Protect your Gmail account by accessing the activity
report<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?p=945>

   - *Date*: August 31st, 2009
   - *Author*: William Jones
   - *Category*: support<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?cat=17>
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*Web-based e-mail is convenient, but what happens if you forgot to log out
of a public computer? Gmail users have an easy solution.*

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Last week, I got panicked call from a friend. She had forgotten to log out
of her web e-mail account before leaving the study carrel she was using. My
friend is in graduate school, and the library where she goes to work gets a
lot of traffic. She was appropriately concerned about the security of her
account and asked me if there was anything she could do to close that
session remotely. Luckily, since she�s a Gmail user, I could offer her a
solution.

Once a user logs in, he or she can find data about the �Last account
activity� at the bottom of every Gmail page below the storage usage stats.
Displayed there will be the last network address that accessed the Gmail
account, or an indication of how long the current session has lasted. There
is also a link labeled �Details.� That link is where we�re headed.

By clicking on the �Details� link, a Gmail user can see a table of recent
activity in her account. This table will indicate when and from where the
account has been accessed, and will display if there are multiple sessions
active simultaneously. To close every other session except their current
web-based one, a user can click the button labeled �Sign out all other
sessions.� This was what I directed my friend to do.

The recent activity report can serve as a useful security-auditing tool in
other ways. Examining the data for suspicious network addresses and account
activity can alert a user that the security of her Gmail account has been
breached. More information on how to use the session activity report can be
found on Google�s help
pages<http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&answer=45938>
.

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