Thanks, Selvan. Working on that now.
If you mean working on encryption, here's my instructional e-mail:
Hi,
Have you ever thought twice about E-mailing sensitive information because you knew personal E-mail was unsecured? Send it as an encrypted attachment for free in three simple steps but only after completing the below three steps once to install and prepare.
You need an OpenPGP key pair (see Wikipedia about), one is shared (public key) and, the other is kept private (secret key). What I encrypt with your public key can only be decrypted by you with your secret key or, in other words, what you encrypt with my openly shared public key can only be decrypted by me with my secret private key which is never shared. Don't worry, it really is very easy once you get past the install and key pair creation (see below on how to encrypt or decrypt, it's only 3 steps).
STEP 1. Download & install Gpg4win (see Wikipedia about) with these minimum components: GnuPG (pre-selected), Kleopatra, and GpgEX, complete the install without changes.
STEP 2. Create your OpenPGP key pair:
01. click "Start, All Programs, Gpg4win, Kleopatra".
02. click "File, New Certificate".
03. click "Create a personal OpenPGP key pair".
04. enter with no space "yourFIRSTLASTname and YOUREMAIL@ADDRESS.COM", click Next.
05. confirm your name and e-mail address is correct then click "Create Key".
06. in the Certificate Creation Wizard window, type randomly while also doing step 07.
07. enter at least a 100% quality passphrase (password) as many times as needed and click "Finish".
STEP 03. Export Certificate (it's your public key):
08. ensure your secret key is selected/highlighted in the Kleopatra window.
09. click "File, Export Certificates" (not “export secret keys” below it).
10. save it to the desktop keeping the default file name as is, i.e. 8597777311961A49918E9D8F2HH40P70Q94K31RP.asc
Note that it is not possible to recover a lost passphrase, anything encrypted with it will be lost forever. You will simply have to create a new key pair.
After doing the above once, here's how to Encrypt and/or Decrypt with three simple steps:
01. click “Start, All Programs, Gpg4win, Kleopatra”.
02. drag and drop the attachment into the Kleopatra window.
03. select to Encrypt or Decrypt and follow the instructions.
All the best and don't hesitate to ask for help,
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Selvan
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If you mean working on encryption, here's my instructional e-mail:
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Thanks very much.
What I have been doing is looking into setting up a VPN.
That is a very informative post. I copied it and downloaded Gpg4win. Gpg4win looks like a good app for emails. Will try it soon.
Problem here is this huge list of things to "try soon", some dating back a year or two. But I have it now, will try it "soon".
Thanks again.
Hi,
Hope it's okay to still post here and I hope this helps CC...
I've found, to me, the easiest way to stop Hotspot Shield from starting, short of uninstalling it, is to use WinPatrol to disable the four Hotspot Shield services seen in the image below. It stops it dead, 100%, on startup, and I'm a regular user of WinPatrol anyway.
