Back in February Mark wrote an article, Are You Sure Your Email Isn’t Being Hacked. It provided step by step instructions on how to setup “electronic tripwire” in your email. When someone opens it the account owner gets alerted.

This time I want to go over one new Gmail feature. It watches your account and displays a notification when someone else logs into your account. Basically a nice little feature from Gmail team that lets you check if someone has hacked into your Gmail account.

People like nosing around. People like to go through other people’s stuff. Whether they are your family, friends, colleagues, or some anonymous guys in a basement in Japan, it’s something you want to avoid.

Whether it’s because you like your privacy or you think you have a reason to ‘erase your tracks’; in the end it’s all the same.

Luckily for you and I there are apps that can help you protect your privacy and your files, i.e. erase your tracks and put a nice big lock on all of your stuff.

OK you have your top antivirus program to keep your system files virus-free and a firewall software to block hackers from connecting to your computer. You think that’s enough? Think again. Both a firewall and an anti-virus protect your PC from known malware they can identify. But what about programs that look completely normal but are meant to spy behind your back? Neither your firewall or anti-virus software can protect you from that.

Below you’ll find 2 very cool free security programs that add an additional layer to your PC’s security making it a lot harder to compromise.

In the interests of full disclosure, I didn’t come up with this idea. I read about it in a computer magazine a year or two back but of course when I wanted to refer to it for this article, I couldn’t find it! But someone on Digg eventually managed to find it so here is the original article if you want to see it.