Ransomware: What it Does to Your System

There are things that we just have to let go in life for us to move forward and evolve. A simple task that might be daunting for others to even try. What if you’re denied access to your very own door, and the key is withheld from you until such time that you are able to pay some amount of money to get it. Would you? In that kind of situation, you have no other choice but to give in to their demands to enter your own home. Now imagine that happens to your personal computer or worst your work computer. It’s a complete nightmare. That is what Ransomware does to your system. It basically blocks all known access to your system, rendering you helpless and stuck.

Ransomware Prevention

There is no real way to prevent it from affecting your system, the following steps however will outline ways to at least give them a hard time from doing it easily to your system.

• Updating your OS with the latest version
• Allowing software updates for your applications
• Recognizing phishing emails
• Not opening attachments from unsolicited emails
• Not accessing suspicious websites
• Not installing applications that are not from your IT organization

Successfully Defending a Ransomware Attack

Prevention is a must in every system in your office, this will not only save you a lot of money avoiding repairs. It will also ensure continuous service to your clients/customers. We at Far Out Solutions pride ourselves on the 24 hours IT service that will assist you, regardless of the situation, we can also have an onsite IT personnel to further secure your business for any possible threat that remote assistance IT just cannot fix.

System Maintenance and Overall Security

Now that you are aware of how you can prevent and defend against a possible Ransomware attack, here is where the maintenance aspect of it kicks in. Ensuring that your business computers will run on their optimum capability is one of the tasks that our expert IT analyst will continuously monitor. Allowing you to work without ever worrying about the risk of getting your system infected with nasty Ransomware. We will stop it in its track even before getting anywhere near your system. Far Out Solutions way of resolving issues is not a quick fix but a long-term solution.