Instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram have not stopped growing, both functional and users, in recent years. In these moments we find powerful platforms that allow us to communicate with other users in multiple ways.
In these lines we are going to focus on the proposal offered by the Meta company, which is none other than the popular WhatsApp. This is an application that in these moments we use both from the mobile and from our desktop equipment on a personal and more professional level. From here we communicate directly with our friends, family or co -workers.
This is something that, like many of you already know firsthand, we can carry out through text messages, voice calls, videoconference, voice messages, and more. In parallel we also have the opportunity to exchange all kinds of files from WhatsApp without using third -party applications. It is a platform that exceeds 2000 million users throughout the globe. Hence precisely that the malicious actors try to take advantage of their multiple functions to access the personal data of their users.
They also use various techniques in order to steal the accounts of the application or impersonate official companies and entities through this route. Among the many characteristics and tools available, there is one that is used too common to infect devices through WhatsApp. Precisely for all this, then we will show you how to disable it and thus protect your mobile or PC and the application of the application as such.
Protect your mobile and PC by deactivating this WhatsApp function
We must bear in consideration that as a rule we have a special care with the archives that we download to our teams from the Internet. The attackers use these contents that we go down to hide all kinds of malicious codes and make our devices reach. Well, the same happens with the messaging application that we are talking about in these lines.
We tell you all this because, by default, WhatsApp has a tool that discharges the contents we receive automatically. Here we talk about photos, videos, audio files and other file formats that are lowered by themselves and stored in our equipment. As you can imagine, in certain circumstances this can become an important risk if we normally chat with people who are not of total confidence.
Even our closest contacts can sometimes send us infected files without realizing it.
Hence, to protect our teams, what we are going to do is deactivate this function that is underway by predetermined in WhatsApp. To achieve this we tell you, we have nothing more to access the settings window of the messaging application. Then we are in the section called Chats, where we find the functionality we tell you.
We only have to deactivate the option that prays multimedia files to avoid the automatic discharge of the files we receive through the chats.
