Over 100 computer users lose data every minute!
Good news: 98 percent of PC users have antivirus protection on their primary computers, and 95 percent have firewall security. That means we're safe, right? Wrong.
Security against online threats are crucial, yet it leaves a gaping hole in our protective shields. What about all of the files stored on your computer? For most of us, our worlds are on our PCs, and we assume it's all safe simply because we clicked "save."
- Nearly 90 percent of Internet users would be "greatly inconvenienced" if they lost files on their computers - but only 6 percent protect them with a daily backup.
- Conservative estimates show that every day, 130,000 people in the United States lose files stored on their PCs. You can only imagine what that number is worldwide but could be in excess of 2 million people.
- Two out of five PC users (43 percent) have lost files or data at some point in their lives.
- One in five have lost files in the last two years alone.
- Lost photos are the number-one concern, followed by financial information, text documents and work projects.
