MSN WARNING!!

[Dicko]

may only include a few of you..

last few days iv had a number of people asking me for advice or windging because somebody has fcuked up there MSN.

Basically some people use insecure(easy to break) passwords which allows other people to get on there account. other thing is DO NOT tell anybody else your password even your friends/partners.

secondly and most importantly (why i created this post) is the secret question/answer system MSN uses and most people do NOT understand.
When you sign up it asks you for this secret question+answer which most people find unimportant so they put summit easy. well im afraid knowing/cracking this is worse than the person getting your password, as with this they can change/rest your password at will.
if you have an easy to crack secret question/answer on MSN/Hotmail I suggest you change it asap.

just login to your hotmail acount, click on the 'options' tab, then select the 'secret question' link.
best thing to do is put something random, that you will remember, but nobody else can work out by reading the question
(1st pets name folowed by 1st 5 characters of natiional insurance number)

im sure you can think of some.

Keep it safe..

Dicko

[wisewood]

well since i always use a VERY difficulat to "guess" password and have done so for about 7 years now, i always have the question as "what was your first password give to you on the internet" and use my password as the answer...

my actual password has a string of numbers on the end too which are personal to me and nobody would ever guess...

19 characters in total.

[Dicko]

yes woody but your probly more security aware than most users on here, same as me ;)

[wisewood]

yeah probably, i've been a naughty boy myself in the past, before network security got a bit better and you need two thirds of a brain to crack passwords and find back doors :lol:

[Dicko]

ok you have said enough now, just wait when tilly see's you on about rear entrances she wil freak!!

[wisewood]

there is always a way in...

but like you said most people just end up using a password thats easy to figure out...

for example the boss at work is a sheffield united fan and always seems to use SUFC, united or blades as his password :lol: Bit silly really. ;)

[Dicko]

ye my m8s secret question was 'whats my name' he never realised what it was for until i showed him (cuningly copied all the women off his contact list :D

[wisewood]

hahahahhahaha nice one!!!



i used my managers password to access his drive on the network and found the team leader rotation plans for them all being trained in each others jobs over the next 18 months > which was nice :lol:

not much use.. but just goes to show.

[Tilly]

i wasnt winging at u dicko u asked i told u

[Dicko]

wasnt refering to u tilly and it wasnt your secret Q+A that was the prob, iv had other people sinse then

[Ben (lurk75)]

all my passwords are number orientated, i used to have the same password for 3 accounts, and on here, and god knows what else. whoops.

[Stokie_Dave]

ye my m8s secret question was 'whats my name' he never realised what it was for until i showed him (cuningly copied all the women off his contact list :D

if ur on about me then duh you're wrong cuz i dont put me name down as me answer lol

u nicked me ladies tho thru that win vnc shit only cuz u got no bitches of your own..

spose we all have to learn from the best tho ;)

[Dicko]

not u u fool, only got that mad bitch off ur list cuz i know ud cry :P