Acronis Ransomware Protection is a free tool, that delivers proven, powerful protection from ransomware like Petya, WannaCry, and Osiris. This Acronis software is completely compatible with all leading anti-malware solutions.
This tool utilizes technology that monitors your system in real-time, distinguishing normal activities from suspicious ones, such as unauthorized encryption. By recognizing harmful behavior, it detects ransomware, regardless of whether the strain is known.
If a process is caught trying to encrypt your files or inject malicious code into your system, Acronis stops it before any damage is done. Youโre instantly notified that something suspicious has been found. Then you can either block the activity or allow it to continue.
After blocking the ransomware attack, Acronis Active Protection will help you restore any files that might have been altered or infected. It searches for the latest file versions and can recover clean copies from your cache, temporary files, or backup.
Acronis Ransomware Protection Features:
- Acronis Active Protection โ this service protects your computer from ransomware.
- File-level continuous backup to Acronis Cloud that protects your files from corruption or loss.
Active Protection:
- Based on a heuristics approach and ML technology, it monitors processes and prevents files from unauthorized encryption.
- Protects from the latest ransomware including Petya, WannaCry, Osiris, and Bad Rabbit.
- The Active Protection dashboard displays the current number of analyzed processes. Also, it shows the current number of suspicious processes that act similarly to ransomware behavior.
- With the Process management functionality, you can trust or block applications to allow or prohibit them from running on the computer.
File-level continuous backup to Acronis Cloud:
- With 5 GB of free cloud storage, you can safeguard your data from ransomware attacks, disk failures, disasters, and accidental deletions.
- Changes to the protected files are automatically uploaded to the cloud storage every 15 minutes, to keep the backup up-to-date.
- You can access your files in Acronis Cloud from anywhere on any Internet-enabled device, share them, or download them for further reuse.
- Backup Statistics graphically represent the content of a backup. Also, it provides statistics for backed-up file categories such as documents, photos, videos, music, and others.
Changes in Acronis Ransomware Protection Build 1700 :
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7 SP1, 8, 8.1, 10.
Size: 20.2 MB