Ransomware is nasty stuff. This type of malware encrypts files on your PC so that you can’t access them—unless you pay the attacker to unlock the data. In other words, your files are held hostage ...

Beware these dangerous Windows LNK files. Update, June 9, 2025: This story, originally published on June 8, has been updated with a statement from Microsoft regarding the latest ongoing cyberattacks ...

Microsoft has invested heavily in increasing the security of Windows. The firewall, the automatically activated antivirus program, various security functions for protection against boot viruses and ...

Windows includes several built-in security features designed to protect your data and system. But some of them—like UAC ...

I'm rebuilding my girlfriend's computer, which had its CPU fried a couple weeks ago in a thunderstorm. Well, she went and set Windows XP to protect her files, and so when I went to hook her hard drive ...

Windows does not do a WFP scan on each bootup. Win2k just takes awhile to boot, its boot process is not optimized as WinXP's is. This just shows worse on a older and slower system. On a old system ...

I was playing with Vista's WRP last night and found that it does not completely protect many system files that you would expect it to protect. Win ME's System File Protection and 2000 and XP's Windows ...

Dev Drive Protection was created to protect the Dev Drive. With this, the newly added drive will have antivirus support. There are two performance modes of Dev Drive. If the Performance Mode State is ...

Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents.

In this post, we will show you how to exclude programs, files, and folders from scanning in McAfee, Kaspersky, Norton Avast, AVG, Bitdefender, Malwarebytes, etc. antivirus scans in Windows 11/10. When ...