Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Click on Links at Your Own Peril!


One very strong recommendation we have and continue to hammer home is that: You should not click on links contained in emails unless you know with 100% certainty where it will take you. Sometimes it is easy to see but often it is not. 

Clicking on a link can take you deep into a rat's nest of infected websites and your computer can become infected with a variety of computer viruses or other malware.

It is better to be safe than sorry later - don't click links. Often, when we are sent an email with a link we will simply send a note back to the sender saying 'I do not click on links in emails, can you kindly tell me what that link goes to, is for etc'.?

More time, effort being devoted to stopping spam e-mails

In a scenario all too familiar to many, Highlands Ranch resident Ron Gabbert's computer went haywire shortly after he clicked on a link that appeared in one of a slew of unsolicited e-mails."I opened something, and all of a sudden it would go to another screen," said Gabbert, a retired teacher. "It would start taking you through things, and you'd try to get out of it and it'd just ignore you."
Despite federal and state laws enacted in recent years to help cut down on spam, junk e-mails continue to flood inboxes. In 2010, the global spam rate increased slightly from a year earlier to 89.1 percent, meaning nearly nine out of 10 e-mails sent were junk, according to a report by Symantec, a maker of antivirus software.

Source: Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_18403584

 

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