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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 creates System Restore points, that is, snapshots of your PC’s system files, settings and registry. But those points expire and are automatically deleted after 60 days, ...

Are you worried that your missing Windows Defender history is hiding an infection? Windows Security’s Protection History tracks the Defender’s actions, helping you identify and remove threats easily.

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 ...

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 ...