Re: .net passport username/password reader?
From: Robert Moir (bofh_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/09/03
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Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:32:46 -0000
/blacklung wrote:
> I have reason to suspect someone is trying to gain
> my .net passport username and password. I have logged
> into messenger, but there is another messenger icon that
> is inactive. When I go to log in using it it looks fake
> and does not have my stored usernames in the drop down
> menu. Could this be something like HotmailHacker? How do
> I get rid of it?
I suspect you are actually running Windows XP and have installed MSN
Messenger. You've still got Windows Messenger, a legitimate Windows
component, running.
You don't want to "get rid of it" as it does more for you than you may have
thought and is best left on your computer, but you can stop it running in
your system tray and annoying you by opening it up and going to tools,
options, preferences tab, and remove the ticks from the first two options.
-- -- Rob Moir Microsoft MVP for servers & security http://www.robertmoir.co.uk "802.11bofh - the *other* power over ethernet standard"
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