how to stay logged in on ebay all day

mrcheerful .

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Feb 4, 2006, 7:52:31 PM2/4/06

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Just use firefox, you don't have to keep entering your password!!

mrcheerful

dave @ stejonda

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Feb 5, 2006, 1:02:49 AM2/5/06

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In message <j%bFf.15011$wl....@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, mrcheerful
. <nbk...@hotmail.com> writes

>Just use firefox, you don't have to keep entering your password!!
>

correcto! :)

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Gizmo

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Feb 5, 2006, 3:33:20 AM2/5/06

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"mrcheerful ." <nbk...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just use firefox, you don't have to keep entering your password!!

Opera is much the same.
I rarely have to re-enter my password whether I'm using Opera or Firefox.

toby

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Feb 5, 2006, 5:44:49 AM2/5/06

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"mrcheerful ." <nbk...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just use firefox, you don't have to keep entering your password!!
>
> mrcheerful

So your happy for your passwords to be electronically stored on your PC for
a potential piece of Malware to harvest.

Toby

Dave (from the UK)

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Feb 5, 2006, 7:13:10 AM2/5/06

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Depends what you mean by "PC". If you mean one running Windows, then no
I would not. But my box is a Sun running Solaris.

eBay wants you password to look up the prices of completed auctions,
which is a bit excessive. There is no personal information available there.

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mrcheerful .

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Feb 5, 2006, 7:21:31 AM2/5/06

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"toby" <to...@nomail.com> wrote in message
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You misunderstand, like many people I have been annoyed by ebay not 'keeping
you logged in until you sign out', (using ie6), using firefox this does not
happen.

In any case, absolutely anything you do on your computer is potentially
vulnerable, whether it is saved or not.

mrcheerful

toby

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Feb 5, 2006, 11:11:46 AM2/5/06

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>> "mrcheerful ." <nbk...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>

> You misunderstand, like many people I have been annoyed by ebay not
> 'keeping you logged in until you sign out', (using ie6), using firefox
> this does not happen.

Possibly a reasonable feature of firefox in a private location, would worry
about an uattended PC though if more public.

> In any case, absolutely anything you do on your computer is potentially
> vulnerable, whether it is saved or not.

Yes true (keyloggers), But it is even worse to have financially sensitive
passwords stored as these can be extracted by bad software at any time and
not just at entry of the passwords. i.e. if you have a concern about
something on your machine you would not then log onto your bank until you
felt confident you have eliminated the problem but if your passwords are
already stored it may already be too late.

Toby