Sum Gai: Badly coded ransomware locks away data forever

Power Worm infects Microsoft Word and Excel files but the latest poorly written update of it goes after many more types of data files it finds on a victim's machine.

Malware researcher Nathan Scott discovered the variant and uncovered the mistakes its creator made when updating it.

Mr Scott believes the errors arose when the creator tried to simplify the decryption process. They tried to make it use just one decryption key but mangled the process of generating it. As a result, there is no key created for the files it encrypts when it compromises a computer.

Yeah, I think it disables it automatically=- but now that you have this- it should replace system restore and be much better- I

When you are startiogn your computer, if you hit the home button when rollback comes up, before windows loads, you can do a rollback from there as well- which is good for when a virus fubars windows and windows won’t start

I would suggest getting the pro version, but waiting till it goes on sale- only because you have unlimited restore points then

They claim rollback doesn’t affect system performance, and it only adds a short 10 seconds or so to start up

One thing I forgot to mention, if it does a bunch of uto snapshots (in the pro version) you will have to manually delete them (they are the ones that will say “Scheduled snapshots”) because after awhile they really eat up the harddrive space

Also, every month or so- run the ‘snapshot defragger’ because the snapshots need to be compressed and defragged- it will restore more hard-drive space when you run it (it does take a little time- like a 1/2 hour= depending on how large your drive is- mine is 1 1/2 terabyte- so it takes a long time- about 45 mins)

I usually do a degrag right after I’ve doen a rollback and changed any setting on my computer that I need to or do any updates like for windows, flash or whatever- after I do those, I do a snap shot, then open up the snapshots and delete select snapshots- older ones- and then do a degrag of the snapshots (the button for it is in left hand column)

If I think of anything else, I’ll post it here- but the program is pretty straight forward- you should have a tray icon over by the clock for it (at least the pro version puts one there) with some basic right click commands like rollback system, snapshot etc-

ok, read my last post to sparklite as it has some tips in it you will need to know-

it’s pretty basic really, just make sure to turn off auto snapshots (it will take a snapshot every time you turn the computer on- to check if it’s taking autosnapshots, open the program, click on ‘rollback system’ and check if any of the snapshots say “Scheduled snapshot” if so you’ll have to find out where to turn them off or change when they happen to ‘only once’)

Note: You can reestablish the autosnapshot after you get full program- but you;ll just have ot manually delete the ‘scheduled snapshots’ about once a month or so to prevent it filling up your hard-drive too much

The peace of mind this programs gives is really worth it’s weight in gold

Along with Norton’s internet security and Mcaffee site advisor, to prevent viruses on the fly, the rollback is the final line of defense incase one virus should get through somehow- I usually do a rollback whenever nortons even flags and blocks a virus- just to be absolutely sure nothing got through

And I do a rollback every two weeks or so just to clear out the junk that cruising the internet causes- like tracking cookies, any possible malware, etc-

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