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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WANNA CRY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO REMOVE IT?

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In this article I will explain what WannaCry malware is (in Spanish "I want to cry"), why it is dangerous, how to protect yourself and how to fix it if we get infected.

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What Is the Wanna Cry Virus?

WannaCry is a massive computer virus type 'ransomware' (which encrypts computers) that is infecting computers and internal networks of large companies in the world. The virus affects Microsoft's Windows system and has infected computers in more than 150 countries that did not have the latest updates installed.

The Wanna Cry virus restricts access to your system and demands a ransom of $ 300 in bitcoins be paid to its owners to remove the restriction. The computer attack has already gone down in history as one of the most aggressive and, at this point, affected computers have been reported in more than 100 countries. The electronic means of payment (bitcoin) has been selected as the means of payment since it allows the anonymity of the person receiving the money to be maintained.

How to Protect Yourself From the Wanna Cry Virus?

To prevent Wanna cry it is recommended:

§  Have the original Windows license and update it.

§  In addition, you must ensure that all the software on your computer is up to date, including your browser and the toolbar add-ons you use.

§  Use antivirus software with firewall protection enabled and up-to-date.

§  Make a backup (backup) of your information to avoid losing your data.

§  Other recommendations made by Microsoft on its website are:

§  Please do not click on any suspicious links in your emails

§  Avoid visiting unsafe or unreliable sites.

§  Do not click a suspicious link on a website, Facebook page, WhatsApp and other applications.

§  If you receive an email from a known person with a link, ask them before opening the link to confirm it. It is important to note that the infected computers forward random emails to the contact list with the virus link.

§  Fraudulent emails that use names similar to popular services such as PayePal instead of PayPal or use popular service names.

How to Clean the Wanna Cry?

§  Make use of the ransomware removal tool in your antivirus software, which should search for and remove any attempted ransomware found on your computer.

§  You can also use some of the following free ransomware removal tools. These tools will:

§  Remove ransomware viruses from your computer

§  They will decrypt any files that were encrypted during the attack

§  They will also inform you about the types of ransomware and show you what they look like

To finish I leave you with a question:

What do you think of this type of virus?

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