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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Types of Antivirus: Classification and Functions

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Nowadays no one doubts the importance of having a reliable and updated antivirus that protects your computer from possible attacks, but depending on what type of antivirus you have installed on your computer, you will have better or worse security. In this article you will verify that there are many types of antivirus and to show you, we will classify them according to different criteria such as: their purpose, according to whether they are created to meet a specific objective, according to how they are executed and according to their brand.

What types of antivirus are there? 

Types of antivirus according to their purpose 

Preventive antivirus: They are characterized because they analyze the input and output of all the data on your computer in order to intercept possible threats, anticipating the infection of the computer by malicious programs. They are installed in the internal memory of the computer and can sometimes slow down its operation.

Antivirus identifiers: As their name suggests, they are antivirus that scan your computer's operating system in order to identify possible viruses that exist on it. They track byte sequences of specific codes and try to identify strange behavior or out-of-the-ordinary patterns within existing programs.

Decontaminating antivirus: When the virus is already identified on our computer, the decontaminator type antivirus is responsible for eliminating this infection. It has some similar functions to identifier antivirus.

Types of antivirus according to your specific objective Not all antivirus are designed to fight the same type of virus, so it is important that you identify the types of antivirus that exist according to their specific objective:

Firewall or firewall: The firewall (firewall in Spanish) controls the entry and exit of data from your computer and blocks "like a wall" all activity that is doubtful to it . Act preventively. Currently we can identify 3 different types of firewall: proxy servers, network layer (or packet) filters, and application layer firewalls.

Antipop-up: This is a very simple antivirus that is only responsible for preventing some websites from automatically opening emerging advantages that may be annoying when browsing the Internet.

Antispyware or antispyware: This antivirus has the objective of detecting and eliminating spy programs that have been installed on our computer without our consent. The purpose of these malicious and silent spy programs is to collect information about the user (passwords, browsing habits, etc.) to pass it on illegally to third parties.

Antispam: Its specific objective is to identify emails of dubious origin and send them directly to the spam tray. Virtually all email service providers, such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. they have their own antispam systems.

Antimalware: The antimalware are designed to analyze, detect, prevent and remove malicious software on our computers, i.e malware. It is not a simple tool (as an anti-pop-up can be), but it is a more complete program that usually already incorporates several of the antivirus functions mentioned in this list.

Types of antivirus according to its execution

According to this classification we can find:

Online antivirus and offline antivirus

All those antivirus that do not need to be installed on your computer, but that act only through the Internet are classified as online antivirus. If they do not require the Internet to be executable, they are offline antivirus.

Passive antivirus and active antivirus

If the antivirus only acts when the user requests it, then we are talking about a passive antivirus. On the contrary, if the antivirus acts autonomously without the need for the user to give it a specific order, then we are talking about an active type antivirus.

It is important that you protect your computer equipment whether you are an individual or a company, however, being a company it is especially relevant that your computer security systems are well updated and configured.



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