i use ff and believe it or not my ebay acct was hacked
how do i fix this massive security hole in FF
any suggestions? changeing passwords is obviously not the answer
This probably isn’t how your e-bay got hacked, unless your e-bay info is on a machine somebody else can access. You can’t fix this hole though, short of not using FF, this is a basic design flaw in the product, all your stored data is somewhere in that folder and it’s not keyed to your Windows login so if it gets copied to another login (or machine, I’ve used this for machine and OS changes too, really it’s kind of handy in a scary way) then all the info goes across.
Most likely the “hack” that discostu was talking about was not how your ebay account was compromised. There are lots of scams out there for ebay. Your ebay password should be one of your stronger ones - something like J$us#lz4E1. You’d be suprised at the number of ebay passwords that are simply brute-forced because they suck so badly. As I mentioned in an earlier post, all you have to do to make it so that any schlub who logs on to your computer can’t see your password is to use the ‘master password’ feature of firefox. I stronly recommend that this password be a really good one (mine is 20+ characters). You’ll have to enter it at least once per session, which sounds like a hassle, and it is, but you’ll be suprised at how fast you will get at typing it after entering it a bunch. I think you’ll also have to enter it if you want to see the passwords in the FF password tool. It’s fairly simple, and it is hardly Mozilla’s fault if people don’t avail themselves of the options they provide to protect your security.