Re: I did a dumb thing
From: Robert Schuldenfrei (schuldenfrei_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/06/05
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:29:18 -0500
Hi Roger,
Thanks for the quick reply. OK, I have a new password and everything is
working fine. Any idea how to start the probe of effected software? These
would be things that checked the stored at Microsoft Passport and password.
I take it that if some software product queried if MSN Messenger was signed
in it would not know or care what the password was.
Cheers,
Bob
"Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:uC9uYRIDFHA.624@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I cannot answer as to what was available for W98.
>
> You should go to www.passport.net immediately and
> use the edit your profile stuff to change your password.
> If it has already been changed, then use the reset capability
>
> Then you can start to be concerned about what, if anything,
> cached login with or without use of passport may have
> allowed access, and of file content on the disk.
>
> --
> Roger Abell
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
> MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> "Robert Schuldenfrei" <schuldenfrei@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:Fs6dnYsKw9Wn_5vfRVn-hw@comcast.com...
>> Dear NG,
>>
>> I have been involved with computers for far too long (can anyone remember
>> the IBM 7094?) to have done something as stupid as this, but I did. I
>> put
> a
>> computer in the trash without removing the hard drive or even erasing its
>> files. A few hours later I noticed that the trash had not been picked
>> up,
>> but the computer was gone! OK, someone has an old Windows/98 system with
> my
>> stuff on it. I took a look at my most recent backup of that machine and
> it
>> did not appear to have anything critical on it, but... I have had a
> strange
>> incident today and I wonder if I have a real problem on my hands.
>>
>> I got a message from MSN Messenger 6.2 that I signed on another machine.
> I
>> immediately call my daughter who I just gave an old laptop to and she
>> confirmed that she had signed in and she had Messenger running with my
>> PassPort. I told her to remove my PassPort and get one of her own. She
>> said she would, but just now I returned to my machine after being away
> from
>> it for about two hours and I saw the message again. It could be her, or
> it
>> could be the "new owner." Now I don't even remember if MSN Messenger
>> even
>> was on the W/98 machine so here are my questions:
>>
>> 1/ Was MSN Messenger available for W/98?
>>
>> 2/ Assume that it was, how do I go about getting Microsoft to "kill" my
> old
>> PassPort and issue another one?
>>
>> 3/ What "normal" pieces of Microsoft software will be effected?
>>
>> 4/ I have an MSDN subscription, and I am sure that it will be effected.
> How
>> do I prove to MS that I am me?
>>
>> 5/ What are the ramifications that have not crossed my mind? Hopefully,
>> there are mind-readers in this newsgroup.
>>
>> With a lot of egg on my face, I thank you all in advance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bob
>> --
>> Robert Schuldenfrei
>> S. I. Inc.
>> 32 Ridley Road
>> Dedham, MA 02026
>> bob@s-i-inc.com
>> 781/329-4828
>>
>>
>
>
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