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Old 4 Apr 2005, 12:41 PM   #8
marcus0263
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Quote:
Originally posted by jbs
An automatic logout after an hour is only necessary in a small number of circumstances.

For those of us who keep our PCs secure, who have BIOS passwords protecting login to the computer, who maintain physical security to access the PCs, etc, I would see nothing wrong with making the login persist for much longer.

If someone ever stole such a PC, you could always just login and change your passwords . . .

--Jason
Sniffer's? Hijacking?

I still disagree, keeping an open link is a hole. But if you must maintain an open link there's a Firefox plugin that you can set an automatic refresh rate, us it if you must. If you use IE you need to dump it and not look back. IE just has way to many security issues. Something about having a web browser that opens the door to infections by virus's and worms by just looking at a website is of grave concern. Dump IE and go with Firefox it's not 100% secure, but it's light years over IE
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