Details on how to recover from a Ransomware attack

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I expect you probably know this already but just in case ... are you aware of point #4 in the following article: http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10 ?

@ wrote:

Thanks Muddy. But at the end of option #4 it says this;
 
"If you have modern PC with a UEFI BIOS and a fast SSD drive, there's no way you can interrupt the boot procedure with your keypresses. On older PCs, with a classic BIOS and no SSD drive, pressing these keys might still work though."
 
My laptop (which runs Windows 10) is UEFI and also has a SSD. That's the computer I was trying to access 'Safe Mode' on.

• One surprising fact it cites (surprising for me though perhaps not for others better informed on this subject): "...calls for banning cyber weapons...have been issued by Russia and China for quite some time. It is the US which has hitherto refused to move in this direction."
• One disturbing fact (again, for me!): "In India, it is estimated that even now, 70% of ATM's are running on old, unsupported XP"
• And the cental point of the article: the writer's (arguable) contention regarding Microsoft's discontinuing its support for old products: "Why should companies, whose products are still very much in the market with significant shares, be allowed to walk away from their products? Should its monopoly over a certain product allow it to force its users to pay again and again for new software licenses, which quite often add very little to the users? Or in the worst case, as in the Microsoft Vista case, even degrades their performance? The time has come to insist that if a company “abandons” its products, it must open source its software and allow others to provide the support."