RE: Win an Internet!
March 16, 2012 at 6:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2012 at 7:01 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(February 15, 2012 at 7:21 pm)padraic Wrote: I protect myself by having the best security I can get my hands on. [...] .Not opening email from people I do not know. [...]
You also shouldn't open mail attachments you didn't ask for or didn't expect from people you do know! Their mail accounts/contact address books can get hacked. It happens all the time. It happened to me twice in the past 2 years! And I know dozens of people who've had it happen to them. Suddenly some of their contacts started to get strange, uncharacteristic mails from them, or that's what it looked like.
So if an email – from anybody – looks strange, or out of place, take a second to think it over! They might just be goofing off, and it's something you simply hadn't expected from them. Or some hacker/spammer could be masquerading under their ID.
