CryptoLocker protection?

Hi all,

I ran across an article about CryptoLocker. There’s instructions for helping to block this nasty little bugger — as well as caveats.

http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/cryptolocker-a-particularly-pernicious-virus/

I hope this might help.

Here is a free scan tool that finds files that have been encrypted by CryptoLocker:

http://omnispear.com/tools/cryptolocker-scan-tool

Just a note, Brad is President and CEO of Omnispear.

Welcome to the forums.

Just tried this out :slight_smile: Prior to installing the fix I used the test function to see what would happen… And it appears that Avast was not happy about the test file