It's a sad state of affairs when each visit to your email inbox seems to bring with it more unsolicited messages than the day before. Even if you're using a junk mail filter with your email client, junk mail like spam, advertisements and chain letters can be painstaking to sift through. Worse yet, if you don't have a trained eye for recognizing the difference between email trash and treasures, your ignorance could get you and your computer into some trouble.
Email attachments are a prime vehicle for propagating Internet hoaxes and malicious viruses.
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