how can I block mail with virus in my mail box?

Question

I have yahoo account but someone has been sending some mail with virus with them any one with an ideal how I can stop this

Answer 1

Delete it without opening it. You can also mark it as spam.

Answer 2

Are you using the web interface or did you pay for premimum service, so that you could get POP access and use mail client software like Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express just to name a few?

If it's from the same person all the time and you are using the web based mail interface, but it's coming into your regular Inbox just mark it as spam and all future emails from that person will go into from that person from that point on.

If you are using any email client software, then you can go into the web based email as indicated above before opening your client software to intercept the problem email and deal with it as I indicated above. That way, you will not have it coming into your client again.

However, you should also tighten the security on your email client, so that you are NOT displaying any HTML automatically, downloading any attachments automattically, running any scripts automatically, and so on. You also need to make sure you have kept your system kept up todate with security patches, but not just the Windows OS patches. You also need to make sure your other applications are up todate too, because those have become targets for hackers since Microsoft is dong such a good job of keeping their OS and IE holes patched.

Then, you also need to keep your system up todate with a good Anti-Virus Software protection, and you have to be smart about what you download. I mean, it doesn't do any good to have all these security measures in place if you're going to be downloading EXE files from all over that place that you don't know what they are or what kind of hidden payload they may contain. The same goes for someone you don't know sending you what looks like a harmless file, but in reality it's a virus, usually a trojan horse.

I recently answered a question on here, where someone was sent a TXT file and the person didn't say in the question that it was all gabildygook (spelling). I didn't find that out, until I was contacted by email about it. Anyway, in my response without even knowing the file was unreadable, I warned that the file might be a virus and that the email should just be deleted.

I have had a home computer since 1984, long before the Internet became the popular beast it has become today, and I have never gotten a virus yet. I have a few different viruses isolated on floppy disks.

Anyway, I hope this answers your question.

Answer 3

Yahoo has a Virus Scanner built into it for your email, but would like to recommend http://Avast.com to download. It scans all of your computer constantly and email also. I have used it for years and have installed it on all of my friends computers and have had NO trouble at all. There is times it has found a Virus, but you have an option to move it to the Virus Chest, Delete it right away, or Abort the connection at once. if I get a Virus which is rare I always hit DELETE, and continue with what I am doing without worry. Of course LEAVE the site at once. By the way, it is FREE and do not let that fool you as it is in my opinion the BEST virus Protector there is. By the way, follow the others advise in this question. Never open an attachment or email if you do not know who it is from. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

If you are receiving mail from an unknown source....NEVER EVER OPEN IT. Report it as spam or delete it.

Did I mention to NEVER EVER OPEN unsolicited mail? Yahoo has a virus program, but no program is 100% effective, for there must be 100's if not 1000's more people finding new ways to sabotage computers than there are people trying to stop them....smiling.

Answer 5

If you are using a mail software like outlook, you need to install an anti virus with support for mail softwares, like Norton or Panda, that is going to add a toolbar inside the outlook.

If you are using a web mail, that's a matter of your e-mail provider

Answer 6

You should never open mail, that you don't know who it is! I always use "Norton", Antivirus. And it never fails to stop the virus before getting into my pc.

Answer 7

I get sent that all the time. Just don't open any attatchments and if you don't know the person, delete without opening.

And get a Mac. Mac's don't get viruses.