Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Never Pay Ransoms - Two Free Things You Can Do to Stop Ransomware

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[A quick, automated transcript of my conversation with Jim Polito on WTAG, WHYN, and WHJJ on 2021-05-18] Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Mr. Polito this morning, and we went through the colonial pipeline and why you don't want to pay a ransom. And then I went into the things you can do for free. That'll give you 90%, maybe a little higher protection. So some websites to go to some things to do on a windows computer. So it went a little deeper, I think, than I usually. Go into, but I think a lot of great info. So here we go with Mr. Polito.  If I ever got hacked, ransomware, whatever there's one guy had called, not the Ghostbusters. I would call our tech talk guru and good friend, Craig Peterson, who joins us every week at this time. Good morning, sir.  Hey, good morning, Mr. Jim.  Craig, why don't you just say, I told you so because they, it looks like colonial paid the $5 million ransom, the stories I'm reading say that then the Russian hackers gave them the key to fix the encrypt