Gmail Features: Now You're More Secure

GMAIL More Secure :::

Gmail now provides an extra option of checking the activity of your Gmail account, this will display accessed time, ip address, access type like browser, mobile, POP. Clicking the Details link next to the Last account activity line at the bottom of any Gmail page shows information about recent activity in your mail.

How to use this data ?

check the sneakers: If you're concerned about unauthorized access to your mail, you'll be able to use this data to find out if and when someone gained access. If you doubt that someone else is using your account anonymously, you can catch him off with the IP addresses that is present in the recent activity table. If you are using a single computer, then most of the time your IP address don't change, but if you are having a dynamic IP address, it still

 have first two numbers as same (for example 192.168.xx.xx).

close the remote sessions: If you have failed to sign out your account when you used it in your office, you can still sign off from anywhere. There is an option sign out all other sessions, by clicking on it you can sign off from other sessions.

Access time: Sometimes, when you go out, you may not sign off you gmail account and also you may leave the computer on; then people have an opportunity to run through your gmail. The access time given in the last activity table gives complete details of the when was you gmail accessed, using that you can know if someone is using your account when you are away from the computer.