Unknown files have become one of the biggest security threats to organizations, catching the attention of C-suite officers. Highly-publicized data breaches at brands like Target, Home Depot and Sony ...

In a rather bizarre twist to the ongoing saga that is ransomware infections, a new strain has been discovered that lectures users on the dangers of downloading unknown files from the Internet. Dubbed ...

A file extensions is a suffix to the filename that's used to indicate what software or program it's associated with. If the required software to read the file is ...

Q: I keep getting a Windows message saying I’m low on hard-drive space which, after looking at my C: drive, is true. So I did a search for all files over 250 kilobytes and found a ton of files related ...

Most people are conditioned by now to not open unknown file attachments—especially file attachments on emails from unknown sources. Just in case you somehow missed the memo, though, there is a new ...

Website WhatIsThatFile.com offers a simple, handy little interface that lets you type in an unknown filename or filetype and gives you as-you-type results. While we still do not cover ALL of them, we ...

One of our readers reported that all the file extensions have changed to some unknown file format. If so, it could be a virus! If a virus has changed all the files extensions to unknown applications, ...

Every file and every program leaves traces in your system: It accesses other files, uses Windows resources, makes entries in the registry, and possibly installs additional software. In the best-case ...

I'm currently reorganizing my C partition and moving stuff away from it unto other partitions. While doing this, I just noticed the few suspicious files highlighted in pink on the pic below. Norton AV ...

Every file that we have saved on our computers has a particular extension. The file extension is added at the end of the filename followed by a dot (.). It tells the operating systems about the ...

Panchkula: Panchkula police have warned the public against the dangers of downloading suspicious APK (Android application package) files on mobile phones. During an awareness drive in Sector 20 ...