GralicWrap.com AntiPhising client

As I promised, I came across another new piece of software and here I am with its installation and operating tutorial. While it is designed for newbies, experienced users I don't think will require it. And what do u know...its with screen shots.

Homepage and Download Link: http://gralicwrap.com/WebDownloadClient.php

Type: anti phishing software.

System Requirements:

• Windows 95, 98, ME, XP Home, XP Pro, or 2000 Pro (No Linux version avaulable).
  
• 2 MB of available hard disk space
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later (does not seem to work for Firefox)
• 14.4 KBS or faster Internet connection

Purpose: All the inbuilt browser anti phishing protection works on the basis of a black and white list, which unfortunately is not very prompt in updating. As phishing sites do not continue to exists for a considerable length of time, a third party Anti phishing software is always helpful. And here comes GralicWrap to browser's rescue.

Step 1: Download the installer named GralicWrapClient Setup file from the above URL. It is in compressed format, use 7 zip to uncompress it to get the main installer. Double click on the installer to get the following screen. Click on "Next".....

Step 2: You get the following License Agreement screen, click on "I Agree" to continue...

Step 3: At this step decide where you want to install this program. The default is C:\Program Files\GralicWrap.com Client. If you want to change the location click on "Browse" button and see step 3/1, otherwise click "Next" and jump to Step 4.

Step 3/1: This step is necessary in case you want to change the default installation location. Clicking the "Browse" button in the above screen will open the following "sub-window". In that choose the Drive or Folder where you want to install this program and hiy "OK" radio button. The program will automatically create "GralicWrap.com Client" folder under your chosen location.

Step 4: Leave this screen as default and do not mind changing anything here. Hit "OK" to proceed.

Step 5: The program will be installed and you can see a progress screen as follows. Once the word "Completed" is displayed in the last line, click on "Next".

Step 6: This is the last installation screen, informing that the installation is over, so you just have to click "Finish" to formally end the process of installation...nothing else.

Step 7: Now we need to run the program. To do so: click on Start> All Programs > GralicWrap.com Client 1.06> GralicWrap.com Client

Step 8: After finishing the above step, you may not see anything. Just look for a small, red cat like icon in your system tray. Locate the icon and double click on it.

Step 9: As you double click on this icon, a new window will open with three radio buttons, choose "configure" from those. As you click on "Configure" another 'sub-window' appears. In that ensure that first two boxes are checked. Leave the last two boxes blank. This will ensure that GW will start with windows and do not have to remember to run it during browsing. Hit "OK" and "Minimize" and it will keep running in your system tray. Remember to allow GW if your Firewall raises any notification. Now you are good to go...

You can access the configuration window by 'right-clicking' on the task bar icon. You may have access to the "Exit" button in the similar manner, in case you want to shut it down (This I do not recommend).

Hope you find it useful.

YPOPS! Having POP access for a non -POP Yahoo mail Account

Ok, I have decided to justice to my Blog...from now on whatever good thing I shall find out I am going to post that here (obviously after trying myself).

I suddenly stumbled upon a new piece of software called YPOPS!. It promises to provide me POP access for all my non POP Yahoo accounts. Now unless you have a regional account in Yahoo (like abcd@yahoo.co.in) you really can not have free smtp or pop access to your mail accounts. So gem like Mozilla Thunderbird remains to be hardly any use. Hence I got really curious and decided give it a shot. The download was pretty small for windows..a few hundred kbs of installer. And then I started to add accounts to my Thunderbird as per the instructions available at their site. At first I added only one to see whether it really works or not...and to my utter surprise I found that it works like a breeze. And icing on the cake is that you can use the outgoing smtp server in the same account. I got so impressed that I remain awake till 1:30 am in the morning to create and use all my ".com" yahoo accounts. So I can highly recommend this software to anyone who is still reading this. I suggest that you use Thunderbird as your Email client.

Just one word of caution: Remember to configure YPOPS! not to download all the mails at least after the first run, otherwise you shall have all the same mails downloaded again.

To sum up:

Pros:

1. It delivers what it promises- you really have POP access to your free Yahoo accounts.
2. It also provides you with SMTP access to your free accounts.
3. No Adware/Malware/Crapware is included- just clean.
4. Has a good support forum.
5. Clear instructions on how to configure almost all kinds of Emil clients.
6. Its FREE.
7. It also has a official Linux version for Ubuntu and for others the Source Code.
8. Still under Active Development.

Cons:

1. It does not work with new yahoo mail.
2. Wish it worked with Hotmail or Rediffmail too.

So you can clearly see that the pros outweighs cons quite easily, so I decided to go for it and forgo the jazzy interface of New Yahoo Mail (previously known as Yahoo Mail Beta). If you are with plese find tha links and instructions below.

Links:

Home Page: http://ypopsemail.com/index.php

Windows Installer:

http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/yahoopops/ypops-win-0.9.5.1.exe
http://dbeusee.home.comcast.net/ypops-win-0.9.5.1.exe

Ubuntu Linux Installer:

http://www.geocities.com/t_skariah/ypops/ypops-0.9.5.tgz

Uncompress this file to get the .deb installer.

Source code (in CVS)

http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=52835

Mail client configuration instructions:

http://ypopsemail.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=listarticles&secid=1

The Thunderbird Instructions are for older 1.7 version. I shall try to post here the new instructions for Thunderbird 2.0 with screen shots, but I don't think that before 2nd October it will be possible. So please come back to check then.

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Ubuntu Installation Instructions:

To install:

$ tar xvzf ypops-deb.tgz
$ sudo dpkg -i ypops_0.8.8-1_i386.deb

To uninstall:

$ sudo dpkg -r ypops

To start:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/ypops start

To stop:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/ypops stop

For auto start at boot:

$ cd /etc/rc2.d/
$ sudo ln -s ../init.d/ypops S99ypops
$ cd /etc/rc3.d/
$ sudo ln -s ../init.d/ypops S99ypops
$ cd /etc/rc5.d/
$ sudo ln -s ../init.d/ypops S99ypops

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So I hope it helps others as it has been helping me. If readers find this post useful please leave a comment.