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21st April 2016, 11:04 AM #31
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Thanks, David. I'm using Macs so don't have that option.
The HD is visible on the laptop. I have Read/write permission.
The HD can be made invisible. Firewall is turned on. Is that enough to protect it? Thank you.
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21st April 2016, 11:17 AM #32
We use Dropbox at work, which is basically a cloud based server. The boss (and thank goodness it was the boss and not one of us lowly workers) clicked on an email from "Australia Post" which downloaded a ransom virus. His PC was instantly affected and all files on the HD were encrypted. Dropbox then noticed that all his files had changed and uploaded all the encrypted files to the cloud and started updating everybody's computers with the changed files. Luckily there were a lot of files and it took a while. This all happens in the background so it wasn't noticed straight away. I saw a small notification that popped up in the taskbar saying that Dropbox was updating 6000 files or something ridiculous like that. I immediately stopped my dropbox sync and checked if everybody else was getting the same updates. They were. We paused the sync on all machines which limited the damage.
The boss's laptop was toast and had to be wiped. Luckily someone was away that day and didn't have their PC turned on so he had clean copies of all the affected files. The only things we weren't able to recover were personal files from the boss's computer that hadn't been uploaded to dropbox. And a few folders that the clean PC didn't have access to. It took us a couple of days to sort out the mess and cost a lot of money to get back into normal work mode.
Be very careful of what you click on.
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21st April 2016, 11:57 AM #33
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I have had a few of those AP emails but having worked for them it was obviously a scam of some type so they got deleted.
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21st April 2016, 12:04 PM #34
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21st April 2016, 12:49 PM #37
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For those who don't understand the term "mounted drive" ....If you have a drive letter for a drive it is mounted but can be unmounted in Windows if you wish. One of my NAS drives is mounted and one is powered off if I am not backing up too it. All this stuff requires extreme measures of protection that a lot of people don't have the resources or knowledge to implement. I spent about two hours last night reading about ransomware and I advise others to do the same and practise good housekeeping for their PC and don't open strange emails and their attachments just delete them instantly. Most of us that have taken back up precautions have done it to circumvent hard drive failure but those back up drives should be removed from the computer access physically and if attached for back up a virus scan and the computer's internet access removed before attaching again. What a pain in the bum is all I can say.
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21st April 2016, 02:49 PM #38
For reference 321 is 3 backups, 2 offline (not attached to the computer ie physically removed) and one offsite.
You can use usb sticks, sdhc cards, portable hard drives, all are good. Cycle your backups. So if you take a backup offsite then you can keep several copies that you cycle through, say 4 copies done once a week that way you can go back a month.
Make a schedule to perform your backups and take them off site, that is to your mum, son, friend anywhere really that is not your place.
Set up recurring calendar events to prompt you to backup.
John
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21st April 2016, 09:24 PM #39
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I had never received a fake Aus Post email until a few weeks ago, it oddly arrived just after Australia Post sent me a genuine email saying a package had been delivered.
Timing seemed too perfect for it to randomly happen and I was wondering if someone had messed around at the Aus Post end?
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