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I apologize for mentioning one of my own articles here on CP, but you may find what I wrote about Surviving the Ransom Virus interesting.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Ditto. I've had people laugh at me for burning backups to DVD, but once burned the files are safe from software attacks.
As others have mentioned, multiple backups are key. I do quick backups onto flash drives -- yeah, they are volatile and less safe, but it works as a short term backup. They're cheap, use a bunch and rotate them. And store them securely!
For longer term I have a stack of old 500 GB and 1 TB hard drives, plus a cable set (power + data) that enables me to connect them to a PC like a clunky flash drive. It's not fast, but it's stable for long term storage. I've seen enclosures that allow hot swapping of SATA drives ... thinking about getting one, especially if it's USB 3.1.
My level of paranoia is laughable ... until something adverse happens. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Do not pay anything - if people stop paying, they will stop ransoming. As long as some do, they will continue. It really is that simple!
It's pretty hard to convince people of that when some police departments have already done so.
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Huh. If I was the recipient of a ransomware attack, I'd power off the machine, wipe the drive, and restore from backup.
I can't believe anyone would ever pay for such a thing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It astonishes me how many tech savvy people do not keep backups on air-gapped media. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Hopefully it gets encrypted using SHA1 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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If a lycanthrope was not paying attention, would he be an unawarewolf?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Howl long can you keep doing this?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Dunno - I might run out of energy, but I feel all right nowooooooo!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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 Is the Moon full in Wales tonight?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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 Looks like things are starting to get hairy!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Only on nights when the moon is full; otherwise it would be either daydreaming or caught napping.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Would a Geordie lycanthrope be a tynanwearwolf?
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Fangs for that.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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If I were a wolf, I canthope to write properly.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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When I read that thought I had to paws and consider howl ever canine come up with something.
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A quote from one of my favorite movies; ...Werewolf...there wolf...
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Also it appears someone voted your post as Spam/Abusive, so I upvoted.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Quote: someone voted your post as Spam/Abusive
Why, in heaven's name?
Thanks, anyway!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Thin skinned snowflake who was offended by your post, most likely. Some people are The Real WTF... Wait, wrong site.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Also it appears someone voted your post as Spam/Abusive, so I upvoted.
How can you tell?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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When I upvoted, the score was 3, indicating a downvote, only possible in the Lounge through reporting as Spam/Abusive.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: When I upvoted, the score was 3, indicating a downvote, only possible in the Lounge through reporting as Spam/Abusive.
That I knew. But the way you wrote it was you saw it was down-voted first, and then up-voted it. That's what confused me.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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