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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by antihero on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:05AM (#11875334)
Since this exploits user level privileges, perhaps a good idea would be to have a privileged version control system for user data. In that, you need admin/root access to actually DELETE anything, and any file system changes by users are simply versioned away. This means if you had ransomware that fucked up your files (since this software typically runs at user level), you could just instruct said versioning system to roll everything back as an admin?
Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by pfg on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:49AM (#11875677)
I think that's what many enterprise deployments do with shadow copies, mostly for file shares. It would probably make sense for Microsoft to push this feature for personal usage/smaller networks as well (not sure if you can currently use it in that scenario).