You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins

Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by tempestn on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:06AM (#6569864)

Something like CrashPlan provides good protection against this sort of thing for home users. It includes versioned, off-site backups -- either on their servers for around $6 a month, or on a "friend's computer" for free. Either way, the backups are saved via crashplan, not with direct drive access, so it should be safe against this kind of thing.

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by MiguelHudnandez on Friday October 18, 2013 @07:35PM (#6574636)

Thanks! I am looking at BackBlaze, Arq + Glacier, and now CrashPlan as relatively cheap additions for extra peace of mind.

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by iloverobots on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:40PM (#6573183)

Crashplan restores are also relatively easy, with a few nice options.

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