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But there are plus points, too. Using different real-world ransomware for one-off reviews means some anti-ransomware packages might be faced with very simple and basic threats, while others got truly dangerous and stealthy examples, depending on what we could find at review time. Running our own simulator means every anti-ransomware engine would be measured against the same code, giving every package a fair and equal chance of success. Our test procedure is simple. Once we've set up the test environment copying the user documents to their various folders , we check the anti-ransomware package is working, minimize it, launch the simulator, and wait.

These are the issues we consider when weighing up how successful an anti-ransomware package has been. The first and most fundamental step is that the ransomware simulator must have its process killed, limiting the number of files that will be damaged. Detection must happen quickly, because the longer the delay, the more files will be lost. We count the number of encrypted files to assess effectiveness.

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The best anti-ransomware packages will recover at least some, and usually all damaged files, ensuring you don't lose any data at all. If this happens, we compare the recovered files with the originals to confirm they're fully restored. The ransomware simulator should have its executable deleted, quarantined, or otherwise locked away from user access.

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The user should ideally be informed that a threat has been detected and dealt with, allowing them to inspect the damage. Finally, an anti-ransomware product can earn bonus points for any extra clean-up steps it takes deleting ransomware notes, say , and any further help it can give the user, for example offering to initiate a deep antivirus scan to help try and find any associated dangers.

Our ransomware simulator may appear to be a simple test, then, but by revealing how individual packages react, it tells us a great deal about their effectiveness, and how useful they're likely to be. Although many anti-ransomware packages successfully block our simulator, many don't. A test fail can seem like a disaster, but it needs to be interpreted with care.

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If a package can't detect our simulator, for instance, that doesn't necessarily mean it won't block undiscovered real-world ransomware. AV-Comparatives, AV-Test and other labs regularly show that most vendors can detect the huge majority of undiscovered threats from their behavior alone. The packages we are testing are proven to work very well, and our simple test doesn't change that. It's worth keeping in mind that anti-ransomware and all antivirus software is forever walking a fine line between blocking all genuine threats, while never touching legitimate software.

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There are archiving and security applications which might work their way through a folder tree, processing and apparently encrypting files, and it's possible a 'failed' anti-ransomware package has recognized our simulator, weighed up many factors and decided it isn't a threat.

For example, the anti-ransomware software might look for files which have been downloaded recently, have a recent date, are packed executables compressed, making it harder to view the contents , aren't signed, have dubious URLs or Bitcoin references embedded, and that look for various antivirus packages, along with other suspect signs.

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Perhaps the anti-ransomware is scoring our simulator so low on this threat index that it assumes it's legitimate and allows the test to run, even though its actions are very ransomware-like.