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09-02-2002, 08:19 PM
Protect Your Password by Turning off the AutoComplete Feature
To protect you password do not use Internet Explorer's AutoComplete feature - Internet Explorer version 5 and higher includes a feature called auto-complete. It can make life easier by remembering user names and passwords for you that you typed in your browser when logging on to a website or html-based login interface. However, this login information is stored in your registry and can be either retrieved or cracked. Or even easier, somebody else can use your browser and logging in as you by selecting the user name from the dropdown menu and have the password filled in automatically. To turn AutoComplete off and clear its password history you can go to Start / Settings / Control Panel / Internet Options / Content / AutoComplete.
To protect you password do not use Internet Explorer's AutoComplete feature - Internet Explorer version 5 and higher includes a feature called auto-complete. It can make life easier by remembering user names and passwords for you that you typed in your browser when logging on to a website or html-based login interface. However, this login information is stored in your registry and can be either retrieved or cracked. Or even easier, somebody else can use your browser and logging in as you by selecting the user name from the dropdown menu and have the password filled in automatically. To turn AutoComplete off and clear its password history you can go to Start / Settings / Control Panel / Internet Options / Content / AutoComplete.