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Emails that contain programs sent to you by people you do not know should most likely not be opened. File attachments most commonly with a .exe extension are viruses that could lead to someone obtaining your personal information.
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How could the risks of sending and receiving email attachments?
i thik its bad.
What are the risks of receiving or opening email attachments?
more than likey there is a virus attached and you can possibly infect your computer
The risks of receiving email attachments?
worms, viruses, and Trojan horses packets that are destined by malevolent hackers to harm your PC.
How can you try reduce the risks of email attachments?
Keep your antivirus software up to date and never open an email attachment unless you absolutely trust the person or company that sent it.
Risks be of downloading email attachments?
Such email attachments can be dangerous as they may contain worms and trojans that can immediately infect computers, once opened by the unsuspecting user. There are a lot of things that one can do to protect his/her computer from the risks coming from email attachments: - Configuring the email client used, to block opening/saving of email attachments that may have risk potential. As an example, Outlook has an option to block email attachments that are potentially dangerous. - Use an antivirus that also has the ability to scan incoming/outgoing email. Norton Antivirus is an example of such product. The antivirus works by scanning incoming/outgoing emails, and in most cases they are able to clean up the message by removing dangerous/infected attachments, and preserving harmless content. It is very important to keep your antivirus updated on a daily basis, so you are protected from the latest worms and dangerous executables that may be sent through email attachments. - Learn about email attachment risks. Keep informed about the latest virus threats that come via email, and how they disguise themselves in order to be opened by the unsuspecting user. - Disable hidden file name extensions on your Windows-based computer. Some attachments may come as exacutables with a hidden extension, like .shs or .lnk for example. A virus may reach your computer as an email attachment with two extensions, for example FILENAME.TXT.shs ; due to the fact that .shs files have hidden extension on Windows computers, the user may try to open the FILENAME.TXT file which may seem harmless, but in fact he ends up executing the .shs binary file and infecting his computer in this fashion. - Pay attention to filenames. There are lots of cases when hidden extensions are used, just like described above. Also, in some cases there are a lot of spaces inserted inside the filename, so the true extension of the file may scroll that much to the right, that we can't see it inside email client. - Do not open any kind of email attachments that appear suspicious. Do not open any kind of executable files that are being sent to you. Some people may send you funny video files or similar things; they may even be your friends, unsuspecting that what they are sending actually contains a virus. Do not send such email attachments to your friends as well. - Do not open email attachments from people that you do not know or you do not trust. - Be aware that there are some files that come as email attachments in the format of zip files or other archives, in orde to trick antivirus scanners from detecting executable content. If you receive a zip file from someone you do not know, you should assume it must be dangerous. - Be aware that Office documents like Excel spreadsheets or Word documents can be dangerous as well. Some people are actually sending emails with Office documents as attachments, even unaware that the documents they are creating and sending to you, are infected by a macro virus, which is a virus written for Office documents, since Office documents can contain hidden programs. To protect from such problems, disable macros in your Office programs. Hopefully, these advices will prove useful to you, in protecting your computer from risks coming from email attachments, in the future. Also try to tell others about the risks
How do you resend an email with attachments?
... and here are the ever-important attachments.
How do I send pictures in a email with attachments?
if you send pictures in an email with attachments, then your picture will be magic
Why are executable files usually blocked as email attachments?
To block potentially dangerous email attachments from ever getting to your computer.
How can you minimise the risk of email attachments?
Some attachments may contain harmful viruses, which could infect your computer. To avoid getting a virus, only open/download attachments from reliable sources, which you are expecting to be sent to you.
What are the Risks of receiving attachments?
The risks of receiving attachments are that they could be carrying viruseswith them. If you are not sure about an attachment or weren't expecting it make sure you check it out with an up to date virus scanner or checker.
True or false Does a network allow you to send and receive email attachments?
true or false a network does not allow you to send and receive email attachments
What server are email attachments stored on?
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