Ot: Viruses

[Richard Kreiss]

One of my clients early Friday morning to advise me to stay off of their system.  They were being attacked by a virus that was encrypting or making unreadable a large list of Office type of documents and photo formats.  They eventually found the machine from which the virus infected their system.

Luckily  filePro was not damaged by this attacked except for an old mdb file.

They did have backups which were made to a NAS.  However even the files on the NAS were attacked.

The suggestion I made to him, and it is not original with me, was to backup his system to the NAS and the backup the NAS to tape.  His comment to me was tape is old school.  My answer was that the tape would not have been attacked.  Yes, if he backed up on Friday it would have been infected files.  However, the backup for that day would not have been made.

Just a suggestion.  

By the way, they are running Windows Defender and Malwarebytes, which missed the particular virus attacking their system.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting

Office: 410-653-2813