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Removing Spam Email from Your Computer

              Spam is  an unwanted, unsolicited bulk
              message from companies for  advertising,
              spreading  malware or  tricking you to visit
              their insecure websites to take your personal
              information along with bank details.  It can
              be  received  through  email, text  messages,
              phone calls or social media.
              Spam emails  have become an inseparable
              part  of our  email. Some email service
              providers filter and mark these spam emails
              and place them automatically in separate
              spam folders. You can also avoid getting
              spam messages by following the given steps:

                 • Do not respond to Spam and delete it on a regular basis.
                 • Do not provide your email address to unknown websites or post publicly.
                 • Avoid clicking on unknown clicks available in between your internet browsing.
                 • Do not reply to spam messages.
                 • Download spam filtering tools and anti-virus software.

                 • Do not use your personal or business email address when registering in any online contest or free services
                available on the internet.


                       Protecting Computer against Viruses

              VIRUS is an acronym for Vital Information Resource Under Seize.

              Computer virus is a malicious code that attaches itself to a file and enters your computer system and makes copies
              of itself and carries out the harmful tasks in such a way that it damages the important files of an operating system
              or application programs or important data files  due to which the computer may stop working.
              There are various types of virus. Some of them are:
                 • Program File Virus: A program file virus, also known as file-infecting virus is a type of computer virus that infects
                executable files (program files such as .exe, .com, .sys, etc. files) to make them unusable or damage permanently.
                 • Boot Sector Virus: Boot sector virus is one of the most hostile types of computer viruses that infects the boot
                sector or the Master Boot Record (MBR) of hard disks or floppy disks.
                 • Macro Virus: A macro virus is a type of computer virus that is primarily designed to infect a specific type of
                documents such as Word or Excel files.
                 • E-mail Virus: E-mail virus is a type of computer virus that transmit from one computer to other through e-mail
                messages.
              Some of the viruses are designed to get activated at a certain date and time. No matter how advanced an anti-virus
              software program you have installed in your computer the new malicious code will still find its way through your
              computer defence system. They gain access to your computer through:
              Infected files
                 • Infected pen drives, CD/DVD-ROMs
                 • Through infected file attachment of emails
                 • Insecure websites
                 • Online games

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