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Slowly but surely ransomware is becoming an absolute threat to all data. It seems more like not if but when it will hit. It seems to me that it's time the OS p

Slowly but surely ransomware is becoming an absolute threat to all data. It seems more like not if but when it will hit. It seems to me that it's time the OS providers start providing a very easy way to restore the state of data. We all know that backups are the answer but as long as people, have to think about it, there will always be some that don't do them. And now that you can get a 1TB HD for less that $100 then it's a no-brainer. Virus protection is now automatic with Windows when will backups become automatic on all OSs?

swiley 7y ago
>It seems to me that it's time the OS providers start providing a very easy way to restore the state of data. Wat? How are you imagining this would be implemented? Right now you can have a cronjob that runs rsync which allows exactly that but doesn’t protect you from ransomeware. Are you thinking if it were part of the file system in the kernel it would be better protected? I guess that’s partially true but in practice probably will do very little (also, that already exists on Linux in the form of things like ZFS.) Once something like that infects the machine there really isn’t a whole lot the OS can do to prevent the damage, all it’s doing is handling user requests for operations on things like the file system and the malware is operating as a proxy for the user.