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 COMPUTER VIRUSES

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When we mention computer security, the virus is that the main threat. It can destroy one program or the whole computing system instead. Today there's a good sort of sorts of computer viruses. In fact, 57% of the threats that affect the safety of computers and systems are viruses.

ANTIVIRUS ON DEVICE


Types of computer viruses and their scope

Today, the various sorts of computer viruses are still very widespread, affecting the performance of computers. Viruses also are hacker tools to realize unauthorized access to systems and steal sensitive information.

Knowing the various sorts of computer viruses which will affect business systems is that the initiative in ensuring effective protection.

Thus, the foremost common include the following:

  • Resident virus: Resident viruses occupy RAM. They will interfere with normal system operation, causing file and program corruption.
  • Multipartite virus: This sort of virus can easily spread on the PC system. It's very contagious and performs unauthorized actions within the OS, folders and other programs on the PC.
  • Direct acting virus: Direct-action viruses attack certain sorts of files, typically .exe and .com files. The most purpose of this virus is to duplicate and infect files in folders. They typically don't delete files or affect the performance and speed of the PC. Additionally, it's one among the kinds of computer viruses that, more easily, are often eliminated by antivirus programs.
  • Browser hijacker: This sort of virus infects the online browser, which can be the one which will take you to different websites. During this way, whenever a website name is entered within the Internet address bar, the browser hijacker will open various fake websites which will damage the PC. Despite the severity of the damage that this class of virus can do, the foremost reliable browsers have built-in features to dam them beforehand.
  • Web script virus: This virus lives on certain links, advertisements, image placement, videos, and website design. It can carry malicious code which, when clicked, will automatically download viruses or direct the user to malicious websites.
  • Macro virus: Software that contains macro are attacked by macros viruses. These viruses can perform a series of operations that affect the performance of the program or software.
  • Directory virus: It's one among the foremost feared sorts of computer viruses, since they modify file paths. When running programs and software that are infected with a directory virus, the virus program also runs within the background. Furthermore, it's going to be difficult for the user to locate the first application or software, once infected.

 

PROTECTION FROM VIRUSES

Viruses causes the PC very harm by slowing its speed or deleting few important files. So to keep our PC healthy and our information safe, we should use a good antivirus software which will detect the virus when it’s going to enter the PC. Antivirus will keep our browsing by not allowing any virus to enter in our PC when we are surfing the internet and lands on some unsecure websites that may be full of viruses or are tracking our information. Antivirus helps us in all possible ways to keep our device healthy and our data secure from not getting hijacked.

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