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Avoid Scams, Hoaxes And Urban Legends

By: Rick Skew

A popular subject within the internet nowadays is all about avoiding scams, hoaxes and urban legends. These are a small number of ways to avoid some of the perils connected with being in touch with the rest of the world via the internet . As a general rule of thumb, beware of any offer that sounds too good to be true, it usually is.. This applies to goods being offered on the Internet and particularly to any unsolicited offer or spam you receive inside your email. Many of these are scams. The term "spam", just in case you do not know, refers to any unsolicited bulk email. If it's not addressed to you personally, or you do not recognize the sender, or you are being asked to purchase something or pass on questionable information, then this is spam. My advise is always to "can the spam" immediately by deleting any email you receive from anyone you don't recognize.

The best way to avoid spam, is to be very careful about who you give your email address to. My advise here is to set up a free email account so that you can give this email address to anyone you do not absolutely trust with all of your individual information. It almost never does any good to fight back against spam. Your best course of action is simply to delete any unwanted email. A trick that has been pretty successful for myself is to set up an email rule (or filter) that automatically sends any mail not addressed to me straight to a special folder. Nearly all of this is spam and can also be easily disposed of.

In addition to spams and scams, the other thing to look out for on the Internet is hoaxes, urban legends and false information. You will find most of these floating all around the Internet these days. Watch out for any email that asks you to send money for any cause, or to forward the email to all of your friends. Nearly all of them are hoaxes. Another category of hoaxes involves virus warnings. When you receive information which suggests it is possible to get a computer virus from doing anything except opening an email attachment or running an application, then this also is probably false information.

Most computer viruses are spread by users opening email attachments that contain the virus. You should never open an eMail attachment unless you are expecting one. Even if you know the sender, make sure the attachment is legitimate before opening it. It is much safer to delete any questionable attachments and ask the sender to resend them than to assume that the sender intended to send that email.

Your best defenses against computer viruses are:
1) Caution in downloading programs from questionable sources.
2) Regularly scanning your drive with virus protection software.
3) Backing up your important data to a different drive or media (floppy, Zip or CD-ROM) as regularly as possible. By doing all of these, if your system does get infected, you can restore it with the minimum of fuss.

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This article does not cover everything, but hopefully I have given you an insight in to what is involved. There are plenty of ebooks and such stuff on the internet. I always go to a company called Computer Repair London. They do not just repair computer systems, they also provide IT support as well and they are always helpfull if you get stuck on anything.

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