Backup Solid State Drive for Ransomware Protection

Kunal  Gujar; Pratik  Jagdale; Swapnil  Yadav; Srijita Bhattacharjee

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Ransomware is a type of malicious software that can block a users’ access to their own files and restricts access until a ransom amount is paid. There is no certainty that we would get our files back even after paying the ransom amount. Since these ransomware attacks are increasing day by day and are causing heavy losses to people, we have proposed a new backup based ransomware defense system along with a feature of malicious files scanning. This software works on the principle of automatic backup and detects the newly added files in the system in realtime and instantly back ups them in the destination folder, which is embedded into a Solid State Drive (SSD). The software itself also resides in the SSD drive because being separated from the host machine provides better data protection than the softwares which are inside the machines as they are vulnerable to ransomware attack, this also helps it to operate in various environments. The software provides several options to the user which includes, simple PC backup, android backup, automatic backup, as well as cryptic backup. Users can also scan their files to check if the files are safe.

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