Did you know that you could be “spamming” your business peers and friends and not even realize it?
It is ever so important to enlist the help of your reliable IT professional and make sure all of your systems are regularly scanned and cleaned of infections. For one thing, a hidden virus (like a “Trojan virus”) could infect your Windows computer and crawl into your Microsoft Outlook email program’s address book – and grab all of your contacts!
From time to time we see some suspicious emails come in that appear to be “from” someone we know (like a customer). But when you open the message, you realize there are some funny-looking links and not much personalization to the message at all. This is a common sign that that person’s computer was probably compromised, and the malicious culprit is now going through their contacts and sending messages that try to further infect other machines.
WEBii is not an IT network support company. But we do recommend that you have a quality IT professional behind you – either in the form of an employee or a contracting firm. That professional will be responsible for ensuring the regular maintenance and health of your actual computers and office network, and they will help to prevent a situation like “email address book hijacking”. By using those IT services and keeping your systems clean, you actually help us to keep our technical support inboxes clean, too.
