Showing posts with label gmail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gmail. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Top 10 Best Tips To Protect Your Gmail Account From Hackers

Top 10 Best Tips To Protect Your Gmail Account From Hackers


InShortViral: Today we are going to share the genuine ways to secure Gmail Account, the article composed with 10 best tips that will surely help you secure and protect your Gmail Account.
Gmail is very successful mailing network. Now most of the people are are adopting Gmail account daily to send and receive emails. Many of them apparently believe that what is the benefit of tracking a mail, so why should I care, right? Wrong! because everyone is stealing or trying to steal as many data as possible by them.

Nowadays information is deserving everything and many companies send you emails through which they already got the permission to do such activities by which they can observe when you open a mail, what you click after that and what is your location exactly. Toughening your account is a very important. So in this post, i will focus on how to secure your Gmail account.

10 Tips To Protect Your Gmail Account From Hackers

Steps To Secure Gmail Account From Hackers:-

#1 Using Ugly Email

  1. Open your Google Chrome browser on your PC.
  2. Search for “Ugly Email in google chrome Webstore to save yourself from tracked emails.
  3. Click “Add to Chrome” in the new tab and you are good to go.
  4. Now this will get added to your chrome at the right corner.
  5. Now whenever you login into your Gmail account and open emails then you will see an “evil eye” sign. This indicates that email is  a tracking email.

#2 Google 2 step verification

This is a very secure and safe process that keeps your Gmail account protected from various disasters. The users are provided with a one-time login code to a secondary device through text or Google authentication app. But the text is best. The secondary device can be mobile, laptop or any other device. In order to access your Gmail account, the hackers should identify the security code for the secondary devices also. This code can be numbers or any other thing.

#3 Stay out of the spam/phishing messages

Try to avoid the spam or phishing folders. The most malicious emails contain the subject line as:
  • Your money is waiting
  • Claim your reward
  • Get back to me
Also, you can receive some messages with the subject line as ‘Your Amazon. Com order has been shipped’. To keep the Gmail account safe, you can use the unique account for Amazon, e-bay and do not open those emails which you receive in another account.

#4 Do not disclose the password

Never share your password with anyone. If Google wants your Gmail password then do not give it through any link rather go to https://www.gmail.com or https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin and log in.

#5 Account recovery option: Keep the mobile number up-to-date

It is advised to keep the mobile number current because Google sends the security code in your mobile number. In case your account number is hacked then they should know your current phone number what Google uses to send the security code.

#6 Use a recovery email address

Email address is the other option that Google uses for sending security codes. You need to have a secondary email id where Google can send the security code if you forget your password.

#7 Secondary email address

Try using a secondary email address to sign in the Gmail account. But this account should not be the part of your Gmail account or Google account.

#8 Use secure connection

Gmail account should be set to use the secure connection that is denoted by HTTP before the URL address and this can be set by going to settings>General> browser connection. You should always use VPN for login.

#9 Use strong and long password

The longer password can better protect your Gmail account. Do not use any words in the passwords that can be found in the dictionary. Try to use #, *, $ in the password to make it strong and safe.

#10 Incognito


When you are using the account in public such as in the hotel or in café use private mode or Incognito as it will prevent any cookies or web history from getting stored. But if you do not find any option then delete all the cookies and web history when you log out.
How To Protect Your Gmail Account– examine those all the above 10 methods and protect your Gmail account from getting hacked. So this method will be very effective to you to be secure on your Gmail. Share this helpful post with your friends as sharing is caring.

Monday, 26 November 2012

SMS Chat in Gmail – Send Free Messages Without Internet Connection

SMS Chat in Gmail – Send Free Messages Without Internet Connection


Google has silently launched their free SMS service in India. Earlier in March 2012, Google has introduced theirSMS chat in Gmail, where a Google Talk widget will appear in your Gmail account. So when you chat with someone, you can save their phone numbers in address book and send a SMS if needed. This free service will allow the user to send a instant message to his him/her friend. Its just like a instant chat messenger, where you can chat with the other person. But the person has to reply to continue the chat further more. Months ago, this service was launched all over U.S and was pretty successful. The best part of this service is, whenever you don’t have access to Internet, you can ask your friend to chat via Gmail SMS service. This will save your money, bandwidth and can also save your time by sending a direct message to their phone directly. Google has a full fledged version of  SMS chat in Gmail, for the first time today.
sms chat in gmail
Today we were  pretty much surprised with sudden notification from Gmail. It says, Now you can send instant SMS to your friends anytime, anywhere. So digging more into details, You can find SMS chat in Gmail service restricted to only few supported handful mobile operators. Some of them are, Aircel, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Tata indicom, Vodafone (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal. & Assam, other North East areas)

How to Start a SMS Chat in Gmail:

You can send a message to any person you wanted to. But make sure they are already present in your Gmail chat list earlier. You can follow these simple steps to use this free SMS chat in Gmail service. So here we go,
Step 1: Login to your Gmail account and look at the Google Talk widget.
SMS chat in Gmail
Step 2: Select a person you wanted to chat with, and click on Send Text (SMS) option.
SMS chat in Gmail
Step 3: In this above screenshot, i have selected my friend Vishal Arya as the person whom i want to chat with. So click on Send Text (SMS) service to save his mobile number.
Step 4: Here we are saving 9000000000 as vishal arya phone number. So when ever you send him a message via SMS chat in gmail, it will directly reach his mobile phone as an SMS.
SMS chat in Gmail
Step 5: Click on Save and now you can send a free SMS to your friend. Here we are sending a direct SMS to Arya phone, via Gmail. I have sent a SMS saying Hello, which will be replied from his mobile number. Since this number is not a valid number, you cannot expect any reply from him.
SMS chat in Gmail
Google has mentioned few terms of conditions and guide lines for using this freeSMS chat in Gmail service. They have also mentioned few tips and techniques to make the best out of this free service. Its very much important to understand these guidelines before proceeding further. Few of them are,
  1. You are restricted to use only 50 credits per day.
  2. Each message you send will burn 1 credit from your daily quota of 50 credits. And each message you receive as a reply will get you 5 credits with maximum up to 50 a day.
  3. You cannot buy additional credits for sending more messages, but surely you can send a message to your own mobile and reply back to get additional credits.
  4. You can use commands like BLOCK, UNBLOCK, START, STOP and other commands to restrict people sending you bulk messages.
  5. If your credits are decreased to zero, they will be charged again to 50 in next 24 hours.
  6. If you are sending too many messages without any reply from other side, you might be blocked due to privacy issues.
  7. Also sending mass messages may ban you for ever. This is to avoid abuses and hatred in chat messages.
  8. You can use STOP command to block all messages from any Gmail user. For this you need to send a message to mobile operator, and enter the System message number to activate the service asap.
  9. You can even chat with your friends who has no Internet connection.
  10. Limited to only few mobile operators as of now.
Guess you are now aware of all TOC mentioned by Google SMS chat in Gmail. I hope you all are ready to understand these above guidelines and send free SMS to your friends. Please drop us a line on what you think about this amazing service.