A new strain of Ransomeware can now make changes to your MBR and stop users form starting their computers.
Remember! You should exercise complete CTRL and you ALT to think carefully before you DELete stuff willy nilly.
Randsomeware now attacks MBR
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A new strain of Ransomeware can now make changes to your MBR and stop users form starting their computers.
Remember! You should exercise complete CTRL and you ALT to think carefully before you DELete stuff willy nilly.
03-30-2016, 05:51 PM
nasty one.
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03-30-2016, 08:11 PM
They are getting worst.
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It's therefore better to create an installation media of Windows with either a USB flash drive or a DVD and keep that as a dedicated recovery tool, specifically for such cases
I've created mine with my USB flash drive and have to say that it's a savior. It has helped me fix a lot of issues which couldn't have been fixed in any other way If the MBR is corrupted, you can at least boot from that flash drive or dvd and select the repair option to access the recovery environment & once there, you can select the command prompt and try the bootrec.exe /fixmbr command If the issue persists, we still have the option of low level format with the DiskPart clean all command which clears all the sectors including the one where the MBR resides
04-15-2016, 11:58 AM
(04-15-2016, 07:44 AM)Partha Wrote: It's therefore better to create an installation media of Windows with either a USB flash drive or a DVD and keep that as a dedicated recovery tool, specifically for such cases That's a good contingency plan partha. I personally keep a full system backup with Acronis True Image 2016 on an external drive as well as a full Windows recovery on a partition. I also use Rollback RX Pro, which claims to rescue your system no matter what, including Randsomeware, although I've not needed to test it for that thank God. I have seen some YouTube videos showing how it reverts the system back to a state prior to an Ransomeware infection. Here is a video from the makers of the software. They do a free home edition too.
Remember! You should exercise complete CTRL and you ALT to think carefully before you DELete stuff willy nilly.
04-15-2016, 12:20 PM
(04-15-2016, 11:58 AM)EAPTCB Wrote:It looks interesting but doesn't it work like the system restore functionality of Windows?(04-15-2016, 07:44 AM)Partha Wrote: It's therefore better to create an installation media of Windows with either a USB flash drive or a DVD and keep that as a dedicated recovery tool, specifically for such cases
OK the software looks good but to create a backup and restore of the computer
you have to launch the application within windows let's say you got infected with malware can't launch the application or boot into windows how do you then restore that image? (04-15-2016, 01:20 PM)Compton Wrote: OK the software looks good but to create a backup and restore of the computer Right, that is when an installation media would be helpful.. another option would be to make use of rescue disks offered by some antivirus makers and boot from one of those rescue disks and then run a malware scan If it's able to disinfect the infected mbr, that should do the trick as well
04-15-2016, 01:45 PM
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04-15-2016, 02:07 PM
to answer my question yes you can restore without booting into windows
using Rollback RX recovery console but that console is still store on the hard drive you will not be 100% sure that recovery console will boot up |
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