From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 20 06:01:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1916A324F5 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:01:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from woodsb02@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lf0-x22a.google.com (mail-lf0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c07::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CEB31891 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:01:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from woodsb02@gmail.com) Received: by lffu14 with SMTP id u14so62567187lff.1 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:01:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=HyJP/GbbOoNSbbOcUk2itxNEK8ByClumKrT82vVxg5o=; b=qaAaOBfc8v4rKlh/kzCA7g/OhAs97g+oS1zR1lllPIWcu2r5FYeu7XGs2K3nb/281V Uq8syaWn2zYBppFvL9nvcm4lj0zaXN4f3KR9CUePPsmZ1HUkxoiazjRV7e69dlzy2ZGQ s2VIwltVsTHaZJsFAvW12EbsUf3E4b243PRAmTy3BcZWTW7d6NjwVtEThTUe9Eju2xaK C4tnFp5pIBhFAoF+SMdnz3qKIL8lTmzKDk9LdB34w+ytQjz2ycQl7sFLUR2a+W2a4Zzd M3JBAvuWHf3j3HI+03EfYeeskGAkaGD6bjqXoRQeB2ZFDMdG5N5QlMyn6ji4lxRtJQmm Ajtw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.25.33.4 with SMTP id h4mr4206565lfh.3.1447999301720; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.141.129 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:01:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2021B94D-F9CA-4346-BDA5-A3A460C6BA3B@mac.com> References: <20151119064434.GB1925@c720-r276659.oa.oclc.org> <86y4dtiqc3.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20151120002132.7a4e3a82@gumby.homeunix.com> <2021B94D-F9CA-4346-BDA5-A3A460C6BA3B@mac.com> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:01:41 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ransomware virus on Linux From: Ben Woods To: Charles Swiger Cc: FreeBSD - Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:01:45 -0000 On Friday, 20 November 2015, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Nov 19, 2015, at 4:21 PM, RW via freebsd-questions < > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > wrote: > > What worries me is that the next version might target Linux workstations > > where there's a lot of very complex software running as the owner of > > the user data. > > Ransomware which encrypts your stuff isn't a major problem if you have a > current backup. > > So, verify that your backups work. > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > Similarly, I believe regular automatic ZFS snapshotting can be effective against this. Files encrypted? zfs rollback to 15 minutes ago when they weren't encrypted. Problem solved. Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com