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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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EVERYTHING ABOUT VIRUSES

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Myths and Reality There are many common myths about computer viruses: All computer error messages indicate a virus infection. That is false; error messages can also indicate a hardware failure or software errors. Viruses and worms always require user intervention. False. Code must be executed for a virus to infect a computer, but it does not require user intervention. For example, a network worm can automatically infect if a user's computer has certain vulnerabilities. Email attachments from known senders are safe. This is not true, because they may have been infected by a virus and used to spread the infection. Even if you know the sender, don't open anything that raises questions. Antivirus programs stop all threats. It’s important to detect malware and many best antivirus software works in detecting the malware before they affect your device. Even then, 100% security is not guaranteed. Therefore, it is important that you use common sense on the Internet to reduce y
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MYTHS AND FACTS

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When we browse the Internet and share information through a portable device such as a memory card, we  know that we are exposed to some malicious files such as viruses or in the case of the Internet, downloading any type of content that may affect the operation of the computer, In some cases, we allow our personal information to be exposed and for this we must know what measures are really useful and effective. We all know keeping our information is so safe so using a software that gives us total security is the most important thing we need. A summary was recently shared about practices that are not truly effective or situations that the user might think are not risky. Here we share 6 myths about computer security: Myth 1: Shopping On the Internet. Belief: If I don't buy products or contract services on the Internet, I cannot become another victim of cybercrime. Reality: Even people who do not shop or bank on the Internet can be affected by cybercrime. A single visit t
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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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