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Thanks, everyone! &nbsp;Really appreciate the responses.
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Thanks, everyone!  Really appreciate the responses.

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I wrote a program to detect missing and changed files caused by ransomware.<br />
<a href="http://www.questiondriven.com/2016/02/18/beta-testing-for-ransomware-detection-in-file-share/" rel="ugc">http://www.questiondriven.com/2016/02/18/beta-testing-for-ransomware-detection-in-file-share/</a><br />
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You can monitor any UNC path or local folder.
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I wrote a program to detect missing and changed files caused by ransomware.
http://www.questiondriven.com/2016/02/18/beta-testing-for-ransomware-detection-in-file-share/ [http://www.questiondriven.com/2016/02/18/beta-testing-for-ransomware-detection-in-file-share/]

You can monitor any UNC path or local folder.

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I regularly back up a lot of computers and what I'm looking for is a way to avoid running the backup (or more importantly, the synchronization program) on computers that have been hit with any of the ransomware variants.<br />
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Is there a way to detect that a large number of files on a given computer are encrypted?<br />
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Thanks
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I regularly back up a lot of computers and what I'm looking for is a way to avoid running the backup (or more importantly, the synchronization program) on computers that have been hit with any of the ransomware variants.

Is there a way to detect that a large number of files on a given computer are encrypted?

Thanks

How to detect ransomware-locked file systems

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.