How To Avoid Spammers and Hackers

One thing that you can do to avoid spam, is to never give out your real e-mail address. Your real e-mail address should only be used with trusted friends and coworkers. Don't open junk e-mail it is the safest thing to do with junk e-mail is to delete it. Bad things can happen by opening junk e-mail such as; the impossible to close window scam, resetting of your homepage to the spam site, and loading of unwanted or hostile programs. Never open e-mail attachments unless you trust the sender and you expected an attachment. Computer viruses and other hacker software is mainly transmitted through e-mail attachments. When you are not using your computer, disconnect it from the internet. One of the worst things that can happen is when a hacker breaks into your computer and you don't even know it. To prevent unknown attacks, your computer should be disconnected from the internet when no in use.