A relative of mine is currently in a different country and asked me for help as they can't log into their own Gmail account from there. Gmail considers the login attempt suspicious, almost certainly because of the location, and blocks it.   I'm at a non-suspicious location and can still access the account and I can see that Google sent a mail about the suspicious attempt and displays a notification bar warning about it. What I can't see is any way to tell Google that it shouldn't block logins from that location.  How can I prevent Gmail from locking me out like this in a different country? Is there a way to notify it of upcoming trips so that it doesn't consider it suspicious? And is there any way to unlock Gmail once you're in a country it considers suspicious, or do you have to wait until you're home again?
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Every time I travel, Gmail believes there may be suspicious activity as the sign in comes from a different location; I get that.  However, it then asks for my password and usually will not recognize it.  So, I can’t access my email account.  Any way to prevent this?
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I'm running an SSH server on my personal computer. The log had many people(or bots?) repeatedly trying to log in to my server (that is before I changed the default port), which made me a little freaked out. I was worried about their dictionary attacks or brute force password guessing.  But then if you type wrong password (or wrong username), the server waits for about 2 seconds before it asks for password again. So an attacker can try one password per 2 seconds. So I concluded that these attacks aren't that great a threat (as long as your password does not consist of dictionary words.) Am I correct?
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Well, it's a long time I'm using my Gmail account. Today, I had a talk with my friends about the date we created our Gmail accounts and we all had some guesses about it. Is there any option in Gmail info/settings where I can see the date I created my account?
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I'm using network, where services such as Gmail or any other e-mails, Google Drive, Dropbox, all social networks are blocked. Basically my goal is to access simply GMail, but I couldn't find any way to do that so far. I understand that different proxies have different filtering rules, so please post any tricks or your-way solutions.
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How do I make it appear that my IP address is coming from one country while I'm located in another? I live in Germany and some websites (like Hulu or Youtube) don't work because my IP isn't in the US. How do I get around this? Do I have to use a proxy or something?  Moderator note Super User does not endorse nor defend any activity which may be used to circumvent local/state/national laws.
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Previously it was possible to switch between different accounts easily on Gmail.  Now they suggest me only one account (of my wife) and without any option to re-login with mine.  How can I add in my account and switch to it?
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Possible Duplicate:          I want to login in two users to Gmail using IE.  The problem is that even when I open a new instance the already logged in user will be logged in. And when I log out then the other instance will be logged off.  Any idea?
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One of my associates had their Hotmail account broadcasting spam, and presumably hacked. They managed to change the password, but after that, the account got locked; Hotmail asks you for a phone number, and they're supposed to call you with a code.  This person requested the code several times, with different numbers (even two of mine!), but never received any call with the confirmation code.  I referred them to the full-length process, which includes answering the security question; apparently, they forgot their question (having entered it over a decade ago and never reviewed it since).  What options, if any, exist to restore access to this person's account? They only want to grab their contacts; they plan to operate full-force on GMail going forward.
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When I want to register an account with Gmail now, it says "Google will send a text message containing a verification code to your mobile phone."  I don't want to give Google my mobile phone number!!  How do I get around this?
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I have just discovered that my local bank, Nordea, has decided to remove the only good thing about their entire operation: the so-called "simplified login" feature on their website, which allows (soon allowed) the customer to log in to a kind of very limited "read-only" mode which basically just allowed you to see your current balance, the last few transactions (limited descriptions) and see whether or not there are any new "customer support messages", but not read those messages, not make any kind of payments, edit accounts, etc.  Now, they will only allow "full" logins, which 100% prevents any kind of automation and requires you to sit with a hardware device and enter numbers into it and then into the webpage before it allows you to see as much as your account balance. Other than being very obnoxious for every customer, it also blocks me and other "advanced" users out from our custom-programmed bots which have always regularly logged in with that "simplified" login method just to regexp out the current balance/new messages and then notify us via whatever mechanism we use privately.  I have previously asked them if they have any kind of JSON/RSS API of any kind, but no. They don't even have as much as e-mail notifications! Nothing except their spyware "smartphone app" which I would never install, nor would I ever allow such a surveillance device to track me 24/7 in the first place. Only by being a registered corporation with special, way more costly account types do you get any kind of "API" access from them, even to do this most basic imaginable task.  Before you tell me to switch banks, the others are at least just as bad (even worse from what I can tell, and for a longer time), and the act of switching banks is practically impossible for me personally.  What I'm asking is if maybe somebody knows of some sort of "hidden standard" or something which all banks in the world support, but don't have documented, for people like me to automate basic things such as knowing my account balance. Needless to say, I have looked for this countless times on their website, asked them about it, and asked other people about it. Nobody seems to know anything, or, if they do, won't tell me.  I know that there are a bunch of "Nordea-supporting" PHP libraries and whatnot on Github, but they are all ancient and even if they were up to date, they were most likely using the same method as I have been using: automating the login process through their "simplified login" mechanism, which is "soon" to be gone. (Probably at new year; they didn't even mention any dates or time frames.)  And yes, I have a Bitcoin wallet and have that fully automated. The problem is that virtually nobody else in the world cares about my Bitcoin, so "switching to Bitcoin" remains a pipe dream which I would be ready to do, but the world clearly isn't.
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I have been facing a serious problem for many months. Usually I get a 2-factor authentication code from 51501 when I am supposed to log into Gmail. But for months I am getting a code from a Sweden-based mobile number: +46701327805. The first code I received from this number was in October 2015.  There is also a mobile number from USA that sometimes sends the code. I change my passwords every time this happens. What could be the possible reason for this and how to overcome this problem?   By the way, I must say I have been hacked for years. I don't use VPN; my internet runs off a broadband modem.
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I just checked my server's /var/log/auth.log and found that I'm getting over 500 failed password/break-in attempt notifications per day! My site is small, and its URL is obscure. Is this normal? Should I be taking any measures?
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I left myself signed in to my work Gmail account on my personal computer. I am not using Chrome. I had an internet session that was not suitable for work. At all. This included Google searches and YouTube searches.  Will my employer be able to identify what I have been searching?
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I already used Limit Login Attempts wordpress plugin. Are there other ways to prevent brute force attacks?  I'm worried because I saw a lot of locked out.
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I have forgotten the password or username for my Google account, or I'm unable to access my account for other reasons.  How can I recover my account?  (This Q&amp;A is meant as a general description for all Google and Gmail username/password questions. See: )
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Fortunately, I can still login with this email address that I have lost access to.  I have been searching around here for a way to update it to the current one I use.  I have found many answers.  But they all give instructions to click on something not displayed or in one case, a page that prompts me to login via another email I no longer have the password for. I need current up to date instructions on how to change my email address or add another email-based login for this same user name that I am posting this with.
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There are many sites on the web these days that show a different face to you depending on where you are located around the world.    For example I'm in Australia and there are a number of US based sites I would like to see exactly as would someone living in the United States.  I've heard that most sites use your IP address to determine your country.  If so this would appear to make defeating Geo-blocking very difficult.   One of the only options I can think of is using a third party website that you visit that is based in the country you are interested in.  This site then serves a proxied view of the page.  I don't know of any sites that do this though.  Any ideas / thoughts / links?