ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
Sophos Labs have written a very comprehensive paper about the dangers of 'ransomware' with lots of info that may prove useful to anyone having to deal with it. The paper can be downloaded from https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medial.../sophos-current-state-of-ransomware.pdf?la=en. It makes interesting reading in any case.
My advice is; regular backups. You will know that I use Macrium Reflect to take disk images, I have an old 250GB HDD in a caddy and permanently attached and Macrium Reflect takes a disk image of both drives every day to this drive on a schedule. With good compresson I can get three separate images on there, they are rotated every day (so I always have the three most recent images on there). It's all automatic so that if the worst happened I can do a quick restore of the most recent disk images and all is back to normal. BTW. My HIPS only allows Macrium Reflect access to that HDD so it can't be encrypted by 'ransomware'.
Ubuysa's rule #1: You pack your own parachute...
My advice is; regular backups. You will know that I use Macrium Reflect to take disk images, I have an old 250GB HDD in a caddy and permanently attached and Macrium Reflect takes a disk image of both drives every day to this drive on a schedule. With good compresson I can get three separate images on there, they are rotated every day (so I always have the three most recent images on there). It's all automatic so that if the worst happened I can do a quick restore of the most recent disk images and all is back to normal. BTW. My HIPS only allows Macrium Reflect access to that HDD so it can't be encrypted by 'ransomware'.
Ubuysa's rule #1: You pack your own parachute...
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