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What is Ransomware?

my friend is using his computer and suddenly a popup appears and it say to pay to unknown person and that popup reappering again n again how to prevent it????
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Hi btan,
I was not aware of your article — thanks for posting a link to it! I just skimmed it and it looks excellent — will put it on my to-do list for a thorough reading later. Thanks, Joe
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No worries, Joe. You're welcomed.
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Thks MASQ. Appreciate the kind compliments.
The advice given have answer the question. It should not be deleted.
Pls re-consider.
The two articles that I wrote shared and answer what is Ransomware and stated the mitigation measures.
Hi Rob,
I'm with btan on this. His two EE articles, along with Tom Zucker-Scharff's EE article and EE Course are worthy. Also, Malwarebytes is never a bad idea. Last, but not least, MASQ's brilliant "TL;DR;GI (Got Infected!)" comment gave me a real chuckle — and escalated the article to the top of my to-do list. :)

So I recommend your case #2 with these posts:
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#a41983959
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#a41983985
#a41984040

Regards, Joe
Thanks, Joe.
Thanks, Rob — good call!