Businesses today face a host of risks when any of their employees go online for business purposes. One of the most substantial risks that seems to be making the rounds today are files held for ransom. This falls under the category of ransomware and it can be extremely frustrating for a business to have to deal with. Fortunately, there are some things that can be done to deal with ransomware.
The first thing to understand is that there are basically three types of ransomware. The first type is commonly referred to as scareware. Most people have seen this before and it is where a pop up tries to get the user to use a special system cleanup tool because a bogus antivirus scanner has detected supposedly discovered various issues with the computer system.
The next type of ransomware is lock screen. This typically comes with some sort of fake …