RANSOMWARE! Four easy steps to protect yourself!

Ransomware and the hackers that create and spread it will not be stopping anytime soon. In addition to the ransoms that these hackers demand, the downtime to a business or agency is also costly. Once your business data files have been encrypted, your business comes to a halt! Or at least any part there of that relies on the use of computers and those data files. Imagine No Quickbooks!? Or all of your databases gone? Or all of your WORD or EXCEL spreadsheets missing?!

And sadly it is all our fault! For it is us, the users of the computers that house all this information that are infecting our computers! It is us who click on that picture or link to it; it is us that opens the email and then clicks on the attachment! It is us that uses FREE antivirus applications. Remember, you get what you pay for!

So without much ado, here are the four things you can do to help prevent getting a RANSOMWARE encryption virus or any virus that slows your computer down:
1. BUY a best of breed antivirus application such as PC PITSTOP or MALWAREBYTES PRO.
2. BACKUP OFFSITE all of your personal and business data using Carbonite or one of the others.
3. MAKE sure your Windows based computers operating system is up to date on it patches and updates.
4. DON’T open email attachments from anyone! Especially with a suspicious subject line.

There are lots more ways of protecting your computers, like never going onto porn sites or changing your passwords every 60 days and using STRONG passwords. And remember it is US that let’s our guard down and not have a tuned up computer and utilizing security products correctly!

See you on the grid!
Rich

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