Avoiding Spam Email By Symantec

Opening and reply to spam are the two most important things you should not do in anticipating the rise of spam emails.

The reason is, once you return and open a spam email, the email account so you will be targeted spam attacks continuously.

Here's a Symantec-related tips from how to prevent email spam,

1. Opening email attachments from unknown. This appendix can infect your computer.

2. Replying to spam. Usually forged email address, and reply to email spam will result in another spam spam.

3. Fill out the form in a message requesting personal or financial information or passwords (password.). Leading companies can not ask for your personal information via email. If you hesitate to contact the company through a trusted independent mechanism, such as by verifying the phone number or Internet address is known that you type into a new browser window (do not click on or cut and paste the link in the message).

4. Buy products or services from spam messages

5. Opening spam messages

6. Forwarding any virus warnings you receive by email. This could be a lie is the news

source:: http://techno.okezone.com

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Twilight Fan Alert

Jakarta - Awesome movie New Moon is used by the meddling hands to launch a malicious program on a fan film starring Robert Pattinson is. They have embarked scenario similar to that conducted in the Harry Potter movies some time ago.

With the lure can see pirated movies New Moon, Internet users are asked to download a free video player called streamviewer. But click on streamviewer.exe action, was bitter fruit. Instead of seeing the New Moon, Internet surfers will actually install a Trojan downloader on their hard drive.

If you have this, curious hands behind the evil acts will be able to enter any malicious programs on their PCs ingingkan. And they also have to install a fake security program or scareware with the aim to attract money U.S. $ 80 from the user for cleaning reasons and antivirus protection.

Quoted from USAToday, Monday (23/11/2009), Michael Greene, Vice President of Product Strategy from PC Tools said that after the agent managed to sell scareware, then they are automatically opened a gap to put the victim's PC. Merakapun can do botnet to spread spam, steal data and take over control of the email account, networking sites, to online banking accounts.

source:: detikInet

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