What precautions to take?

Question

Malware

I read a lot about ransomware - a lot of questions have come up, since they are thematically related to asking them in one topic.

1. What strategy of protection to choose? Who will advise what?
   
   • And from common viruses
     
   • and from cryptographers
     
   
   
2. What " prospects " await in the future? (capacity will increase and become more accessible and ransomware will cease to be a threat and vice versa)
   
3. Particularly interested in the moment, how to set up your work environment for a normal win-user?
   
   • Backups?
     
   • On a separate train or in the cloud?
     
   • Cloud from companies or your own?
     
   
   
4. What data leaks are really worth worrying about?
   

Answer 1

The only way to protect yourself is to make regular backups of all your critically important data.
Set them up automatically, depending on the amount of data, or a second screw in your computer, or in the cloud.
Make archives with a non-standard extension (such files are often skipped) and with a password if you do not store them with yourself.
Once a month, transfer your backups to a separate screw in the closet, which is definitely not online.

Answer 2

if you are afraid of a leak, then it is better to work with such information by starting from lifeCD, and, accordingly, store it on an external hard drive