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EIT offers tips to recognize questionable e-mail |
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Melissa Crabtree and Chad Hrivnyak |
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Feb 16, 2005 |
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Have you noticed a recent batch of suspicious e-mails? Help fight the battle against these malicious messages by being aware of the following basic security measures:
• You may know and trust the sender of an e-mail, but if an e-mail looks suspicious (such as weirdly named attachments, the same or similar e-mails from different people, or numerous grammatical/spelling errors), call the person before opening the attachment and ask if he or she sent an e-mail recently.
• EIT will never send an attachment to fix a virus, security fix, or anything of this nature. This is true of all companies. Like the recent MyDoom virus, many high-profile companies like Microsoft, eBay, Amazon, banks and UT have had to battle with these false e-mails.
• EIT will never sign e-mails with generic signatures such as utoledo.edu network team, etc. This is one method used to avoid hoaxes.
• Keep your operating system up to date with the manufacturers latest security fixes. These are available from the manufacturers’ Web sites.
• You must have anti-virus software running on your computer and keep it up to date. This software is available for personal computers at Rocket Copy for $5.
• Use a personal firewall to protect your machine. This is especially important for broadband users and is included in your Windows XP operating system.
• Check EIT’s security Web site at http://eitnetwork.utoledo.edu/und_docs/Security/Public/advisories.html for the most recent virus and operating system issues. Links are included that show samples of viral e-mail messages.
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