1geekmercenary Posted August 31, 2017 ID:1159206 Share Posted August 31, 2017 one of my clients still has an XP system for his cad 97... he got hit by some ransomware, a new variant called locky, which encrypts everything & changes extensions to .lukitus... ANYWAYS long story short, after all my recovery methods failed, we looked up the ransom, which is usually ~ 300usd in bitcoins, this one was .5 btc which currently makes it over $2,000! says he doesn't need his data that bad... so as a future prevention i sold him on malwarebytes & afterwards we noticed the ransomare protection won't enable, likely cuz xp is just old AF... i need to know, is there any software for xp that can prevent ransomware, or is this something that xp just has to deal with? or, is this an error & perhaps mbam is supposed to still do it on xp??? to save time & keep his invoice low he says since his software still runs he didn't want me to continue operating to wipe & restore or anything, wants to keep running as-is, and his avast got screwed up as well, he thinks it was a paid version of avast & it wouldn't even run, didn't have enough time to mess with it, my 1hr was up & he didn't wanna pay to continue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted August 31, 2017 ID:1159208 Share Posted August 31, 2017 (edited) 6 minutes ago, 1geekmercenary said: my 1hr was up & he didn't wanna pay to continue. Don't you just love those clients? Other than getting off that fracking OS. They need to start making Images with a program like Macrium to an external that is not connected except for backups. Ransome ware is only available on 7 and newer. But the Web protection and anti-exploit might have stopped it from even downloading and running. Edited August 31, 2017 by Porthos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1geekmercenary Posted August 31, 2017 Author ID:1159213 Share Posted August 31, 2017 never heard of macrium, is that a drive imaging software? i've been thinkin about setting up my xp clients up on a virtual box so they can have a modern pc, and also the legacy stuff that won't run on a modern environment, however sometimes i've seen things still not play nice with a vbox... the sorcery is gonna be convincing em to let me spend the time to set that stuff up... & them to pay me for my time... cuz they need to catch up with the rest of us, atleast get to win7 FFS... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted August 31, 2017 ID:1159214 Share Posted August 31, 2017 2 minutes ago, 1geekmercenary said: is that a drive imaging software? I encourage every client to start using it. It has never failed me. You just have to take a bit to show them how to use it and sell them a drive . I made this video for my clients for them to have a reminder on how to make backups. https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1geekmercenary Posted September 1, 2017 Author ID:1159510 Share Posted September 1, 2017 for reals though, it looks like Bit Defender has something, but i don't know if it'll work on xp... if anybody KNOWS knows, let me know plzhttps://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/anti-ransomware-tool.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TempLost Posted September 1, 2017 ID:1159517 Share Posted September 1, 2017 CryptoPrevent 8 from FoolishIT provides a level of protection against Ransomware on XP. Nothing is going to give you total protection, however. I use CryptoPrevent Premium on Windows 7 alongside Malwarebytes 3 Premium but, never having been attacked, can only say that the product looks effective. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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