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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

IS WINDOWS DEFENDER GOOD ENOUGH TO PROTECT YOUR PC

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For those of you who don't know, Microsoft Security Essentials was antivirus software bundled by Microsoft with Windows from 2009 until it was replaced by Microsoft Windows Defender Security Center. With this software, Microsoft made sure that customers had some form of protection from the moment they started their computer for the first time. It costs users nothing and does not force them to take any action. When Microsoft's security offering first came under the microscope, it didn't impress. But it got better over time, so much so that it began to score higher in independent lab tests. Now, Defender hasn't totally stolen the attention of the world. You could attribute that to decades of name recognition for competitors, but also, testing has revealed some notable shortcomings in Windows Defender. We found that the SmartScreen filter in Edge blocked only 68 percent of phishing sites, for instance. That's particularly bad compared to the 89 and 90 percent blocked

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