每天(Daily)您都会听到有关公司被黑客入侵以及电子邮件地址等用户个人信息被盗的消息。对于大多数用户来说，这意味着什么，但对其他人来说，这意味着没有安全感。然后，这些黑客将这些信息发布给全世界，让很多人看到和不为人知，那些获取这些信息的次数比你想象的要多的人正在接收这些电子邮件并尽其所能尝试破解它们，只是为了纯粹的乐趣说他们做到了。
保护您的电子邮件帐户
你能做些什么来保护自己免受与那些如此不诚实的人的日常战争？试试这些简单的技巧来帮助保护自己。重点是使用 Windows Live Mail的用户，但其中很多技巧可以传递给您喜欢的任何电子邮件客户端。
First and foremost!
密码(Password)
- 不要选择您用于其他在线服务的密码。如果有人进入其他服务并发现您的电子邮件 ID，他们也可以轻松登录您的电子邮件。你的宠物的名字、生日、你的周年纪念日、孩子的名字……这些都不是好的密码。
- 选择一个除了您之外的任何人都不容易猜到的密码。信不信由你，有些人会花费数天时间来创建包含数千个常用密码列表的文本文件，这些密码除了对电子邮件帐户运行这些密码之外什么都不做，直到他们弄明白为止。您可以在Microsoft 密码强度检查器(Microsoft Password Strength Checker)中检查您的密码强度。
- 定期更改密码。Hotmail的一个不错的功能是可以选择让密码每 72 天过期一次，并在激活时强制用户创建一个新密码。从收件箱上方的工具栏中单击您的 ID；您可能会显示一个图像 - 选择查看帐户信息（打开您的浏览器以实时登录） - 对于密码选择更改并选中“让我的密码每 72 天过期”框。(Click your ID from the toolbar above your Inbox; you may have an image displayed – select View Account Info (opens your browser to Live Sign In) – for Password select Change and check the box that says Make my password expire every 72 days.)
- 不要将您的密码存储在您的手机或任何其他人可能碰巧捡到并轻松取回的地方。
联系人(Contacts)
- 不要添加任何你不认识的人！
- 在打开您认为可能是朋友但不确定的电子邮件之前，请右键单击该电子邮件，然后选择属性。您将能够看到发送邮件的真实电子邮件地址。每天都有太多假邮件进入收件箱，试图隐藏为合法邮件。 With Reading Pane Off (See below), right-click a message\properties\real address displayed.
- 观察您将谁添加到您的安全发件人(Safe Sender)列表中。我教自己做的一件事是经常做；我将从安全发件人(Safe Sender)列表中删除所有人并重新开始。随着我每天收到的电子邮件数量的增加，我会不断添加，所以一段时间后，重新开始可以帮助我跟上我添加的人。 Menu\Options\Safety Options\Safe Senders.
- 将用户添加到阻止发件人(Blocked Sender)列表时，您有两个选择，将用户添加到阻止发件人(Blocked Sender)列表或阻止域(Block Domain)。我发现如果我在将Domain(Domain)添加到列表之前右键单击该消息并查看首先是什么Domain会有所帮助。(Domain)此选项始终是最好的，因为它添加了以某个域(Domain)结尾的名称，而不仅仅是添加用户。首先检查域(Domain)可确保您没有阻止合法域(Domain)，例如 @Outlook.com、@Hotmail.com、@Gmail.com 或 @yahoo.com，在这种情况下，它会阻止以这些Domain结尾的电子邮件。 Menu\Options\Safety Options\ Blocked Senders.
安全和安保(Safety and Security)
- 保持收件箱(Inbox)和已删除(Deleted)文件夹中没有包含个人信息的邮件。
- 不要将存储的电子邮件保留在您的帐户中。WLM带有一个方便的导出(Export)功能，允许您将所有电子邮件消息导出到计算机上的某个位置。 Menu\Export Email\Email Messages\Microsoft Windows Live mail \Choose Folder.
- 如前所述，如果您不确定发件人，请务必在打开邮件之前右键单击邮件并查看属性。
- 不要将收件箱设置为在(Inbox)WLM启动时自动打开邮件。有无数人说他们没有打开消息但有人入侵了他们的电子邮件帐户，这在很大程度上是由于此设置。 Top Tabs\View\Reading Pane\Select Off.
- 将垃圾邮件过滤器(Keep Junk Filter)设置为高(High)并启用向Microsoft报告(Microsoft)垃圾邮件(Junk Email)的选项。 Menu\Options\Safety Options\Options.
- 启用“网络钓鱼”选项卡下的选项，以保护您的收件箱免受带有潜在网络钓鱼链接的邮件的侵害。 Menu\Options\Safety Options\Phishing.
我可以说微软(Microsoft)在过去几年做得很好的一件事是更加努力地将垃圾邮件拒之门外，如果有人对此提出异议，我建议检查其他电子邮件服务，看看有多少垃圾邮件通过了。尽管我希望添加一些功能，例如Import\Export Blocked Sender列表，但Windows Live Mail是一个非常好的电子邮件客户端，总的来说使用起来很友好。
底线(Bottom Line)是，如果您有电子邮件地址，请保护自己。用户在日常生活中使用电子邮件的时间与使用物理邮件一样多，而且每天有人试图进入您的电子邮件帐户的威胁正在增加。
您可能还想查看Hotmail 登录：安全登录(Hotmail Sign In: Secure Login)和Gmail 登录：安全登录。(Gmail Sign In: Secure Login.)
Tips for email users: Secure and protect your email account
Daily you hear about сompanies being hacked and users’ personal information such as email addreѕses being stolen. For most users, this means nothing but to others it means a sense of no security. These hackers then post this informatіon for the world to see and unknown to a lot of people, the ones grabbing this informatiоn more times than you could imagine are taking these emails and doing whatever they cаn to try to hack them just for the purе pleasure of saying they did it.
Secure and protect your email account
What can you do to protect yourself against this daily war against those that are so dishonest? Try these simple tips to help protect yourself. The focus is on users that use Windows Live Mail but a lot of these tips can be passed over to whichever email client you prefer.
First and foremost!
Password
- Do not choose a password you have used for other online services. If someone were to get into the other services and discover your email ID, they could easily log into your email as well. Your pet’s name, birthday, your anniversary, child’s name…none of these are good passwords.
- Choose a password that’s not easily guessed by anyone except you. Believe it or not, there are people who spend their days creating text files with lists of thousands of commonly used passwords that do nothing but run these passwords against email accounts till they figure it out. You can check the strength of your password at Microsoft Password Strength Checker.
- Change your password regularly. One nice feature of Hotmail is the option to have passwords expire every 72 days and when activated forces a user to create a new password. Click your ID from the toolbar above your Inbox; you may have an image displayed – select View Account Info (opens your browser to Live Sign In) – for Password select Change and check the box that says Make my password expire every 72 days.
- Do not store your password on your phone or anywhere else that someone may happen to pick it up and easily retrieve it.
Contacts
- Do not add anyone you do not know!
- Before opening an email you think might be a friend but you are unsure, right-click the email, and select properties. You will be able to see the true email address the message was sent from. There are too many fake emails that hit Inbox’s daily that try to hide as legitimate messages. With Reading Pane Off (See below), right-click a message\properties\real address displayed.
- Watch who you are adding to your Safe Sender list. One thing I have taught myself to do is every so often; I will remove everyone from the Safe Sender list and start fresh. With the amount of email I receive daily, I am constantly adding so after a while a fresh start helps me keep up with who I have added. Menu\Options\Safety Options\Safe Senders.
- When adding users to the Blocked Sender list you have two options, add the user to the Blocked Sender list or Block Domain. I have found it helps if I right-click the message and see what the Domain is first before I add Domains to the list. This option is always best as it adds names that end with a certain Domain instead of just adding the user. Checking the Domain first ensures that you aren’t blocking a legitimate Domain such as @Outlook.com, @Hotmail.com, @Gmail.com, or @yahoo.com, in which case it would block email ending with those Domains. Menu\Options\Safety Options\ Blocked Senders.
Safety and Security
- Keep your Inbox and Deleted folder clean of messages that contain personal information.
- Do not keep the stored email on your account. WLM comes with a handy Export feature that allows you to export all your email messages to a location on your computer. Menu\Export Email\Email Messages\Microsoft Windows Live mail \Choose Folder.
- As mentioned, always right-click a message before opening it and view properties if you are unsure of the sender.
- Do not set your Inbox to automatically open messages when WLM starts. There are countless threads from people stating they didn’t open a message yet someone hacked their email account and this is in large part due to this setting. Top Tabs\View\Reading Pane\Select Off.
- Keep Junk Filter set to High and enable the option to report Junk Email to Microsoft. Menu\Options\Safety Options\Options.
- Enable the option under the tab Phishing that protects your Inbox from messages with potential Phishing links. Menu\Options\Safety Options\Phishing.
One thing I can say that Microsoft has done well the past few years is to work harder to keep the junk email out, and if anyone argues this, I would recommend checking other email services and see how much junk gets through. Though there are a few features I would like to see added, such as the Import\Export Blocked Sender list, Windows Live Mail is a very good email client that all in all is friendly to use.
The Bottom Line is, if you have an email address, protect yourself. Users use email for as much if not more of their daily life as they do physical mail and the daily threat of someone trying to get into your email account is increasing.
You might also want to check out Hotmail Sign In: Secure Login and Gmail Sign In: Secure Login.
