How to protect me against WannaCry ransomware?

This is meant to be a very quick guide on how to protect yourself against WannaCry ransomware . If you want to know more about this or any other ransomware, Google is your friend.

You can just skip this boring manual process and use Xtra Protect that will do this for you automatically.

In the unlikely event of a failed attempt from Xtra Protect to protect your computer, please keep reading to protect your computer manually.

To protect your computer from WannaCry do the following:

1 – Make sure your Windows is updated

2 – Apply the Microsoft Security patch MS17-010 from here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2017/ms17-010

3 – You can get more answers and help from Microsoft forum here.