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Originally Posted by BetterRed
If they are email attachments, and you are not 100% sure they ought be there, and you don't know what they are, then you don't click on them period - even if it did come from you granny. Users of a computers must take responsibility for their own actions. ...
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you are preaching to the gallery - I know what not to do, it's the rest of the houshold that I worry about. I watched my wife react to a PDF invoice from holiday Lettings in her inbox a few days ago by double clicking it with no further thought - luckily it was a genuine invoice. I have her PC set up to send backups to google drive for her, but ransom ware can get into cloud accounts from the local PC & proceed to lock up the backups - only an offline backup is safe, and offline backup procedures can't be automated, someone has to connect / disconnect the relevant memory stick each time . and it is convenient to have all PCs on a local network, with write access to public folders, for moving stuff about