CryptoBuster

CryptoBuster is a handy software utility that is meant to function alongside your antivirus solution as it specializes in detection and protection against ransomware.

One of the best features CryptoBuster is that it requires very little interaction from your part so as to ensure the protection is efficient. This makes it suitable for novices, as well as experts, which is all the more useful since rookies are more vulnerable to ransomware attacks due to their poor judgement when it comes to online activity.

On the other hand, tech-savvy users have the possibility to configure a wide range of settings to tailor the feature-set to their exact necessities.

Once you launch the main window, the file extension monitor is enabled by default, meaning it can detect when files with certain extensions are created. These formats are typically used by ransomware to encrypt your data and they can be identified before they do too much damage.

And this is where honeypots come in - these are collections of files with varied extensions that are likely to be targeted by malicious attacks due to their strategic location on your PC. This way, they act as decoys and your valuable files are safer since ransomware usually infect specific folders first.

You can manually create such a honeypot or you can leave this process to CryptoBuster and it will automatically generate and copy them to important places all around your computer.

You probably know by now that using exclusively antivirus software is no longer enough to keep your machine malware free. A complex security product or a second line of defense, such as CryptoBuster, can strengthen your computer and provide it with the tool to keep out spyware, ransomware or other types of malware.