By Sophia | Last Updated
Recently, a worldwide computer virus attack is going on striking the whole world computers. Once your computer got infected, your computer screen would normally display a picture like this.
The virus would show the message that you should pay money to decrypt the data, if you don't reach a compromise, the important data stored in your computer would be permanently deleted. In order to keep your computer away from the cyber extortion virus attack, you should follow some methods to protect your computer.
Step 1: Go to Start Menu, find and open Control Panel.
Step 2: In the Control Panel window, find System and Security in the view of the category.
Step 3: Click Windows Firewall in the coming window.
Step 4: Find and click the option labeled with Turn Windows Firewall on or off in the left side of the window.
Step 5: Check all the boxes to enable the Windows firewall. Don't forget clicking OK.
Step 6: Go back to the Windows Firewall window, find the Advanced Settings and click it.
Step 7: Find and click the option called Inbound Rules on the left side of the window. Then go to the right side of the window, find and click the option called New Rule.
Step 8: In the coming window, first check the box labeled with Port. Then click Next button on the bottom of the window.
Step 9: In the coming window, go and check the rule apply to TCP, then type 445 into the text bar labeled with specific local ports. Click Next.
Step 10: Check the box labeled with Block the connection.
Step 11: In this window, you can decide when this rule will apply.
Step 12: Just give a name to the rule, type whatever you like into it and click Finish to end this setting.
You can go to the System and Security window and click the Windows Update item to update some latest system patch.
Attention: Due to different versions of Windows, some steps may have little difference, so you should adapt the guidelines to your computer.
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