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Everything you need to know about the Petya, er, NotPetya nasty trashing PCs worldwide

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Re: Backups

For this sort of fast acting malware backups are great, but there are plenty out there that silently do their work for weeks before activating, in which case you are screwed.

But yes, backup 99% of the time will bail you out.

Getting the company to agree to buy a few petabytes of storage, now that's a different matter.

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