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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RANSOMWARE UNINSTALLS YOUR ANTIVIRUS

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Having an antivirus in Windows is not only recommended but is almost essential, although Windows Defender can suffice in many situations. However, total protection does not exist, as the newly discovered ransomware demonstrates, with the potential to uninstall the antivirus and thus leave the way to act.

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This new type of ransomware is still in development, because as security experts have been able to verify for Bleeping Computer, it does not achieve its objective. It cannot uninstall the antivirus -not all, of course- or encrypt the files. It also lacks instructions to pay the ransom, although in its sector it can be described as promising.

The danger of this malware is not the damage it can do, but what could happen if it creates school and becomes a model for the next generation of computer hijackings. That the next versions of ransomware can uninstall the antivirus before encrypting the files on your PC is not at all reassuring.

In addition to being ransomware, it could also be used as specific malware to delete certain files, given its potential to find and locate software to uninstall.

It could achieve its goal even without the user being aware that they are under attack by simply disabling the antivirus temporarily or simply uninstalling it completely. Its evolution and possible use will have to be closely followed, although surely malware developers are already aware of it and are trying to take advantage of it.

Another obvious twist is that companies that promote antivirus, both free and paid, study it to understand how it works and how to prevent it from achieving its goal in the future. It is the eternal virus-antivirus cycle in computing repeating itself once again.

Ransomware virus is a dangerous virus and its development is affecting the present antivirus in your device by uninstalling it. So, to stay ahead of this type of virus that affects your antivirus directly or indirectly for that we should use some strong and well developed antivirus, and install it in devices, that can’t be affected by ransomware and it’s get null or ineffective while there is antivirus in your device.

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