><p>Gotcha. Cruelsister tested AppCheck awhile back; and, although it didn't automatically restore files in the event that they were successfully encrypted, they could still be recovered from the AppCheck backup folder, which also has tamper protection as with ZA.</p><p></p><p>Of course, AppCheck is not a security suite; its one and only function is to protect against ransomware. In Cruelsister's test, one of the ransomware samples included a backdoor Trojan, and AppCheck did nothing about that. Of course, antivirus could help if it successfully identifies the Trojan, or a decent outbound firewall could stop it from phoning home. So I've been using AppCheck as an extra layer of protection on everything, including systems on which I decided to forego default-deny protection either because the user was a download junkie, or because I didn't expect to be in frequent contact with them. This way, if they did call me because of a ransom message on their desktop, I could remote in, scan the system for persistent infections, and restore the original files.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]FUOOp7Z-sFs[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ebocious, post: 837523, member: 75834"] Gotcha. Cruelsister tested AppCheck awhile back; and, although it didn't automatically restore files in the event that they were successfully encrypted, they could still be recovered from the AppCheck backup folder, which also has tamper protection as with ZA. Of course, AppCheck is not a security suite; its one and only function is to protect against ransomware. In Cruelsister's test, one of the ransomware samples included a backdoor Trojan, and AppCheck did nothing about that. Of course, antivirus could help if it successfully identifies the Trojan, or a decent outbound firewall could stop it from phoning home. So I've been using AppCheck as an extra layer of protection on everything, including systems on which I decided to forego default-deny protection either because the user was a download junkie, or because I didn't expect to be in frequent contact with them. This way, if they did call me because of a ransom message on their desktop, I could remote in, scan the system for persistent infections, and restore the original files. [MEDIA=youtube]FUOOp7Z-sFs[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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