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Common sense approach to avoid malware | | 2008/07/22 | | The common sense approach should be employed in order to avoid malware, according to Web-User.
Web-User's news editor, Ben Camm-Jones has urged computer users to go back to basics when considering the health of their PCs by being aware of updates in security software and in choosing carefully which attachments to open from unsolicited emails.
He said that people "really ought to be aware that there are several different types of attack and should be using software to stop this."
Research carried out by messageLabs revealed 2,076 new malicious websites blocked for every day in June which represented an increase of 58 per cent from May and the highest occurrence since April 2007.
The proportion of new sources of spam in email traffic stood at 76.5 per cent globally which is equivalent to one spam message in every 1.31 emails.
And McAfee ran an experiment from July 2008 and found that the average user who surfs the web unprotected received up to 70 spam emails per day. |
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