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Can i really able to catch or trace email virus from just looking on mail?

  • Author of this Article - Jyoti Raut »
  • Published on September 08, 2010 @ 01:00AM PST |

Conclusion On Find virus - With today's mail program like outlook and thunderbird virus can't infect your email address by just looking but it may be possible that you can catch or trace up the virus by just looking in your mail.

Is it possible that i can trace or catch the email sender who send emails with virus just by looking on the email? I don't know how to know whether the link or email attachments are infected by virus. Because i am a normal user of email but i want to know how i can trace or catch the email which have virus in it just by looking to them.

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This is one of the question for which nearly every email provider, email program developer, or any other service ,which is related to the email field working every second in a day. Before 10 years if said this thing that is it possible that we can know there is any virus in email the answer was NO.

After that windows xp provide updates on firewall and everything is changed. now, if there is any virus attack on the computer and firewall is enabled on the computer then you can easily know that there is a virus attack on your computer. Sometime later, microsoft outlook 2003 came and it just blast everything on email field. It provide you various options where you can know there is a virus on the email.

After the lots of techniques came to email field now we are more capable to know anything about email like is email is spam or valid email, or may be the specific email is infected by virus or not?

So here i am giving you some of the way with which you can catch or trace the email virus by just llooking the specific email.

  • You need to install a good anti virus. so if there is any virus on email your anti virus can take action against the virus.
  • If you have an email with rich or html text format then you can get some hint about virus if the computer hang a bit while opening the specific email.
  • There is one more option now a days coming with every software wheather it is outlook, thunderbird or any other software like ftp clients this option is "Preview Pane". This preview pane make you capable to view some part of the document without even opening it. So it can be possible that you can know the email contains virus by just looking email from the preview pane..

That is about how you can know the email is infected by virus by just looking on the email.

Now here we will know how we can protect your email address or email program by virus.

  • Always update your email program like outlook or thunderbird or any other which you are using for managing the email account.
  • Regularly scan your computer with anti virus so if there any virus then it can be removed by anti virus.
  • open an attachments from the email sender who you know and to whom you can trust.
  • Don't believe on any product or software which you get from email from an unknown person, The product or software may be infected by virus.
  • Don't press any link on spam folder this will navigate you to the webpage from where your computer can get infected by virus.

By following those steps you can protect your email address and email program from virus easily.

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