Experts on it security found a “vaccine” against the virus Petya

Security experts have found a way to prevent the attack of cipher Petya, also known as NotPetya, SortaPetya and Petna, which massively affects computer networks in Europe and Asia for the past days.In a previous attack WannaCry was quickly minimized by finding a UK based independent information security expert MalwareTech who discovered the “switch” of Cypher. However, in code Petya such a switch could not be found. Earlier, the experts were able to hack an old version of the cipher, however, old methods for the new version was irrelevant.The conclusions of experts are that in order to protect your computer from attacks You need to trigger a refresh MS17-010, closing the vulnerabilities exploited by the cipher, and create the perfc file (without extension) in the folder C:\Windows by making it read-only. Share this information with friends and colleagues to avoid further spread of the virus.https://xakep.EN/2017/06/28/petya-vaccine/