Re: Live and learn, the hard way
Why hasn't something been done at the OS level yet?
Because it will slow down the system and people will turn it off.
In any case, if if were added and fell into regular use, the malware would simply work around it. I'd hazard a guess that, to an external observer, the difference between malware encryption and background disk defragmentation is quite small.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
