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Kaspersky has usually been above average against ransomware
I remember a decade ago or so when ransomware was all the rage, it protected the dumb-teen-me when I was torrenting who-knows-what countless times
Try the "bootable anti-ransomware" USB thing, it's free as far as I remember, might help recover the system
https://kaspersky.com/anti-ransomwa...
https://support.kaspersky.com/utili...
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Dude I work with doing Windows developing gets hit by ransomware. He thinks it came through a VSCode extension. So I go looking and find this:
https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/...
The guy was demanding $10K. The amount of work lost would not be equal to that. We are just gonna wipe it and rebuild the computer. What a scum bag.
How do you detect this kind of stuff early?
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