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Ransomware Is the Biggest Online Threat. Learn Who to

Protect, or You'll Hate Yourself Later

Previous years have shown us one important thing - ransomware is going to stay and get
worse. When even the minor ransomware creators are making a lot of cash, the ransomware
outburst will progress with advanced tactics and methods.

For this reason, it is crucial that each and every user at home or work knows the right ways to
stay away from ransomware infections.

Below are the most important measures that will help you to not only prevent ransomware but
stay away many other malware attacks that involve analogous infection techniques.

Backup, backup, backup!!!

This is definitely the most significant thing that you should do to safeguard your files from
becoming encrypted. Basically, for those who have the most current backup, ransomware
viruses turn more into an inconvenience rather than a catastrophe. This is due to the fact that
you can easily get rid of the virus and then simply recover your files from backups.

However, just using an additional hard drive and doing backups on occasion is not sufficient as
modern ransomware will certainly find and encrypt all the drives on your PC including mapped
network drives and even unmapped network shares.

So, any backups on local or network storage might be encrypted too.

That is why it is highly recommended that people get a solid cloud backup plan. Because nearly
all cloud backups will not map as a drive letter, the backups are protected from becoming
encrypted and may let you restore files.

In case you do not want to utilize cloud backups and wish to go with local storage, then be sure
to completely switch off those storage systems after each backup procedure.

Antiransomware

Use an antivirus tool that includes antiransomware module based on the behavioral detection.
Sound behavioral identification is needed to be able to recognize when ransomware viruses are
attempting to encrypt your files and block this activity.

Install only trusted solutions that have high detection ratings. Cybercrime is constantly growing;
each connected device requires effective defense.

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