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Sadly, protection from ransomware is not totally possible
I was trying to see what might be a good way to protect oneself from ransomware. The reason that I started thinking about this is that my external backup disks are continuously connected to my PC. This would mean that a ransomware attack could infect those external disks as well as my internal disk.
Unfortunately the discussion threads that I saw do not come up with anything definitive other than to have at least one backup offline. The most useful strategy that I read was in Idea for ransomware protection of network drives where the poster suggests the following steps.
I wish I could develop a program to do all that automatically, on a schedule!1) Disconnect from Internet
2) Run scan for Ransomware -- if detected take remedial action otherwise continue
3) Mount remote HDD's / Attached HDD's - target for your Backup
4) Run the backup
5) Detach / unmount the HDD's
6) Re-connect to Internet etc.
7) Optionally send notification - job finished.