Ransomware attack – how to protect your computer against the attack

The world’s biggest cyber attack hit more than 150 countries last Friday and infected at least 300000 machines since it started. The victims include hospitals, universities and government agencies in many countries. What is ransomware? It is a type of malware that takes control over a computer and prevents the user from accessing the data until a ransom is paid. How the ransomware affects the computer? Ransomware is a software…

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How to guard yourself against ransomware

Losing access to the files is something that happens for every computer user. If the data loss happens due to hard drive failure or other reasons, you can easily recover hard drive data. But if the worst happens to your system and if it gets infected with ransomware, what should you do? Do you need to pay the hackers to hand over the decryption key for your data? Here is…

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