I am sick and tired to see so many people affected by this wave of ransomware attacks. I don’t want to go into details about Ransomware like Locky because it has been written quite a lot about it. The most common way that Locky arrives is as follows: You receive an email containing an attached document. The document advises you to enable macros “if the data encoding is incorrect.” If you enable macros, you don’t actually correct the text encoding (that’s a subterfuge); instead, you run code inside the document that saves a file to disk and runs it. The saved file serves as a downloader, which fetches the final malware payload from the crooks. The final payload could be anything, but in this case is usually the Locky Ransomware. Read more details here (NakedSecurity of Sophos).   Now, desperate people who just got all their document encrypted by Locky, search the web for possible solutions. Remember: Locky scrambles any files in any directory on any mounted drive that it can access, including removable drives that are plugged in at the time, or network shares that are accessible, including servers and other people’s computers, whether they are running Windows, OS X…