No malicious software is possibly so damaging as Ransomware. The notorious cyber criminals use this variety of malware with the intention of intruding other people’s computer. They intend to access the other people’s personal sensitive data and ask some ransome for extortion of money.
Many people gladly accepted
the attackers demand with the anticipation of getting back of the hacked files.
But there is hardly any guarantee that the attackers will give back their files
even if they receive the ransom money. The use of Ransome ware, with its great variety, is getting popular day
by day. Being installed on the victim’s computer, it exploits the vulnerabilities of other’s
computer silently by spreading like worm.
There is a variety of Ransomware
that can intrude a system and exploit the vulnerabilities to set up itself mutely
on the computers of the victim’s.
Here are the 5 best ways to
protect your PC from this virus
Take a
regular backup:
One of the best ways to prevent the Ransomeware to damage your gadgets to take regular backup of the data. The
hackers, most frequently give no option to the victims to get back their files,
even if all the demands are fulfilled by the victims. If your data is saved in
the safe locations, such as USB Pen drive, external hard drive, or CD or DVDs ,
you will get back everything from the backup storage.
The cloud based platforms can be the best options for data storage, without spending any extra money for buying any drive.
Check and
recheck email identity more than once
It is very urgent to verify the
legitimacy of any unexpected or new mail
before downloading any attachment. Never comply with the request of the senders
without verifying the email identity. Even relying on your friends and
relatives might be dangerous as the hackers or spammers may take the guise of
your acquaintances to deceive you.
Make sure
that pdf and exe files are filtered
Most of the viruses, malware, and
ransomware are getting in the gadget
either in. Pdf or. in exe File extensions. With the default windows option hide known file extensions it is very
easy to find out any of the doubtful files.
So never download files from such sources.
The better alternative is to legally exchange the workable files via password protected zip files. or with the help of cloud services.
Use a good
antivirus software handy
Take the best defense with
anti-malware and antivirus firewall set up on your computer. It will help in
filtering and identifying the doubtful files, together with other malicious
files that might otherwise go unrecognized. If firewall fails in any way,
anti-malware tool is there to detect the virus.
Since the malware authors use a variety
of techniques to conceal themselves, it is very important that you should keep
protection tool in up to the minute status. Beware, you always need an
additional layer of security.
Avoid visit
a suspicious site
In spite of knowing that all the sites are not safe for your computer, you sometimes fail to put off the
temptation of clicking on it. You might lucky last time, but don’t try you your
luck to push further.
