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“Acronis True Image 2021 for Windows has become a cyber protection product with enhanced backup and protection capabilities:"

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Oh,I see, the guy I hired to do the gardening is now willing to become the maior domus ... and with my money, too !

Okay, guys, after having been a loyal Acronis customer for longer than I care to remember, the time has finally come to say good-bye ! After having worked extra hours for free, repairing my machine and -worse still- clients' machines (who trust my judgement ...) when moving from 2019 to 2020, I had, of course, wised up to the game, and did NOT update to 2021, despite the nagging screens everywhere. From what I read here, I gather that was a smart move ... 

Yesterday, I cancelled ALL my subscriptions (yes, I did give feedback to Acronis,but I doubt that this will stop them in their quest for world domination ...) and handed control over to the software that I have been evalutaing over the last couple of days / weeks. I am still from that generation that abides by the principles of courtesy, so I will not name names here ... suffice it to say there IS life after death ...

I am writing this MAINLY in order to thank the forum heroes, Steve Smith in particular, who saved my a.. when I was on the road in Thailand and lost ALL OF MY DATA ! Kudos to me, for having the foresight to keep an online backup, kudos to them, for helping me to get the show back on the road ...

Thanks again guys - all the best !

Heiner

 

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Heiner, sorry to be losing you and I do sincerely hope that someone at Acronis is reading all the topics in these forums expressing the same user discontent with the change in direction taken with ATI 2021, especially with no user choice in not having those new Cyber Protection options constantly running in the background as services and processes!

Heiner is right !

TI 2021 is a horrible product:

It blocks normal Shutdown

CyberProtect eats -even disabled- 1% ana 100MB Main Memory

Antivirus isolated "normal" programs without any notes

Ransomware & Webfilter locked me out of my own servers

TI should do backups, nothing else !
Does anybody know, how to disable all of these addons ????

Of course I did contact support, but still there was no reaction.

I think I will find another Backup-Solution w/o these "silly things"

TI 2020 worked pretty good ....

Peter

Turn off all the radio buttons in the dashboard for their "protection".

Disable their cyber protect and anti-ransome services

rename these files

c:\program files (x86)\acronis\agent\bin\adp-agent.exe
c:\program files (x86)\acronis\agent\bin\adp-rest-util.exe
c:\program files (x86)\common files\acronis\ActiveProtection\anti-ransomeware_service.exe
c:\program files\acronis\CyberProtect\cyber-protection-services.exe

I'll keep looking for others but this should help.

Semper Fi
 

I totally agree. Acronis is like the new mobile phones, they are cameras with the ability to call people.

Acronis should stick to making a great Backup and Restore program and leave the Antivirus stuff to the experts.

Cheers

 

Has anybody ran Acronis 2021 with Kaspersky Total Protection? I created a VM and loaded my current OS. I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary relating to Anti-Virus Protection. Acronis showed Kaspersky as my Anti-Virus protection when I selected the Acronis Protection Tab. I've seen some temporary CPU increases but nothing abnormal.

I had no problems with Norton 360 either in beta testing or with the release version. For unrelated resasons I have now disabled all protection (as that area is badly broken).

Ian