Now This Is Scary!

I went laptop shopping with Tony on Sunday. He has been having a great time getting his new laptop set up. I am not a fan of the Vista Mail program Webmail and pointed Tony towards the Mozilla Email client called Thunderbird. It doesn't automatically import account information, it has to be setup manually. We tried the new program out and it asked us for the 8 character password to access Tony's email account when he hit send/receive. He had forgotten his password!

He tried the email passwords he knew all unsuccessfully. It was a mystery to him. He jumped into his old computer and inadvertently wiped the password from its Outlook Express. However we had set another anti-spam program up on the old computer called 'Mailwasher' and it too had to log in to his email account so it 'knew' the password. Mailwasher had automatically imported all the email account details from Outlook Express. When we got into Mailwasher's account settings there was the password but it was a row of asterisks! These pictures are from my version of Mailwasher.

Later I jumped on the internet and found a little program called Multi Password Recovery. You can download it from HERE. It is a 'portable' program (1.2MB) which means you don't have to install it, you can just run it from the computer desktop. Download the program, sit it on your desktop and double click on it to run it. It will find all the passwords on your computer. But what is scarier is if you go across the top to Other and select 'Show passwords behind asterisks'. Select it and a small screen opens saying to Hold Control and select the asterisks of the password.

When you let go, the small screen tells you what letters were hidden below the asterisks! So your password can now be 'seen'! I have smudged the password in this pic. You may need to click on these pictures to enlarge them, then click on Back to return to this page!

This is just further evidence of everyone's need to have a good firewall and protect themselves from the nasties out there on the internet. Remember too that you have a firewall in your 'router/modem' which stops most nasties!

The rain has set in this morning. There were 41 mls in the rain gauge from last night. However it was dry enough for me to ride this morning. Then the heavens opened up. Today we have had another 30mls of rain (1"+ Lou Ann) and more is expected Wednesday, Thursday and into Friday!

I have just had a call from the paving guy informing me that Amber Tiles will have my pavers rejuvenated and then professionally sealed. All this will be at minimal cost to me and maybe even at no charge. We never had the pavers 'sealed' so I don't mind paying a little to have them sealed along with a 15 year guarantee! This could be done as early as next week.