Last week, I missed adding a blog because my IT world exploded with problems. One of the problems I experienced was my first exposure to the CryptoLocker virus. When this virus infects your system, it downloads an encryption key and encrypts certain file types, which makes those file unusable. Even after the infection has been removed, the files remain encrypted. This is a smart virus. Not only will it go after your local files, but it will search for network shares on which the logged in user has modify rights and will encrypt those files too.
The distribution of the virus is really not any different than any other virus. In my client's case, it was delivered via a ZIP attachment in an email.
I took this attachment and emailed it to a bunch of outside test email accounts. None of the email accounts detected and blocked the attachment. I then open the virus on controlled virtual desktop environments running some of the most common desktop anti-virus software. The day of release, none of them were able to detect the virus. Scary! After a day or two, the virus definition updates on most of the anti-virus software I was testing did indeed stop the infection.
The biggest problem with anti-virus software is that is always fighting yesterday's attack. And if you are unlucky enough to be hit by a new variant of a virus, you are basically unprotected.
In last weeks attack, my client's public folder containing about 50GBs of shared data was all encrypted and unusable. Luckily, we have a great backup system in place and we were able to easily and quickly recover the data.
Today's blog is intended to be a reminder that if you are not backing up your data every day, you are putting it at risk. Could your business survive if all your data files were suddenly inaccessible? Most business wouldn't survive that. It is easy and relatively inexpensive to make sure your data is protected.
The Backup Exec software continues to be an exceptional piece of software to protect server data. Mozy and Carbonite both have great desktop products that will allow you to backup to local external hard drives, NAS devices and into the cloud for under $100 a year.
If you do not have a good backup system in place or if you want to make sure yours is working properly, contact us a Binkley IT Consulting. We can help.
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