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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1107803" data-attributes="member: 114717">Ransomware will encrypt all of your cloud data if you use syncing - which virtually 100% of people do. Syncing grants access permissions to the shared directories.The only effective way to truly protect cloud data is to keep it disconnected from the local system and manually perform uploads. Also, cloud storage cannot always revert to a prior version even if it has the ability to do so. You have to research the topic for all the reasons why this could happen.Prior version roll-back has been tested many times and proven to be unreliable. When you need it the most it can and will fail you.If you happen to notice that ransomware is running on the system, the best thing you can do is disconnect it from the network and then shut down the system. Then you can inspect how much damage was done to your cloud archive(s) from a different system. Next you will have to perform a clean install of the OS on the infected system.For irreplaceable data, Cloud storage is not the safest, most reliable, most robust option.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1107803, member: 114717"] Ransomware will encrypt all of your cloud data if you use syncing - which virtually 100% of people do. Syncing grants access permissions to the shared directories. The only effective way to truly protect cloud data is to keep it disconnected from the local system and manually perform uploads. Also, cloud storage cannot always revert to a prior version even if it has the ability to do so. You have to research the topic for all the reasons why this could happen. Prior version roll-back has been tested many times and proven to be unreliable. When you need it the most it can and will fail you. If you happen to notice that ransomware is running on the system, the best thing you can do is disconnect it from the network and then shut down the system. Then you can inspect how much damage was done to your cloud archive(s) from a different system. Next you will have to perform a clean install of the OS on the infected system. For irreplaceable data, Cloud storage is not the safest, most reliable, most robust option. [/QUOTE]

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