If something does go wrong, you have to move on.

That is why you make back-ups You are only properly secured if you can also act after something has gone wrong. No virus scanner offers 100% protection. That is why security software is a good start, but you will only have optimum security if you can restore a backup when something has gone wrong.

If you follow the news, you will hear more and more reports about companies worldwide that have contracted viruses or about universities and municipalities that have been hit by an attack with ransomware. Ransomware is a specific threat that encrypts files so that they are no longer usable. Ransomware often starts by rendering your backups unusable.

People regularly fall victim to ransomware by a simple e-mail. By clicking on such an e-mail or even by giving permission for the file to be executed, ransomware is faster than the virus scanner. The user often does not even realise what is happening. This is exactly why ransomware is so incredibly dangerous and why making secure backups is more important than ever!

Free backup? Or a backup on your external disk?! Be careful with this. Free backup programmes do not offer ransomware protection. They also never offer protection against ransomware or viruses by storing files in the cloud. Moreover, a really good backup is always inaccessible to a virus. So your external disk connected to your PC is a huge risk to your files.

Anything can go wrong with our devices, not just viruses and other cyber attacks. What about fire and water damage, a computer that stops working or crashes completely and many more doomsday scenarios. In all these cases, your administration -, your photos and videos - and also your important e-mails are gone forever. Unless you have backed it up in the cloud. Then you can restore everything to a new hard drive or even a new computer.

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