Almost 40% of home PC and laptop users have lost downloaded files as a result of viruses, technical failures or the loss or theft of their computer.

Only about one third of those affected ever retrieve their data.

With home computers increasingly becoming a ‘life-storage’ facility, holding family photographs, music and TV downloads, as well as CVs and financial spreadsheets, the financial and emotional cost of losing the files can be huge.

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