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McAfee advises on how to stay clear of spam

Written by IT News on 10:45 AM

I think nobody wants find that their inbox full of spam messages, especially after telling messages were sent in order to propagate all types of malicious software. The intention of spam is to infect your machine, turn it into Zombie PC in an increasingly botnet. According to McAfee, a company that specializes in risk management and prevention of infiltration, there are three things that you need to in order to offer to stay: the most used spam subject lines, the categories they relate to, and a few tips and guidelines meant to you safe.

Current Spam Categories

As a rule of thumb, will resort to trick spammers pretty much all they can come forward to propagate their malicious intents. According to a survey recently updated by McAfee team the first three categories are spam products and services (36%), ads (30%) and storage (11%). Other categories include Russian spam (10%), services for adults (7%), and last but not least related to IT and financial (both 3%). McAfee also included news of Chinese spam to the list of categories, but they ranked in at 0% (maybe these categories are not very active in July).

The Most Common Spam Subject Lines

Here are some of the most used spam subject lines: "Cheap rolex, Omega, Cartier ... the lowest prices; Raw video of Paris; Look attractive with greater jackhammer; woman lost dog nose after the attack; Be strong and difficult. " Pretty much every side advertising messages some adult footage from some celebrity is also spam.

Tips and Pointers to Avoid Spam

If you have to make your email address available to the general public and by this I mean the introduction into the Internet, make sure to obfuscate it. Instead John.Smith @ mail.com use obfuscated version John.smith-and-mail-like points. Even better idea would be to use graphic images that describes your email address.

Do not use the same email address for work related activities, as well as personal ones. You must have at least two separate addresses and use them depending on the situation. If you want to contact friends or coworkers use one email if you want to post messages in forums or subscribe to newsletters used to each other.

If your Internet service provider offers spam filtering, McAfee suggests that enable this option. If you get spam messages through the filter, you must report this to ISP.

Do not give your email address to any site unless you have read the privacy policy and you agree with him. You must make sure that the web site of the question will not sell your mail.

When you receive spam message, not open it, download it now all the attachments may include it and never answered back. In response, which are only providing spam confirmation that the message is active, that you are using it often.

If spam message informs you that you need to update your information, or checking your bank account, that message is definitely an experiment for fishing. If you click the Internet connection is included in the message, which will be directed to phishing sites where the attacker will try to obtain his security credentials.

Your feed are not yours to know, and no one else should keep them. Do not give your username and password to anybody, no matter who requests to do so.

Make sure to update your security software solution on a regular basis.

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