When receiving a letter with an unfamiliar return address, many people have concerns about the harmlessness of this file for a computer. After all, it can be infected with any virus and cause serious harm to the system. To prevent this from happening, you need to check incoming e-mail messages before opening them.
It is necessary
- - access to the Internet;
- - antivirus program.
Instructions
Step 1
If your mailbox is registered on such well-known resources as: mail.ru, yandex.ru, rambler.ru and other similar servers, then you shouldn't worry about checking your mail for viruses. The mail.ru agent is installed in mail.ru - a program that automatically checks incoming mail, while creating reliable protection against spam and viruses. In the yandex.ru system, antivirus protection is performed by the Dr. Web that works with a very high percentage of reliability. On other mail resources, for example: rambler.ru, gmail.ru, hotmail.ru, pochta.ru, viruses are also scanned automatically using built-in special programs.
Step 2
If your mailbox is installed locally on your computer, install a reliable antivirus program that can (written on the antivirus package) scan mail. Make sure that your anti-virus databases are regularly updated from the Internet, at least once every three days.
Step 3
When there is a need to check one of any letters that came to your mailbox, open the window of the antivirus program on your computer. Specify what you want to check in the mailbox: all or one folder. Any mail program creates folders in which all mail is stored. For example, for TheBat, this is the Mail folder located in the root archive of the program.
Step 4
If, nevertheless, you received a suspicious letter in your mailbox, the program missed it in some way, never follow the links contained within such a message. Since the site to which the link points can be infected with some kind of virus.
Step 5
Try to gather more information about the sender of the suspicious message. Look for information about him on the Internet or ask people on the forums if any of them received letters from this mailing address.
