If your home computer is on the network, a password on your account
can help decrease the possibility of a remote user/virus program from
changing critical parts of your system. It all depends on the OS and
how it is set up of coarse.
In other words, the password doesn't only protect you from other
nefarious people in your own house :) but more importantly from remote
unauthorized users who can hack into your system by various methods.
jim
On 4-Jan-09, at 12:16 PM, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message <[email protected]>, Norman Dunbar <[email protected]
> writes
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
pretty sure it wasn't any fault of Jochen's site, althouth the site
did
want to place a cookie on my computer that IE was blocking because
I had
opted for strict security settings at the time.
Sorry, IE wouldn't know strict security if it leapt up and bit it on
the
backside! ;-)
IE is 'part of' Windows (or so we are led to think by Bill) and as
such,
suffers from Windows own security problems. There is no security on a
system which, since XP at least, has defaulted the one user with full
admin rights to have no password and doesn't actually mention this
fact
in the user 'manual'.
I have no experience of Vista, but my boss does and he says that it is
still passwordless. Duh!
Hi Norman,
Happy New Year everyone.
Happy New Year too ...
Is it really "not secure" to have no password entrance to use a
computer that is for personal use ?
It is only with the advance of networked systems that password
entrance have become the norm.
Yet, it is not necessary for a single user home computer - even though
I have configured Win XP on my personal PC with a password entrance.
Even though no one else ever uses it !
--
Malcolm Cadman
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