Wxman

I think what started me thinking about this was reading about the increase of ransom ware showing up. I protect all our computers as well as I can, and back up as much as possible. So far, I haven't set up much back ups for all the media files, just because I can't make up my mind which ones to do. I have too many to really back up them all. But in thinking about this, I started wondering if someone has a connected drive pool like I do, if there was a way to protect it from something like a ransom ware attack. The way I have mine set up is all the drives in the pool showing as my 'L' drive.

I have the drives in an external Probox setup, and I was wondering if there was any way to protect them from attacks such as ransomware? I have antivirus, anti malware, etc., and windows firewall, but what I was thinking is a way to firewall the programs that access to the drives. The data on the drivepool drives is only media that has a select group of programs that use it.

I just did the Aug 2016 update/upgrade and both drivepool and scanner aren't working. They both say "connecting to service" but never get there. Is the answer to this the same?