Thursday, 4 September 2008

Summary

Email Summary

Emails are a big part of life now and they have many uses. People use emails for sending, receiving, attaching documents to emails, making groups, sending to a group of people. Using an email gives you a list of messages in your mailbox, which shows the senders name, the subject of the email, date and time. Viewing individual emails helps people check their emails easier and you can attach and receive documents with email.

Spoofing is using a program which uses another person’s email name.
Spamming is when someone uses your email for a junk mail campaign and it is an easy way to flood someone’s inbox.
Viruses are a harmful piece of code which attaches itself to files or programs and can be replicated when you open the data.
Worms are a particular virus that is capable of replicating and burrowing in the computer by itself without using any files.
Trojan is another virus in a piece of code. Once you have the virus, it can do serious damage in your computers user system and it’s possible to take control over your computer.

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