How Email Viruses Works:
Viruses and Email attachment:
How to protect your system from Email attached virus virus:
A computer virus is a program that can copy itself and infect users computer without permission of the user.Viruses refers to different malware programs.A virus can spread from one system to other system through network or internet or by carrying in a removable medium such as floppy
disc,pendrive or cd.Viruses can spread from one network to another network through file sharing etc and spreading malicious code.Hence it becomes easier for Virus writers to spread dangerous virus or other Malware through Email,Web and file sharing.These Emails are attached with HTML tags and embedded scripts which can destroy whole pc and delete all valuable information.These Emails can distroy hundreds or thousands of users information with in few keystrokes.
How Email Viruses Work :
There are many ways how a virus can distroy pc through Email.Most common method used by Virus writers is file attachment method to invade users pc.As soon as the user click on Executable file to which virus is attached,this virus enters into users system without his permission and copies his whole data or else it destroys.That’s why you should take care when ever you open mail attached files,even which is send by your friend.Few mail attached viruses are Melissa virus,Klez virus and trojans etc.By following the below steps you can minimize the risk of infecting your computer with email attachment.
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