Data recovery and avoid data loss from virus like WannaCry ransomware

From last week, the WannaCry ransomware spread rapidly in the whole world. It attacks all the encrypted computer files and requires the victims to pay a ransom to decrypt. This malware not only affect the data security of individual users, but also the schools, hospital and governments.

Just as other ransomware, WannaCry is a malicious software used to lock computer user’s files and requires them a ransom to unlock files. The affected users are those who have not update the Windows XP operating system to latest versions. The Microsoft has sent out a fix for the security flaw March, if the Windows XP users have installed the patch in time and update system, they can escape this attack.

Unfortunately, there are many people lack of safety awareness, they do not know to update the operating system to protect their computer. To avoid such kind of data loss from ransomware, you should take measures to protect your data.

First, you need to regularly update your Windows system to latest versions.

Second, update the antivirus software and use it to scan your computer regularly.

Encrypt and back up your important data on computer for more than one copies.

What can we do if we already been attacked?

Even if your computer is attacked by WannaCry ransomware, you should not pay for the ransom. Although you give them a ransom, the hacker will not give your files back. You can contact the IT support services for help. If you have backup for your data, you should restore data from your backup.

For Apple users, you can not only back up your data on iPhone to iTunes, but also can back up them to iCloud. Even if you lost data in iTunes backup on computer, you still can restore data from iCloud account. Also, every time you back up iPhone to iTunes, you can make copies for your iTunes backup and store on external hard drive. With several backup, you never need to worry about data loss.

How to restore data from iPhone after data loss?

If you have data loss on iPhone, and you cannot restore from iTunes or iCloud backup, the last way for you is to directly restore from iPhone. To retrieve data from iPhone, you need an iPhone recovery software. The recovery operations is very easier for every one. You just need to Run H Data iPhone recovery to scan your iPhone after data loss, all the exiting data and deleted data will display on the software. Preview them and you are able to choose the files you need to export them to your computer.