Topic 3: Recovery

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Lets say the worst has happened and a virus has completely blocked access to your machine. What measures can you take to reduce all sorts of damage to your computer. While it may be impossible to save everything depending on the variation or severity of an attack, better than starting from 0.

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Topic 1: Backups!!!

The worst has happened, your computer has been attacked and you either lose most access to files, performance slows to unusable levels, or worse. If only there was a way to turn back the clock before clicking that totally legit word document. Luckily you can create backups to roll back to on windows and its simple to use! There's a lot of measures that should be taken and in many different ways:

• Online Clouds: Some websites such as google drive allow you to already save many files and media with little to no cost and can be accessed from any other device.
• External media: While having a backup of your machine is excellent, its also important to know where you want to keep this backup. depending on the size of a backup, it may be best to keep this on some other type of storage, speaking of which.
• Physical backup drives: From my personal experience, my family keeps a lot of important files, photos and media on a external drive device that we only connect to devices when needed, otherwise sits by itself unable to connect to the internet at all. While not free, I feel it a good idea as depending on how big and the amount of files you want to save, that cant be held on a simple usb drive.

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Topic 2: Password Management

Depending on the type of attack that is faced, chances are some important password(s) are now in jeopardy. The amount of damage can depend on the users password management. Its common for users to have their password the exact same between many different accounts as it makes it simple to remember . But if you want to reduce damage to any online accounts, its best to take proper password management tips.

• Physical > Digital: Its always best to keep your passwords kept/written on physical paper if a user finds it too difficult to keep track of so many passwords. Some users could maybe do that but instead put it on their notes app on their phone or a txt document on their desktop making it easy pickings for an attacker.
• Proper Passwords: Its important to get a bit complicated with your passwords, it doesn't have to be random letters and numbers to be effective it could also be a phrase! Special characters can be an easy way to jumble passwords. (IloveGithub to 1L0v3_G1tHub243!)
• Two-Factor Authentication: This thankfully has become pretty mainstream nowadays but its still important to talk about just in case. Most platforms nowadays either require or allow for extra login steps to be added when signing into a service. This could be sending the user a text or email, one time passwords or existing login permission. A simple setup that can increase online security a ton!