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Deal with ransomware

Ransomware may not be the threat it once was – these days, businesses are more frequently targeted than consumers – but that’s not to say you’re immune. If you needed reminding, ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts all or part of your drive before hackers demand a ransom to provide you with the decryption key required to get it back again.

Most forms of ransomware target your data rather than locking you out of your entire PC. For those that do, check your security software’s website for

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