Construct a new identity separate from your real one

Rip out any writable medium (HDD/Flash/USB/FDD)

Use a dial-up modem - no WiFi, no Bluetooth

Boot a seriously stripped-down Linux from a read-only medium
Tin Hat Linux - Tin Hat | opensource.dyc.edu - is a hardened Gentoo variant that looks good, or compile your own Puppy version.

Store your encrypted data in different "secure" Cloud stores.

Passphrases and codes in a LBB (Little Black Book)

No Twitter, no Facebook, No Google+ or anything like that.

Never book or buy online

Reflash your BIOS before starting every session (UEFI is already infiltrated)

Use an old cellphone (Nokia 6310 is good)

Rent your DVDs

Phone, not SMS if avoidable and then only for trivia.

Use an old 9-pin printer or early inkjet

Write letters to communicate! Read real books and real newspapers!

Tremble!

Mac

But . . . but, my book's on Kindle. I gather half my readers are using Kindle for PC!


Bad start to the year. Even my squeaky thing only gave an asthmatic wheeze at midnight.

I use Norton 360 but understand that none of Norton products protect you from CryptonLocker.


Kaspersky claim that they do protect you.


I asked Norton about this and why they could not proved protection - no reply to date. When I buy a new desktop next week I'm changing to Kaspersky, which I've used in the past. Guess I'll be switching my other computers also.

Don't know where you got that info from but it's wrong: "The latest Symantec technologies and Norton consumer and Symantec enterprise solutions protect against these kinds of attacks"

Cryptolocker: A Thriving Menace | Symantec Connect Community

Trojan.Cryptolocker | Symantec

No anti-virus product can protect you against all threats as there is always a window of opportunity between discovery of a new threat or variation of existing threats and the update making it onto your system.

This looks a useful tool to use to block the sort of behaviour demonstrated by Cryptolocker and many other malwares:

CryptoPrevent | Computer Technician - PC Repair Software |Foolish IT LLC

Barclays Bank provide us with Kaspersky free of charge. However, letting it look at my keystrokes nearly brought the system to a standstill. With that off, I don't know it's there unless it has something to say.

Often when I'm paying for some small item, and strangely, on my American bank while I'm in the US, it pops up with a full screen asking me if I need to have them monitor proceedings.

Bad idea to install more antivirus on top of Windows 8 included Defender...

But which to choose. Defender didn't even get rated in the list of top antiviruses. I was using it as my only defense until then.

It's possible to select other AV companies.


Windows Defender and Kaspersky Internet security turned ON causing - Microsoft Community

Defender is "good enough" and lightweight

Install EMET - Download Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 from Official Microsoft Download Center

Don't run as Administrator - use sudowin - Sudo for Windows | Free System Administration software downloads at SourceForge.net

Run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware at least weekly.

Clean up monthly with CCleaner.

And have proven backups & system images offsite!

Mac

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