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How to retrieve Yahoo Mail using email programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express, etc

If you are using Yahoo mail and plan to retrieve your messages using email programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express, etc, you might be a bit disappointed. Yahoo only allows customers of its Yahoo Mail Plus service to download their email via POP3. you can still use your favorite email program to retrieve [...]

In Websense reports, what information is available about bandwidth usage?

When a user requests a permitted Web site, that site transfers information to the user’s computer in the form of text and graphics. This transferred information occupies a certain number of bytes on the computer. Detailed reports of bytes transferred identify the total number of bytes of data sent from the requested site to the computer. [...]

How to prevent access to a specific site that is not in the Websense Master Database

To prevent access to a specific site that is not in the Websense Master Database, simply add the site to any category that is already blocked for the users you wish to block. An uncategorized URL that you add to a category is called a custom URL. (Similarly, a URL in the Websense Master Database that [...]

How to block file downloads such as .mov in Websense

Keywords offer protection against sites that have not explicitly been added to the Master Database or a custom URLs list. Keywords are associated with categories in the Master Database. When the Block Keyword setting is active for a category, Websense software blocks any site in that category whose URL contains an associated keyword. You must specify a [...]

How to edit a web filtering policy based on a time range or days of the week?

If you want to create a policy that enforces different category sets, based on the time or days of the week, you need to edit an existing policy. For example, you could block the Shopping category Monday through Friday, from 7:00 am to 6:00pm. On weekends, and after hours, employees would have unlimited access to [...]

How To setup Windows Live Mail with YPOPs

Click the SHOW MENU (ALT+M) button at the top right of the WLM window then click on SHOW ALL MENUS. You should now see FILE, EDIT, VIEW, TOOLS, ACTIONS, and HELP at the top of the WLM window. Click TOOLS > ACCOUNTS. Click the ADD button.  Select E-MAIL ACCOUNT then click NEXT.  Enter your Yahoo! [...]

How to retrieve Yahoo Mail using email programs such as Microsoft Outlook

If you are using Yahoo mail and plan to retrieve your messages using email programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express, etc, you might be a bit disappointed. Yahoo only allows customers of its Yahoo Mail Plus service to download their email via POP3. Having said that, you can still use your favorite email [...]

Spam level *declines*… to 97 percent of all email

If you think you’re getting a lot of spam these days, well, that’s because you are. In Microsoft’s latest biannual report on the state of computer security, the company says that in the second half of 2008, a full 97.3 percent of email traffic was unwanted spam (or malicious email like phishing attacks and outright [...]

Web of Trust launches new version of the popular browser security tool to fit Web surfing habits

Web of Trust launches a new version of the WOT safe surfing add-on with customizable protection. Experienced Web users who prefer “Light” protection get a simple warning if they surf to a page with a poor reputation, whereas selecting “Maximum Safety” will prevent a risky page from loading. Parents with young children can choose the [...]

Best Free Antivirus Software Download List

 1. Avira Anti-Vir Personal: Free version of Avira Anti-Vir AntiVirus for personal and non-commercial use. It offers reliable security protection to your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers. Security modules that offers included are: Protection from virus worms and Trojans, Anti-rootkit, Anti fishing and Anti dialer. Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, [...]

How to get the original location of an email via its IP address

Here’s a quick how-to guide on how you can track email to it’s originating location by figuring out the email’s IP address and looking it up. I have found this to be quite useful on many occasions for verification purposes since I receive lots of emails daily due to my blog. Tracking the IP address [...]

How to Install and Configure qmail-qfilter

Qmail-qfilter provides a convenient way to pass each incoming email message through a series of filters, each of which may reject or modify the message. This happens before the message enters the queue, so rejects do not become bounce messages. Instead, the client is told immediately that the message was not accepted. Filters In order [...]

How to Install and Configure qmail on Linux

Qmail is a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete, written by Dan Bernstein, who also has a web page for qmail. qmail is a secure package. You can download netqmail 1.06 (Redhat RPMs, and Debian .debs, HP-UX, Gentoo, and OpenBSD ports) and redistribute qmail for free. A number of large Internet sites are using [...]

How to Recover your hacked Yahoo! account

Just imagine your yahoo account hacked from under your nose. All your personal mails, confidential files, pictures, membership access, and contacts being accessed by a disguised criminal. To your utter surprise it may happen that your zip code has been changed and deleted. Even your alternate email has been changed so there are no chances to reset your password. You are at complete loss.

How to Improve Your PageRank

Below are suggestions for publicizing your site — and improving its PageRank — based on our experience getting the word out about Google Guide. Include useful high-quality information on your site. Create content that users want and will share with others. Submit your site to various web directories and reference sites. A web directory “specializes [...]