I make a system backup now and then, saved also on an external drive. But before I do that I always do a threat scan with EAM. I don’t want to make a backup of something that already has malware in it…

But that is on 1 personal notebook with not all that much stuff on it. (Whatever I think important I also have on a memory stick and another external drive.)

A company with a huge amount of data might have to do something different, like at least save backups daily, or even more frequently. Like backing up all new data all the time. And saving it on something much larger than what I’m using.

But I don’t know anything about that, so just fantasizing… : )

Monika:
If one had a local external HD backup, connected to system only during backup, would that not be safe against ransonmware?

Are you aware of the freely available Google website? Quite handy for learning new things. Off course it does require a adequate brain activity. Enjoy.

If only there was some way to search for information that didn’t involve laboriously leafing through book after book…
Hmm, maybe there should be a world-wide body that authorises acronyms so that there’s no confusion between terms; so that everyone knows that NAS *always* means Naval Air Station and nothing else whatsoever. Also, words should be restricted to single use as well – none of that synonym nonsense! While we’re at it, get rid of homonyms as well – let’s really clean things up: your/you’re/yore/yaw – all got to go, it’s just too confusing!

Happy to clear that up for you: NAS stands for “Network Attached Storage” and is basically a server that contains one ore more hard drives (storage devices) and is connected via network (thus network attached). We will keep an eye out for those abbreviations, thanks for the hint!

Here is an in-depth explanation, if you’re interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

All the file-effecting ransomware I have seen either changes the files extension or jumbles the internal text. So doesn’t this mean that you could find old unencrypted version in either the files history or the recycle bin?