Leo looks at the possibility that ransomware can infect other drives connected to your computer and hold you at ransom.

You may still be getting viruses even though you run Norton because of your own computer habits. There are a few steps to take to increase security.

Since most encryption tools are designed to encrypt collections of files, it isn’t always obvious what the best approach might be to encrypt just one. I’ll look at a couple of alternatives.

Malware has come a long, long way since its origination as a benign joke or proof-of-concept.

Does an email really get deleted? Whether you pull an email off of a server or log on to a service provider, don’t they backup their servers daily or hourly and wouldn’t that email still exist on the backup servers forever?

A Windows login password can be a minor inconvenience that can be disabled. Unfortunately, not having a Windows password does increase risk, even if you think there’s nothing of importance on your machine.

Windows 8 has been released and I’m getting the question at a slowly increasing pace: should I get it? I’ll detail my current thinking on Windows 8 and whether or not its worth upgrading.

Online video is becoming more and more popular, but it often assumes you have a fast connection. If you don’t, video playback can be affected.

A PC running Windows can slow down for many reasons. Viruses, spyware, updated software, disk fragmentation, and more can lead to performance drops.

Most music, picture, and movie files are already compressed. The result is that compressing them again won’t make much difference and could even make them larger.