Afiqq Blog

31 March 2007

Your Friend Give You Shitty Email?

i need to share a few things with you people, especially people who uses the PC. i mean PC users who are not very educated in IT.

whenever you open your email, please make sure you check if there's an attachment. if there is, be careful. there were some stupid attachments given via email like powerpoint slides showing funny pictures lah, slides about pork stuff in some nuts etc. please do not open that kind of attachment, even if it came from your friend. because i opened before.

i got an email from my friend, a powerpoint slide. about a chair with no wheels something like that. when i opened it, the slide showed my a picture of a chair with no wheels, but replaced with rocks. it was lame. then the next few weeks i realised my computer became slower, the startup became slow, i played my Winning Eleven, the sound became slow, everything slow. when i did some scanning, i got to know that my pc got raped by a Worm!

so people out there, even if you feel kinda curious whether the attachment your friend sent you is some sort of a funny picture or slides or maybe some really good romantic poems with beautiful pictures of roses that you really really wanna read, please think twice. if not, you can scan the attachment first before opening it, most email providers provide that kind of thing.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I share your sentiments Wak. These attachments may be infected with worms or some malicious software which may reside in your harddrive upon opening.

Though these emails may seem interesting and nice to read, I'd suggest that you all do some scanning before opening your emails.

Kindly also advise your siblings not to succumb to opening these kind of emails easily nor send it to your friends, unless YOU created them on your own.

Do try to read Digital Life which comes with the Straits Times every Tuesday. It is very informative and worth your reading. And they share some tips on troubleshooting your PC.

Being tech-savvy is not about having lots of gadgets or having the most high-end computer or even the fastest broadband, it's in the knowledge of the technology itself.

You may have the fastest broadband, but that will also mean a faster download of worms and malicious software to your PC if you don't have the knowledge management.

Lastly, kindly stop forwarding me these kinds of emails, or your effort would be deemed wasted. ;)

March 31, 2007 10:30 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

cheer 4 wak!!!!
gd help n advise!!!!!!
u mean u din scan b4 u open e email attachment???

April 03, 2007 10:40 AM  

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