BEWARE OF THAT EMAIL IT MAY HAVE A VIRUS
You’ve received an email. You may or may not know the sender, but it seems friendly and innocent enough. So you open it, and there is an attachment. You open the attachment, and find it is nothing terribly interesting or important, so you delete it.
Unfortunately, you’ve also installed spyware software on your computer, and once it’s in, it starts sending information back to the originator. Keystrokes are monitored, passwords are gathered, files are perused or you are soon going to be targeted by specific advertisements.
If you’ve received an email from someone you don’t know, or an unexpected email from someone you do know – run an anti-spyware/virus check on it, and/or reply to the sender to find out what it is. If in doubt, however, delete.
Using software such as Cloudmark can often stop these emails in their tracks along with a good antivirus program you should be well protected. In summary use common sense before you open any strange email and make sure your computer is properly protected. Always view your emails in plain text mode instead of html mode, many viruses try to use html mode to trick your email client into downloading them.
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