McAfee is dealing with the aftermath of another DAT file false positive, which channel partners say has eroded confidence with their customers and provoked a demand for change in its QA processes.

If you're one of the people who own a stylus or touchscreen-capable Windows PC, then there's a high chance there's a file on your computer that has slowly collected sensitive data for the past months ...

A Windows feature has been uncovered which may be of concern to some but isn't thought to be a 'bug'. Security researcher Barnaby Skeggs was investigating a Windows system file called WaitList.dat ...

When you send an email message from a Microsoft Outlook client that is configured incorrectly, the receiver may receive an attachment with the name winmail.dat. This is a binary attachment that ...

I was cleaning up a virus mess today. Vista, standard user. I switched to an Administrator login, removed problem files w/ defender. The infected account then got errors at log in saying "Could not ...

Q: I'm part of a group of 80 people who every week receive an e-mail with an Adobe PDF file attachment. But when I receive the e-mail, the PDF has been converted to a Winmail.dat file that my e-mail ...

Today Bitomat, Poland-based third largest Bitcoin exchange, announced that as of July 26 they lost access to their wallet.dat file and thus the exchange’s entire fund base has become inaccessible. The ...

hi,<BR>on my harddrive i have various .dat files ripped from vcds, i try to play them using xine but get the error,<BR><BR>There is no demuxer plugin available to handle 'AVSEQ01.DAT'. Usually this ...

There's no cure for the latest ransomware attack, but a researcher has discovered a way to prevent infection through the creation of a single Windows file. Only weeks after WannaCry caused chaos ...