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Chane 10 April 20, 2021 0 Comments

It’s so easy to use, but Crypto Locker and it’s variants will infect any attached drives (including networked drives to which a lot of businesses use).

Cloud storage seems to be the only legitimate work around to avoid the POS.

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Jon Changed status to publish April 20, 2021

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Jon · Answer 1 · 2021-04-20T15:53:09+00:00

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2018/05/24/restore-onedrive-data-after-ransomware.aspx

What’s really interesting about the whole backup question, is that I’ve found almost all of my customers that are over about the age of 40, think that once something is saved to their computer, it’s their forever. The younger generation do backups, or at the very least, doesn’t do them, but knows they should

Jon · Answer 2 · 2021-04-20T15:52:29+00:00

If the files on your local machine get attacked, won’t that affect your cloud storage also if the cloud storage is constantly syncing with the local machine?

For instance, files that are kept in a One Drive folder are constantly being sync’d with MS’s cloud storage. If a file in One Drive is infected, the file will also be infected ‘in the cloud’. This is why I don’t allow One Drive to start when I boot. When I want to sync, that’s when I start One Drive. Once the sync is complete, I quit One Drive.

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