With the big holidays nearing, electronic greeting cards will be sent in our emails every so often and most of the time we open them without even thinking of the possible harm it might contain. With the rise of e-cards came the rise of computer attacks everyone never expected. Some attackers attach trojans or worms that can phish out personal information, terminate programs, delete some of your files or worse take hold of your computer system without you even knowing it.
To prevent such attacks MisterGreetingCard suggests:
1) Always have a good anti-virus in your computer, it doesn’t have to be those expensive kinds because there are good free popular anti-virus available
2) Have a anti-malware in your computer as well
3) Update your anti-virus and anti-malware everyday or every so often! Though it take a few minutes and slows your computer for some time, its all worth it. Remember prevention is way better than cure.
4) Always check if the e-mail you received is from someone you know
5) There are times when attackers use a popular site as front but when you look at the email address or name closely it has been misspelled so be sure to check on that
6) Avoid downloading attachments from emails that you do not know specially files that have the word (dot)exe.
7) Do not click on links that direct you to go to another site, just search for the site or type the site address in your address bar instead if you really need to view the site.
Vigilance is one way to keep ourselves from computer attacks or…
Simply just send a real greeting card to your friends and family to show them that old school is still cool!
MisterGreetingCard managed to incorporate old school and new by still letting you send greeting cards delivered via the regular snail mail/courier but also giving you the convenience of staying at home/office in your computer to send and personalize the cards.
MisterGreetingCard, where scam is never tolerated and communications is always promoted.
