Keeping your data secure
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Google takes account security very seriously, and we regularly provide our users with
tips to help protect their Google account and their computer. To reduce the risk of becoming a victim of cyber crime, we recommend following these steps:
- Check for unusual access or activity in your account. Regularly review your account for unfamiliar or suspicious activity. If you have a Gmail account, you can see the last account activity recorded at the bottom of the page, including the most recent IP addresses accessing the account.
- Check for viruses and malware. Run a scan on your computer with trusted and up-to-date anti-virus software. If the scan detects any suspicious programs or applications, remove them immediately. Read more.
- Perform regular operating system and browser updates. Whether you use Windows, Mac OS, or another operating system, we recommend enabling your automatic update setting if one is available through your operating system, and updating when you get a notification. To manually check for browser updates in Internet Explorer, select the Tools tab and click Windows Update. In Firefox, just click the Help tab and select Check for Updates. Note that Google Chrome automatically updates to a newer version when one is released.
- Protect your password and enroll in 2-step verification. Change your password regularly and don't share it with others. We recommend changing passwords at least twice a year. Make sure you choose a password that contains a combination of numbers, characters, and case-sensitive letters to strengthen the security of your account. Read more. For an extra layer of protection, we recommend that you enable 2-step verification on your Google Account. 2-step verification requires a code from your phone – as well as your username and password – when you sign in. Watch this video to learn more.
- Guard against phishing. Never enter your password after following a link in an email or chat to an untrusted site. Instead, go directly to the site, such as mail.google.com or www.google.com/accounts/. Don't send your password via email or write it down. Google will never email you to ask for your password or other sensitive information.
If you use Gmail, here are some additional things to know:
- Check the forwarding and delegation settings in your account. Make sure your email is being directed properly. Check the "Mail settings" tab in Gmail for forwarding and delgation settings that grant others access to your account.
- Update your secondary email address, your security question, and provide a mobile phone for SMS-based account recovery. This will help you recover your account if you ever lose access to it. Make sure that you have access to the email address listed as your secondary and/or the mobile number to which an SMS-recovery message would be sent. Also, be sure the answer to your security question is easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess. Read more.
- Use a secure connection when signing in. By default, Gmail accounts use a secure HTTPS connection -- a setting to help protect your information from being stolen when you're signing in to a Gmail account on a public wireless network, like a cafe or hotel. You can view or change your settings at any time in Gmail or Gmail for Mobile. Read more.
Using public or shared computers presents security risks. If you must use a shared computer:
- Always sign out of your account when you're using public computers. Whenever you're done using your Google Account, click "Sign out" at the top right corner of the screen.
- Clear private data from your browser. Your browser may be set to save certain information. Be sure to clear that data, including passwords, cache, form data and cookies on a regular basis, especially right after the use of a public computer. Read more.
Guard against phishing. Never enter your password after following a link in an email or chat to an untrusted site. Instead, go directly to the site, such as mail.google.com or www.google.com/accounts/. Don't send your password via email or write it down. Google will never email you to ask for your password or other sensitive information.
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Google takes account security very seriously, and we regularly provide our users with tips to help protect their Google account and their computer. To reduce the risk of becoming a victim of cyber crime.
If the browser you're using or a page you're viewing is displaying problems, try to clear the browser's cache. If that doesn't fix the problem, try to clear the browser's cookies.
ReplyDeleteThe instructions for clearing the cache and cookies might be different for each browser and version. If the browser or version you're using isn't listed here, please see the browser's help menu.
Common browsers
Google Chrome
Review the instructions in the Google Chrome Help Center.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Finding your version of Internet Explorer
To find your version of Internet Explorer, click Help, then select About Internet Explorer. If you don't see the Help menu, press Alt to show the menus.
Clearing your cache
Video on clearing your cache in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 8.x
1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools. If you don't see the menu, press Alt on your keyboard to show menus.
2. Select Delete Browsing History.
3. Select the checkbox next to "Temporary Internet Files."
4. Click Delete.
5. It can take several minutes for the cache history to be deleted. Once the files have been deleted, click Okay.
Internet Explorer 7.x
1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools. If you don't see the menu, press Alt on your keyboard to show menus.
2. Select Delete Browsing History.
3. Click Delete files.
4. Click Yes in the confirmation window.
5. Click Close.
Note: It can take several minutes for the cache history to be deleted.
Internet Explorer 6.x
1. In Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu.
2. Select Internet Options.
3. Click the General tab.
4. Click Delete Files.
5. Click OK in the confirmation window.
6. Click OK to close the "Internet Options" window.
Note: It can take several minutes for the cache history to be deleted.
Clearing your cookies
While deleting your browser's cookies might fix the problem, it will also likely remove your saved settings for sites you've visited.
Internet Explorer 8.x
1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools. If you don't see the menu, press Alt on your keyboard to show menus.
2. Select Delete Browsing History.
3. Select the checkbox next to Cookies.
4. Click Delete.
5. Once your cookies have been deleted, click Okay.
Internet Explorer 7.x
1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools. If you don't see the menu, press Alt on your keyboard to show menus.
2. Click Delete cookies.
3. Click Yes in the confirmation window.
4. Click Close.
Internet Explorer 6.x
1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools.
2. Select Internet Options.
3. Click the General tab.
4. Click Delete Cookies.
5. Click OK in the confirmation window.
6. Click OK to close the "Internet Options" window.
Mozilla Firefox
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ReplyDeleteGoogle is notorious for its invasion of privacy, the more Google services you use the easier you make for them to track you down across the Internet and create your personal profile, you could use a VPN for all of your online activities but this will only mask your IP and Google can use your browser headers and cookies to identify you, if a proxy anonymizes your HTTP headers like the tor proxy does, Google will slow you down asking you to enter a Captcha code every time you want to use the search function.
GoogleSharing creates a pool of online identities, it uses them to inject fake search requests and to give a fresh cookie to Google every time you visit it to perform a search, your browser headers are chosen at random and the service will also proxy your traffic hiding your real computer IP, using multiple identities and hiding your IP stops Google tracking you down and profiling you, the plugin uses the encrypted version of Google search making sure that everything is sent via SSL, it can not be viewed by any third party sniffing the traffic, not even the GoogleSharing proxy provider can view the queries.
ReplyDeleteGoogleSharing will only work with those services not requiring you to login, i.e. doesn’t work with Gmail and Google Checkout, but you can use it to anonymously search images, maps, products and news. When you visit a website outside the Google network the traffic is left untouched, this should speed up your Internet access since most proxies slow it down, a single click button makes it quick to disable and enable this Firefox privacy addon, this is an open source project and you can look at the code or run it on your own server if you don’t trust others to do it for you.
6 ways to protect your privacy on Google
ReplyDelete1. Know your privacy rights: Use the Google Privacy Center.
2. Protect your content on the services you use.
3. Turn off the suggestion feature in the Chrome browser.
4. Turn off Web History.
5. Opt out of interest-based ad serving.
6. Add SSL to Gmail.
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- Jul 25, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Gabriel Perna | July 25, 2011 5:27 PM EDT If you are Google, why would you kick people off the social network you are trying to build from the ground up? Quality control is the answer. Various reports in the media are indicating Google recently ...