Protecting
Your Internet Passwords
By Gene Barlow - User Group Relations
 The internet plays an important role in our lives today. Almost everything
we do has an internet possiblity to it. We can access our bank accounts over
the internet. We can pay our bills and loans using the internet. Every business
that we have an account with lets us access our account and update our records
over the internet. We can purchase airline tickets, reserve hotels, and rent
cars over the internet.
Each of these offers us personalized accounts to make
these tasks easier to do. We can even buy groceries, tickets for movies, and
order our prescriptions over the internet. How much easier it is today to do
all of these things with our internet access.
Of course, having access to these
internet accounts requires that we set up a private ID and password for each
of them. A typical user may have 20 or 30 of these account IDs and passwords
to keep track of. So, while the internet has made our life easier in many ways,
keeping track of these security codes has gotten harder to do.
Some users will try to bypass these methods set up to protect their privacy
and personal information. To avoid keeping track of many codes, some individuals
will use the same ID and password on all of their accounts. This is certainly
not very secure. Once these common codes are discovered, they open up the hacker
to all of your personal accounts. Others will write their codes down on yellow
sticky notes and paste them to their computer display. This is also not very
secure. Anyone that walks by your computer will see these codes and be able to
get into your private accounts without any problem. The real solution is to set
up difficult and different passwords for each of your accounts and keep these
in a very secure place. That is exactly what WhiteCanyon's
MyPasswordVault helps
you do.
MyPasswordVault is a database program that stores its information on your
computer in an encrypted format so that nobody can find this file and see all
of your codes. You still need to remember a password to gain access to MyPasswordVault,
but all of the rest of your codes are guarded safely inside the vault. So, when
you need to access an account on the internet, you simply open up MyPasswordVault
, find the ID and Password for that account, and copy and paste it into your
account access fields. You will be able to safely and quickly access the many
accounts that you have set up on the internet. This is a great software utility
that will let you safely and quickly enjoy all of the advantage of using the
internet for your financial transactions.
MyPasswordVault is offered by WhiteCanyon software at the list price of $25.
You can purchase this valuable product at the user group discount price of just
$17. Look for it in our User Group Store at www.usergroupstore.com and
click on any of the yellow "Buy Now" buttons to get to our secure web order form.
Complete the form including the special user group code (EMail deals@cfcs.org for
your membership code) and submit it. You may
share this discount offer with your immediate family and close friends. These
prices are not available to others not involved with a user group.
Gene Barlow
User Group Relations gene@ugr.com
PO Box 275 www.ugr.com
Orem, UT 84059-0275 801-796-7370
Author: Gene Barlow -
User Group Relations
Copyrighted April 2005
Date: 01 / 04 / 2005
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