Your antivirus tool will keep the bad guys from installing a keylogger to steal your passwords or deleting all your files on a significant date, but your data and files face other dangers. If your computer gets soaked by an office flood or the hard drive suffers an unrecoverable crash, antivirus can’t help. And, let’s face it, sometimes the bad guys get around security software. To make sure you don’t lose essential data, set up a system of regular backups.

via PCMag.com.