What are the risks of opening an email attachment?
Let’s learn what are the risks of opening an email attachment. The most accurate or helpful solution is served by Yahoo! Answers.
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Text files are probably the safest with jpg being next. NEVER run an exe or bat file unless you absolutely...
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The risk is the spread of malware. Malware is anything that affects the functionability of your system...
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The riskis of opening up an email attachment with a picture is if you dont know the sender who is sending...
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If it's from an unknown source it can be a Virus, Trojan, or any one of many malware attacks. Rule of...
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I received an important email regarding my squad and can't open the attachment...no picture shows. When i received the email it showed up as spam, but i moved it to my inbox and ...show more
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Try to right-click and open, if that doesn't work then perhaps your computer is experiencing a virus...
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When I download an attachment from my Yahoo mailbox, the attachment is automatically scanned for viruses before I can view it. However, once I view the attachment, a little pop-up window stating 'Virus Scan Results - No virus threat detected' still shows...
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what are the risks of opening attachements through email?
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Some attachments may contain 'bugs' which will slow down your PC, cause programs to crash and worse...
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A friend got a computer virus from a false jpg attachment sent to his hotmail email address. When he clicked on the jpg no photo came. However it gave him the option to RUN or SAVE. He clicked on RUN and his computer got the virus which among other things...
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i received a very important document in an email however i cannot open the attachment .is there any way to open it . comp wanted to search net for an appropriate program but the program download was cancelled by norton ,it had detected a trojan . i have...
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First of all, do you recognise the email adress sending it too you ? If you dont then the best chance...
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