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Re: Why do they say 'disconnect your backup from your PC' when

February 18, 2017
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From: Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca>

On 2017-02-18 16:58, RayLopez99 wrote:
> They always say when discussing ransomware to disconnect your backup from
your PC (ie an air gap), but to me it don't make sense why.  Suppose you mirror
 your C: drive to your D: drive, how is that image file going to be infected by
 ransomware?  Can't you just wipe the C: drive, then reinstall the image from
the D: drive to get back to a point before the ransomware infected your system?

> As a precaution, I do backup to a USB drive as well, but I don't know why
they suggest doing this.
>
> RL

Easy: Write the ransomware to attack all partitions ("drives".


Good luck,

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