Ken1943 wrote:
On Tue, 3 May 2016 11:59:59 -0400, Ron wrote:

On 4/24/2016 5:43 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per son1c:
Someone encountered such a problem?
And my advice how not to be infected with locky ransomwa
1)You must keep backups of all your important information somewhere
other then on the computer you are backing up.
2)It is forbidden to open word files from anyone who you don't know in
advance is sending you a word file.
3) Learn to keep data in one place - separate from the System.

4) Back up data to a series of external devices that are
disconnected when not being backed up to. At least 3
devices.... I currently use 5.

Do you have 5 deadbolts on all of your exterior doors?


Paranoid people will never have a life. I will continue to use monthly
images. Since it is crazy to figure how to restore one partition in
the middle of others on a laptop, I image the whole drive. Worked in
the past. Of course on Windows 10, picking a date is like the lottery,
GUESS WORK.


Ken1943

When they design aircraft or space ships, they put lots
of redundancy in them, to cover fairly imaginative failure
scenarios.

However, rather than casting scorn on someones idea on
protection, you should *at least* be able to demonstrate,
with your sage advice, that you have covered a primary
failure case.

It is known that the latest ransomware, encrypts the
hard drives in the computer, as well as *unmounted*
file shares from other computers (second computer is powered,
you're not using the drive as a share right now, but the
ransomware mounts it and attacks it). And that means, if
you have your backup devices all connected and operational,
your "casual" backup strategy could be *completely* wiped
out.

Think carefully about the latest intelligence on
ransomware, before jumping to any conclusions.
I'm not sure my strategy here would completely
protect me, but I can tell you that some slightly
older backups exists on two hard drives, and even
if one of the drives is currently connected and powered,
I could bootstrap a computer room recovery using the
other disk as starting materials.

Paul