Among active Internet users nowadays it is rare to find a person who has never encountered spam. Spam is meaningless letters, annoying advertisements, garbage that clogs up mailboxes, blogs, and pages on social networks. The social network VKontakte is a favorite target for spam attacks. What to do if spam arrives on VKontakte?
Spam comes to your page
Spam on a social network can be present anywhere: in comments, wall posts, private messages. Spam can come from friends whose pages have been hacked, or even from strangers. As the functionality of VKontakte expands, so does the number of opportunities for spam to penetrate.
Be vigilant if you encounter spam. Do not follow the links indicated in the spam email (even by accident). Typically, these links lead to sites that contain a virus. Such sites can seriously damage your computer or gain unauthorized access to your information. If you don't want an attacker to take over your passwords, don't touch spam. Delete it immediately. If you want to reduce the likelihood of receiving spam, restrict unauthorized people access to your page.
Spam is being sent from your page
If you find that your page is sending spam, it means that your page has been hacked. What to do in this case?
If you have not lost access to the page, change your password. A secure password must contain letters (preferably both upper and lower case), numbers, and various symbols. To further protect the page from hacking, link your account to your mobile phone number.
Hacking a VKontakte page indicates that your computer has been attacked by viruses. Check if your computer is secure enough? Install a reliable anti-virus system. Good free antiviruses are, for example, AVG Free, Avast! Home Edition Free, Avira AntiVir Personal. However, free antiviruses do not always reliably protect your computer, especially if you visit potentially dangerous sites (erotica, hacked software, pirated films and music). To ensure the most reliable protection of personal data, install one of the paid antiviruses: Kaspersky, Dr. Web or nod32.
