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April 6, 2011April 5, 2011

Import Emails From Your Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN, AOL Accounts To Gmail

Import Emails From Your Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN, AOL Accounts To Gmail

For people who wish to switch over to Gmail from their current email service provider, Gmail offers a new feature using which they can easily import all the mails from their previous account to Gmail. As per an announcement posted on Gmail’s blog, this feature will allow users to import all old mails to Gmail with 30 days of auto-email forward facility to the previous email account.

Currently, this Gmail feature supports email imports from sites like MSN, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, Netscape, Yahoo, Live.com etc. You may simply go to Gmail Help for the list of email service providers that are supported by this feature. The mails imported to Gmail can also be labeled for instant identification.

Method to transfer or import emails to Gmail.

Login to your new Gmail account.
Go to Settings and click on the tab “Accounts and Import”. Clock on the button “Import mail & contacts”.
Input the login details of your previous email address from which you wish to transfer or import the emails.
Choose from the below mentioned options.

Import mail
Import contacts
Add label to all imported mail
Import new mail for next thirty days.

It is recommended that you choose all four options.

Click on the button “Start Import” to start the process of importing emails and contacts from your previous email service provider to Gmail.
It will take around 48 hours for the entire transfer/ import process. You may check the status of the import process by going to the tab “Accounts and Import”.

However, you need not worry if you are unable to find the tab “Accounts and Import” under “Settings” in your Gmail account as Gmail is in a process of rolling out this new feature to old/ existing accounts and you will soon get it in your account as well.

February 23, 2011February 23, 2011

Download Comodo Verification Centre To Prevent Deception/Fraud By Phishing

Download Comodo Verification Centre To Prevent Deception/Fraud By Phishing

Internet is the best resource to make your working easier and simpler by using its services such as paying your taxes online, bills, online shopping, online transactions etc. However, it could be harmful and cost you huge loss whenever you visit mistakenly any phishing or counterfeit websites.

These websites look like the legitimate and genuine websites and allure you to visit it. However, once you visit these phishing websites, you will realize that your confidential information such as bank account information, credit card password, login name, account password etc has been stolen.

Mostly non-tech users get trapped and cheated via these phony websites due to lack of knowledge and information about preventing these sites to be accessed. Since there are no major criteria to differentiate phishing websites from the legitimate websites manually, it is obvious that visitors would get cornered easily.

However, there are several awareness programs and campaigns that are running worldwide to make the internet users aware about preventing these phishing websites to be accessed. Through these programs users will get a rough idea to identify phony websites and block them to be opened on their computer. Nevertheless, there are still so many users who are not getting benefited from these awareness programs so it could divulge or reveal their sensitive information over the phony websites.

Besides awareness programs, there are numerous anti-phishing applications available to prevent phony sites to be opened on user’s web browser. One of the most powerful anti-phishing and identity assurance tools is Comodo Verification Engine, which has huge database to identify and verify the authentication of every websites that opens on your browser. This security tool allows users to browse safely and prevents phishing websites by verifying their authentications.

It is a freeware application and can be downloaded directly from the given link here. Comodo Verification engine is Windows based software and supports almost all web browsers such as IE 5.0 up to latest version, AOL 1.1 up to latest version, Netscape 8+, Firefox 1.0.7 up to latest version, etc.

Once users installed this application on their system, a tiny “V” icon will appear on the system tray area. Form now onwards, whenever users open a website, Comodo Verification engine will instantly check its authentication level via huge and rich database. If it finds the legitimate website, then users will notice that browser border glows in green color and an arrow should be there pointing site’s verified logo. On the contrary, border not appearing in green color, then users are recommended to not open that website because it might be phishing or phony website. However, you can continue browsing over the website at your own risk.

Additionally, Comodo Verification engine provides single clear visual indicator regarding the security level of SSL and warns you if website is using SSL certificate privileged by scammers. Users can customize or personalize its settings according to their convenience such as they can change the thickness of green color and text size etc.

December 22, 2010

Free Amic Email Backup Setup Trial – No More Serial Code / No More Crack

Working with Amic Email Backup

The Amic Email Backup application is freely available for creating easy backup of all the emails in your account. This is a highly efficient and easy to use tool even for data other than text emails, and it also creates backup for setting, address book, contents, news accounts, blocked senders list, message rules, and your signatures.

The backup is created as compressed backup files which makes it easy to store the backup anywhere in your computer. This amazing tool is compatible with all popular email clients like Eudora, Outlook Express, MS Outlook, IncrediMail, PocoMail, and Netscape Messenger.

When creating the backup, Amic Email Backup provides two modes to select from, namely the Wizard Mode, and the Standard Mode. There is also an auto scheduling period in this application, which allows it to automatically create backup of any new update after a certain period.

The installation of this tool is easy and has a step by step guide. To start the installation you have to open the AmicEmailBackupSetup.exe and follow the step by step instructions.

[Direct download link]