Re: Anyone can still read my old email w/o using my password, why?

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From: N. Miller (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:47:37 -0800

In article <ub2dncH5uN2BQp_fRVn-1Q@omsoft.com>, PeterM says...

> I'm using OE 6, and I am wondering why anybody can read my archived email
> folder and just about anything, without having my password. I can see that
> the program will not download new messages, until I enter my password, but
> why can they still read everything, when they just hit cancel. Is there no
> way I can have OE come up blank, w/o showing old emails and archived emails,
> and of course sent messages as well, w/o logging on.......I'm
> stunned..............Peter

If you are using Windows 98, or Windows Me, you are out of luck. Anybody
with physical access to the computer has access to every file on the HDDs. I

If you have a Win OS which use the NTFS file system, you might be able to do
something about file locking; I don't have access to such a system so I
don't know how to proceed. 

-- 
Norman
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~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
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