E-mail 1- Try to change your password periodically, as it could become known easily. Your password should consisted of eight figures, a mixture of letters and numbers. Use both capital and lower-case letters to make it more difficult to be known.

2- Do not use successive numbers or letters such as (asdfg) or (123456789)

3- Do not use a password based on personal information, such as your date of birth, your phone number, the name your street, your country, your city, or the person others know you love.

4- Do not use famous names like your favorite singer or actor or football player.

5- Open your mail account from its own page. If you use Yahoo, use only the Yahoo webpage itself. The same goes for Hotmail or any other mail service.

6- Do not open attached files unless you recognize and trust the sender. Be careful, there are some senders who will use names with letters close to the name of a person you know, changing only a letter or two

7- If you have a password that contains symbols, numbers, and letters that make it difficult to remember, do not save it in a file on your computer. Instead, write in on paper and keep it safely away from the computer.

8- Periodically empty your inbox. Do not forget to empty the trash as well. If you have messages you do not want to loose, save them to your hard disk and delete them from the inbox. This way, if your email is hacked, the problem will not be as great.

9- Do not forget to click the "sign out" button to close your e-mail. It is best, after signing out, to return to the home page and then close the browser completely.

General advice 1- When accessing a forum or a chatting page. If a window appears asking you to enter your password a second time after you click upon the link taking to you inbox, do not enter your password. False pages like this are sometimes created by people attempting to spy on e-mail.

2- Do not trust any website. Lately, the hackers have introduced wrong advices and provide the users with hacking programs and hack those users, as the beginner user might be happy for learning something new 3- Avoid downloading protection programs from the Internet

4- Do not check the tab "remember my ID" or "remember my password." This will save your password to your computer, making it easy for hackers to find your password and access your account.

5- Try to save your personal account information on a floppy disk or a CD and not on your hard disk, because many of us forget the secret question that they have to answer it in case they forgot their password.

6- Update you Anti Virus Program weekly. Turn on the spam blocking option as well.

7- Use a firewall program like zonealarm.

8- Use a program to detect "spyware" (e.g. adaware) that my have been installed on your computer with your knowledge.

9- Do not trust new Internet acquaintances. Do not be in a rush to identify yourself and reveal true information about yourself.

10- Do not send password or other important information via ordinary e-mail, encoded e-mail, or chat programs.

11- Do not open password-protected websites when using computers in public places such as net cafes without first making sure that there are no monitoring programs. When you are finished, be sure that you delete all the information you may have entered.

12- There are many ways to detect the presence of spy-ware. Though each spy-ware program is unique, there do exist general ways to disable such programs if they exist. Here is one way:

First, search the setup folder. Select the Start menu, click Run, and type "Regedit." In the new window, click the folders in the following order: HKEY - LOCAL - MACHINE- Software-Microsoft - Windows - Currentversion - Run
When you open this last file, you will find the names of the files that indicate the presence of spy-ware on you computer. Typically, the name of this file is strange and not included under a specific program. The name usually ends with .exe. For example: patch.exe, fast.exe or explo23.exe After you find the file, delete it from the windows folder. If you find nothing, search in the System folder inside the windows folder. Do not forget to restart you computer after erasing the file

13. If you are not able to access and delete files stored in the recycle bin, select the contents of a file, delete them and paste in other content that does not contain important information. Then save these changes to the file and delete it.

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What can i see, this is really important for newbie. Must read and understand about this one..

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yeah, I will agree with you titan. They will need to read and understand it carefully.
@ahmedmarz, You made a great support and help to everyone. good job will done.

additional, comments.
We need to keep more cares with our details. I will suggest to everyone try to do regularly what ahmedmarz's said.

Yes, i know many people will read this one but not really many people will apply this method because their are too busy everyday. I also take alert about this one beause i think its really important. Maybe if we careless, our data and money will gone. So, safety first..

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I don't think so, Busy is not a main reason for tolerance. If they want to be secured, they will do this tips. OR They will made this already before this TIPS will provide from the Tips maker.

Meaning they are advance from us. Because, mostly of the people have their own PC security before doing something.

ya i agree with u. there is no point doing work in ur pc if ur pc itself is not secured. i have had my account hacked before and i dont want it to happen again, so i have set up protection for my pc

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Yes. But not all people think like you and not many people have knowledge like you. Because when i check some my friends pc, they know nothing about pc and antivirus even how to protect their pc. They always ask me about everything about pc and about protection. Its too tired when they ask the same question. But i need to explain in easier word to make their understand because not all people understand how that pc running..So, if in secure or hack problem, not many people know about that. So, this tips absolutely good for them..But like i said even they want to know. Not all people have a free time like you guys..

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Thanks for the info Ahmed. I notice one forum that required me to click twice on the login button each time I want to log in. I wonder if this is phishing activity?

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I hope not challs and hope you not losing any data or money by doing that. Phishing are popular ways to get our data like pasword and username. From that they can know more like our bank data, e-gold password, paypal and anything. If this one happen, the first thing you need to do, try to get back your email. How? Just keep trying because its really hard to get back your accaunt. But can you try.

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Hey thanks man but I have NEVER been hacked before and I have had my email for 5 years!