@Article{cmc.2020.010592,
AUTHOR = {Jingping Song, Qingyu Meng, Chenke Luo, Nitin Naik, Jian Xu},
TITLE = {An Immunization Scheme for Ransomware},
JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua},
VOLUME = {64},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {1051--1061},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/v64n2/39345},
ISSN = {1546-2226},
ABSTRACT = {In recent years, as the popularity of anonymous currencies such as Bitcoin has 
made the tracking of ransomware attackers more difficult, the amount of ransomware 
attacks against personal computers and enterprise production servers is increasing 
rapidly. The ransomware has a wide range of influence and spreads all over the world. It 
is affecting many industries including internet, education, medical care, traditional 
industry, etc. This paper uses the idea of virus immunity to design an immunization 
solution for ransomware viruses to solve the problems of traditional ransomware defense 
methods (such as anti-virus software, firewalls, etc.), which cannot meet the requirements 
of rapid detection and immediate prevention of new outbreaks attacks. Our scheme 
includes two parts: server and client. The server provides an immune configuration file 
and configuration file management functions, including a configuration file module, a 
cryptography algorithm module, and a display module. The client obtains the 
immunization configuration file from server in real time, and performs the corresponding 
operations according to the configuration file to make the computer have an immune 
function for a specific ransomware, including an update module, a configuration file 
module, a cryptography algorithm module, a control module, and a log module. This 
scheme controls mutexes, services, files and registries respectively, to destroy the 
triggering conditions of the virus and finally achieve the purpose of immunizing a 
computer from a specific ransomware.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmc.2020.010592}
}