Spanish authorities shut down a crime ring this week that used “Ransomware” to collect over $1.3 million dollars from users around the globe. “Ransomware” is a technique that uses viruses to infect your PC, and then hold your computer hostage until you pay the attacker to (hopefully) allow you access back to your files. If you don’t pay the fee, you lose access to family photos, important documents, anything you have on your computer.

Although only 3 percent of the infected users fell for the scam, the scammers netted over $1.3 million dollars last year. With this kind of payoff, you can see why scammers continue to perpetrate these attacks year after year.

Protect yourself from these attacks by diligently using your XVUDrive if you access potentially threatening sites. If you do end up getting one of these viruses, even though you still will not be able to access your old files, you will be able to use your XVUDrive to continue to connect to eh internet in order to get help from technicians.

Surf Safe everybody.