Whether your PC is slow, unstable, or perhaps infected by malware, checking your system’s kernel mode drivers is often a good place to begin diagnosing your problems. And you don’t have to install any third-party …

At first glance Linux Live USB Creator looks much like UNetbootin, the Universal USB Installer, and every other tool which aims to help you download and create a bootable Linux environment for your PC. And …

Just how secure is the data you’ve backed up online? Most cloud-based backup providers promise to encrypt your data before it’s uploaded to their servers, but a handful perform the encryption after the data’s been …

You think your PC has been infected by something dangerous, but your regular antivirus package hasn’t raised any alerts. So what now?
This is a question we cover fairly often here. Only last week we reported …

It only takes a little damage to corrupt an AVI movie. Some tweaked bits here, maybe a few missing bytes there, and suddenly you may find the picture breaks up at one point, or maybe …

If your PC gets attacked by some previously discovered specimen of malware then it’s relatively easy to spot. Your antivirus package will scan the new file on access, realise there’s a match for something in …

Data recovery used to be an incredibly expensive business, but these days you can often recover accidentally deleted data without having to bankrupt yourself in the process. And if you’re a Mac user, the good …

The typical large application will have a rather complex structure. There might be DLLs, OCXs and other executable components, data files and more, all scattered across a potentially very large number of subfolders: not necessarily …

F-Secure has released an updated version of its stand-alone antivirus detector, Easy Clean.
The new build is smaller than previous releases at under 4MB. You can scan your system just by launching the executable; no installation …

When you’ve set up your PC to carry out some lengthy task – transcode a host of videos, say – it can be useful to know when it’s finished. But unfortunately not every program bothers …

If you’re looking to maintain your privacy online then you could sign up for a VPN service. But which one? There’s a lot of choice, and if you’re a networking novice then figuring out which …