Bhubaneswar, May 16: Yesterday the Odisha Crime Branch issued an advisory on the Wannacry Ransomeware attack and the possible measures that internet users need to follow as a preventive measure.
Special Director General (DG) Police (Crime Branch) B.K. Sharma tweeted about the advisory which has been uploaded on official website of Odisha Police, www.odishapolicecidcb.gov.in. The RBI has also issued an advisory thus instructing all banks to install a software update in all their ATMs so as to prevent their systems from a malware that has attacked payment systems across the world.
Every net user must keep Anti Ransomeware and Antivirus software up-to-date and keep real time protection and auto update feature in active mode. Also need to update their operating systems to Windows 10 and others they can click on the link: https://technet.microsoft.com/
The Crime Branch advisory has advised users to ensure that their systems are enabled and configured with firewall to block access to SMB ports. The users follow the below mentioned steps to disable Server Message Block (SMB).
a) Click the link and download the zip file.
https://www.symantec.com/
b) Extract the Zip file and run the exe file.
c) After 5 seconds, computer will automatically restart
Computers experts informed that it is always good to keep important files and other data including documents safe by doing routine backups preferably to an external device. The users should not download files in attachments or links without verifying its authenticity.
