Email and your computer’s safety
Emails are the number one targets for hackers, phishers, viruses, worms. By simply having your computer online, your data and personal information are instantly exposed to all kinds of malicious applications. Being new to the internet poses risks to your computer’s safety. These are ways to help protect you from identity theft, fraud and a computer takeover, all of which happens without you, knowing it.
1. Check your Inbox. Some e-mails or spam contain dangerous code that could infect your computer at a touch of a button.
2. Look for Unknown Messages and dont even open it. Contact the company that claims to be sending the e-mail and verify the said email.
3. Even if it comes form a friend, do not open attachments right away. You can opt to call or text them if they really sent you the message.
4. Read Your Messages in Plain Text.? Some e-mails written in HTML can be harmless. Others are not. To be safe, try setting your e-mail program to show messages in plain text format. This will prevent threatening code from installing itself.
5. One of the best way to rid of these hackers is to use your common sense. You know when you are being fooled by these scammers.
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