Almost all of us have experienced the daily exposure to hundreds of spam email messages. While this have become very common in both work and personal systems that is not where the real problems lie. Having your email address and password obtained illegally - especially for truly fraudulent purposes and the general access to your private doings is where the real exposure lies. It is fairly easy to take password type data from emails and match that against demand fields in all the accounts that you regularly use to run your life.
So, how does one go about truly securing your email - addresses, passwords, and history - to prevent or largely eliminate anyone from getting it. While there are many things technical - from securing your office network to physically securing human access to your office PC. Those are not the function of this article. What we are dealing with here are the things that you can do to truly improve the overall level of security of your email account data - both at home and at work.
Your primary consideration should be security over convenience. Phishing and hacking rely on gaining access to private data by grabbing it when it is out in the open - your emails - and when it floats on private-access accounts via auto-login headers. Therefore you should accept that, if you want to genuinely upgrade your email and private account settings security, that you consider eliminating the use of auto-login totally. Many people are opposed to this as it does make using many online access accounts very efficient by not requiring you to look up many User ID and Password combinations.
If all you do is eliminate this kind of usage regarding your primary email accounts and especially is you use public access PCs like in libraries, then you will not be leaving a data footprint behind that can be copied.
If you are a heavy email user - meaning you use email every hour in conducting business - then you should minimize your exposure by using multiple email accounts. This is especially true with regard to financial accounts like online banking accounts.
Become a savvy player by not reusing the same IDs and Passwords again and again. Most people who have had a general theft of this kind of private data have been found to reuse the same passwords throughout their personal network of memberships and emails. It is certainly convenient but reusing this data is EXTREMELY risky.
Make sure your use of public email accounts is through an encrypted access platform like HTTPS as used now by Yahoo and Google. This encrypts all email access and prevents account names and passwords from being grabbed on the fly.
Increase your overall level of PC security so as to prevent resident malware and virus access to the passwords that are resident on your PC. This means using the best security software and reviewing it status and functioning on a regular basis.
Finally, keep a “clean” PC environment with regard to your system registry by regularly using registry software to maintain your registry. If you have performance degradation then you can do a registry fix with commercial software and achieve the registry repair.
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Author Resource:-> James Roberts is Senior Article Editor for What-Why-How researching and writing on numerous topics including how to use registry software and best ways to do registry repair that work fast!
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