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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10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH A VIRUS INFECTION ON COMPUTER

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It is always necessary to have a computer security protocol to face an infection by computer viruses, malware or whatever we want to call them. Many times, the fact that these phenomena occur reveals a poor security system in the company that must be corrected.

STOP VIRUS BY GETTING ALERTS

If we want to deal with virus infection problems on our computer, we have to take a series of measures to act efficiently and quickly, which of course will include the help of an expert. Here we show you some of the things we recommend doing.

 

Protocol for dealing with a computer virus infection:

 

1. Identify what the problem is and its magnitude. It is not the same that a computer virus has infected files on the computer's system that simply the antivirus has blocked a Trojan.

 

2. Act quickly. Do not be dragging the virus problem, or continue working with that computer. Quarantine it.

 

3. Inform users. You may have noticed the problem, but the other people who use that computer have not. Inform other users that this computer cannot be used temporarily.

 

4. Scan the computer with your antivirus, if you can. There are computer viruses that can be removed with your antivirus. But at other times, you may not be able to remove it, and the virus may even uninstall or disable your protection. In any case, analyze it first to see what is there.

 

5. Call a computer expert. If you need a computer technician to do a general cleaning of your PC, don't be afraid to do it. It is better to solve the problem quickly than to waste days and days of work trying to do it without success.

 

6. Use a replacement team. When you have computer problems, it is essential to have other equipment available from which you can access. In that sense, it is good that the sensitive information of the company is in the cloud so that you can enter from anywhere.

 

7. Find out what was the origin of the malware. If the malicious program has entered because one of the users was using the computer doing operations that involve risk, we must take action so that it does not happen again.

 

8. Learn from your mistakes. It is possible that you did not have any antivirus installed on your PC and that has harmed you. Keep in mind that now you must prevent malware problems in your company through a computer security protocol.

 

9. Analyze the damage that has occurred. If irreparable problems have occurred, a security system must be created to protect the business. Data loss is corrected with a data redundancy system.

 

10. If necessary, report. In some cases, we are not talking about computer viruses, but about spyware introduced by a criminal to steal information from your company. In this case, you will need the help of a computer expert to help you gather the evidence and trace the source of the problem.

 

Do you follow these safety tips to face a virus infection on your computer? What other measures do you recommend?

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