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RE: From WannaCry to Petya (and why you should use Linux)
Heard of Petya these few days and really hope to know more about that. Wannacry was indeed very destructive for those Windows users without having their system updated. These kinds of ransomware seem to become more popular in the recent few years and the cyber security specialists should really think of some ways to solve these issues from the root (ya, i know it's not quite possible)
I know, right. Ransomware has become such a lucrative market these past few years!
Small/average sized businesses don't often backup their data and as such have to pay the ransom otherwise they will go out of business.
The solve is to use open source OS, Linux file system structure makes impossible to spread malicious files between Linux machines ... You can not call a virus something that does not spread ...