PAUL MYERS – THE PERILS OF THE INTERNET AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF

The perils and pitfalls of doing business online are unavoidable. It is important protect yourself from these problems before it gets too late. There are some nasty kinds of people out there who will attack innocent people online. These nasty people will attack you with spam, cons and virus infection attempts. Their target is not only to someone you know, you could be the next one anytime. So before that happens, you need to prevent from those malicious attackers. The good news is, with a small effort, you can protect yourself from them. As I mentioned it above, spam is one of notorious online problems. So how you prevent from spam? How do they get your email address in the first place? To keep your email address totally free of spam, use your ISP or Web host offers Spam Assassin or another dependable spam filter is one way to protect you. But remind you there are no 100% guarantee but it will do save your time afterwards. Most people would never dream of spamming, but surprising number end up doing it because they don’t understand what is and how to avoid it. For example when you send “unsolicited bulk e-mail.” Be careful those words, when you are sending those unsolicited bulk e-mail to people, “if they didn’t ask for it, and it’s bulk. It’s almost certainly spam.” To avoid all it cost, when you send your email to customers and prospects, always it is the best to ask their permission by requiring that they confirm their subscription. Keep your lists clean of bad addressed and addresses that regularly can’t be delivered to. Talking about virus, that is another malicious online problems. Prevent yourself by running a virus checker and updated it weekly. Never open files sent by e-mail, from anyone, unless you were expecting them, and etc.

In case of all that protection didn’t work, make sure to back up your data will save you from loss of important data when the hard drive unexpectedly crashes. "Like no other way to prevent yourself 100% from all those nasty attacks, it is better than none. It will keep out the vast majority of them."

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