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Ransomware attacks turn important files into encrypted gibberish; paying to get them back is often your only option. Ransomware protection can prevent those attacks from succeeding.

All Specs Back in 2013, the news reports were full of a ransomware threat called CryptoLocker. It was a big deal, until a multinational task force neutralized it in 2014. CryptoPrevent dates to that same era, as it was originally created to aid in recovery from CryptoLocker. The current CryptoPrevent Premium aims to work alongside your antivirus, providing ransomware-specific protection at a range of security levels. Unfortunately, even at its highest security level, the latest version failed when we tested it with real-world ransomware. This isn’t the first time we’ve put CryptoPrevent ...