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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
If your mac gets infected by ransom ware, and you have a time machine backup on an external drive, can you Restore from the last unencrypted snapshot, or does the ransom ware encrypt the time machine external drive too?
You have to assume ransomware or any other malicious stuff is going to affect every mounted drive.

Or was the question will it affect the back up drive when you bring it online for a restore?

Ideally you would wipe the infected drive before a restore.
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