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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 495098" data-attributes="member: 7463">Snapshot applications like Rollback and AX64 are intrinsically protected from encryption by ransomware. In way of explanation, let&#039;s say you use Rollback and create a snapshot. When you install a program (or run ransomware) no changes are made to your actual system; Rollback, being integrated into your OS, will re-direct something that tries to write something to the disk to an empty sector of the disk. Windows is then &quot;fooled&quot; into thinking that system changes were&nbsp; made when nothing of the sort have occurred.In short, anything you run on a Snapshot protected system (ransomware, trojans, legit applications, whatever) is actually being run in a virtual environment and can&#039;t touch anything that actually exists. Look at it like a sandboxing program that sandboxes everything all the time automatically.Hope that was clear (but doubt that it was...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 495098, member: 7463"] Snapshot applications like Rollback and AX64 are intrinsically protected from encryption by ransomware. In way of explanation, let's say you use Rollback and create a snapshot. When you install a program (or run ransomware) no changes are made to your actual system; Rollback, being integrated into your OS, will re-direct something that tries to write something to the disk to an empty sector of the disk. Windows is then "fooled" into thinking that system changes were made when nothing of the sort have occurred. In short, anything you run on a Snapshot protected system (ransomware, trojans, legit applications, whatever) is actually being run in a virtual environment and can't touch anything that actually exists. Look at it like a sandboxing program that sandboxes everything all the time automatically. Hope that was clear (but doubt that it was...). [/QUOTE]

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