There are a lot of viruses, worms, and malware out in the Internet world and it can be sometimes intimidating or worrisome to check your emails or browse a website.  But maintaining the health of computer is a little like maintaining your health.  You don’t eat or drink things that may be bad for you.  You stay away from potentially dangerous environments.  You perform daily and weekly personal maintenance or hygiene.  In this post, I will tell you how you can take better care of your computer.  Before you read on, keep in mind 99% of viruses, worms, and malware cannot attack without your help.

• Don’t open email attachment files that you don’t know where they came from or what they are.
• Don’t browse sites that have a lot of popup ads.  These are the sites that try to sell you popup blockers and malware cleanup applications.  As you probably have experienced, they are never good applications.
• Be careful where you click when closing a popup ad, just as you would when avoiding a pothole that can cause damage to your car.
• Keep your Microsoft Windows up-to-date about once a week.
• Don’t install applications that appear to help improve your computers performance, most of the time they just cause more harm than good.

Sometimes we side track from doing the basic steps mentioned above.  Below are some tools that can help prevent your computer from getting a virus:

• Use a high quality antivirus software and it is very important to keep the virus definitions up to date
• Install an Email Security solution that blocks spam emails as well has email with a virus attachment.  CBM offers an Email Security solution that can protect your company’s emails.
• Web Filtering Solutions is also very beneficial for businesses to block potentially harmful sites that contain viruses and malware.

There is a new email going around today that contains malicious file.

• If you receive this email or similar email, DO NOT click on the attachment as it will infect your computer. Just delete the email.  Even if the From address looks familiar, do not open the attachment, the spammer is most likely spoofing the address.

• If you are on our SPAM/Email Security Service , the email has be blocked as of 11:45AM today.

• If you have clicked on this attachment:
  • Update your antivirus software,
  • Run an antivirus scan,
  • Contact CBM @ 337.332.0680

Here is a sample of what the email will look like:

There is a new email threat going around that looks like it came from Facebook, but don't be fooled.  This email has an attachment called agreement.zip which contains a trojan that can infect your computer.

• If you receive this email or similar email, DO NOT click on the attachment as it will infect your computer. Just delete the email.

• If you are on our SPAM/Email Security Service, this email is being blocked before you get it.

• If you have clicked on this attachment:
  • Update your antivirus software,
  • Run an antivirus scan,
  • Contact CBM @ 337.332.0680

Here is an example of what the email will look like:

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Spam messages have caused more damage than hackers and viruses, because of how easy and cheap it is to send fraudulent or infected emails.

Typically, there are two types of Spam emails: Unsolicited Bulk Email and Malicious Email.