Tuesday, December 18, 2012

How to Secure Your Email


Email that is electronic mail used to transfer the information from one place to another. We can chat with the help of email to another person or send any important data through it. Attach a file to transfer the important document. many times it happens that due to this email service your important data like your account no., your password etc are stolen, so to save all these security of  email is necessary. Here below some security tips are describe that will help you to make your email secure.

1-Create a Strong Password:
The very first and very simple step to make your email secure is create a strong password. Choose the mix character while creating your password. When you go for creating a password for your account select all type of character like alphabets, numbers and special character. Your password should be minimum of 14 characters. By doing this you can make your password stronger.

2- Beware of scam emails:
Be careful from hackers. They are generally sends you email look like original email to hack your email account specially password of your email. These type of email normally use the words verify your email i.d and password, or verify all your account information etc. And by doing this they take the information of your account and stole your important data. So be very careful while opening of a email.

3- Use antivirus for security:
Use antivirus software to make your computer setup virus free. Strong viruses have the capacity to stole the information of your account. So, to make your email account secure you have to use best antivirus software for your computer.If you already have the antivirus software then regularly update it to make your computer virus free.

4- Be careful While Opening Attachments:
Email attachments are most widely used when sending a email. Before opening any email check the url of your computer. Do one more thing turn off the automatic downloading attachment option.

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