How To Improve Your Cell Phone or Wireless Security
Today's wireless Phones or Cell Phones enable you to receive and send instant
messages, check or send e-mails, and synchronize with your PC contacts, e-mail,
calendars, and more. These features make the truly wireless lifestyle a
reality; but they also make keeping your phone secure even more important. We
recommend taking the following steps to make sure that the wealth of
information stored on your wireless phone stays secure:
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- Treat your phone like the valuable data vault
that it is. Would you leave your personal directory, calendar, schedule,
or credit information out in the open without being secured? The same
rules should apply to your wireless phone.
- Lock your phone. Most phones have locking
features that prevent strangers from accessing the phones functions or
network services without knowing a user-defined code key.
- Delete sensitive e-mails, text messages, and IM
conversations from your phone. Most phones with messaging capabilities
allow you to limit what's stored in the phone's flash memory.
- Control access to your phone's short-range
wireless features. Infrared and Bluetooth technology allow you to
synchronize to other devices without cords or cables, but you shouldn't
leave these features on when you aren't using them. Some phones also let you
set passwords or code keys for accessing these functions either directly
or remotely.
- Global Positioning System or GPS - Enables carrier to
use signals from GPS satellites to pinpoint the geographic location of the
device in the event of an emergency, or increasingly for user-defined location
based services.
6.Get Your phone IMEI(International Mobile Equipment Identity number)--To find
your mobile phone IMEI number, simply dial the sequence *#06# into
the phone. The unique 15 digit IMEI code of your cell phone will be instantly
displayed. Copy it and keep it in a safe place so that you can find it when you
phone is misplaced or stolen. You can also find the IMEI number by checking the
compliance plate under the battery.
7, Install antiviral or spyware protection if your device allow.
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