What are the things I should do to best protect my data on my computer? Is an anti-virus enough?
What are the things I should do to best protect my data on my computer? Is an anti-virus enough?
user
Sure, that’s a great first step. The problem is that there are various types of data, and they might be located in different places on your computer.  What I can do is go over the most important things to look out for:
assistant
How exactly do you encrypt files?
user
There are many ways to encrypt files.  If you want to encrypt a file on your computer, there are special programs for that, but also if you do that, you can also encrypt things in the cloud, like dropbox or Google Drive.
assistant
Is it hard to do? I've never encrypted something before.
user