If you are getting too much spam, or if you are missing an email that you expected, check the spam filter. We use the “PureMessage” system to help protect SLC Webmail from junk email and spam. You can use it to reduce spam and to recover messages mistakenly marked as spam.
Viruses are programs that run on your computer without your consent and/or knowledge and which do undesirable things. Some infect or delete files, causing your computer to stop functioning or destroying years of work. Others send copies of themselves to everyone in your email address book. There are thousands of viruses with different behaviors.
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Everyone has received email messages that warn about the “latest deadly computer virus” or that promise “prize money” for forwarding the message to friends. Such messages are hoaxes that seek to dupe unsuspecting computer users. Fortunately, such hoaxes are easy to identify.
Email hoaxes/scares often have some of the following characteristics:
Topics: antivirus, faculty, learn, sophos, spam, staff, student
