Irfanview hacked on Windows 10, as was VLC player

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And for most people, ransomware is a far bigger
threat than hackers stealing your files.

the only people for whom ransomware is an issue are those who don't
have backups.

these are the same people who are at risk for all sorts of problems,
ones that are far more likely to occur than ransomware.

if someone has a full backup, then it's a complete non-issue, whether
it's ransomware, a hard drive failure, loss/theft or something else.
reformat, restore, and everything is back to normal, often in less than
an hour.

What?!?! You must not have much data to fully restore if you can
restore it all in under an hour. My backups would take quite a
number of hours, maybe a day, to restore all of my data. I'd be
glad to be able to restore it, in that eventuality, no matter how
long it took.

how big is all of your data?

restoring a full 500g ssd is under an hour over usb 3.1.

or just boot off a clone, should be around 30 seconds or so.

for me, most of my data lives on file servers, accessible to any
computer on the network. it took something like 20-30 minutes to back
up my entire laptop.