Feb07

Hotmail introduces email aliases

by wingman on February 7th, 2011 at 14:47
Posted In: Hints & Tips

Microsoft has decided to play a little catch up to Google’s Gmail/.Mac/Mobile Me with a new addition to its Hotmail email service. Back in November, antibiotics Hotmail added the ability to use any existing email address. Now Microsoft has extended that service to include the ability to create and manage multiple email aliases from a single account.

Why would you want to create an email alias? The first obvious answer is that it’s an easy email address to get rid of if you have someone you don’t want to communicate with anymore, or if you have found the email address to become a magnet for spam. Hotmail and Gmail both have given users the ability to add just a plus sign to their email address like doctor-smith+shopping@live.com to help manage different kinds of email. Of course, the plus sign did very little to hide your primary email address since it would be easy to figure out a person’s actual address.

The newest Hotmail feature allows the creation of a completely different email address or alias which can be delivered to your primary mailbox, but also turned off when you no longer have need for it. Hotmail will allow users to add up to five email aliases per year up to fifteen aliases total. In comparison, Google’s Gmail only allows you to add email aliases by creating a new Gmail account and using the Send As feature to have email delivered to your primary mailbox.

Read more at the Windows Live Blog

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Jan05

How to spot a fake web site – Phishing

by wingman on January 5th, 2011 at 14:57
Posted In: Hints & Tips, Internet

In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an electronic communication.

Ever got an email asking you to urgently update your account? And you get these kind of mails several times…Welcome to Phishing zone.

Tips on How to find a fake website

Check Security Signs while doing any money transaction

  • You must always look for “https” on any site you use to enter sensitive information. This includes login pages, online shopping sites and bank web sites. Mind you there is one extra “s” in bold which tells actually that server is secure. e.g https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2 for yahoo login.
  • Notice the closed padlock on the lower right corner of the browser window .If you click on it, it will open a window that gives you more details regarding the certificate. Every company that asks you for sensitive information must have a digital certificate, preferably one from an established certificate authority.

Misspelled and fake URL Madness:-

Sometimes a site is replicated so well that you wont be able to find a difference if its really a fake one.You won’t be able to tell if a web site is a fake just by looking at the web design. These smart criminals can replicate any web site down to the last detail, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they used the same web designer to do it.

Take care of these things :-

  • Misspelled domains are big deceivers. Phishers will purchase a domain name that resembles the real domain. They will replace letters with numbers or with other letters. Pay close attention to the spelling of a domain names, and learn to spot a fake like www.yohoo.com or http://www.paypol.com/
  • Variations of domains should also be a red flag. Don’t click on any email that contains URLs like http://center.yahoo-security.net. A legitimate URL should read http://center.yahoo.com if it actually belongs to Yahoo! Anyone could’ve purchased www.yahoo-security.net for a scam (I’m just using Yahoo! as an example here).
  • An IP address looks something like 102.199.60.250. Bottom line, never trust emails that point you to URLs that only show an IP address.

Some more tips :-

  • Never test web sites to see if they’re legitimate antibiotics buy online or not. This means entering passwords or personal information. These sites may install malicious software known as keylogger software that records everything you type, then sends that information to scammers.
  • Stay abreast of the latest scams: The FBI’s web site has a list of all the latest scams reported, so check it periodically.
  • Ask F-Secure if the website is safe to visit : Read More
  • If you’re being urged to “verify” sensitive account information, contact the company directly instead. Always type the web site’s address in the address bar instead of clicking links on suspicious emails.
  • PayPal never uses generic greetings in their emails. Next time you get an email from PayPal, check the salutation, as PayPal will usually use your member name.
  • Emails from banks and credit card companies will usually include partial account numbers. Therefore, one should always be suspicious if the message does not contain specific personal information.

Test Your Phishing IQ:-

The Washington Post and MailFrontier have some excellent tests you can try out. Find out how well you recognize a fake. Then come back, and tell me how you did.

Phishing is a one of the. fastest-growing cybercrimes according to the FBI, and one that costs consumers millions of dollars each year. These scams have one purpose: to get as much personal information from a user as possible. This includes login information, Social Security numbers, date of birth, and other identifiable information that can help scammers open up bogus accounts under your name or steal from your existing ones.

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Jan01

Ask F-Secure if the website is safe to visit

by wingman on January 1st, 2011 at 15:05
Posted In: Hints & Tips, Internet

Generally the Antivirus system installed on your computer  takes care of websites you open in your browser , and in case of any malicious data/activities it warns you before rendering the page in front of you.

In order to add another layer to you security , here is an online tool F-Secure Browsing Protection, all you need to do is enter the site URL in the below interface, and it will tell you if it’s safe to browse the particular website.

Ask F-Secure if the website is safe to visit

So, if you are finicky, and avoid browsing new websites and pages just because you are not sure about them, Amoxil Online then try this tool, you will like it.  Try F-Secure Browsing Protection

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Dec25

Notepad++ / Round 2 / Order lines..

by stonehz on December 25th, 2010 at 17:38
Posted In: TextEditTips

Welcome back to another presentation of cool features that can be found in Notepad++.

Many times you try to order a list either constisted of numbers, letters or both!!!!

Let’s see the steps:

Open Notepadd++

Lets say that we have the next list:

Then, select all text and go to:

And the result will be :

Nice and easy the above can be applied with characters..

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Nov19

Some email clients unable to decrypt email sent from Outlook 2010

by wingman on November 19th, 2010 at 23:08
Posted In: Internet, Tutorial

When sending an encrypted message from Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 to a recipient using a third-party email client, such as Lotus Notes, Entrust, SeaMonkey, or Thunderbird, the recipient may not be able to read the encrypted message. In the case of the Thunderbird email client, it may display the following message in the body of the message when they open it:

Thunderbird cannot decrypt this message

The sender encrypted this message to you using one of your digital certificates, however Thunderbird was not able to find this certificate and corresponding private key.

Possible solutions:

  • If you have a smartcard, please insert it now.
  • If you are using a new machine, or if you are using a new Thunderbird profile, you will need to restore your certificate and private key from a backup. Certificate backups usually end in “.p12″

The recipient should check with their email client vendor to determine if an update to address this issue is available for their email client.

As a workaround, on the sender’s client, you can use the following registry value to make Outlook 2010 revert to the behavior found in earlier Outlook versions.

Important This method contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However,serious problems may occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For more protection, back up the registry before you modify itso that you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and then restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

  1. Start Registry Editor.
  2. Locate and then click to select the following registry subkey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\security
    Note :Create the \Security registry subkey if it does not exist.
  3. Add the following registry data to the this key:Value type:   DWORD
    Value name: UseIssuerSerialNumber
    Value data:  1
  4. Exit Registry Editor.

source:buying online href=”http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2142236″>http://support.microsoft.com

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