A friend of mine once said, if I experienced having ransomware on my device or my computer, it is better if I would format or let go of all of my personal and important data on my computer because even I pay them a million or hundred of dollars hackers already stole my data. So it's useless, and it's better to format your computer, as long your computer is safe again.
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I don't want to argue with you, just think what you want to think, I just shared this information that I gathered from the sources given. I don't beg for merit, do you see any a "merit" word in my thread?
How ransomware can affect our devices?
It affects it in only one way: All data is encrypted and a ransom has to be paid to decrypt them.
It's my bad, it should be "infect" and not affect, sorry for the mistake, the word is already edited.
I agree with bob not by his judgement of this thread being a merit begging post, but to the fact that there are a lot of threads and articles out there that talks about ransomware in general and how to prevent it. This topic - the ransomware attacks / malware in general) keeps being opened in this Beginners and Help board yet in fact this must be in Off-topic section as this wasn't really that related nor connected to cryptocommunity Beginners nor crypto-help at all. But still, thumbs up for the effort!
Indeed. OP is not intentionally asking or begging for merits after he creates this kind of topic. He would like to spread awareness, especially for non-technical people, to avoid getting infected by a ransomware virus.