Email/virus

Email and risks

Email has been around since the 1970's. It has been used my billions of people all around the world. When the Internet first came out it was huge, everyone knew about it and word rapidly got around (for the people who had the Internet back then).

History of the email
Email is much older than the Internet, the Internet involved from very basic tech and is being developed daily.

Early email when email just first come out it was just a small advance on file directory - it just put a message in another user's directory where people could view what you had sent them from another log in. It was just as simple as leaving a note for someone on there bed.

The first email system of this type was mailbox, this was used Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965. Another program to send messages other the computer was called SNDMSG but they had to be on the same computer.
The mainframe computers of this era might have had up to one hundred users to the mainframe.

Risks
there are many when using emails as there are many programs (viruses) that are made just to infected and mess up your computer. There are many different viruses/worms that can infect your computer. Most of them infect your computer and then they automatically send links to your friends (other email addresses which you have saved) and the virus spreads. This is called a chain virus. Some can wipe out operating systems in seconds as it spreads so quickly.