Safe hex

Basic internet hygiene is the single best defence for home users against ransomware, and malware in general. Unfortunately “the basics” encompasses many different areas these days that deserve their own cover features. Still, let’s at least try and summarise them here.

We hope you’re not the sort of person to click random links in suspect-looking emails, at the very least one should hover over them (or copy and paste the link into a text document) to make sure it links to a legitimate domain (and not something using deceptive characters like , or deceptive subdomains like google.domain.cm). Speaking of copying and pasting, be extra careful when doing so