At a receipt of the letter with the unfamiliar return address many people have fears in inoffensiveness of this file for the computer. It can be infected with any virus and do to a system serious harm. That it did not happen, it is necessary to check the messages entering on e-mail before their opening.
It is required to you
- - Internet access;
- - antivirus software.
Instruction
1. If your mailbox is registered on such known resources as: mail.ru, yandex.ru, rambler.ru and other similar servers, you should not worry about check of mail on viruses especially. In mail.ru mail.ru the agent — the program checking incoming mail automatically, creating at the same time reliable protection against spam and viruses is installed. In the yandex.ru system the protection against viruses is executed by the Dr. Web program which is built in the server which works with very big percent of reliability. On other mail resources, for example: rambler.ru, gmail.ru, hotmail.ru, pochta.ru check on viruses is also carried out automatically by means of the wired special programs.
2. If your mailbox is installed locally on the computer, put the reliable antivirus software which is able (it is registered on packaging of an antivirus) to scan mail. You monitor that bases of your antiviral program were regularly updated from the Internet, at least, than every three days.
3. When there is a need for verification of one any letter which came to you to a mailbox open a window of the antivirus software standing at you on the computer. Specify what needs to be checked in a mailbox: all or one folder. Any email client creates folders in which storage of all mail is carried out. For example, at TheBat it is the Mail folder which is in root archive of the program.
4. If nevertheless to you the suspicious letter came to a box, the program somehow passed it, never follow the links which are contained in such message. As the website which the link indicates can be infected with any virus.
5. Try to collect wider information about the sender of the suspicious message. Look about it for information on the Internet or ask people at forums whether someone from them received the letter from this postal address.