Re: Forgotten password...

From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:34:39 +0100

So, anyone for $19.95 can find out all details of any OE account. That's
good coming from an MVP Carey!!!! 

-- 
Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message 
news:OnYIl7pmEHA.1904@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 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
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "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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