Why not add paypal as a method for folks to support your site? I started to do so today, but did not want to enter any credit card info. Just a suggestion…. Unfortunately this is a universal affliction of these types of devices. I have found that a permanent supply of 1foot extension cords with a pass through plug on one end like on Christmas tree light strings are really useful in overcoming this problem.
You can either connect your wart to the end of the cord and still have the receptacle at the back of the plug available or in many cases you can plug the wart into the pass through plug if you have a conventional plug in the receptacles on each side of it. I have no connection with these folks and Amazon has similar products from Ziotek. Your choice. For dubious email links and attachments I sandbox the web browser Chrome using free version of Sandboxie or my email reader.
Outlook I have not run a real time malware program since Microsoft stopped supporting Defender et al. I run Malwarebytes , Adwcleaner and Hijackthis every few months just in case. Nothing found for the last few years. None of those programs you mentioned are real antivirus programs. I hope you keep good up to date backups. Not bad, but when hit it still would have been very serious.
Both times, I simply restored from my backup. Even so an AV program is a good idea. The most effective malware sits on your computer quietly doing its damage like stealing passwords or sending spam etc. In order to get infected you have to run that malware program on your computer.
And libraries that do security correctly, use software which reloads the OS from scratch daily. Hi Leo, I too opened an unknown email with no links or attachments via the yahoo mail app but am know a lot less worried thanks to your thread. Was that OK to do? And finally… 3 regarding AV programmes is avg free sufficient for protection or is Avg pro or similar programmes that you have mentioned in this thread essential? Unless you click send, it only creates the email and sends nothing to the spammers.
The free versions find malware just as well as the paid versions. The paid versions have more features. I have Malwarebytes and a Avira installed, but not in real time scanning mode. Probably OK yes. A small number of my email subscriptions have advertising feeds that are not controlled by the email sender, just like you see on many websites.
Can you get malvertising problems from those? Due to that concern I allow Thunderbird to block the remote content in those messages. Blocking remote content would further protect against even seeing that web content in your email.
Most email programs and webmail sites automatically block downloading remote content. Can you elaborate on what happens when a link is clicked? Does just going to the site transmit viruses or malware or is further action e. Sometimes simply visiting the site is enough, depending on many things. For example a fake Adobe Flash update. It did actually knew my password though i already changed my password on before the hacker even send the message earlier.
Thank you for the reply, I can rest in peace now, well not literally but yeah The link you gave me is actually what happened with me earlier, thank you so much for linking that I will be more careful from the future.
Has the phone been hacked? Hi Team Leo, I had an eyebrow raising email experience earlier today. Opened my gmail account and after opening email from a near neighbour with whom I have had a recent dispute the email started moving up and down on the screen as if someone else had control of the pc or was somehow viewing the same screen and using the vertical slider button on side of screen to cause the page to slide up and down I took my hand off mouse entirely and it made no difference.
As this near neighbour has a computer geek son could they have somehow gained this level of control as a result of exchange of a few unfriendly emails in the past week?
There were no attachments or links involved, just plain text sent and reply emails. Are there any special scans or other things I should do to ensure the privacy of my email account has not been compromised as it includes financial and personal information not for viewing by others particularly bad near neighbours.
Extremely unlikely. More like dirt in the mouse, or phantom or not-so-phantom touches on a trackpad. Hi Leo, Thanks for your very prompt reply. Gives me some assurance. After posting question yesterday I also did some googling and found the following info.
Also checked recent activity on the account which I never knew was possible. What do I do?? Battery effected I think. Will factory reset help? At times I find it necessary to attach documents or images to my email, with a person, or some firm, government agency, or service.
PDF is saf er. It is possible to craft malicious PDFs. In general, you should be careful with attachments, no matter what they claim to be. Thanks Leo. I had one other question about attachments. Is the latter safe to do? Attachments are always downloaded to your computer in order to open them, so the danger is the same. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam.
All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication. I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Search Ask Leo! It used to be scary easy. It used to be that simply viewing a malformed email could allow a virus to spread. Thankfully, that's no longer the case with modern mail programs. Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! Podcast audio.
Related Video. Thanks Reply. Cheers Reply. The other great myth, again based in ignorance, is that the are no viruses or malware that will run on a Linux platform… Reply. Gmail is a great example. OK, got it. Thanks, Mark! Thanks for your reply, Leo.. As the article says, you should be OK in this case. Food and Drug Administration use nasal samples and it has expressed concerns over the safety of throat swabbing at home, saying users should follow manufacturers' instructions.
In Israel, a top health official has said people self-testing for COVID should swab their throat as well as their nose when using rapid antigen tests, even if it goes against instructions issued by the manufacturer. Some other countries, including the United Kingdom, have approved rapid antigen tests that swab both the throat and nose, or just the nose.
In Germany, the minister for health has said they will study how reliable rapid antigen tests are in detecting the Omicron variant and publish a list of the most accurate products. Happening Now. For now, the guidance depends on where you live. Editing by David Clarke. Everyone erases my email right away before reading it because of this. Do you have any idea how to get rid of this? I have had this address for a very long time and would like to keep it if possible. I also have a second address that is attached to the same account.
I like the first one because it is easy for people to remember. It can make your address a spam magnet. In general, you should be able to go in and change the sender information in your email program or web interface. If it is through an email program, this would be a sign of malware and you should scan your computer for malware. I recieve emails from work with files as attachments. When I receive an email with a PDF attachment. I download the attachment but it opens as a poster for a visa assistance company in the Philippines that I recently used.
Any ideas?. Okay, all those rules are also applied for all kind accounts, right? Such as social media account or blog account? Let say, someone unintentionally uploaded image to a blog from their computer with virus in it or the computer already has the virus. The account or page is not infected. However malicious software — be it an image that exploits an unpatched vulnerability or anything else — has the potential to infect machines that visit that page.
Fortunately this is extremely rare. Syncronizing your account simply means that an malicious extension for example that is installed on one machine in Chrome will automatically be replicated to your other Chrome installations. You might remove it from one, but it comes back when sync happens from one of your other machines. The only solution is to temporarily disconnect ALL machines from that syncronization, disinfect ALL machines, and then carefully re-enable sync one by one.
I feel VERY stupid. Just last night I opened an email on my computer from a person that I kind of know. I thought this was something important but in the body it said Error. That is what I did. I know that everyone now is cringing. This was something that caught me off guard. There were all kind of things that popped up on the computer that seemed bogus. The computer is fine now. This is a feature that I depend on for my smartphone. What should I do? Leo, my problem is this: I get no e-mail period.
I open and closed 3 or 4 accounts, change my password, and still I get no e-mail. I have tried to sign up at different sites for e-mail, but noting comes in.
I tried it with your site. Can you help. New to all this computer thing. No one will be able to answer your question unless we know what kind of email account you are opening. The big question is, what type of email accounts you are setting up.
If they are online accounts like Gmail, you can test them online to see if they work. I am not very smart whe it comes to cumputers, I think I have a virus as my computer crashes quite often. What do I do? I realized about 6 weeks ago that we are having email issues at work. At this same time our Marketing company had started using Zoho campaigns to send out a newsletter from our company using my email address, they never set up the SPF record prior to doing so.
And then there are some people who can email me and I get it, but it will not allow me to send anything back to them. It bounces back and says [P4] Message blocked due to spam content in the message. They are saying its on our side.
Well IT on our side is getting pissy with me saying it absolutely is not on our side — but I have to think it is. So I am thinking we have some type of malware in our system at the office? Would that make sense to you? Honestly at.
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