{"id":42818,"date":"2022-01-07T14:21:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42818"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:23:46","slug":"computer-security-malware-and-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-security-malware-and-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer security: malware and email"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about computer security: the tutor mentions some ideas about email security.<\/h2>\n<p>\nA question that might arise: &#8220;If a computer user has a virus but doesn&#8217;t know it, can that virus spread to their online account (online email, office documents, and such)?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis post, the focus is email. I&#8217;ve looked into it, and although anything is possible, it seems that when a virus or worm spreads, it needs to be associated with some resource. Typically, with email, that&#8217;s an attachment, but can also be a link.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it seems that, if an email doesn&#8217;t contain any links, and its attachments are safe, it will be safe. Gmail, for instance, automatically scans email attachments for viruses when sending or receiving.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to follow up.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/mail\/answer\/25760?hl=en\">support.gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.kaspersky.com\/knowledge\/email-worm\/\">encyclopedia.kaspersky.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/uscert\/publications\/virus-basics\">cisa.gov<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about computer security: the tutor mentions some ideas about email security. A question that might arise: &#8220;If a computer user has a virus but doesn&#8217;t know it, can that virus spread to their online account (online email, office documents, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-security-malware-and-email\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer security: malware and email<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42823,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818\/revisions\/42823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}