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My OS is win 10 pro 64 bit, and I have Avast and malware bytes for the anti virus. And I guess whatever security programs that comes with win 10 pro.
1. During the day whenever the pc is not in use, I usually put it to sleep.
2. And when I want to use it again, I have to login to my pc.
3. at night either it is in the sleep mode or completely shut off.
After logging in, I load the MS Edge and go to my email, by loading the portal.office.com. Since I use this method always, thus my user name and password are already populated, and I just have to hit enter to enter into my Outlook. My email is msn the free account.
Hope the experts could please study the above scenario and let me know if there Is anyway for anyone to hack into my pc, especially to my email.
Because recently an email I sent, the receipient swears that it had been compromised. Thus my concern.
Although I had other thoughts. Because if someone had logged into my account from a different pc or geo location, I thought MS would either email or text u that your pc was logged in from a different location.
thank u.
1. During the day whenever the pc is not in use, I usually put it to sleep.
2. And when I want to use it again, I have to login to my pc.
3. at night either it is in the sleep mode or completely shut off.
After logging in, I load the MS Edge and go to my email, by loading the portal.office.com. Since I use this method always, thus my user name and password are already populated, and I just have to hit enter to enter into my Outlook. My email is msn the free account.
Hope the experts could please study the above scenario and let me know if there Is anyway for anyone to hack into my pc, especially to my email.
Because recently an email I sent, the receipient swears that it had been compromised. Thus my concern.
Although I had other thoughts. Because if someone had logged into my account from a different pc or geo location, I thought MS would either email or text u that your pc was logged in from a different location.
thank u.
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So how does one do not display the password on any site that I log into regularly?
Most sites now encrypt the password (showing **** for the password). It also encrypts in Credential Manager.
Most sites now encrypt the password (showing **** for the password). It also encrypts in Credential Manager.
At one time or another you have allowed the browser to remember your password. The browser will store your login credentials for you and use them on that site. The first place most malware will check for passwords is in the browser most used (since it needs to do it before being discovered and this is the most likely place to find login credentials in clear text). You can make you're browser delete all saved passwords easily, where depends on the browser.
Assuming Internet Explorer. In order to cleared stored/cached passwords, carry out the following:
1) Click Start
2) Type Control Panel (this should automatically start typing in to the search text box) or if you can see Control Panel on the Start Menu, click Control Panel
3) Click User Accounts
4) Click on Manage Web Credentials.
5) Click on the drop down arrow by the web site you want to remove the password for.
6) Click on Remove.
For Firefox:
1) Click the menu button and choose Options.
2) Click the Security panel.
3) Click Saved Logins… and the Password Manager will open.
You can use the search box to find a particular website or username. Click the X in the search bar to clear your search and see the full list again.
4) To remove the username and password for a website, select the site's entry from the list and click Remove.
Or to remove all stored usernames and passwords, click Remove All. After confirming this choice, all of your stored usernames and passwords will be deleted.
And for Chrome:
1) Open the Chrome menu using the button on the far right of the browser toolbar.
2) Choose the Settings menu option (highlighted in blue).
3) Click the Show advanced settings… link located at the bottom of the page.
4) In the “Passwords and forms” section, click the Manage passwords link.
5) Locate the username/password entry you wish to delete and click the X (cross) on the right-hand side to delete the entry.
1) Click Start
2) Type Control Panel (this should automatically start typing in to the search text box) or if you can see Control Panel on the Start Menu, click Control Panel
3) Click User Accounts
4) Click on Manage Web Credentials.
5) Click on the drop down arrow by the web site you want to remove the password for.
6) Click on Remove.
For Firefox:
1) Click the menu button and choose Options.
2) Click the Security panel.
3) Click Saved Logins… and the Password Manager will open.
You can use the search box to find a particular website or username. Click the X in the search bar to clear your search and see the full list again.
4) To remove the username and password for a website, select the site's entry from the list and click Remove.
Or to remove all stored usernames and passwords, click Remove All. After confirming this choice, all of your stored usernames and passwords will be deleted.
And for Chrome:
1) Open the Chrome menu using the button on the far right of the browser toolbar.
2) Choose the Settings menu option (highlighted in blue).
3) Click the Show advanced settings… link located at the bottom of the page.
4) In the “Passwords and forms” section, click the Manage passwords link.
5) Locate the username/password entry you wish to delete and click the X (cross) on the right-hand side to delete the entry.
thank u everyone for your advise. I just have to be more careful I guess, and not a good idea for me to check my email when I return home fully exhausted after a trip.
thank u for your advise and suggestions.
I am away right now and keep my computer with me to collect email. Thanks
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So how does one do not display the password on any site that I log into regularly? thank u.