You’ve heard this from me and pretty much every other tech journalist: You need to stop using Windows XP. It will gradually–or maybe not so gradually–become less secure after Microsoft stops updating the OS. I won’t go into the details, since I covered them in Should you keep using Windows XP? Get some info from this article on PCWorld.com
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Congratulations on backing up your PC—but you aren’t as safe as you may think you are. Files on your backup drive can be just as vulnerable to disaster as files on your main system are. Most recently, CryptoLocker demonstrated that an external drive connected to a PC—a secondary hard drive, for example, or an external USB hard drive used for backup—could fall victim to ransomware just as easily as the PC on the other end of the cable. Check on this article from PCWorld.com