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Why would the malware care about if it is an external or internal drive?

• paulpauper 9y ago
  If you back your files up on the usb drive on Tuesday, remove the drive after back u the files, and get infected on Wednesday, the files on the drive obviously are not going to be infected.
  • idlewords 9y ago
    If you remove the drive. Lots of backups are done on to always-connected devices.
    • dkruchok 9y ago
      So, if my external drive was connected to the computer during encryption, will it also be encrypted?
  • thedz 9y ago
    yes, that's exactly what he said: > You need read-only, airgapped backups before you can consider yourself safe.