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The only way to retrieve your files without paying the ransom is to go to a backed-up version. Neil Douglas, from Edinburgh-based IT company Network Roi, has just helped a small business client whose server was hit by ransomware. We'd had a back-up two minutes before the infection, so the timing couldn't have been any better - but it did result in quite a bit of downtime," he says. We would only recommend it as a last resort. Cybersecurity expert Prof Alan Woodward says paying also leaves you vulnerable to further cybercrime.
While all the expert advice is, of course, not to pay, plenty of people do - even those you would least expect to. Tewksbury Police, in the US, admitted they had paid up when their main server had been attacked and locked down at the end of last year. Nobody wants to pay terrorists," Police Chief Timothy Sheehan told the town's local paper. It made you feel that you lost control of everything.
Ransomware is lucrative for criminals because so many victims pay rather than face the shame of false accusations - or like the police department, they just desperately need their files.
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