Malware

Malware - short for 'Malicious Software', is software such as a virus that intends to damage or disable a computer system. Being an Apple Mac owner I avoid trojan horses & worms. I have owned many and various models of Mac computers since the early 1990s. I have never experienced a virus on any of these. This is one of the reasons that I recommend Macs.

Examples of Phishing that I have experienced are the emailed 'letters from Nigeria'. Claiming to want to deposit money into my bank account - please send my bank account details. Other similar letters appear to be on a bank letterhead. Usually they are not well written, may have poor grammer and or spelling mistakes and it is easy to be suspicious of them. It surprises me that some people are so vulnerable to be sucked in by these criminals.
I do not open attachments from an unknown source.