As most of you are aware, a global malware attack infected hundreds of thousands of computers, affecting everyone from home users to corporate giants.
What should you do so that you will not fall victim to this:
- Keep all your computers up to date with all the latest updates & patches.
- Keep your antivirus software updated. If you do not want to pay for it, there are plenty of vendors that offer free alternatives.
- Keep at least 3 copies of your files:
- Network Backup (also known as NAS Backup)
- Hidden External Hard Drive
- Cloud Backup (i.e. Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox)
At least do a backup once a week, but if you have enough storage and time, back up every day.
For Windows users, you back up by copying these folders to your backup devices. If you have more than one user account on the computer, do this for every account:
- Contacts
- Desktop
- Documents
- Downloads
- Favourites
- Links
- Pictures
Right-click to copy, go over to the external drive, create a new folder with today’s date, and within that, create another folder with the user's name and paste into that.
This way, you will have staggered copies of your files with different dates, just in case the file you wanted was corrupted on the previous backup.
Keep safe and backup…….