Can linux/unraid get hit with the crypto locker virus/malware?

 

My dad and I were talking about this last night and I was wondering if unRaid could get it.

Unraid will not be able to run the cryptolocker virus. However any windows client will be able to hit all unraid shares you have exposed thus rendering all the data on unraid as unusable.

Unraid will not be able to run the cryptolocker virus. However any windows client will be able to hit all unraid shares you have exposed thus rendering all the data on unraid as unusable.

Probably only if using mapped drives. 

 

Regardless, anything like this (unRaid, Synology, Buffalo, FreeNas, etc) are all the same and vulnerable.

Well I don't have any windows computer, all Mac and unRaid.  So that should help a little.  Anything I can do to protect it even more?  If you encrypt unraid would that protect it?

No. All these viruses do is encrypt data. It doesn't matter what is in the data or if it's encrypted five times to sunday underneath.

 

The only protection you can provide on the server is to make all shares read only.

 

If you can't set all shares and permissions as read only, then you require severe protection on the client side.

 

 

Of course the ultimate protection again virus/ransomware like this is to have offline BACKUPS.

 

Its also important to understand that ransomeware like this, when it infects a user can only access local files and network shares the infected user has permission to, so if there is data on shares the infected user has read only or no access to, then those files will be safe.

So if I have to type in my user name and PW to connect to my shares it should be ok

 

So if I have to type in my user name and PW to connect to my shares it should be ok

 

Should be, being the key words. Moral of the story is you need a offline backup of any data you can't live without. Be it cryptoware, failed hard drive, stolen server, or kid spills water down the server; all can be recovered.

There is no question, you must have backups, absolutely, there is no excuse not to. If you have to type a password in to connect to a share and as long as once you type that password it doesn't remember it and map the share, you should be safe, if it does remember the password and map the share then that share could be at risk.