New Ransomware Vaccine Kills Programs That Wipe Windows Shadow Volumes

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Security researcher Florian Roth released a new anti-ransomware “vaccine” software called Raccine. Raccine terminates any processes that try to delete volume shadow copies using Microsoft’s vssadmin.exe program. Windows creates backups of your system and stores them in Shadow Volume snapshots—these snapshots can be used to recover lost or damaged files. Ransomware infections usually delete all […]

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