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<blockquote data-quote="BigEd" data-source="post: 99913" data-attributes="member: 161"><p>I recently had an email that appeared to come from a section member. The content looked suspicious, it had a strange looking link in the text. His address was also in the message but with a few letters incorrect. I was able to telephone the member and confirm that he had not sent the email. It pays to be diligent. A few observations.</p><p>Many email providers have filters on their servers to catch a lot of spam before it gets to you, however:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If the email subject line looks suspicious. e.g. Free Black Shadow to the first 50 to reply …) <u>Don’t </u>open it. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you open a message and it looks suspicious don’t click any links in the message. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Don’t reply to suspicious messages.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Don’t give out your main email address to all and sundry. e.g. Posts in forums. Some forums have “public” areas that anyone can read and find your email addresses. If you have put it in a post. (Internet robots (bots) can also automatically scan sites to collect posted email addresses.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Most providers allow you to have several email addresses. Set up a few and use a different one for certain things. e.g. Forums, newsgroups, etc. If you then get a problem with a certain address it helps identify where spam may be coming from and you can delete that address.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you are a bit more technical you can set up filters in some email programmes to automatically delete messages that have certain words in the subject line or messages that come from certain addresses or domains.</li> </ul><p>It goes without saying that you should have some sort of Anti-Virus programme installed on your computer. If you are on a budget there are several well-known companies that have free versions of their AV programmes available for download. These do quite a good job although they do not have as many features as the paid for versions.</p><p>In the event that you are unfortunate enough to catch something nasty it is a good idea to have made a back-up of any important files on a CD, DVD, memory stick, in "the cloud" or an external hard drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigEd, post: 99913, member: 161"] I recently had an email that appeared to come from a section member. The content looked suspicious, it had a strange looking link in the text. His address was also in the message but with a few letters incorrect. I was able to telephone the member and confirm that he had not sent the email. It pays to be diligent. A few observations. Many email providers have filters on their servers to catch a lot of spam before it gets to you, however: [LIST] [*]If the email subject line looks suspicious. e.g. Free Black Shadow to the first 50 to reply …) [U]Don’t [/U]open it. [*]If you open a message and it looks suspicious don’t click any links in the message. [*]Don’t reply to suspicious messages. [*]Don’t give out your main email address to all and sundry. e.g. Posts in forums. Some forums have “public” areas that anyone can read and find your email addresses. If you have put it in a post. (Internet robots (bots) can also automatically scan sites to collect posted email addresses. [*]Most providers allow you to have several email addresses. Set up a few and use a different one for certain things. e.g. Forums, newsgroups, etc. If you then get a problem with a certain address it helps identify where spam may be coming from and you can delete that address. [*]If you are a bit more technical you can set up filters in some email programmes to automatically delete messages that have certain words in the subject line or messages that come from certain addresses or domains. [/LIST] It goes without saying that you should have some sort of Anti-Virus programme installed on your computer. If you are on a budget there are several well-known companies that have free versions of their AV programmes available for download. These do quite a good job although they do not have as many features as the paid for versions. In the event that you are unfortunate enough to catch something nasty it is a good idea to have made a back-up of any important files on a CD, DVD, memory stick, in "the cloud" or an external hard drive. [/QUOTE]
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