15/04/2024
Computer security.
We are starting to see a large number of these again so please be careful.
The two most common over the last few weeks we are seeing is getting an email with an attachment that has an extension (the bit at the end) that has .html
Please don’t click or open this attachment as it is a link to a website, these normally look like a bank asking you to log in. Just delete the email and empty your deleted items folder (let me know if you don’t know how)
The other one that seems to have increased is a random phone call saying they are from your ISP (internet company) sometime they will say they are from BT other time just your internet company.
Just hang up the phone, your internet company will never call you out of the blue saying you have a problem, these are scams and will get you to install remote software saying they can fix the issue for you, please just hang up the phone.
If you have clicked the link or gone through a phone call and installed something then remove the software and run a virus scan (don’t forget the free virus programs really are no good) get yourself something like malwarebytes