Thursday, April 17, 2008

How to secure your gmail?

As we know that google offers free email service call - gmail and it is no doubt the best free email service. It is secured with SSL for webmail ( there is a lock icon during you sign-in at the bottom right of your windows screen). SSL offers a secured (encryption) channel from your PC to their server so your login will be secured (nobody can sniff your account and password). GW have observed that sometime with no reason, after you have successed log into your account, you are welcomed to the inbox, now the problem come in your lock icon at the bottom is gone and you are not in the secure channel. Everything you did can be sniffed by your network administrator (if he use a network sniffing software which is widely available in the internet). We cannot blame google because SSL on the server side is a CPU intensive process - but this is his problem.

To make sure your are secured, use this way to login - https://mail.google.com to force the whole session to secure. Please bookmark the link to enjoy secure transaction.

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