Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Password’

Keep your Windows Live ID safe during the holidays

No comments July 21st, 2010

While you are abroad, maybe on a holiday trip, it is especially important to keep safe with your Windows Live ID. You might communicate through insecure wireless networks, or from computers with outdated security settings. Protecting your Live ID is essential, as it is your access key to Messenger, Hotmail and all other Windows Live services.

Hablamos español—but secure, please

Comments Off November 4th, 2009

Spanish is the first of currently 4 user-translated languages that are about to get added to Twitter. You can now switch the Twitter website to Spanish. And please check your OAuth permissions for unwanted applications. We show how.

Messenger problems: Your login data can’t be remembered?

4 comments October 7th, 2009

If Messenger doesn’t remember your e-mail address or your password, then you have installed both Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. You have to revert a registry setting that has been changed while Yahoo Messenger was installing. Then you will be able to store your sign-in credentials again. Here is how it works: Open the [...]

How-to: Change your Windows Live password

1 comment October 7th, 2009

More than 20,000 Windows Live account credentials were published recently. That is why you should change your own password, even if your account was not among them. Here is how to change your password using the Windows Live account center. Open the Windows Live account center at https://account.live.com/ChangePassword.aspx. If prompted, sign in using your Windows [...]

More than 20,000 Hotmail passwords leaked

Comments Off October 6th, 2009

Several thousands passwords for European users of Microsoft’s e-mail and identity service Hotmail/Windows Live ID have been published on the Web, according to information published by Neowin. The Windows Live team states: We immediately requested that the credentials be removed and launched an investigation to determine the impact to customers. As part of that investigation, [...]

How-to: Stay secure while using Hotmail

1 comment August 29th, 2009

In recent days, e-mails from spammers have surfaced spreading malware. Getting your computer infected by malware might result in your password being compromised and your Windows Live ID subsequently hijacked and abused for sending more spam. How can you identify bad mail? Recognizing bad mail A typical virus e-mail has an arcane subject line, such [...]

How-to: Stay secure while using Messenger

Comments Off August 18th, 2009

As viruses, backdoors, Trojan horses, even root kits are commonly spread these days, you should pay close attention while using Windows Live Messenger in order to maintain your own and your computer’s safety. Here are some tips that help you to stay secure: Do not click every link you receive. Be careful about strange instant [...]

Messenger problems: Your quick fix for sign-in error 80048821

3 comments July 22nd, 2009

Windows Live Messenger could not sign you in because the Windows Live ID does not exist or is incorrect. If you have forgotten your password, click Forgot your password? at the bottom of the main Messenger window. You cannot sign in to Messenger because all you see when you try to sign in is the [...]

Fighting SPIM

2 comments July 17th, 2009

Have you ever received an instant message that prompts you to click on a mysterious link? Or been asked to share your IM account information, only to have it used to spam all of your friends? Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services. SPIM is [...]

Opera Unite vs. Windows Live, or: How will the client-server future look like?

2 comments June 16th, 2009

Opera Unite, released as Beta on 16 June, can transform any computer into a web server. How might the underlying idea this affect our daily web usage? Once upon a time, web servers were invented. These used to serve first static, then dynamic content to clients, to us. The basis was simple: a small group [...]