It has been commonly observed that user accounts are easily compromised through phishing schemes, trojans and spywares. As a starting point, the following steps are recommended:-

• Avoid sharing your username, password and personal information secret and better chane your password regularly. Use a password combination (with a minimum password length of atleast 8 characters) with an uppercase, lowercase, a digit and some special characters making it much harder for someone to guess your password.
• Never paste a URL or a javascript when logged into orkut regardless of what it claims to do. Never click on links in emails that claims to be from Gmail or Orkut.
• Don’t enter your Google Account username and password on sites other than orkut.com and other Google networks sites.
• Sign out when you are done: Don’t forget to click the Logout link at the top of the page when you’re done with using orkut. This should be strictly followed when using a orkut from a shared computer.

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If we are honest, many of us love shopping. For many it could be the grocery store, it could be the clothing store, or it could even be online. Where ever it is, it often hurts our budgets and makes it easy to spend more then we have. We can increase our standard of living by curbing our spending and saving our money. This way we are careful to buy only what we really need or really want and we save tons of clutter space in out house.

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Here are some of my favorite tips and tricks for Word 97/2000/2002(Office XP)/2003, organized into three sections: The basics, Advanced tips, and Things you don’t have to do.

1. Learn to use Undo – Make a mistake? Press [Ctrl]Z or choose Undo from the Edit menu right away. Keep pressing [Ctrl]Z to backtrack through and undo the most recent editing changes you’ve made.

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