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Disclosure: I work for an anti-virus vendor. … Because most anti-virus engines were born as protecting endpoints, and even now for many of them endpoint protection is major part of business, the modern anti-virus engines are optimized for scanning …

Disclosure: I work for one of vendors participating in NoMoreRansom. Most modern ransomware indeed implements proper cryptography. Earlier versions were using rand() for key generation, seeding the r …

Yes, an HDD without OS can contain active virus. For example, one of NSA implants can install itself into the hard drive firmware. …

Since you asked about storage, my answer would focus on storing potentially infected files, and not on working with potentially infected files (which is a very different issue). All the file types yo …

It depends on whether you want polymorphic or metamorphic. Polymorphic usually means the malware which is capable of changing itself while distributing itself. So first thing to determine is whether …