Remote Logoff in Gmail
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I am the kind who think twice before loging into mail or any other services from another computer other than mine. Who knows about the hidden keyloggers and stuffs like that. And what if we forgot to signoff ?? Google is more concerned than us about our privacy and security. They have now introduced a “Remote Logoff” option Gmail. Scroll down in your gmail mailbox to this section.
It will shows the last access session details along with the IP address from which the account was accessed. Clicking on the details link will pop out a window with much more details
The recent activity on the account and ip addresses are displayed. You can signout from all other open sessions by clicking the”Sign out all Sessions” button. For added security you have to change the password if you doubt the password has been compromised or you opted for remember password in browser . (Not the Remember me check box in Gmail login page , as it only saves the session info which will be cleared by this method. ) Google is currently rolling out this feature to all Gmail and Gmail Apps users.
Information and Pictures taken from Gmail Blog
Very nice feature… but it doesn’t work with IE6 (and maybe with other browsers).
You can use the direct url of the page!
Follow these steps:
1) change your browser’s user agent string (you can use something like “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)”), close the browser and reopen it in order the change to take effect. From now your browser will be identified as IE7
2) Log in to Gmail with your account, et voilà , “Last account activity” is available on the bottom of the page. You click it and the popup opens. Save the url of this page, which will work on all browsers, then undo the changes you made to the user agent string of IE6 and restart the browser.
When you are logged onto Gmail and you need the “Last account activity” page, simply use the url you previously saved.
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