Lesson 3. Email Tips/Fact and Fiction

Question 1

Spam is aka.

Answer 1

Junk mail or unwanted email advertisements

Question 2

Tips for Dealing with Spams

Answer 2

Use a Spam Blocker
Don’t reply to spam
Turn off Images
Turn off Preview Pane
Regularly check your spam folder

Question 3

Email Scams

Answer 3

comes in different forms but generally it works by promising something that’s too good to be true, or by making one think that something bad will happen if they do not act

Question 4

Examples of Email Scams

Answer 4

work at home offers, weight loss claims, debt-relief programs and cure-all products

Question 5

Tips from Email Spam and Scams (9)

Answer 5

1. Get a good spam filter
2. Report scams and spam
3. Check email addresses carefully
4. Don’t open any attachment that you weren’t expecting
5. Keep your antivirus software updated
6. Keep your computer’s firewall on
7. Scan Attachments for viruses before downloading
8. don’t respond to unexpected emails from businesses
9. Be cautious of out-of-character emails from friends

Question 6

Tips for Creating Strong Passwords (8)

Answer 6

1. Never use personal information
2. Use longer passwords
3. Write down your passwords
4. Don’t use the same password for each account
5. Include numbers, symbols and both uppercase and lowercase letters
6. Avoid using words that can be found in dictionary
7. Random passwords are the strongest
8. Create a mnemonic device

Question 7

HTTPS stands for

Answer 7

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

Question 8

What is HTTPS?

Answer 8

a widely used communication protocol for secure communication over a computer network with especially wide deployment on the internet

Question 9

HTTP

Answer 9

insecure and subject to man-in-the-middle and eavesdropping

Question 10

HTTPS is designed to?

Answer 10

withstand such attacks and conaidered secure against such attacks

Question 11

Security symbol

Answer 11

a lock that indicates that the browser verifies the website as a secure site

Question 12

Some of the most popular search engines

Answer 12

Yahoo!, Bing, and Google

Question 13

Why Google is the most popular search engine?

Answer 13

most effective at finding what we’re looking for

it produces relevant results than y or B, and it’s better at organizing and filtering them

Question 14

10 Types of Websites

Answer 14

Commercial Site, News Site, School, Databases, Forum, Organization, Blog, Wiki, Scholarly Site, Question and Answer Site

Question 15

Commercial Sites

Answer 15

give information about their products or services

Question 16

News sites are usually?

Answer 16

updated frequently and older articles may be kept on the site for years

Question 17

Aside from general info about School, what are included in School sites?

Answer 17

usually have pages written by teachers to supplement their lesson plans

Question 18

Databases

Answer 18

collection of information often from different sources

Question 19

Forum

Answer 19

where people can have discussions where each is known as thread

Question 20

Blog is short for?

Answer 20

Web log

Question 21

Blog is ofte a good place to?

Answer 21

find the latest info abiut a person, company or topic

Question 22

Wiki

Answer 22

let users add or modify content