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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by Mister_Snuggles on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:56AM (#11876002)
The Mac makes this so easy with Time Machine. Is there something that's equally easy and effective in Windows?
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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by dagw on Friday June 10, 2016 @09:05AM (#11876058)
Unfortunately, not really. Backup on Windows is strangely terrible out of the box. The best solution for Windows is probably Arq.
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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by fredsted on Friday June 10, 2016 @09:02AM (#11876042)
Why couldn't the ransomware encrypt your Time Machine drive as well?
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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by Mister_Snuggles on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:25PM (#11880161)
It certainly could do this. I don't think Time Machine protects its data in any way.

Backups have to be coupled with some kind of way of noticing that something is wrong. If the ransomware encrypted your data slowly over the course of months and you didn't notice you might be out of luck regardless of your backup system.

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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by organian on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:21AM (#11876524)
Don't keep the drive always connected and you're fine
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