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Computer courses for beginners – Email file attachments

Written January 26th, 2012
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Computer courses for beginners and seniors

Meganga’s free computer courses for beginners and seniors continues with a computer lesson taking a look at email file attachments, an essential part of basic computer training.

The online tutorial starts by attaching a file to an email using the Gmail account it then shows an email that has been received with files attached, the free computer lesson checks through the email before opening it and explaining about file size restrictions when sending or receiving emails and points out the difference in file sizes for  photographs and documents.

The computer lesson aimed as part of our free computer courses for beginners and seniors explains about the dangers from opening email file attachments that are from unknown senders or suspicious, the lesson goes on to explain about computer viruses with the help of the Microsoft Safety and Security Centre and gives advice and computer training for beginners and seniors about guarding against security threats to computers. Read the rest of this entry »

Computer courses for beginners – Hoax emails and email scams

Written January 29th, 2012
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Computer courses for beginners - Hoax emails and email scams

Computer courses for beginners – Hoax emails and email scams

Continuing our computer courses for beginners and seniors we have the final computer lesson in our basic computer training, a lesson on hoax emails and email scams. This is a general computer lesson and talks about the broad threat and types of hoax emails that maybe encountered without looking at individual scam emails as these types of computer threats are always changing.

The first thing the computer lesson points out is the need to have good Internet Home Security software, with our preferred provider being McAfee. Having good internet protection will greatly reduce the risk of receiving hoax emails, but unfortunately some may well slip through. The computer lesson then takes you to the website of The London Metropolitan Police and shows their advice on fraud.

The computer lesson is suitable for anyone worldwide, as the risks are international, it is easy to follow and we have provided a link to the Metropolitan Police Fraud page for your own reading should you wish. Read the rest of this entry »

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