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Anyway no doubt it was Acronis and I have a Copy of the entire Computer with this issue in it so the answer is there enclosed for anyone who has the technical know how to delve into the abyss and identify the exact way this occurs. When I turn on Scheduler2 then within two or three hours my computer's date would change, mostly 1 day forward but sometimes up to a week or more, once the computer time was put back 10 days.

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Take a look at the Cybereason RansomFree program which can protect against multiple ransomware threats including unknown ones - this is a free tool.Д«asically the way that I determined it was Acronis was by process of elimination on the MSCONFIG Turning half on etc until I narrowed it down to Acronis Scheduler2.

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Once you are as sure as you can be that the system is free of known virus / malware infection, then boot into Windows Safe Mode initially, and run the Malwarebytes Chameleon utility and any other available tools. Having more than one tool scan the system is well worth the time this can take. Running this type of tool from boot media eliminates any malware from interfering with the analysis of the internal drives. The first step is to use a standalone boot tool such as the AVG Rescue CDВ (this can be build on CD or USB stick - the latter is best as it allows for antivirus updates to be downloaded and stored on the stick). The approach that I take when I am dealing with any malware infections, which I have done on a number of occasions for friends, is to totally isolate the system with the infection from any network and use standalone tools to help diagnose, identify and disinfect the system.

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Ransomware and any other form of malware is a constant worry for all users, and something that I know that Acronis themselves are concerned about protecting against and would take very seriously if you can show that any components of their software is vulnerable to this threat, so I would strongly recommend that you open a Support Case directly with Acronis on this issue and have them work with you to diagnose it in more depth.

I agree with Rob in many aspects of this issue, that we have never heard of or seen any suggestions from any other users that the Acronis software itself has been targetted or used by malware of any kind, and have not seen any users posting about it being responsible for changing the system time. Kurt, thanks for raising this as a separate topic. If Acronis has such an open backdoor that is so easily accessible by hackers, why is it only you have been targeted so far?

It would not be hard for malware to take on the name of another file actively used on the system - especially if targeting applications or users that have administrative access. Most malware masks itself as another known application or file on the system. I would suspect a more likely cause of your ransomware, malware issue to have been introduced via an email attachment, visiting or being redirected to an unsavory website, or use of an already infected device or application (shareware, torrents, key cracker, downloaded 'unofficial' application) or a plugged in device that was already infected, etc. It's one thing to state it, but what logs, details, troubleshooting led to this conclusion? You're the first in the nearly 5000 posts I've helped answer that has mentioned such a problem. I don't see how you can pinpoint this to Acronis, but if you have some more reprentative proof (of any kind), I'd be open to reviewing it.

How'd you come to this conclusion and could you provide the details for troubleshooting and how you identified Acronis to be the culprit for these backdoors that allowed ransomware onto your computer? I'm not saying it isn'tin the realm of possibility, but I'd be really skeptical that is the case (similar to the notes you posted over in ). I don't mean to sound brash, but I'm sure it's likely to be taken that way.