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Foxmail is well received by virtue of its powerful functions. However, while fully enjoying the convenience and quickness it brings you security troubles, for example, due to Foxmail's own security vulnerabilities, hackers may easily intrude into the system, or their email accounts may be stolen by others. To avoid such security threats, this article provides the following security defense techniques for your reference!
Cleverly shield and cut off intrusion
The latest version of Foxmail has the "skill" for parsing Chinese domain names, but to use this "skill", Foxmail needs to dynamically link the library "punylib. dll file support, while punylib. the built-in UrlToLocal function of dll has a stack overflow security vulnerability. Hackers can exploit this vulnerability to easily gain access to the system of the other party, thereby conducting malicious remote control and attacks on others' systems. To avoid malicious attacks, you must "cut off" the hacker attack Channel. Considering that this attack is based on the "Chinese domain name resolution" function, if you cleverly set Foxmail to make it "reject" to call the Chinese domain name resolution function, the system will not "build" attack channels for hackers. The following describes how to block the "Chinese domain name resolution" function:
Line Foxmail program, in the pop-up main interface menu bar, click the "Tools"/"system settings" command, in the subsequent settings window, select the "General" label, in the tag page (figure 1) that is opened later, the check mark before "support for international domain names" and "Support for 3721 Chinese mail address resolution" is canceled, click "OK" to make the settings take effect.
Of course, if you want to continue using the Chinese domain name resolution function and prevent hackers from attacking the system through the punylib. dll file vulnerability, you can go to the dig.
Clear forgotten passwords
If you set a password for an account, but after a long time, you accidentally forget it, at this time, will you be unable to access emails under your account? The answer is no. You can use the following method to clear the "forgotten" password and ensure that the account is still valid.
First, open the resource manager window, find the installation directory of the Foxmail Program (the default installation directory is C: Program FilesFoxmail), and enter the Mail folder window under the installation directory.
In this window, find the account name that has forgotten the password, open the folder for the account name, and then move all the contents under the folder to other temporary folders; run the Foxmail program, and then move all the content in the Temporary Folder that was previously moved back to the folder corresponding to the account whose password was "forgotten; next, in the main interface of Foxmail, right-click the account name that has forgotten the password and execute the "access password" command (2) from the shortcut menu that appears ), in the subsequent password settings window, leave the password blank. Click OK to overwrite the previous password. If you want to view emails under this account again in the future, you only need to restart the Foxmail program and do not need to enter the password.
Tip: there is also a simpler way to clear the password, that is, in "FoxmailMailUser-for the Account name that" forgot "the password), set" Account. you can simply delete the stg file.
