Re: FTP Password Exposed

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 04/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:35:03 -0400

Well, regular FTP isn't a secure protocol. Your password is passed in clear
text across the network or internet, so that someone with a sniffer on your
network or between the client and server could capture it.

SSH is one free alternative, there are links for Windows SSH software at
www.openssh.org and www.networksimplicity.com Any secure file copy solution
usually requires you to install new software on both the client and server.

RE: IE, how are you clicking on the file? Where is it? Is this a URL link
on a web page?

"Wes" <rogerspc@onemain.com> wrote in message
news:00ad01c30f48$66e743c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> When clicking on a file to open it from my FTP site I see
> my password exposed in the title bar of internet explorer.
> Why is and how can it be repaired?
>
> Thanks.

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