[Conan]

I recently heard one of my online acquaintance complain of being hit by a Ransomware. It took out his entire data. They asked for " ransom " to get it decrypted. As far as I know, he suffered data loss as he chose to format the entire drive. Has anyone you know ever got hit ?

He should use BTRFS file system and his pc will be protected against Ransomware encryptors. 
But this works only under Linux of course.

Most ransomwares won't work on linux. So technically just switching to linux is fine :3

I got hit once like 5 years ago. But it didn't encrypt my files. It just blocks task manager, explorer, and other ways to access your pc. It just displays a text that asks you to send money. I just switched to Safe mode and removed the startup entry lol.