View Single Post
Old 01-20-2017, 08:40 PM   #20
pgerhardt
Senior Member
 
pgerhardt's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Danbury Ct
Posts: 1,254
Default Re: Computer Hack Warning

Quote:
Originally Posted by jrelliott View Post
Just be happy it was not ransomware! Wife got it on her computer and we lost a lot of information. We figure the bad program came in on a machine embroidery design that she had purchased from a reputable site. Took me about a month to recover as much as possible. The ransomware was in the process of encrypting all the files including the backups. I run both MS security and VIPRE internet security and it still got through. You have got to be careful with all the scams going on out there
If you put into effect tip #5 in my post #11 ransomware will never be a problem. Just wipe your boot hard drive and restore from your backup clone. Let me emphasize that once set up, this is all automatic. I do nothing and the clones are created once a day, and once a week.
pgerhardt is offline   Reply With Quote