Each passing day we can look more and more viruses, trojans and as defined in places, malicious files that affect our computers.

Trojans
Although the progress of these threats are also developing vaccines for, but apparently there is an easy and practical to neutralize these malicious files, because in certain cases what is done is that they come to remove our files contained in our removable memory drives or flash memory.

I recently did a test which can partly solve many of these risk factors to the security of our data in flash memory such units, which investigate and propose it because the merits of an application called DestroyerVirusUSB, suggesting same block income of the Trojan to the computer via the flash memory.

The application is online so that anyone who wishes to download, but I can not recommend using it for very personal for me I hid all my files and I could never get them back and gave up as lost, but I have taken the basis of his idea and I changed into something, which I will explain below:

    * Insert Our memory drive flash to verify who is not with Virus
    * Make it an autorun file, which we do open our blog notes or notepad and escribirmos the following lines:
       [Autorun]
       Icon = 5.ico
    * Save the document but with the name and extension as follows: autorun.inf
    * We owe the file saved in the root of our flash memory drive

What we have done is create an autorun for our flash memory unit, where the first line defines it as an autorun file on the second line and assign the form of introduction to our unit when we see it from My Computer, which I've chosen a icon picture of a car and 5.ico name, which is also found in the root of our flash memory drive.

The trick is that we advance to the virus or trojan, placing ourselves our auto-run file, ie the autorun.inf file, but with what has been done is not enough because if we enter our unit on a computer infected with a virus or trojan, it will erase your file and replace it with theirs, which will have done nothing.

But not to worry because all we have to do is protect our files against writing and if possible make them invisible, which we do it just by clicking the right button of our mouse both in the autorun.inf file as the 5.ico, so that the Trojan is not likely to replace them.

Protected files
I tried it and see the efficiency that has the most dangerous Trojans out there, because for most viruses no problem.

I clarify that the procedure is using intuitive logic, but nothing can ensure 100% effectiveness in the protection of the units, since it is always good to have a good antivirus.

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I wish it were that easy, but how to eliminate spam email? I'm tired of getting spam in my email and do not know how to eliminate it. Already several people have told me this problem lately, and is that spam will never less.

Trick to avoid spam in email

There are many forms of spam, but the spam is most often bother. I read an article a few days ago a social network spam to its users, and invite you to invite your contacts, and remained at the same time with these spam emails to send them too.

Whenever we want to put our email on a blog, it is advisable to put an image that includes email and possibly in a legible, but a bit distorted. For example:

E-mail

If we can not, we can put the email is disguised as write to the account within the domain "galder.net" or "email@gmail.com" The systems have not read the mail, but any human other.

For sites where you can not upload an image because they are not your own websites or blogs, there is a fairly simple system for using e-mail aliases to avoid spam greatly.

It is only the slogan of divide and rule, when you sign up at any website, or give in the bank, or some company mail, you have to be careful.

Not sure if from those companies, or from these services will send you spam, so it is advisable to create what is called email aliases.

The aliases are e-mails that have no space, but are redirected everything they receive via e-mail if you have a mailbox, well, space. We can create as many aliases as you like, all the same account, redirected to the first photo.

For example, see the example as e-bank domains and redirect to our e principal, @, which is what we read regularly. If the bank begins to send too many emails, or go to other companies our email, to delete this redirect will do, and we will not receive communications from his, and of course keep the other @ domain redirects as well as the main email.

The bank will give that bank @ as it arrives, is redirected to the primary mailbox: principal.

Also in this way can we know when we receive spam, who has unveiled our email, if we get a third-party advertising in which we have given our bank @ email to know which was the bank who has sold or past data.

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Since the inception of the World Wide Web, resources have become more accessible and flows of information circulating on the Net continues to grow. However, the contents are not always advanced in the right direction and many people have learned quickly to abuse of these resources.

The "Spam" (also used the term spam or junk mail) refers to the sending of unsolicited bulk email.

Concept spam

The term "spam" is used to describe the sending of bulk email (usually advertising) to recipients who do not apply and whose addresses, generally, are achieved through the Internet. The English word "spam" (spam) comes from the name of the canned meat sold by Hormel Foods Company. The association of this word with abusive emails comes from an episode of Monty Python (Monty Python's famous spam-loving vikings) that develops in a restaurant whose specialty is Spam. In this episode, every time a customer orders a dish, the other guests begin to sing in chorus "spam spam spam spam spam ..." so high that the poor client can not be heard.

People who send mass e-mails are called "spammers", a word that now has a pejorative connotation.

Why "spam"?

The main purpose of spam is to advertise the lowest price through "junk mail" or "send excessive multiple (EMP).

Spammers sometimes say, in bad faith, the recipients were voluntarily in their databases and e-mails they receive are easy to remove because, after all, is an environmentally friendly way to advertise.

How spammers work

Spammers collect email addresses of the Internet (forums, websites, discussion groups, etc..) Thanks to software programs called "robots" that scan several pages and stored in a database of all email addresses appear in them.

At this point, the spammer simply launch an application that sends the advertising message to each address successively.

The effects of spam

The major drawback of spam are:

• The space it occupies in the mailboxes of the victims;
• Difficult to see the personal or professional messages that are mixed with the advertising and increased risk of eliminating error or not reading the important messages;
• Waste of time to sort and delete unsolicited messages;
• The nature violent or insulting texts or pictures that accompany these messages and that may be shocking for young people;
• The bandwidth consumed in the network of networks.

The spam also creates additional administrative costs for Internet service providers (ISP) that is reflected in the cost of their subscriptions. These additional costs are mainly related to:

• Antispam system configuration;
• Awareness of users;
• Staff training;
• Use additional resources (servers, filtering, etc.)..

How to fight spam

The spammers often use fake addresses, so it is completely useless answer. In addition, a response can show the spammer that the address is active.

Also, when you receive an unwanted email (spam) in the bottom of the page is a link which can give you the option not to receive such a message. If so, it is likely that the link provides the spammer the ability to identify active addresses. Therefore, we recommend that you delete this message.

There are also anti-spam systems based on modern rules that detect and delete unwanted messages when necessary. In general, anti-spam software is divided into two categories:

• Guest antispam systems used by the client messaging system. Broadly speaking, these filters present identification that is based on predefined rules or learning filters (Bayesian filters).
• Server antispam systems, which can filter mail before it reaches the recipient. This type of system is certainly the best since it lets you stop spam at the highest level and avoid network congestion and email addresses. An intermediate solution is to configure the server system to mark spam messages with a specific header (eg X-Spam-Status: Yes). Thanks to this brand is easy to filter messages on the client level messaging system.

For an e-mail overload or completely saturated, the final solution is to change the mailing address. However, it is recommended to keep the above email address long enough to retrieve the addresses of your contacts and communicate their new address only to real people.

Avoiding spam

Provide your email address only when clearly necessary to avoid spam and:

• Do not send messages (jokes, etc.). Requesting the user to forward the email to as many contacts as possible. These lists are really a blessing for those who collect addresses. You can forward the message if you make sure to hide the address of the above.
• Whenever possible, avoid publishing your email address in forums or websites.
• When possible, replace your email address by an image (Address collectors not detected) or break.
• Create one or more "disposable addresses" you use to register or enter the pages considered unreliable. The paradigm of perfection, if he can, is to create as many aliases as inscriptions directions ensuring that distinguishes the company name or the page. Therefore, if you receive an unsolicited e-mail, it will be easy to identify the origin of the "leaking information."

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