Can i get infected for an email virus?

Can i get infected for an email virus?

Sometimes you may end up infecting your computer with viruses by reading mails, but that will only happen when the email you are reading carries a virus within it. Usually the virus that are transmitted via emails are embedded in the attachments that come with the email and therefore it is good practice to scan the email attachments first, even the email message itself before opening it just to be safe from any viruses that may be attached.

But the good thing is that for most email service providers like yahoo and Gmail, you will find that they have a link scanner that will scan any attachments that you want to open and warn you if they may be risky or not. So you just need to heed to what the scanner will tell you and discard any messages that may look suspicious.

It is also good not to be opening messages that you do not know who the sender might, and most probably the messages that land to your mail box as spam.

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Thompson Locker