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What Data Will You Lose When Your Computer Crashes?

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What Data Will You Lose When Your Computer Crashes? Think of all the data you have stored on your computer - family photos, financial information, an entire library of tunes. It is estimated that there are around 700 million PCs in use around the world and, according to the Computer Industry Almanac, 10 percent of them crash every day. Twenty-two percent of computer owners never backup their data, according to a study by Imation, Corp. So, what data will you lose when your computer crashes?

Addresses and Phone Numbers
There goes your e-mail address book and, if your former co-worker's phone number was stored with it, you can't even call him to tell him what happened.

Resumes and Business Documents
Your entire work history and contact information for your references could be wiped out in a second. And you might need that resume when your current boss learns your computer crashed and you can't access the important client presentation you put together and saved at home.

Music and Photos
Priceless photos of children, family and friends taken with your digital camera inhabit your hard drive as does the entire soundtrack of your life. In an instant you'll be very sorry you didn't print that photo of baby's first steps.

If you don't back up your data and computer's hard drive, you could lose everything to a crash, fire, theft, accidental deletion or file corruption. Webroot Secure Backup provides award-winning, best-in-class security to your valuable data files. With Webroot Secure Backup, files are automatically backed up to a secure online location so they are safe from any natural, or unnatural, disaster and can be easily recovered from any PC. You never have to remember to back up your files because it is done automatically as frequently as you like. The program even backs up open files you're working on.  

Backing up your files with Webroot Secure Backup not only protects them from loss, it can make them more useful since you can access them on the Web or share them online with friends and family. File sharing access lets you send file links to anyone, it's a great alternative to large e-mail attachments.

Multiple layers of security are used to ensure your files are protected during online back ups. Data is encrypted twice and transmitted to Webroot's high-security data centers.

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