Having an email address must for anyone who needs the internet for communication needs at work or in socializing with family and friends scattered everywhere.If you have a reputable bank account and use internet banking, email accounts have the option column must be filled, gunakanya; all internet banking transactions will be sent to your email address in the form of a report every transaction. Send documents more quickly and efficiently using email, and uses relatively low cost. Facebook phenomenal, Twitter is fun, even hanging out in the community in Indonesia as the largest forum Kaskus, requires an email address to register.
So, there is the email reply you can use just for fun, like Facebook or Twitter.And email used for business affairs with your colleagues. In my opinion, if all services using a single email address, imagine how many emails coming into your inbox every day? although in the email you have facilities spamm useful to filter the emails that are not clear. Few tips and advice for securing e-mail address, for easy and even very safe in my opinion;
- Make your emails and use the appropriate level of interest divided by some;
1. The first level
Email to a critical and sensitive matters, such as bank accounts, internet accounts / phone, web hosting service, domain, online payment (PayPal for example) all that concerned with financial inclusion in important emails that have a level I and a top priority.
2. The second level
Email for work and business affairs; as corresponded with colleagues, becoming a member of a community, enrollment facebook, twitter and others
3. Third Level
Email to matters that are not so important but the process requires an email address. Suppose you install the software on your computer or you fill out a comment or guestbook on the website using an email with the security level of this third level.
In this way you can distinguish which emails your first check.
- Use a Free Email, Free email and make several well-known.
recommendation to use Gmail, Yahoo, Live, or AOL email account creation. was not love in the country; a few emails in the country on the portal / web great amenities very reliable BUT still less with the free email that I mentioned earlier-in terms of capacity, appearance and safety. Even the TV companies just use a free email like gmail for email communications on its programs.
- Get used to logout when finished using your email
This is one of the biggest causes of why someone's email account hacked other people frequently, it is important to always logout email account before you close the browser or finished using it. Especially if you use a computer frequently accessed by the public, cafe / office for example.
- Do not get used to using passwords that are easy to predict.
Although not everyone in the world know your birth date, but not very wise when using the password / password using the email address. Just a suggestion to use numbers, letters, and upper / lower case as your password combinations. Usually the minimum password length 6 digits / letters. In some email services must use more than 8 digits / letters, I suggest using more than 10 digits eg for passwords (example) p455w0rd54y4 this example the password is strong enough to protect your email. possibilities; 12digit x 26huruf x 10 points = 3120 possible guesses!and even then not include the upper / lower case, special characters and in several e-mail service, if a password is guessed using special software (brute-forced) more than 3 times and still wrong. Will display the CAPTCHA verification [id.wiki] which is the security facilities of the web email if someone tried to login by using special facilities.
- Do not "click" link on incoming email from senders who are not especially clear.
Email is still used by criminals to trick the recipient to click on the site address that they send. This is the point antivirus, hanging out in online communities on the internet and read news portals such as seconds, Legal, kapanlagi. In the section dedicated to the internet and technology.
- When using public computers
Pay attention and make sure no hardware / software that is a keylogger. This software can record, record what we are tough on the monitor at any given time and stored in special files, the severity of these records can be automatically sent / uploaded to a specific email or website.
- Use email managment on the first point above, may be increased or decreased level according to your needs