Create a Single File to Protect Yourself from the Latest Ransomware Attack

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There's no cure for the latest ransomware attack, but a researcher has discovered a way to prevent infection through the creation of a single Windows file.

Potential victims, which have not -- or for whatever reason, cannot -- patch their systems can create a file, set it to read-only, and block the ransomware from executing.

There is no way to retrieve lost and encrypted files caused by this attack, and so the best advice which can be offered at the moment is to restore a backup or keep the system in the hopes that researchers will be able to develop a free decryption key.

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Patrick