An excellent point Kerryn, and one that can be overcome by NOT using Internet Explorer. By switching to Mozilla/Firefox there is a feature called Password Manager. But, what about hackers who might "steal" the passwords from the browser? Well, Mozilla's programmers made it harder for them to steal passwords. In addition to your profile's path never being the same (this is why they added the "df745kdtk.slt" folder - it always has a different name, hence there's always a different path to your profile), Mozilla can also encrypt your stored information. While there is no such thing as perfect security, you just need to be a harder target than the average Internet Explorer user :-). Download Firefox 1.0 from: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Lance -----Original Message----- From: kerryn taylor [mailto:maude103@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, 17 September 2004 9:24 PM To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] suggestions for keeping up with Passwords I've been wondering whether its such a good idea to use the "remember password" option in windows as well. This would be open to hackers too? Kerryn --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0438-2, 16/09/2004 Tested on: 17/09/2004 9:57:07 PM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

For what it is worth....Those passwords so important that they need to be protected (i.e. bank accounts, paypal, ebay. etc.) are in my head...memorized. Not in my computer, on index cards, or a memo book. Not ever my significant other has access to these passwords. I do keep passwords on my computer that are low priority such as forums etc. Lance wrote on 9/17/2004, 7:57 AM: > An excellent point Kerryn, and one that can be overcome by NOT using > Internet Explorer. By switching to Mozilla/Firefox there is a feature > called Password Manager. But, what about hackers who might "steal" the > passwords from the browser? Well, Mozilla's programmers made it harder > for them to steal passwords. In addition to your profile's path never > being the same (this is why they added the "df745kdtk.slt" folder - it > always has a different name, hence there's always a different path to > your profile), Mozilla can also encrypt your stored information. While > there is no such thing as perfect security, you just need to be a harder > target than the average Internet Explorer user :-). > > Download Firefox 1.0 from: > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ > > Lance