check a website such as snopes.com to see if it is real.-Lots of pop-ups on the site...be careful
If you recieve an email stating your computer has a virus. It IS a hoax.
Virus Hoax
www.snopes by Barbara and David Mikkelson Pg. 899 A+ 8th Edition
The email message contained virus but it was quickly deleted
no
The message attachment has a viruis. Delete the message then delete everything in the deleted section.
•The Know test: Is the email from someone that you know? •The Received test: Have you received email from this sender before? •The Expect test: Were you expecting email with an attachment from this sender? •The Sense test: Does email from the sender with the contents as described in the Subject line and the name of the attachment(s) make sense? For example, would you expect the sender - let's say your Mother - to send you an email message with the Subject line "Here you have, ;o)" that contains a message with attachment - let's say AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs? A message like that probably doesn't make sense. In fact, it happens to be an instance of the Anna Kournikova worm, and reading it can damage your system. •The Virus test: Does this email contain a virus? To determine this, you need to install and use an anti-virus program. That task is described in Task 1 - Install and Use Anti-Virus Programs of "Home Computer Security
•The Know test: Is the email from someone that you know? •The Received test: Have you received email from this sender before? •The Expect test: Were you expecting email with an attachment from this sender? •The Sense test: Does email from the sender with the contents as described in the Subject line and the name of the attachment(s) make sense? For example, would you expect the sender - let's say your Mother - to send you an email message with the Subject line "Here you have, ;o)" that contains a message with attachment - let's say AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs? A message like that probably doesn't make sense. In fact, it happens to be an instance of the Anna Kournikova worm, and reading it can damage your system. •The Virus test: Does this email contain a virus? To determine this, you need to install and use an anti-virus program. That task is described in Task 1 - Install and Use Anti-Virus Programs of "Home Computer Security
if there are bouncing ads and you should check your antivirus software to see if u really have a virus
Always check the sender and only the people you trust. DO not open messages you don't know who they are from OR a website you don't know. Always look at the Subject too, it helps.
May Be A Spam Mails. just ignore it
An email virus is a virus that is distributed through emails. It is still a computer virus.