Windows 10: Nasty ransomware overwrites your PC's master boot record

Makes good sense to me*Think

 

Hi there

who'se ever heard of a 100% SECURE Jail either -- if it's on a computer connected to the Internet it can be hacked if it's a writeable device.

If the device containing the backup isn't physically on the machine you are safe - so long as the backup is clean it will always restore decently to a HDD. If you are 100% paranoid you can use one of the several secure erase programs to really clean your HDD before restoring !!!!.

Image backups are fine --again some of these have a "Paranoia Mode" by backing up and restoring sector by sector --that's not normally required but can sometimes be useful if the Geometry of the HDD you are restoring to is different from the original --i.e can be bigger (or smaller too - so long as there's enough space for the restored data).

I haven't heard of malware actually corrupting Bioses yet -- the secure boot though only protects the initial boot startup - the actual OS can of course get infected. Secure boot really is only of use to prevent booting from "unauthorized devices" and for most home users is more trouble than its worth - especially if you want to do a lot of testing. Most people usually disable it -- keeping UEFI set of course - the two aren't the same.

Cheers
jimbo