E-mail security , Make Sure Your
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One very important point about email is, it’s not secure
unless you implement security using digital id’s to begin with.
This means your emails could be read by a third party.
E-mail security. As a
general rule of thumb, unless you are using a secure package
make sure you never send confidential information via email,
this includes credit card numbers or any usernames and
passwords.
There are a people
out there who would love to get hold of your internet banking
credentials, but there are some who are actually trying to do
this via email.
If ever you get an
email from your bank, e-Bay, PayPal or any other website asking
you to login or verify account information the chances are this
will be a scam.
The email will
have a link on the page, it will look the same as the normal
website you login to, if you click on it you will be even taken
to a page that looks like the one from your bank or PayPal
account etc, but as soon as you try to login, you won’t get very
far, in the meantime you’ve now give someone access to your
account, via a bogus website.
The next scam via
email is the attachment this will probably be some kind of key
logging software, once you’ve opened this all characters on your
keyboard are recorded or logged into a text file which is then
uploaded to a web location ready for someone to download and
sift through it to see if they can find any account information.
The long and short of
e mail security is, never open attachments if you’re not sure
who sent them. Even then be careful, if your friends computer
has a virus and it has the capability to send emails from the
address book of course you will receive this.
Secondly never go to
a secure website from an email, if you get an email from your
bank or other business asking you to login and verify account
information, or someone has apparently hacked into your account
and they have stopped it.
But they need you to
login to confirm who you are, or you’ve been asked to take part
in a survey, but you’ll need to login, of course all these are
scams they even give you a link on the email page.
So never go to a
website any website such as banking etc from an email. If you
receive an email from your bank and you think it’s real, login
through your browser and actually type the address, never ever
use the address in the email.
These kind of people send email pretending to be Banks, Auction
sites, Pay sites, plus more, basically anyone or anything they
think they can steal money from.
If you think that you’ve already entered account information
into a scam site, contact your sites provider, i.e. your bank
etc immediately.
If you’ like to setup
your e mail security to stop some attachments , from Outlook
Express go to the tools menu and select options, now choose the
e mail security tab, you will be shown the screen below.
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From here we can specify and implement some email security.
Virus Protection
Select the Internet security Explorer zone to use
Here we can choose
Internet or restricted sites zone, Choose the restricted zone
option.
Warn me when other
applications try to send email as me
Have this selected just
for piece of mind in case any third party applications have
mailing capabilities and a virus or spyware is using them.
Do not allow
attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a
virus
Again definitely worth
having this ticked to begin with, after that if you find it’s
blocking too many valid email attachments you can change this.
Download Images
Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail
You could have a
malicious script run through this so better to be safe and tick.
You can always choose to downloads the content after the email
has arrived and you are satisfied it’s ok.
Secure email
If you wish to setup a secure ID
“ to increase you mail security it’s an ID file a little like a
passport for your computer “ follow the prompts here, starting
with “ Tell me more “ , it can be a bit of a lengthy procedure
though, but if you send and receive a lot of confidential matter
it’s worth it.
Sick and tired of Junk and trash email ,
find out how you can block it properly using the domain , rather
than the email address, that can easily be changed.
Want to setup your Hotmail through your
Outlook ? read our how to guide here.
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