Re: Forgotten password...

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:07:50 -0500

Outlook Express Password Revealer is a program that helps the user to display
server names, user logins and passwords for all the e-mail and newsgroups accounts
stored by Outlook Express as well as identity passwords.
http://www.rixler.com/outlook_express_password_revealer.htm

Note: You'll need to fork over $19.95 for a license. 

-- 
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart!  Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx 
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"Howard Woodard" wrote:
| I am trying to figure out a way to access the passwords stored on my 
| computer.
| 
| I've had a Mindspring (now Earthlink) account for just over 6 years.  I've 
| accessed it with OE all that time and the password was "remembered".  My 
| young daughter was fooling around with the computer recently and typed into 
| the logon password field and changed it.
| 
| Not having a clue what I might have set it as over 6 years ago, I called 
| mindspring to get the password reset.  They asked for my password in order 
| to confirm who I was which obviously I didn't have.  Then they asked for a 4 
| digit PIN that they gave me when I signed up for the account.  Not a clue. 
| They said that the hint was birthday so I tried all combinations of my, my 
| wife's, and each of my two daughter' birthdays.  Nothing.
| 
| Then I asked if I could close the account and they said sure, just give them 
| either the password or PIN so they could confirm that I owned the account. 
| Then I called the billing folks.  They closed the account without asking for 
| anything other than the billing account number.
| 
| Then I called to open a new account.  I asked if I could use my old 
| mindspring address.  They said sure, just give them the password or PIN and 
| they would reactivate that account.  I explained the situation and said that 
| I didn't want to reactivate the old account.  I wanted a new account and I 
| wanted to use my old e-mail address.  They said that user ids cannot be 
| reassigned, even after the account has been closed.
| 
| I understand and appreciate their commitment to securing my account and 
| related information.  However, this is the mobius loop from hell.
| 
| Does anyone know if there any way that I can access the passwords that I 
| have stored on my computer?
| 
| Howard

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