As a normal user, can't you just format the HDD...

As a normal user, can't you just format the HDD? why did those who were attacked not keep a backup of the most important files?

>normies
>backups

Yes you can just format everything and start again from backups.

But if the backups are live backups, and there's unpatched windows on your local network you're in trouble.

You are not a normal user if you ever considered the concept of backing up your important stuff

I thought this was the era of the "cloud". Why is this hitting as hard as it is?

I still don't hold my shit in any cloud. But I'm a Romaniafag, so I don't know about other countries digital storage trends.

Respond This. You're supposed to
Or believe everything on your computer is
Your 100% safe. Until and ONLY until
Mother something happens but even
Dies then you don't learn your lesson.

For data export reasons, a lot of companies can't use a cloud service unless there is evidence that the cloud service hosts its data in the native country and doesn't failover to another country's DC.

It's not the normies who are getting skun, it's the companies with aspie sysops who thought they were smart by not installing the Microsoft patches and didn't upgrade all those Xp systems.

Aspie sysops wouldn't have used Windows tho