WinRansomProtect
Offline anti-ransomware for Windows
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WinRansomProtect is a lightweight anti-ransomware tool for Windows. Most antivirus tools rely on signatures — they can only catch what they've already seen. WinRansomProtect watches behavior instead. When a process starts encrypting files in bulk or deleting shadow copies, it gets killed and the files get quarantined. 32 rules cover the main attack paths: ransomware extensions, malicious scripts, process injection, lateral movement. Everything stays local — no cloud, no telemetry, no accounts.
PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: application and system security scanners · 260 launches, 34 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Privacy
- GitHub
- Security
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Could you build this?
No Real-time behavioral anti-ransomware requires low-level Windows kernel drivers to intercept file I/O operations and monitor system calls without destabilizing the operating system.
What it would actually take: Requires developing a Windows Kernel-Mode File System Minifilter driver in C/C++ to intercept I/O request packets, calculate write entropy to detect mass encryption, and monitor VSS and process creation routines. It also demands specialized knowledge of Windows internal subsystem security, low false-positive heuristics, and Microsoft EV code signing and WHQL attestation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 277 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #179 of 278 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
- webroot-secureanywhere-antivirus · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Systweak Antivirus · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- VigilShield · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- malware-defender · github · 2026-11-10 · 103 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Blanktick · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- OtterZip · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Encrypt3r · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- unhackme · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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