5 Ways to protect your Google Account

5 Ways to Protect Your Gmail Account

From Getting Hacked*****

Email Services are getting more and more essential day by day. And, more than that an Emailaccount could contain much precious information which one defiantly will not like to get read it by a hacker. I am summerising the ways I know to protect your Email, especially "Gmail"Account.

1. Always Check The URL before Logging in to Gmail

This is very important to check the URL(Universal Resource Locator) of the page you are

getting logged in. This is because, lot of peoples are trying to create an exact copy of Gmail`spage and they upload it somewhere, and when you log through that page, They come to know your passowrd.



Always login by typing www.gmail.com or the one you have an acc. with. DO NOT LOGIN

THOROUGH ANY LINK.(EXTERNAL)



2. Avoid checking Emails at Public Places

I cant write much about this, not because I dont know, but It will like introducing and

publishing those techniques. just keep in mind that, Dont login at the places where you have no trust and control over that couputer.

3. Regularly Monitor Gmail Account Activity

Gmail has a very useful and neat feature to view user account activity. Through this, gmail

records the last login time and ip. If its diffrent than you suppose, you are strongly advised tochange your password.Activity link can be found at bottom of usage in gmail. Many other email providers also have this facility.



4. Do not Click on Suspicious Links

keep in your mind very well that, "Gmail will never ask you to change your password or enter login credentials without anyreason. Hence, if you receive any email which claims to be from Google and wants you to change your password, be rest assured someone is trying to fool you and hack your email account."

Just dont click on any suspicious link you might have in your inbox.

5. Choose a Strong Alphanumeric password

Always remember the following tips regarding choosing passwords:

i)Choose both numbers and alphabets in your password. It would be even better if you include symbols and special characters.

ii)Never use your phone number, parents name or credit card number as your email account password.


iii)Choose a long password – probably more than 10 characters.


iv)Never write your password on paper or save it as a text document in your computer.