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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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CHECK YOUR ANTIVIRUS SECURITY

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Whether it's Windows Defender, or the other third-party antivirus , like Kaspersky, Protegent360 or Bitdefender, this sort of security software is important when connecting to the web. Thanks to the antivirus we will be protected against threats that are hidden within the network. When we install an AV in our computer, it begins to protect our PC and, in addition, it is responsible for updating itself automatically several times a day. If everything goes well, we do not have to touch the antivirus again, we will always be protected. However, as time goes by, an issue may arise: Is It Really Protecting Our PC? One of the ways during which we will check if our antivirus is basically protecting us because it should be would be by really putting ourselves in peril. And the truth, this is better avoided. For what it could happen. Luckily, there are ways to check if our antivirus is working correctly, and in addition to knowing how we should act when it detects a threat, without takin
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IS YOUR ANTIVIRUS WORKING PROPERLY?

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  Whether it is Windows Defender, or any other third-party antivirus, such as Kaspersky, Protegent360 or Bitdefender, this type of security software is essential when connecting to the Internet. Thanks to the antivirus we can be protected against threats that are hidden in the network. When we install an AV in our computer, it begins to protect our PC and, in addition, it is responsible for updating itself automatically several times a day. If everything goes well, we do not have to touch the antivirus again, we will always be protected. However, as time goes by, a question may arise: Is It Really Protecting Our PC? One of the ways in which we can check if our antivirus is really protecting us as it should be would be by really putting ourselves in danger. And the truth, this is better avoided. For what it could happen. Luckily, there are ways to check if our antivirus is working correctly, and in addition to knowing how we should act when it detects a threat, without taking risk.
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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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TESTING THE ANTIVIRUS THAT YOU USE

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Have you ever wondered how antivirus is tested before it is available on the market? The truth is that, despite what you may think at first, these applications pass a series of tests that have the mission, obviously, of verifying their effectiveness. Well, for most IT security vendors these assessments are now out of date. Testing an antivirus before its launch is something that is done regularly. Thus, the AV Tests (name by which the aforementioned tests are known) allow users to choose which antivirus they want to install on their computers, knowing what their main characteristics are and what they protect against. So far everything normal. So what is the problem? Some manufacturers of security solutions have raised their voices against the fact that these tests are “not modernized”. In what sense? Some companies claim that, although the complexity of security applications has grown considerably in recent times, when conducting evaluations they do not test the new technologies w
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BOOT SECTOR VIRUS

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Boot sector viruses are one of the oldest forms of computer viruses. They infect the boot sector or partition table of a hard drive so that they start the moment the computer is turned on. Here is everything you need to know about them and the threat they pose. It affects system with the hard drive. Mainly, PC-based computers are affected more frequently, although a Mac system may be affected as well. What is boot sector virus? A boot sector virus is not a specific virus, it is a particular way that viruses can affect your computer. A boot sector is a physical sector on your hard drive that is required to initiate the boot process and load your operating system. By placing a virus here, it means that the virus is activated every time you start your computer, even before your operating system starts to start. Often times, you won't even realize it's happening, making the threat even worse. How does the boot sector virus work? Each boot sector virus works differentl
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