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I have a Windows 10 computer backed up to Carbonite. I'm pretty careful about places I go on the web and links that I open, but in the event that my computer falls victim to ransomware , will the back up e affected?

Thanks and advance for your ideas.

Hi stein525,

Carbonite is an online backup, so if you go online and download them manually off the website then your backup shouldn't be affected, however, if the carbonite is installed on your computer and you can access them on the computer and you do get infected with ransomware and it encrypts your backups, you will lose your backups unless you can decrypt them becuase whatever happens to your carbonite files on the computer, happens online too.

If you want extra protection against ransomware, have look at the following links:
WinAntiRansom
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware Premium

Also have look at Brian's video on how to stop malware infection:

I would create a image with Macrium Reflect

Carbonite has a versioning feature that lets you go back up to 30 days.

I used to use Carbonite