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<blockquote data-quote="Cr00zng" data-source="post: 1702574" data-attributes="member: 318059">Certainly, files can and will be encrypted on the Mac via Cryptolocker variants. It can take place directly on the Mac, but the most common venue is some versions of Windows running in a virtual environment, such as:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Parallels </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">VMWare Fusion </li>
</ol>These and other solutions allow sharing files between the host and the virtual machine. Cryptolocker will encrypt these and network accessible files, in addition to the files on the local drives. While it is convenient for the end user accessing document in both OSs, it's a feature that should be disabled in my view.Backups, especially the data backups, should be off line and encrypted. If the backup media is available for Cryptolocker, it'll encrypt the backup as well. I usually keep daily encrypted data backups offline, rotate them out on the FiFo based daily backups, keeping five days any given time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cr00zng, post: 1702574, member: 318059"] Certainly, files can and will be encrypted on the Mac via Cryptolocker variants. It can take place directly on the Mac, but the most common venue is some versions of Windows running in a virtual environment, such as: [LIST=1] [*]Parallels [*]VMWare Fusion [/LIST] These and other solutions allow sharing files between the host and the virtual machine. Cryptolocker will encrypt these and network accessible files, in addition to the files on the local drives. While it is convenient for the end user accessing document in both OSs, it's a feature that should be disabled in my view. Backups, especially the data backups, should be off line and encrypted. If the backup media is available for Cryptolocker, it'll encrypt the backup as well. I usually keep daily encrypted data backups offline, rotate them out on the FiFo based daily backups, keeping five days any given time. [/QUOTE]

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