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Fraud, Spam & Malware

There are many different kinds of fraud, spam, malware, and other scams that can be brought to your computer through email. Do not reply to any emails requesting password information. Most companies will never ask you in an email to follow a link and input personal information. If you think it may be a legitimate issue, do not follow the link in the email; instead, open a browser window, navigate to the company's site, and login there to see if it says anything about needing information. Phishing websites can look identical to real websites except for tiny differences in the URL that you may or may not notice. As a general rule never use links in an email to login to a website.

Phishing

Scammers are getting ever-better at seeming believable.聽Tips to protect yourself:

1.聽聽聽 DO NOT respond to any suspicious email by clicking on links or filling out forms with personal or financial information.

2.聽聽聽 NEVER reply聽to an unsolicited e-mail that asks for your personal information, including requests for 夜色视频 username, passwords, Social Security number, or credit card. Nazareth聽University will never request personal information via email.

3.聽聽聽 BE WARY of messages with suspicious, misspelled, or awkward language like 鈥淲ebmail Exceeded Limit鈥 or 鈥淲ebmail Quota Warning.鈥 These don鈥檛 exist at Nazareth.

4.聽聽聽 BE WARY of messages that refer to non-existent Nazareth departments like 鈥淯niversity Webmail Support鈥 or the 鈥淲ebmail Messaging Center.鈥

5.聽聽聽 DELETE these phishing attempts from your Inbox聽and your Deleted Items folder to avoid accidentally clicking on the websites within the bogus email.

6.聽聽聽 BE CAUTIOUS about sending sensitive information over the Internet if you鈥檙e not confident about the security of the website.

7.聽聽聽 If the email is related to a JOB OR INTERNSHIP, check with your career coach in the Center for Life鈥檚 Work.聽 They can help you verify legitimacy! See these CFLW tips:聽Avoiding fraudulent opportunities.

How to report phish emails:聽聽

If you receive an email that you suspect is a phish or you have responded to a phishing email, change your password immediately and call the IT Service Desk 585-389-2111 or via email聽at聽tmsd@naz.edu聽to report malicious email.

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Spam

Unsolicited bulk e-mail is commonly called Spam. Many companies will send junk mail to your e-mail address with offers of unbelievable value or to advertise a service. It is best to simply ignore and delete spam, because replying to it will only confirm to the spammer that your e-mail address is valid.

Spyware

Many companies, in an attempt to profile customers' purchasing habits, will install software on your computer to track Internet surfing or other activities. Read the End User License Agreement (EULA) before checking "I accept" when downloading.

Peer-to-peer file sharing programs, screensavers, and games are commonly bundled with spyware in an attempt to get something from you for the "free" software.

If you find that your computer is running slowly, or is displaying an unusually high number of popup advertisements, you may be infected with spyware.

Several commercial products exist to remove spyware; however, three free tools are recommended by Nazareth ITS:聽Spybot,聽AdAware, and聽Microsoft Windows Defender.

By running scans through all three programs on a regular basis, you can safely and effectively remove many spyware applications.

Trojan Horse

A Trojan horse is a virus that claims to perform a desirable function, like a "cool new screen saver" or "speed up your computer," but is actually a virus.

Virus

A virus is a malicious computer program, often spread through e-mail or through a network. Viruses replicate themselves and infect your computer, causing much damage and annoyance.

You can protect yourself from viruses by installing and keeping up-to-date an Antivirus software package such as Norton, McAfee, Symantec, AVG, or Panda.

Nazareth聽University provides free Symantec Antivirus software to all residential students.

Worm

A worm is a self replicating computer virus that travels through security holes in networks and operating systems.

Two-Factor Authentication

To protect your Google account credentials from being compromised, consider using two-step authentication on your Nazareth Google account.

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