The e-mail address book stores names and e-mail address of all your personal and professional contacts in a systematic manner. You keep on adding more and more contact to your address book, but you are unlikely to have a backup for the address book. Your address book contains important data and you must therefore be concerned about its safety in case of virus attack or hard disk failure. This article will elaborate on how to protect your e-mail address book through security updates and backing up the address book.
Protecting your e-mail address book by creating backup profile:
- Go to the website www.jasnapaka.com, download MozBackup and install it on your PC.
- Go to the Start menu and click on Run. Type moz backup in the search box and press enter.
- The MozBackup window will open on your screen. Click the “Next” button and select your profile, Mozilla Thunderbird for example, and click “Next” again.
- Your profile name be set as default; select it and click on “Browse” to choose where you want to save the backup and click “Next”.
- If you want to password protect your file, click on the “Yes” button here. You will have to enter the password twice; once to set it and then to confirm it. Click on OK to save your password.
- If you don’t want to protect your file by a password, simply click on the “No” button.
- Now choose which parts of the e-mail program you want to create backup for. Check on the “Address Book” box if you only want to create a backup for your address book.
- Click on the “Finish” button to complete the process.
Steps to protect your e-mail address book by updating your computer’s security:
- First, open the Start menu by clicking on it and select Control panel. Enable the automatic windows update option by performing double-click on the “Windows update” icon.
- Click the “Change Settings” option and select the “Install Updates Automatically” option. You can select the “Everyday” option under “Install new updates” and select the time when you know your PC will be connected to the Internet every day.
- Click on “OK” and open “Windows Firewall” in the Control Panel. Click on the “Turn Windows Firewall on or off” option and click on the “Apply” button and then on “OK” to save the changes you have made in the Firewall settings.
- Now, open “Windows Defender” and ensure that the program is regularly updated. If otherwise, then check for any recent updates by clicking the “Check for updates” button and then close the control panel.
- Locate the icon for your Anti-virus software and right-click on it. From the drop-down menu, select “Update Now”.
- Run the software once it has been updated and click on “Shield”, ensuring that it has been enabled.
- Close the software to complete the process of protecting your e-mail address book.
Protect your e-mail address book by creating a backup address book:
- Go to the “Start” menu and click on the “Control Panel” option.
- Choose the classic view and double-click on the “Mail” tab.
- Now, click on the “Show profiles” button to select your profile.
- Next, click on “Properties” and click the “Data Files” tab. Under this, select the option of “Personal Folders” and click “Settings”.
- Windows will show you a hard drive path and file name; write it down and close the “Control Panel”.
- Again go to the Start menu, type “Windows Explorer” and press “Enter”.
- Browse the location of the file name that you wrote down earlier and right-click the file. Now, click on “Send to” option and choose the media type.
- If you want to create the backup elsewhere, then click on the “Copy” option and browse to where you want to save it and paste it.
- The process of protecting your e-mail address book is complete.
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