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With more demands being put on lightweight network-edge hardware to provide security as well as connectivity, a new hybrid approach combining simplified malware detection with URI filtering can offer excellent proactive protection without overburdening the hardware or the administrator.

Summary

With more demands being put on lightweight network-edge hardware to provide security as well as connectivity, a new hybrid approach combining simplified malware detection with URI filtering can offer excellent proactive protection without overburdening the hardware or the administrator.

Combining solidity and efficiency—the protection conundrum

The malware epidemic continues to flourish around the world, with every step forward in technology and connectivity polluted and abused as soon as it becomes popular. As networks and working practices evolve to take advantage of the latest technologies, new protective strategies must evolve to provide the best possible level of security. Monitoring network gateways and links for malicious traffic has been a standard practice for some time. But as traffic demands and network complexity increase, simply proxying traffic through traditional security filters running on traditional processing hardware is becoming an ever more expensive option, less than ideal in many environments.

The ideal point to detect and remove threats is at the edge of the network itself, but the devices sitting there often have limited resources and are not ideally suited to conventional scanning techniques, based on local databases of specific and generic detection signatures. In modern multi-site businesses, branches are often connected via lightweight routers or UTMs with limited resources. Even in major sites deploying full-scale appliances performance is under pressure from increasing demands.

A new approach is required to provide fast, accurate threat blocking that will be effective on hardware with limited memory and processing power, and with little opportunity for local updating. A lightweight, flexible but still powerful approach, combining high levels of protection with minimal resource usage, is the only viable solution to the problem of efficient, effective threat defense in an environment where resources are at a premium and throughput latency carries a heavy cost.

A web full of threats—the modern malware attack vector

In the early days of malware, the primary infection vector was the floppy disk; this was how data was transferred from one machine to another, and so malware followed the same route to find new victims. As email became ubiquitous and we began exchanging files as attachments rather than writing them to solid media, malware joined in and infected attachments became the transmission method of choice, with worms incorporating their own SMTP engines, developing social engineering techniques and spreading wildly. For some time now this vector has been in decline; although it continues to represent a threat, it is mainly limited to exploiting document formats, as savvy administrators have long since learned to simply block all executable attachments automatically. The main danger of email these days is in the links it may carry to malicious content, hosted out on the internet.

These days everything is on the internet. We not only store our own data online and exchange information with colleagues and clients over the web, we also require access to the mass of collective information posted online by others. Restricted web browsing is no longer an option in most businesses, as any user in any way hampered in accessing the information required to get his or her job done is an employee not working to maximum efficiency. It’s no longer simply a question of monitoring the gateways at the edges of corporate networks either, as multi-

site businesses become the norm, and remote and travelling workers require equal access to both internal company networks and the web at large. The network boundary has become a porous, vaporous idea rather than a tangible line in the sand.

Malware has of course followed this trend, and the internet is steadily drowning in dangerous content. The proportion of infected sites, whether malicious by design or legitimate sites compromised to host threats, grows exponentially. Social engineering used to lure us to these attack points grows ever more sophisticated, taking advantage of every emerging trend in communication, from email to the deluge of social networking systems, each of which seems doomed to become swamped in spam links to risky sites from the moment its first early adopters begin to sing its praises.

As malware itself is ever more cunningly crafted to elude detection and sneak precious data from infected systems, so the lures and tricks used to bypass our human defenses grow more devious day by day. Every possible weakness of the human mind, from greed to fear to simple curiosity, has been targeted as a way of persuading us to follow a link, allow a script to run, enter a password and throw ourselves and our machines open to whatever the malware creators have in mind. Most worryingly for businesses, malware and the associated infection techniques have become increasingly targeted to penetrate specific companies, trick specific users and steal specific, often highly valuable corporate data. While endpoint-level protection on the desktop provides a strong defense, most businesses will want to provide maximum security, with minimal impact on worker productivity, by filtering the bulk of threats at their network boundaries and at strategic points between network nodes.

A wall full of gaps—the modern business network edge

In the early days of business networks, the corporate LAN was like a castle, sealed off securely from the outside world with a single way in or out, which could be heavily protected and monitored. These days such an approach is impossible, with users needing to connect in and out of the network, and with each other inside it, in a vast number of ways. Internal mail systems and data storage must be accessible externally for home workers or those on the road, not just from traditional computers but from smart-phones, PDAs and an ever growing range of devices. Clients and partners need to access online resources not just to read pages of text, but to interactively, post data and content and pass all kinds of traffic on and off web-facing servers. Even within the corporate network, different nodes and sites must be interconnected smoothly and transparently, but still need to be protected from the outside and each other. In many situations, monolithic, expensive appliance-based solutions can no longer provide the required protection without seriously impeding the flexibility of the business.

In such situations, the deployment of multiple, inexpensive lightweight devices at network boundaries and between nodes seems the ideal solution. With built-in firewalling on routers commonplace and lightweight UTM devices becoming ever more complete packages, the inclusion of malware detection is an obvious and logical step up. These devices represent an ideal bottleneck at which threats can be filtered out of the traffic flow, but by design are unsuited to the traditional threat detection model.

Standard malware detection techniques require ample processing power and memory space, and also need regular updating to maintain complete efficacy against the latest emergent threats. Desktop-level protection provides a solid last line of defense, with minimal impact on users thanks to the combination of modern, efficient scanning and high-powered hardware. But this last line should be shielded by additional layers

of protection, to keep users from the impact of malware attacks and the intrusion of detection alerts, keeping their systems and their working time efficient and profitable as well as safe. Many other modern devices also function as full-spectrum computers with far fewer resources, notably mobile devices, and these too require protection that does not overburden their limited memory, storage and processing power, adding another layer of complexity to the design of full-canopy protection, and these devices would also benefit from a different approach to security. Combining full-strength endpoint protection with additional layers that complement each other, covering the gaps in the armor, can provide a solid barrier against attack. but achieving the right level of overlap shifts much of the filtering burden to devices at the network boundaries.

In most lightweight network devices, the kind of resources required are simply not available, and updates represent an even bigger hurdle. Updating firmware on a UTM or router is a labor-intensive, generally manual task with an element of associated risk; any such update can lead to problems and loss of precious connectivity. Such a task needs to be performed as seldom as possible, while conventional anti-malware technology requires updates ever more frequently. Although core engine improvements may not need to be applied as often as detection updates, which in many cases appear hourly or even more often, engines still need updating once a month or so to add new functionality and enable proper detection of the latest generations of threats. This sort of schedule is well outside the acceptable boundaries for updating firmware-based devices.

At first glance, combining the requirements of these devices—the need for rapid throughput of high levels of data on low-powered, seldom-updated hardware—with the needs and powers of conventional anti-malware solutions seems an impossible task.

Compromise and avoidance—how the UTM problem has been approached

A number of solutions have been proposed and implemented to provide anti-malware protection in lightweight network-edge devices, with varying degrees of success. The simplest and most obvious have also suffered the most predictable shortcomings. The initial response to the requirement for network edge scanning was to skirt the issue entirely by imposing a proxy, rerouting traffic off the lightweight device and through a conventional scanner system running on a full-powered secondary machine. This allows for the most comprehensive detection the provider of the detection technology can produce, with full access to the required resources including frequent updates, but imposes a heavy burden of cost and equipment as well as less than optimal latency compared to the throughput capabilities of the lightweight device.

Other implementations have provided a standard file scanning engine with a pared-down, “core” set of detection definitions, speeding up throughput to an acceptable level and minimizing the updating requirements. This provides a basic level of protection against the most common threats, but has some fairly obvious negative implications for completeness of detection. A slightly more successful alternative has been to develop a simplified engine capable of processing the data streams passing through lightweight devices at reasonable speeds with regular-expression-based detection methods targeting known threat types. Some variants of this approach have even been able to introduce limited updating onto the device. Even the most sophisticated systems using such techniques offer no more than a cut-down version of the protection of a full traditional signature scanner, with incomplete proactive protection against new-emerging threats, and still impose a burden on resources and require physical access for regular updates.

Another option is the use of online resources, with the scanning system referring to detection and

threat data stored “in the cloud”. With some cloud-based systems requiring considerable amounts of traffic to transfer detailed file characteristics and detection information back and forth, latency can become a serious problem, especially with large numbers of files passing through a device and requiring off-system lookups. A per-file lookup approach, which imposes heavy increases in traffic volume and slows the device throughput as well as potentially compromising the privacy of sensitive data, is no silver bullet.

The complete solution—a hybrid approach

Taking all these conflicting requirements and capabilities into account, a set of rules for the ideal approach begins to emerge:

»»For maximum economy and efficiency, malware filtering needs to take place on the lightweight device, ruling out the proxying method.

»»To maintain the required throughput level, the scanning engine must be lightweight and capable of processing large amounts of data with limited resources of memory or CPU.

»»To keep the memory footprint down, large amounts of detection data should not be stored on the device; while to avoid firmware updating requirements, improvements to the engine logic must be applied live and remotely, leaving the hard-coded components integrated into the device firmware untouched.

»»Finally, complex remote lookups of each and every file need to be avoided to minimize latency and added traffic, so a second form of threat detection is required—filtering not by file, but by URI.

With a large and sophisticated web monitoring system identifying and cataloging infected sites, a quality threat lab can build a comprehensive database of known bad URIs, rapidly spotting and responding to new outbreaks. This database can be checked at high speed from the detection system of a lightweight device as it processes the HTTP data passing through it, and malicious sites can be blocked in real time. Filtering the source

of malware rather than filtering by file recognition saves both time and effort; the complex obfuscation techniques employed by some malware seeders—such as server-side polymorphism, where files are tweaked and repacked frequently to minimize scanner detections—are completely bypassed. As the web is increasingly the vector of choice for malicious code penetration, with code and scripts entering networks from infected or compromised web pages, HTTP represents the bulk of traffic passing through these gateway devices. This. approach thus covers all but a tiny fraction of transferred data, as shown by its performance in full-scale appliances, drastically cutting the load on the other protective technologies included in such equipment.

Operating alongside this system, a cloud-based file lookup is also used for files from unclassified sites and for protocols not providing URI information, with much lower demands thanks to the initial URI filtering. As the vast majority of malware carried via non-HTTP protocols consists of simple, static files, these samples can be identified by simple checksums, removing the requirement for complex file data to be gathered, sent to the cloud and checked.

These two overlapping layers of protection can operate via existing universal technology—the DNS lookup system used across the internet—to deliver high-speed responses to cloud lookups. The back-end databases can also monitor lookups coming in, watching for trends and patterns and using the telemetry information gathered to provide additional real-time reactivity to new outbreaks. The style of protection provided perfectly complements the more file-based approach of the full-powered desktop solutions it backs up, and is extendable to a wide range of similarly low-resource, high-throughput devices—even to mobile devices like smart-phones given the plummeting costs of connectivity.

Together, the two layers provide a level of protection at least 95% as accurate as in-depth, resource-hungry per-file inspection, and in many cases improving on detection rates of file-scanning techniques thanks to skirting the problem of server-side polymorphism. Reaction times for new attacks are extremely fast, resource consumption is minimal and physical updating of firmware is drastically reduced. All in all, this hybrid approach ticks all the boxes, fitting the constraints of lightweight environments without compromising on protection.

Nokia N85 is a smart handset which supports 3G and GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 networks. This handset has large space in its memory to store various data. The mobile works on SOS (Symbian operating system) version 9.3 with S60 software. This handset is packed with 4MB of internal memory which can be expanded to 9GB by using a Micro SD memory card. The device has GPS navigation system with an AGPS navigation feature and Nokia maps application.

Motorola ZN5 works with Quad band technology of GSM 8500, 900, 1800 and 1900. It has a large 2.4 Inches TFT screen that can display 262K colours. The screen’s resolution is of 240 pixel by 320 pixel. The gadget comes with Crystal Talk technology which allows the user to have a chat on his gadget freely. The camera phone comes with a large memory of 350 MB that can be further expanded by adding a MicroSD memory card.

Nokia N85 comes with a large QVGA screen of 2.6 Inches which supports 16.7 million colours. Its resolution is of 320 x 240 pixels. The handset has brightness control feature and light detector feature which is helpful for the user to control brightness on the screen. It is packed with 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens which is placed on the front side of the handset. This handset has 20 x digital zoom feature which allows the users to capture their photographs in the dull lighting conditions also. The phone has slide lens cover which provides the protection of the lens and helps to capture clear photos and moving footages in the poor lighting condition.

Motorola ZN5 comes with 5 mega pixel camera with the option of Xenon flash. This feature allows the user to adjust to the lighting conditions of the environment. It has auto focus which allows the user to focus on his subject. The mobile is also packed with landscape and portrait mode, dedicated camera keys, wall paper and screen saver.

Nokia N85 has popular messaging service which allows the users to send and receive their messages easily from their handset. It comes with SMS (text messaging), MMS (multi media service), Email (SMTP, IMAP and POP), Email with attachments, email with filtering, wireless email support and predictive messages which allows the users to attach their document with their emails.

Motorola ZN5 comes with SMS (text messaging), MMS (multi media service), EMS (enhanced messaging), Email and Instant messaging. Text messaging allows the users to correct or delete their messages if the user do not want to send or make any changes while typing the message. Email feature allows the user to connect himself with his friends and relative easily with email service. Email service allows the user to send and receive official as well as personal emails from his handset to another devices.

Nokia N85 is popular for its sound quality such as music player (MP3, AAC, WMA,eAAC+ and eAAC), album art display, music selection (album, artist, composer and genre), play list, equalizer, Nokia Internet radio etc. Nokia Internet radio allows the users to connect themselves from radio whether they are using their Internet or not. Play-list allows the user to maintain the record of their favorite songs on their mobile phone. Users are free to composer their songs or music with the help of this stunning gadget. Users can easily maintain their favourite songs album which they can listen when ever they want to entertain themselves.

Motorola ZN5 provides music player (MP3, WMA and eAAC+), FM radio, polyphonic ringtones, MP3 and AAC ringtones which allow the user to download latest ringtones on their mobile phone. When we compare Nokia N85 vs Motorola ZN5, we find that both handsets are superior in their own terms.

Nokia N85 is a smart handset which supports 3G and GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 networks. This handset has large space in its memory to store various data. The mobile works on SOS (Symbian operating system) version 9.3 with S60 software. This handset is packed with 4MB of internal memory which can be expanded to 9GB by using a Micro SD memory card. The device has GPS navigation system with an AGPS navigation feature and Nokia maps application.

Motorola ZN5 works with Quad band technology of GSM 8500, 900, 1800 and 1900. It has a large 2.4 Inches TFT screen that can display 262K colours. The screen’s resolution is of 240 pixel by 320 pixel. The gadget comes with Crystal Talk technology which allows the user to have a chat on his gadget freely. The camera phone comes with a large memory of 350 MB that can be further expanded by adding a MicroSD memory card.

Nokia N85 comes with a large QVGA screen of 2.6 Inches which supports 16.7 million colours. Its resolution is of 320 x 240 pixels. The handset has brightness control feature and light detector feature which is helpful for the user to control brightness on the screen. It is packed with 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens which is placed on the front side of the handset. This handset has 20 x digital zoom feature which allows the users to capture their photographs in the dull lighting conditions also. The phone has slide lens cover which provides the protection of the lens and helps to capture clear photos and moving footages in the poor lighting condition.

Motorola ZN5 comes with 5 mega pixel camera with the option of Xenon flash. This feature allows the user to adjust to the lighting conditions of the environment. It has auto focus which allows the user to focus on his subject. The mobile is also packed with landscape and portrait mode, dedicated camera keys, wall paper and screen saver.

Nokia N85 has popular messaging service which allows the users to send and receive their messages easily from their handset. It comes with SMS (text messaging), MMS (multi media service), Email (SMTP, IMAP and POP), Email with attachments, email with filtering, wireless email support and predictive messages which allows the users to attach their document with their emails.

Motorola ZN5 comes with SMS (text messaging), MMS (multi media service), EMS (enhanced messaging), Email and Instant messaging. Text messaging allows the users to correct or delete their messages if the user do not want to send or make any changes while typing the message. Email feature allows the user to connect himself with his friends and relative easily with email service. Email service allows the user to send and receive official as well as personal emails from his handset to another devices.

Nokia N85 is popular for its sound quality such as music player (MP3, AAC, WMA,eAAC+ and eAAC), album art display, music selection (album, artist, composer and genre), play list, equalizer, Nokia Internet radio etc. Nokia Internet radio allows the users to connect themselves from radio whether they are using their Internet or not. Play-list allows the user to maintain the record of their favorite songs on their mobile phone. Users are free to composer their songs or music with the help of this stunning gadget. Users can easily maintain their favourite songs album which they can listen when ever they want to entertain themselves.

Motorola ZN5 provides music player (MP3, WMA and eAAC+), FM radio, polyphonic ringtones, MP3 and AAC ringtones which allow the user to download latest ringtones on their mobile phone. When we compare Nokia N85 vs Motorola ZN5, we find that both handsets are superior in their own terms.

The first thing to do when you perceive that there is trouble in your server , hard disk, or RAID health is to stay calm and not facilitate further loss by pressing all keys and codes. Take a deep breath and decide on whether you are going to do the data protection and recovery yourself or seek the help of specialists. The key to preventing loss of computer data is to create back ups like clockwork.

Data recovery, although possible, hardly ever promises 100% recovery of lost data, here are a few suggestions:

1. Use proven data recovery software and try and retrieve lost files.

2. If you suspect a hardware collapse just pull the plug and call for professional help. Do not try and shut down the system or save any files.

3. Listen to the computer and see if you can detect any abnormal sounds.

4. Connect the faulty disks to another computer and use the disk as a slave to try and recover lost files.

5. Consider investing in data recovery software. Surf the World Wide Web and locate a reliable data recovery and protection service. Be sure to check their credentials.

6. If a drive is damaged do not run defragmenters or volume repair utilities.

7. In case the ruined drive has OS systems on it get recovery systems that have boot functions. Once the files become visible copy them onto disks or external drives.

8. Never dry a wet hard drive with a dryer it will damage the system completely.

9. Clean up the system by deleting unwanted files and software.

10. Install protection systems like firewalls and anti-virus scanners.

As far as possible never drop a drive down. Use only recommended hardware and software. Beware of free downloads. Set up an infallible back up system.

Protect your data against loss by:

1. Conducting weekly backups that are offsite. Remote data back ups minimizes data loss.

2. Use Storage area networks or SANs.

3. Add surge protectors to your computer system . This will protect the delicate equipment.

4. Connect the whole system through an UPS or uninterrupted power supply system.

5. Install anti-virus software and firewalls.

6. Insure your hardware.

7. Follow the rules of safe computer use like never opening attachments from unknown sources and protecting your system from phising by avoiding free downloads and so on.

Take the ultimate step in protecting your data by training all employees if you are a business and if you are an individual then stay abreast of recent trends in computer protection and data recovery.

HTC Snap

First up is Windows Mobile, and today, it’s to be found in the body of the HTC Snap. Anyone who’s used Windows Mobile before will know it’s exceptionally good at emails and info management, and the HTC Snap is no exception to that rule. You get the same excellent POP3 and Exchange Server (for your corporate emails) support, but the HTC Snap also includes something new: Inner Circle. This is a new feature for the HTC Snap, that lets you set an Inner Circle of friends or important people, and automatically prioritises emails from them, to make sure you get the emails that matter the most, first.

Nokia N97

After the triumphant launch of the Nokia 5800, which was only ever meant to be a mid-range phone, Nokia needed a new top-ender to really wow the public. And that top-ender is the hyper-powered Nokia N97. It takes the brand new Symbian Touch interface, and adds in bags more power, as well as a full QWERTY keyboard. Even starting with the looks, it’s a truly stunning phone, with sleek surfaces and a minimalist design making the Nokia N97 truly a beautiful sight to behold. However, the impressive nature of the Nokia N97 doesn’t end with the exterior, as it’s what’s inside that really impresses. Equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, it effortlessly switches from phone to camera, letting you leave your separate camera at home. And, of course, with HSDPA data speeds, and WiFi, the Nokia N97 even morphs into a miniature laptop when you need it to. It’s quite simply an astounding phone.

HTC Touch Pro2

Whilst the HTC Snap stands somewhat on its own (being a unique email device first, and a smartphone second), the Nokia N97 has a bigger keyboard, and a full touchscreen interface. Is there’s a Windows Mobile phone that can beat it? Yes there is: the HTC Touch Pro2. It really is a joy to use, and like an increasing number of modern touchscreen mobile phones, it’s optimised for touch controls. Or, in other words, you press the screen on the HTC Touch Pro2 with a finger, not a dibber (well, ok, a stylus, but dibber sounds better, to me). Specs-wise, it’s no slouch, either, with 5 megapixel camera, HSDPA, WiFi, built-in GPS and a frankly brilliant slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It truly is a gorgeous mobile phone, and I’ll be frank, it’s hard to think of any other Windows Mobile phone coming close to it.

Every web host should provide you with the ability to have several email accounts, most will offer up to 10 with a basic low end account. Another feature to look for is a company that offers an account that will accept and hold any email sent to your domain that does not match an email address. This is due to the fact that many people misspell names and such and therefore emails get lost.

You basically have three different email services available to you. The first is probably the one that most are familiar with, the POP or post office protocol works like a normal inbox such as your Outlook Express. You will be given a certain amount of storage space you are allowed but generally can only access from one computer.

The second choice called IMAP or internet message access protocol will allow you to use your email account on many different computers so that you can access it at work and home.

The third choice you have is a web based email which is of course the most flexible, allowing you to access your email from anywhere on the planet with a computer and an internet connection though a web browser. I like having all the options.

The next consideration that you have is on the size limit of storage you have. Nearly every web hosting company will have some sort of restriction on the size of account you can have as well as on the size of messages that can be sent. This is especially crucial if you are using your email to send pictures or documents. One key thing you want to do if you are using outlook or outlook express is to select the notify option for when your email is opened so that you know it was received. Many times if a file is too large you will have no other way of knowing. If you don’t get the notification then you know they didn’t receive your message.

Now, back to actual storage space, you should pick a web host company that offers a reasonable balance between the bandwidth limits and the size of the mailbox storage. For example if you have an account that offers 500MB of bandwidth but only a 3 MB data storage for email accounts.

Another important issue to look for is outgoing email limits. If you are using your account for business you may need to send emails out to a large number of people several times a day, if the system automatically flags that as spam you will not be able to send them. Check the limitations on outgoing mail and be sure it suits your needs.

The term unlimited may be compared to the service that you can get — more bandwidth and other perks like numerous email accounts which you will need for your business. Shutting a server down will not happen since these web hosting services are offering big storage spaces to handle the volume of data that you need.

Unlimited web hosting is more or less like the advertisement of some fast food joints that cater an eat-all-you-can promo. You have to stop somewhere right? Otherwise, you’d end up throwing up on the table or getting rushed to the hospital for overeating.

The most important deal to consider for this kind of marketing campaign is would the web hosting company be able to provide you with 100% uptime website hosting, could they support all your customer service inquiries and could they offer you all the resources that you need to make your website compatible across all browsers.

When people were new to CSS codes, the only browser you can use is Internet Explorer. Which if you viewed a website which was created via the drag and drop capabilities of Front Page, you will just see hoards and hoards of Wingdings and Webdings if you choose to view your website using Safari or Mozilla Firefox.

Yahoo! has started to offer unlimited web hosting and at first, their customers went crazy over this great idea. After they have digested and understood what Yahoo! was really offering, their blood pressures went back to normal levels.

The unlimited web hosting that they offer included unlimited disk space, data transfer, email storage, up to 1,000 email accounts, a vast array of web design tools, free domain name and most especially, an automatic submission of your company’s site to top search engines.

So this does not mean that by availing the unlimited hosting services you can use storage space until kingdom come. It just talks about the rate in which you can use the storage space before being responsible in crashing the main server.

There are countless number of hosting companies offer unlimited hosting packages but only few actually provide what they promise. Some promise the world and provide nothing while a handful of companies concerned about maintaining their reputation just don’t talk to talk but walk to walk as well.

Needless to say for the first 2 weeks I was feeling very pressured about my inability to respond to client enquiries, communicate with people and generally get things done.

But what I did discover very quickly was how much actual work I was getting done because I didn’t have the email or internet to distract me! In fact, by the time 3 weeks had passed, I was really enjoying my extra freedom – yes freedom.

This experience truly opened my eyes to my own inefficiencies. Once you get over the feeling of being out of control you realize that you are actually very much in control. In today’s world we’re led to believe that we always need to be accessible – to our clients, our suppliers, family and friends. Not so. By choosing to control how frequently we communicate, and at what time, we put ourselves in the driver’s seat.

So now that I am back on line, I’ve made some significant changes. I would highly recommend them to anyone, particularly if you are strapped for time.

Turn off automatic send/receive on your email program

I used to have Outlook set up so it would check for new emails every 10 minutes. Really, I was just asking to be distracted. To turn this off (in Outlook) click on Tools, Mail Set Up, Send/Receive. Then uncheck the box “schedule an automatic send/receive every x minutes”. Now you can decide when you want to read your emails.

Download emails no more than 3 times per day (2 is even better)

Now that you are in control, pick 2-3 times a day when you choose to hit the send/receive button and get all your emails delivered. Do this at the same time every day – make it a habit.

Schedule time to respond to emails, and only do it then

Our natural instinct when we get email is to reply immediately. That’s extremely inefficient if you are constantly getting emails throughout the day. Set aside 30-45 minutes per day to respond to your emails, and you’ll eliminate the problem of constant interruption. You can still send emails as you compose them, you just won’t be distracted by all the incoming mail. 

Get better at managing junk email

Not having to read about Viagra, mortgages and surgical enhancement for 26 days was just brilliant. Since being back on line I’ve used Outlook to filter out even more of my junk email. Two rules are highly recommend.

1)      create a rule putting all emails not addressed directly to you in a new folder called Junk Suspects.

2)      put all emails not from someone in your address book into the Junk Suspects folder.

To set these up in Outlook Mail, select Tools, Rules and Alerts, New Rule. Then just use the suggested templates to create this and any other rule

Set expectations with your customers about response times

The most difficult mental hurdle to overcome is about not feeling responsive to requests that come in from clients and customers. If your customers are used to getting a reply within 1 hour, then you need to communicate your new standards, or make them very clear up front. Why not ‘induct’ new clients and suppliers to your process by telling them when they can expect a reply from you. For example, “I read emails at 9am and 4pm every day, and will respond to you within 24 hours”. This sets clear boundaries and removes the expectation of an immediate response.

Unsubscribe to everything that’s unnecessary

If you’re like me, you’ve signed up for all sorts of things over the years. It’s amazing what you choose to spend time reading when you only have 1 hour per day. I used to waste so much time just scanning things through that I thought might be interesting. No more! This takes up huge amounts of time, so only read what is really of value.  

It may take you a week or so of feeling uncomfortable about these changes before you start to feel the benefits of more time. Stick with it. I’m totally converted. 

For an instance, besides from unexpected and unscheduled behavior of Outlook calendar and task reminders, when you click ‘Save and Close’ button for new appointment that has a reminder, you come across an error message as below:

“The reminder for <subject> may not appear because the item is not in your Calendar or Tasks folder. Is this OK? <yes> <no>”

Cause

Microsoft Outlook processes and triggers reminders from a special-purposed folder known as Reminder Folder that is stored in either personal folder or Inbox of mailbox . The folder is kind of search folder containing links to those messages which meet certain criteria. For reminders to trigger, it is required that Outlook must be running and reminders should reside at the location where you receive all your emails. Outlook exhibits the above discussed behavior in any of the following conditions:

The calendar and task reminders your specified are not in primary folders, as expected by the application. Primary folder is the one that resides at your mail delivery point. As an illustration, while setting up your email service, you designated PST Inbox as the location where you should receive your emails. But when you created a reminder, you stored it in some other folder instead of PST Calendar. In similar conditions, when you haven’t specified your reminders in primary folder, Outlook will fail to display at the scheduled time.

Outlook doesn’t maintain separate file for handling reminders as other applications do. So if Outlook is not running, reminders will fail to display and trigger.

For Outlook reminders to be processed by the application, it is must that you have specified a location where your emails could be delivered by default. The above error could occur if while setting up your email service, you haven’t specified the ‘Delivery’ option to any valid value but to ‘none’.

Outlook is trying to access reminders from a corrupted reminders folder. It might also occur due to some corrupt entries in the folders. If PST is your mail delivery location, such errors could result due to corruption of the file.

Solution

Below are the methods that you should apply to solve these problems. In case when the reminders or whole PST is damaged, you need to either delete the reminders or run Inbox Repair Tool if PST corruption is the issue. PST Recovery can also be achieved by using commercial applications if Inbox Repair Tool fails. You can apply these measures to correct the existing issue:

Make sure that when you create reminders, you are saving them in the primary folder.

Start Outlook if it is not running

You can delete all the existing reminders by running /cleanreminders switch. To do so, you need to exit the application and click Start->Run and type outlook /cleanreminders.

If this doesn’t help, you should try a different switch to reset all the folders as outlook /resetfolders

Try running Inbox Repair Tool to correct PST file corruption problems.

If a clean backup is available and Inbox Repair Tool doesn’t work, delete the damaged file and restore from backup

For effective and safe PST Repair, scan the file using third-party tools. Designed to run powerful repair algorithms and embedded with rich graphical features, PST Recovery software serve as advanced tools to repair and restore a damaged PST file crashed due to logical reasons.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is the world’s trusted product that repairs and recover PST file. The software supports non-destructive PST Repair for Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It recovers all email items and other Outlook items, such as calendar entries, journals, notes, tasks, appointments etc. This safe PST file Recovery application is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT. The software is also competent to recover lost PST password and split a PST file.