Potentially malicious emails and unsolicited mail or spam is the primary delivery route for the millions of Trojans, Spyware and malware threats on the internet. Many of these attack your email ids and contacts, which can be harvested from online forums and unsecured portals that you may visit or sign up for. Hackers can also target servers, routers and your remote information storage systems. It is not uncommon for people to find themselves locked out of their Facebook, Gmail, or Yahoo accounts. Here are a few tips that I picked up from the online tech support site at Techvedic to prevent any suspicious file in my mailbox from running a virus on my computer.
The first thing I was told was whether I knew the sender. I didn’t and the mail wasn’t asked for either. But then I keep up with a lot of notifications from my favourite sites and have dozens of accounts for free online services. This taught me to be wary of attachments. Most importantly, I would need to configure the Message Centre so that my filters could be more accurate. Most email services employ what is called behavioural analysis to tell if the actions performed are suspicious when it comes across virus and spam definitions that are not in their database. This is the area where potential junk and virus infected emails are held. Once Techvedic had customized my Message Centre and secured my password, my mailbox could act intelligently.
