Autocomplete?

[stevo1210]

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if other people could view passwords and logon details through thier own Windows XP account if I had enabled autocomplete for my passwords and user logons. Some people told me that other people in thier own user accounts could use my logon details etc. because the information that is saved in my account is visible to all other accounts??.... Is that true or am I hearing complete nonsense yet again??

Unfortunately sometimes I have to School computer (by logging on to my personal account) to check out my email and logon to badcaps.net to see if anything new has come around.... I'm just not too sure about the security because of autocomplete......



Thanks.

[willawake]

Re: Autocomplete?

no it should not be visible in other accounts. still care should be taken when using a public computer for banking etc or if you are logging onto anything where you have dangerous permissions. the usual idea is to change password when you get home. who knows if public computers are compromised or not.

personally i would have autocomplete off on a public computer or choose not to save passwords.