How To Protect In Cafe/Public Computers While Surfing Internet?

People who surf internet on cafe/public computers, are more vulnerable to be hacked, reason is simple! They are unaware from the software installed on public computers, their privileges. It's always secure to access internet from your personal computers, but some times you have to access it from other places like cafe, your friend computer. So what if you wanna to secure yourself from these hacks? Two things you must keep in mind while surfing from pubic computers:

1. Always prefer to private browsing. Mostly people are unaware from this wonderful feature of browsers. So what is private browsing and how to enable it?

• Private Browsing allows you to browse the Internet without saving any information about which sites and pages you’ve visited, private browsing do not save Visited pages, History, Passwords, Cookies and Cache files.
• For enabling it, press Ctrl+Shift+P for firefox and IE users (For chrome use shortcut Ctrl+Shift+N or check my other post Incognito Window In Google Chrome For Safe Browsing), a prompting window will ask you for starting private browsing.

2. Use On-Screen Keyboard. What to do if you think there is suspicious keylogger installed on system. Don't take risk, use on-screen keyboard. Keyloggers captures information from normal keyboard only. So whenever you do login on your personal internet banking accounts or else, always prefer to use virtual keyboard. You can open it by typing OSK in run.

Gmail Scam: Is Your Gmail Account Active. Yes/No

Today when I checked my Gmail account, then I got a mail with subject  "Gmail Verify Alert" & body "Is your Gmail Account Active. Yes/No" from "Gmail Team
<mailalert.noreplyrecovery@gmail.com>".

But then one thing came in mind that messages come from Google as @google.com not @gmail.com. Then I checked the "Header" field, this mail was not received from mr.google.com, received path was from mx.google.com. So I reported it as phishing. Then I checked my other account, same mail was in my inbox from same sender. I know it's my testing account, so I replied Yes , then immediately received mail from same sender with subject "GMAIL ACTIVE" & body:

At Google, we take your privacy and security seriously. Presently we are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of too many Gmail accounts so we are shutting down some accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending this email to you so that you can confirm the ownership and let us know if you still want to continue using this account.

Gmail need you to verify your account details ASAP .

Do you use Gmail with this account ?* Yes No YES

Do you use orkut with this Google Account ?* Yes No NO

Do you use Blogger with this Google Account ?* Yes No NO

Most Importantly The Details below is needed :

* Full Name * :

* Email ID * :

* Password * :

* Year Registered * :

* Country * :

Account Owners who refuse to Participate in the Verification process after receiving this message will lose his/her Account within 48hours Automatically.

We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your cooperation and understanding looking forward to hearing from you..

Sincerely,

The Google Account Verification Team

So task is simple, don't reply to this email otherwise you can loss your Gmail account. Just ignore this email & click down the arrow next to Reply, then click Report Phishing. Be aware from these scams. Mails from google always come from @google.com. Google knows very well which account is active or not.