Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Methods to prevent your email from getting spoofed

There are different methods to prevent email from getting spoofed.
  • The simple method is by distributing your SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records. This will protect your domain name from anyone trying to spoof or cheat with your domain.
  • McAfee provides a number of AntiVirus and Internet Protection products which helps in identifying virus that spoofs the mail and deleting it fron the system.
  • Norton Internet Security 2009 can also be used to protect your system.
  • Prisma Firewall is a personal firewall designed for home and small office windows desktops users and helps in providing a solution for the virus attacks.
  • Mithi Connect Server makes sure that within a domain a user cannot masquerade or disguise as another user.
  • Using SecureClean and MySecurity Vault PRO softwares infected files can be permanently deleted, unwanted traces of personal information can be removed, sensitive files can be encrypted and protected.
  • ESET NOD32 AntiVirus Software System delivers smarter antispam technology for Outlook,Thunderbird and other popular mail clients.
Other simple preventive methods of email spoofing are Frequent password changing, safe surfing, frequent virus checks, email filters and firewalls.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Tools to manage time efficiently

Time management plays an important role in success of personal life as well as in career. Time management is as simple as extracting the most of the time you are awake in a day. At the same time it is as complicated as a set of practices, principles, skills, systems and more over tools.

What tool do you use to manage your time? Let us start with a simple list – calendar, to-do list. A calendar will be a calendar as long you see it as just a calendar. Enhance your calendar with a diary, mobile, or sites online like 30boxes, Google calendar, etc.

The Ti-Mandi (or Time and I) Window is one of the famous time management that most successful persons use. Its as simple as creating 2 by 2 column table. In the first row and first column list out all your works that are on priority for action (Important and urgent in other words). Assign the second column of the table to hold the list of all works that are important but can be put on hold for sometime. The second row and first column will be a list of all hot potatoes (that are trivial but demand an attendance in urgency). The last column of the table will hold all to-do thins that are a sheer time-trappers. They are neither urgent nor important.