Free Vaccinator & Vulnerability Scanner Tools for WannaCry Ransomware

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Although the WannaCry Ransomware epidemic may have been currently halted in its tracks currently, you may expect the next wave to be more virulent. In our post on WannaCry Ransomware, we have listed the ways you can protect yourself from being infected with this Ransomware – the most important one being the installation of the patches released by Microsoft for all Windows versions.

WannaCry Ransomware protection tools
There are tools that can help you immunize or vaccinate yourself against WannaCry Ransomware as well as scan your system for vulnerabilities that may be exploited by WannaCry Ransomware.

Trustlook WannaCry Toolkit

This toolkit includes the following tools:

1] WannaCry Ransomware Scanner Tool



This tool will scan your Windows system for vulnerabilities that may be exploited by WannaCry Ransomware, and can be pretty useful to System Administrators.

The toolkit can be found on GitHub.

2] WannaCry Vaccine Tool



This tool will help users prevent their Windows computers from being infected by WannaCry Ransomware.

The Trustlook WannaCry Toolkit can be downloaded from Github.

3] Minerva Free Vaccinator for WannaCry Ransomware

This WannaCry Vaccinator tool demonstrates how to vaccinate against the WannaCry ransomware by creating infection markers on the protected machine, preventing the ransomware from running and encrypting your machine. Endpoints running this script will be protected against known variants of the above ransomware.



Minerva Free Vaccinator for WannaCry Ransomware can be downloaded from Github.

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