5 best ways to defend your computer from Ransomware Attack

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.