A new virus threatens to strike one of the Internet’s most common and useful activities: sharing family photos. The malicious program, the first to infect picture files, is not attacking computers.

"Our concern is more for what might be coming," says Vincent Gullotto, head antivirus researcher at McAfee Security, which produces top-selling antivirus software. "Potentially no file type could be ...

The problem is that with some windows 10 PCs on my network can scroll through image files (using the arrow keys to move to next or previous photo for example) on my Synology DS 418play NAS with the ...

There's a lot to learn about image files on the command line, from verifying file format to finding out where and when photos were taken and maybe even getting an unusual view of what they look like.

Depending on how long you've been a Windows PC user, you may remember when videos distributed online came in various formats. Nowadays, with most of those formats having been made obsolete, this isn't ...

Professional photographers have long used the RAW format and editing software to turn image files into gorgeous pictures — and you can, too. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer, whose first camera ...

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions. When ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

AVIF (AV1 Image File, derived from the AV1 video codec) files are relatively new compared to more well-known types such as GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs, but support for them has been steadily growing. Many of ...