Re: Passwords and Cookies

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From: Dan Seur (click_at_casta.net)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:20:33 -0500

If Yahoo asked you whether you wanted the system to remember your
password and you said Yes, then the password may be stored along with
your email ID in a cookie. If you still need to provide the password
every time you check your mail, then it's probably not stored in a
cookie (same goes for your Email ID.)

Your browser will, somewhere in its settings, provide a way for you to
find such a cookie and delete it. Same for all cookies. The browser
cookie list is probably organized by web address, so note what that
address is when you check mail.

I don't know whether YOUR cookies would be visible to other users on
that PC if you logon W2k as different users. You might (or might not) be
protected that way.

Monkster wrote:

> Hi,
> I share a PC at work with other employees. I am running WIN2000 on a
> Dell P4. I am curious to know if I log onto my Yahoo email account and
> then log out if my password is stored ANYWHERE on mt PC. If so, how do
> I go about deleting it. We are allowed to check our external email but
> I wouldn't want others in my office viewing my private email account.
>
> Thanks!

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