Nearly every single file on your computer contains some type of personal information - either information about the user, information on setting e.g. time, date, etc. In any case, it may be good to remove some of this information before making it available to the public, such as uploading a video or image onl

Of course you cannot just sort mails into folders. You can have the message filters perform several other actions as seen in the menu pictured above. For example, automatically "Mark As Read", "Tag Message" or (the coolest) reply with a template. If required you can have the message filter carry out multiple actions on the same eM

Dynamic - This acts as a SOCKS proxy that can be used to tunnel traffic through the network where the SSH server resides. You can then configure applications that support SOCKS proxies (such as a web browser) to take advantage of it. I'll demonstrate how to set up Firefox to work through a dynamic tun

As you can see above, I cleaned out my folder so it only has a few items in it. Now I have the ability to create shortcuts to the Desktop, zip files, and send files to My Documents, My Pictures, and Screenshots. This last folder, 'Screenshots', I added by holding the Alt key while dragging Screenshots into the 'Send To' folder. This created a shortcut of the selected folder instead of moving it. If you don't feel comfortable with that hotkey, simply right click the desired item, click "New->Shortcut" and drag your new shortcut into visit the next website 'Send To' fol

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Portable Firefox - The Web Browser is your door to the Internet, so first and foremost secure it. Use the portable version of Firefox from you USB drive as opposed to the browser on the public compu

Tools for this - Although a simple Shift + Delete (please don't just delete) will do the trick but if you want to be totally sure that no one can access it then use: UltraShredder (It's Portable too) - or maybe you know of a better program that you can recomm

Remote - As the name somewhat implies, this is the reverse of a local tunnel. You are probably less likely to use this, but it would allow machines on the SSH server network to access a machine and port on the network where your SSH client resides. I won't go through any examples on setting up a remote port in this arti

We're not quite done. We still need to configure Firefox to send DNS requests to the SOCKS proxy as well. To do this, enter about:config in the navigation bar in Firefox. You may get a prompt asking you if you know what you're doing. Assure Firefox that you know what you're doing and proc

Enter socks_remote_dns for the Filter and press enter. You should see a single option that says network.proxy.socks_remote_dns. If it says false for the Value , double-click on it so that it says true. You're now all set. You should be able to surf the web through your new secure dynamic tun

Something like a computer in the corner will be just fine. This not only helps you to concentrate but more importantly from a security point of view it keeps shoulder surfers away from you. Needless to say don't enter passwords when some one is standing next to you, how uninterested he or she may pret

Chances are you are receiving too many. Hopefully you're receiving little spam, but certainly you have a lot of mail hitting your inbox that doesn't need your immediate attention. Maybe you even receive private stuff at work that you should rather not attend to at all until you're h

You can also sort several different mails that you receive on a daily basis into one folder. For example set up a rule that catches all mail from MakeUseOf (Sender contains MakeUseOf.com), then set up a different rule within the same Filter for each of the other newsletters or eMail updates you would like to sort into the same fol

Tools for this - Use Windows On-Screen Keyboard (press Win + U and select On-Screen Keyboard) to enter the passwords or you can use KeePass Password Safe to store your passwords and then you can directly insert the password or copy/paste from KeePass so that you fool the keylog

So in the example I'm going to provide, we will say the home network has two computers. One is a Linux box running the SSH server and the other is a Windows box with Remote Desktop enabled. We want to set up two tunnels: a dynamic tunnel and a local tunnel to connect to the Windows machine via Remote desk

Windows Vista has a large amount of options when it comes to customization, as do nearly all Windows operating systems. Fortunately, Vista makes it even easier then you may believe to tweak your operating sys

Let's first set up a dynamic tunnel for port 1080. The port you use for a dynamic tunnel is actually arbitrary, but since port 1080 is often used for SOCKS proxies that's what we'll use. Type 1080 in the Source port field, select Dynamic as the port type, and then click the Add but

Or you can type the password randomly in a text file and then copy paste from there in random order. e.g to type MyPassword you could write rdPasswoMy and then copy paste in correct order(requires some work, I kn