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Avoiding A Scam Or A Hoax.

By: Cam Bugsy

A very popular subject on the internet today is about avoiding scams, hoaxes and urban legends. Below are a few ways of avoiding some of the perils associated with being in touch with the rest of the world via the internet . As a general rule, watch out for any offer that sounds too good to be true, it usually is.. This applies to products being offered on the Internet and especially to any unsolicited offer or spam you receive in your email. Most of them are scams. The phrase "spam", just in case you don't know, refers to any unsolicited bulk email. If it is not addressed to you personally, or you don't recognize the sender, or you're being asked to buy something or pass along questionable information, then this is spam. My advise is always to "can the spam" immediately by deleting any email you receive from anyone you do not recognize.

The perfect way to avoid spam, is by being very cautious about who you give your email address to. My advise here is to create a free email account so that you can give this email address to anyone you don't absolutely trust with your personal information. It almost never does any good to fight back against spam. Your best plan of action is just to delete any unwanted email. A trick that continues to be 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. The majority of this is spam and can be easily disposed of.

Along with spams and scams, another thing to look out for on the Internet is hoaxes, urban legends and false information. You will discover most of these floating around the Internet these days. Beware of any email that asks you to send money for any cause, or to forward the email to all your friends. Just about 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 most likely 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 that the attachment is legitimate before opening it. It is very much safer to delete any questionable attachments and get 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 another drive or media (floppy, Zip or CD-ROM) as frequently as possible. By doing all of these, if your system does get infected, you can restore it with a minimum of hassle.

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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 PC 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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