Don't EVER,EVER,EVER open any email from people whom you suspect would not be likely to email to you. Once, I received an email from someone whom I am close to but the content of the email was a casual but suspicious one. I proceeded to question this 'sender' of her reason for doing so. Well, I did not suffer any losses, my PC wasn't corrupted,neither did it get attacked by any virus. There wasn't any link in the email. Just a short and simple message.
Well, I wasn't spared the next time and my curiosity got the better of me. I was in doubt of the email with the subject of the sender's name. She is my relative whom I have not written to and out of curiosity (with no sense of security), I opened the email. What's worse was I succumbed to ignorance and clicked the link. Alas! a virus detection window popped out right before my eyes. Geez, I can't even recall exactly what appeared on my screen. All I could remember was 'it was critical' and 'not all viruses' were killed. There were trojans in both my hard disk. After some clickings of 'Yes', it seemed that something was still not completed yet. Calling an expert was what I did, he advised me to shut down which I did. When my PC was restarted, everything was normal. A check on the status of security of my PC indicates every possible protection is activated. I hope I am safe. But, I gotta consult the expert again to determine whether my PC 'killed' any virus, just in case.
Well, I wasn't spared the next time and my curiosity got the better of me. I was in doubt of the email with the subject of the sender's name. She is my relative whom I have not written to and out of curiosity (with no sense of security), I opened the email. What's worse was I succumbed to ignorance and clicked the link. Alas! a virus detection window popped out right before my eyes. Geez, I can't even recall exactly what appeared on my screen. All I could remember was 'it was critical' and 'not all viruses' were killed. There were trojans in both my hard disk. After some clickings of 'Yes', it seemed that something was still not completed yet. Calling an expert was what I did, he advised me to shut down which I did. When my PC was restarted, everything was normal. A check on the status of security of my PC indicates every possible protection is activated. I hope I am safe. But, I gotta consult the expert again to determine whether my PC 'killed' any virus, just in case.
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