Regarding NeuShield, I hope you guys don't mind but as it may help folk who don't frequent Wilders I'll cross-post something I blathered about the other day:
"I took NeuShield Data Sentinel (free) for a quick dance and consider it quite nice for what it is. For those not familiar with this product, they state:
"does more than just detecting and blocking ransomware attacks. We’re the only anti-ransomware technology that can recover your damaged data from malicious software attacks without a backup. Data Sentinel uses
Mirror Shielding™ to protect files ensuring that you can instantly recover your important data from
any ransomware attack."
Upon installation (which was done on a system with the bare minimum of resources, mimicking the biggest piece of junk one can imagine) the main application as well as a Service were created, neither of which were memory/CPU intensive. No tweaking of any sort was needed (nor possible).
The protection is specific for the usual suspects (the Folders- Documents, Music, Pictures, Desktop, Contacts, Games, Videos). Upon running diverse ransomware, although encryption occurred (remember this is not an anti-ransomware application), all files were able to be restored by opening up the GUI and clicking Revert for each of the folders and all the encypted items were deleted. The exception to this was some files (esp. executables) that were trashed by the malware were put into the Trash bin upon reverting (not a big deal as they could be readily reclaimed).
NeuShield does also have intrinsic protection against ransomware that mess with the MBR and this works well and prevents such manipulation. Unlike the Home and Biz versions, the free version does not have the ability to restore Windows System files, and although they say that all versions have:
"Boot Protection Prevents ransomware from making your system unable to boot" I can assure you that it did not work against a little cutie that I coded especially to test this.
Finally, it is important to note that NeuShield will NOT protect files in Folders outside of those that I listed above, so this can be problematic with Fortress Class malware (those that will trash files of any type anywhere).
But other than that a rather interesting application that will coexist nicely with other security apps if one feels that their current setup may be lacking."
ps- Could be wrong here but I can't really think of any common security app that it wouln't play nice with.
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. Has anyone seen any bugs?
