WHAT IS EMAIL BOMBARDMENT?

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An email bombing is an attack on your inbox that involves sending massive amounts of messages to it. Sometimes these messages are incomprehensible. But more often, they will be confirmation emails for newsletters and subscriptions. Thus, in the latter case, the attacker uses a script to search for forums and newsletters on the internet. Then they sign up for an account with your email address. Each will send you a confirmation email, asking you to confirm your address. Also, this process is repeated on as many unprotected sites as the script can find. The term Email Bombing or Email Bombing; it can also refer to flooding an email server with too many emails. In an attempt to overwhelm the server and disable it. But that's not the goal here; it would be a challenge to cut down on the modern email accounts used. Meanwhile, Google or Microsoft email servers, anyway. So instead of a denial of service (DOS) attack; against the email servers you are using. Also, the flood of messages
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The importance of installing an antivirus on any operating system

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The Internet has become another "world", which anyone can access anywhere on the planet and from a large number of devices. This is very useful, since you can find practically any type of information and you can work with a computer or electronic device, but although everything is very wonderful, there are risks, and as we mentioned before, it is a kind of world, where information lives, and as in the real world, where we are exposed to crime, it happens in this cyber space.

ANTIVIRUS

From here we start with the term computer security, that like a person, information is susceptible to theft, modification and deletion, so the necessary precautions for its handling and storage must be taken into account.

Every day new techniques and programs emerge that threaten the safety of the user, attacking the most valuable thing, their information. This is why the main thing to avoid computer attacks is the use of software that helps us detect malicious pages, programs or codes that intend to alter the proper functioning of a system. An antivirus is practically the most important program that any computer should have to protect itself from viruses or hackers.

And like everything else, there are antivirus for anyone, adapted to the needs of each one, from free antivirus to advanced paid software that offers better security and extra tools for greater protection, for example in banking transactions.

The type of license that the user chooses will depend on the use they make of the Internet, for example, if they use the computer to access databases of their work, bank transactions or other movements that require a greater degree of security, a license that offers all the security required to prevent intrusions and information theft.

Hackers or hackers are used to using malicious software, especially Trojans, to access the information on their victims' computers through remote control. In these cases, it is usually enough to have an antivirus installed and updated, and preferably an antispyware. There are many brands of antivirus for all operating systems.

For all the above, it is recommended and even better, a necessity, to have an antivirus, even in its free version which is  very good for daily Internet use.

The operating system also depends a lot, because although it is a lie that there are no viruses for Mac computers, it is true that they are much less than for Windows, for that reason it is preferable to look for an antivirus for the operating system that is used and more specifically, for the version of the system that is being used.

To conclude, it could be said that the installation of antivirus software on any operating system is vitally important, be it Windows, Macintosh or any iOS, whether on an iPad or an iPhone, since mobile devices are also gaining a lot of ground in Hacker targets matter, so Android is not far behind in this regard. For this reason, you can search for antivirus apps in the Apple and Google stores.

So do not forget to install an antivirus and keep it updated, because even if you do not use the Internet, new threats appear every day and if your phone or USB memory becomes infected, you will take the virus to your computer that does not have the antivirus updated due to lack of Internet which causes that it does not have the record of the new threat in its database. Given this problem, some security companies offer the antivirus update to install it without the need for an Internet connection.

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