Washington idle as ransomware ravages cities big and small

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7. Thanks a bunch, bookmarking!

I never use remote access feature, and am careful about phishing emails which are frequent.
I always look at the return address of the email, and that is a clear giveaway, always.

Speaking of remote access to computers, I have an anecdotal story for you..
6-7 years back we had a desktop running Windows Vista. It was my wife's computer and we had the original Microsoft CD's, however could not get to it "activated". Several calls to Microsoft customer support in US failed to solve the problem. Finally Microsoft US support forwarded my call to some facility in India. I was on the phone with them so knew they were Indians since I spent my first 20 years of life in India, and the next 59 years in US lol..

That crew asked permission to control my computer in remote mode, which I of course OKed,
and they took care of the problem, gave us a new product key and activated Windows for us.