Friend or Foe

If you spend alot of time sending and recieving email, you may have noticed an increase in strange and unusual emails.

I have been recieving emails from sources claiming they are Ebay, UPS, Financial institutes and my personal favorite is the overseas relatives that die and leave you millions!!!!
The problem with these emails is they almost certainly are from scammers or hackers attempting to stamp there place in the world through digital destruction....

With the speed email can get around the world and the true global nature of the internet, scam mail and viruses can be around the world a couple of times before the anti virus companys pick them up and neutralise them.
So what to do.....

Well there are a few things I would suggest to do to help defend yourself against these digital demons..

If you dont have Anti Virus software...get it. There are no excuses, I like AVG Anti Virus...Its free for personal use and has a great auto update service that is seamless. http://free.avg.com/au-en/homepage.

Keep your virus software updated...

I am talking VERY UPDATED, set the auto update features to hourly....(if you are not sure email me and I will help you through the setup)
Any email you regularly recieve set it to auto file to its own folder using "Rules". (if you are not sure email me and I will help you through the setup)
Check the email address of the sender...eg. When I recieve a fake email from ebay the sending email address is always from a different source.
Financial organisations will NEVER and I mean NEVER ask for passwords, contact detail updates, names or any other personal information over an email....NEVER give personal details to anyone through and email....

When in doubt .......dont dare the digital demons!!!! delete it.