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