It is possible to protect an electronic mailbox from cracking by means of saving the difficult password, a confidential question, the indication of mobile phone number. Besides, the user should follow independently basic safety rules during the work with e-mail.
Any user of normal e-mail is interested in effective protection of own mailbox against cracking. If malefactors get such access, then the person often loses not only important and personal information from correspondence, but also risks to lose the money on bank accounts given for an input on other resources gives to swindlers an opportunity to use base of own contacts in the mercenary purposes.
For effective protection there are only two ways: the first consists in use of all arsenal of the protective equipment offered by a mail service, and the second assumes observance of elementary safety rules at daily use of a box, visit of other websites.
Use of security features of a mailbox
Basic security feature of any electronic mailbox is the difficult password which the user sets and saves independently. An optimal variant – use of the password with the maximum allowed quantity of characters which combines uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, other signs. A practice shows that similar combinations are the most difficult for normal cracking.
Besides, it is necessary to think up the similar password for the instruction it in the answer to a confidential question. The contents of the answer have no basic value, and existence of a senseless combination of different signs in the answer will significantly complicate a task of the swindlers wishing to get access to a box. At last, it is necessary to use the opportunity of saving number of own mobile phone offered by many services which is used for change of data, restoring access, in rare instances – for an entrance to mail.
Observance of safety rules when using e-mail
When using own electronic mailbox it is necessary to follow certain safety rules. So, some ways of cracking are based on use of temporary files which remain on the user's computer. It is possible to exclude the specified ways only when the person regularly leaves the e-mail after completion of work (and not just closes the corresponding tab in the browser).
Besides, under no circumstances it is not necessary to tell strangers the data for an entrance to a mailbox. Also it is not necessary to react to messages which are disguised under letters of administration. Their common feature is the request for the message of any data, than the official administration of a mail service is never engaged.