Beware of Email Viruses in Spam - Top Tips to Stay Safe

Giving you more know how of Email virus is the intent of this article. Internet browsing is not the only pastime for people. Getting connected and using the computer for communication is also a pastime for many. For those who are not web browser savvy you may by now know how to send and receive mails.

You may open a mail account and soon you will find so many mails from people you do not seem to know. Sometimes you even find some junk mail from people you seem to know. It is a bad world out there and just beware even if you get a stupid mail that seems to be from your friend do not open it. For now crooks adopt spoofing-A technique by which they use another email id so that you may accept the mail and open it. Phishing is a means used where the "From email id" is spoofed to appear as though it is from your credit card company or your bank. This is to entice you to part with your PIN number and other password with which they will rob your account.

Spamming is popular on the net. Advertising companies target your mail box in a means to send adverts across. But that is not all. You may find a variety of annoying and destructive mail or sometimes mail that has attachments. Many times these attachments contain

• Worms
• Viruses
• Trojan Horses

What is an email virus, worm or Trojan? Email viruses are not viruses in the true sense of the term. They are more Trojans and worms. Normal computer viruses replicate on its own; but Email viruses cannot replicate without human intervention. Yet for all that they have cause major damage and shut down many email systems.

Means of Infection

Attachments

Humans are gullible and it is this gullibility that virus writers use. The only means of infecting your computer via emails is by opening an attachment that contains a Trojan, a worm or a virus. Once you do this you infect your computer and cause the damage the virus or Trojan is supposed to accomplish. If it is a worm then you have caused more extensive damage not only to your self but to all on the internet. A worm is an email sending virus and send emails to all the others using the email id's from you're the address book of your mail account. The worm thus uses your mail box to spread to others.

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