ransomware virus on Linux

[Ben Woods]

On Friday, 20 November 2015, Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 4:21 PM, RW via freebsd-questions <
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > What worries me is that the next version might target Linux workstations
> > where there's a lot of very complex software running as the owner of
> > the user data.
>
> Ransomware which encrypts your stuff isn't a major problem if you have a
> current backup.
>
> So, verify that your backups work.
>
> Regards,
> --
> -Chuck
>
>
Similarly, I believe regular automatic ZFS snapshotting can be effective
against this. Files encrypted? zfs rollback to 15 minutes ago when they
weren't encrypted. Problem solved.

Regards,
Ben


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