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Originally Posted by jyl
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?
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Guessing you would wipe your mac first - boot your mac from CD / USB stick with the latest OS (Assuming you made a bootable USB stick if your mac does not have a CD drive - if not, you should while you have a functioning mac). You'd go to the supplied HD tools and wipe the drive thoroughly, and reinstall the OS on an clean drive.
Only then connect the good backup drive and restore from time machine.... I keep an offsite time machine backup at a family member's house (and vice versa) in case of a fire...not just hackers.... Every couple months we rotate the drives (cheap, as mentioned before). Can't afford to lose all my kids pictures, banking history, etc....
In terms of security of your info though, it's kinda moot now that pretty much everyone's employer/bank/insurance co/shopping destination has been hacked and most people's social are "out there". Your best bet outside of safe computing practices is to lock/freeze your credit, reduce your # of credit cars to make tracking easier, and regularly monitor your credit history - also sign up with IRS for a fraud prevention Pin.. Sad consequence of everything being online now...