These days find those of us who regularly
use computers on the Internet, are being deluged with Junk Mail. Much
of it appears to be harmless but all of it affects us in one manner or
another. Even the most innocuous, if nothing else, tends to slow the Internet
down. We are besieged with advertisements, phony solicitations for someone
in dire need, viruses and many, many scams.
Before automatically forwarding/sending
an e-mail you just received from someone warning you of a virus, consider
this: Is it real or is this just someone creating a hoax to tie
up you and the Internet unnecessarily? Remember virus hoaxes slow
down the Internet by having hundreds of thousands of people sending hundreds
of thousands of emails to everyone in their address lists. So how
do you know if it is real? Your first clue is a line in the message
that urges you to send it to everyone on your address list as soon as
possible. Especially if this is repeated at the end of the message you can be almost sure it is a hoax.
Professional releases do not repeat
themselves!
The next step is to take some time to
investigate and see if what you are about to send to all your friends
is real or not. After all YOU should check out anything before sending
a hoax or a scam to a friend and thus becoming a part of it AND involving
your friends.
At least one of the following sites should be consulted before forwarding virus or hoax warnings. Most contain complete information files on hoaxes as well as viruses.
Click on any underlined titles below and your browser should take you to that site:
And suffice to say, if you don't have good
virus protection software installed and update it at least weekly, you
are placing your computer and data at great risk!
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