Hi Calvin If you keep a back up separate to your computer and preferably away from home, should you get the encryption problem you would be covered for most eventualities Frankly it would be wise to do so anyway as you would suffer the same problem should some ne'er do well steals your computer or god forbid your house burns down, floods or whatever Neither should you trust to just one back up, back ups can fail or be corrupt themselves A lot depends upon your circumstances and how important data is to you, but data storage is relatively cheap these days compared to a few short years ago Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 09/04/2014 04:32, Calvin Berg wrote: > Hi, > This is a subject I have been looking at and find it a bit of a worry. > For anyone who does not know what this is - An encrypting virus encrypts > all your data so you cant access it and demands a ransom to get it > back. Some people pay and recover their data, others pay and dont get > their data. It appears the viruses are getting smarter and if you have