Preventing data loss

caused by unauthorised modification

By insidiously penetrating a system, modern-day malware programs can modify, delete, or encrypt data. Some of them will then demand a ransom to restore the data.

The Data Loss Prevention feature will help prevent folders containing files from being modified and/or deleted. Enabling this feature for folders you’ve selected does not interfere with your ability to work with your files.

This feature is disabled by default since users need to configure it first. This is very easy to do: go to the Data Loss Prevention settings, and add any folders you want to protect to the list.

List of trusted applications

Data storage and backup solutions:

Yandex.Disk
Dropbox
Microsoft OneDrive
Acronis TrueImage

Video and image editors:

Adobe Creative Suite
Gimp
Corel Draw
Movavi Video Suite
Nero
ACDSee
DVDVideo Soft
VEGAS Pro
XnView
XnConvert
Paint.NET

Text editors:

Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Foxit Reader
Abbyy FineReader
PDF-XChange Viewer
PDFCreator

Torrent clients:

uTorrent
BitTorrent

Archiving software:

WinRar
WinZip

Accounting software:

File managers:

Total Commander

FTP clients:

FileZilla

Office software:

Microsoft Office
LibreOffice

IDE software:

Attention, Dr.Web version 9-11.5 users!

The option to restore backups created in previous versions of this component has been preserved in Dr.Web 12.0.

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Data Loss Prevention

Prevents files from being damaged and encrypted
Prevents files from being damaged and encrypted

Protects against device
hijacking and spying
Removable device access control

Protects against the unauthorised copying of information

Use the Protection against encryption ransomware component to more effectively protect your data from unauthorised tampering by malicious programs.