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Email is one of the largest forms of communication in the world. People the world over have stopped writing standard letters and have begun using email more and more each year.

However, that does not mean that email is the safest thing on the planet either. Even on the internet there are millions of people that would like nothing more than to gain access to your computer and steal your vital information.

This is why it is so important for you to keep your email accounts safe. If you are not taking steps towards this then you may already be infected with some kind of computer virus or hacker attack.

That is where you need to be aware of what you are doing when it comes to email. Below you are going to find some standard tips and tricks that will keep your email address and account out of the hands of the hackers, spammers and viruses of the world. Read the rest of this entry →

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If it is the first time you are going to send emails over the internet, it is advisable that you are knowledgeable concerning the most convenient way to do it.

Emails are electronic mails which can be sent from one account to another one. They have long replaced the usage of snail mail for correspondence purposes.

Here are the steps on how to send emails:

1. Open your email account

If you don’t have one yet, better go to Yahoo mail or Gmail and sign up. You are required to fill out a form and set up a username and password for your account. Once that’s done, you can simply login to the system and begin creating your email.

2. Click on the “Compose Mail” button or tab

Look at the left panel of the screen. The “Compose Mail” button might be there. Clicking it will lead you to a screen where you are to fill out the important information needed to send your email.

3. Complete the needed information

On the next screen, you have to type the e-mail address of the mail’s recipient, the topic of your mail, as well as, the body of the email you want to send. Type everything in the corresponding boxes. Make sure that the recipient’s email address is correct. Otherwise, your email will not be sent properly.

4. Add attachment files if needed

You can send a photograph, a digital image, a document, or any file inside your computer as you wish. Most email account providers can send multiple files as long as it does not exceed the set limits. This step is optional. If you don’t need to send a file to your recipient, you can merely ignore this step.

5. Click on the “Send” button

Clicking on the “send” button automatically sends your email to the address you typed in the “To” bar. If the email software had detected no errors, it will proceed to send the email as requested. Otherwise, it will come back to you with an error message.

6. Sign out of the system

After sending the email and no error messages were returned to you, you can be sure that the email you sent will be read by the receiver. He or she will receive it in a few minutes, seconds even. That’s how fast emails are. After that you can proceed to sign out of your email account. You can sign in again after a few hours to check if the person you wrote to responded.

As you know there are some chatting’s software which can be used as video chat. But how about if you can do video chat inside your email accounts. Isn’t it excited?

Few weeks ago, google mail or gmail launched voice and video chat inside gmail. It’s a great news for gmail chat user, including me.

Gmail official blogs said

But people can only type so fast, and even with our new emoticons, there are still some things that just can’t be expressed in a chat message.

That’s why today we’re launching voice and video chat — right inside Gmail. We’ve tried to make this an easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and video — all for free.

If gmail is your main email, you can save your time to contact your client. You don’t need to sign in to other chat’s software. It’s all in one, email, text chat, video chat, and voice chat, inside your gmail.

Here are some steps how you can set up your gmail voice and video chat :

• Friends list in your gmail
• Install Headset and webcam
• Install the voice and video plugin. Here is the link to install. Gmail Voice and Video chat. You need to restart your browser to enable this feature.
• Move your mouse over one of your friend list, it’s located at left sidebar of your gmail. Click ways of chat you want. If you want to do video chat, choose ‘video and more’.

You can see the pic below



• If your friend already install the plugin, you can start video chating with your friend.

It’s really easy and fun, isn’t it? Why don’t you try to video chat inside your gmail. Share your comment with us.

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Malware is used to refer viruses, Trojans and worms or any programs that have malicious actions.

Worm, a type of malware, propagates through the network.  This means that worms can propagate via file sharing, instant messaging, downloading applications from unknown sources and visiting malicious web sites.

An example of network-infecting worm is Slammer that spread around the world in less than 15 minutes!  Internet traffic caused by Slammer in its search for computers to infect caused slowdown of the Internet and affected telecommunications and some financial networks.

Trojans and viruses, also types of malware, are not capable of propagating through the network but they can modify and infect files.  They can possibly cause data loss.

Data is very important on businesses and contributes to a business’ profit growth.  If these malware infectors can cause data loss, they can also be a factor to profit loss. Read the rest of this entry →

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