XP Home SP2 may land me in court!!!

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jailbird in training - 29 Jul 2005 14:23 GMT

Here's the scenario - I have a network w/2PCs on XP Home SP2 w/2wire
homeportal/ethernet connection. Gramps is on one, me & hubby on the other.
All three of us make online purchases, however, gramps is CLUELESS on
security & no matter how much I beg/plead- follows or remembers anything. Ask
for his CC# in a chat room - i'm scared. No user accounts set up on either
(his password memory...) Anyhoo we 3 share pcus occasionally. I ordered a rx
from my pcu/ip addy & ASSUMED since I had an acct w/them they used MY CC info
turns out it was Gramp's!!! (no I didn't 'confirm' my info/autofill/whatever
I assumed it was correct I SUCK I KNOW) I have never seen his card in my
life, and he's flipping out, saying I'm stealing from him & he's gonna press
charges against me for CC FRAUD!? Can someone throw out ideas/scenarios how
my pc picked up his not-so-secure cc# info??? I know I didn't do it, but it
sure looks like I did!

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Shenan Stanley - 29 Jul 2005 14:45 GMT

> Here's the scenario - I have a network w/2PCs on XP Home SP2 w/2wire
> homeportal/ethernet connection. Gramps is on one, me & hubby on the
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> ideas/scenarios how my pc picked up his not-so-secure cc# info??? I
> know I didn't do it, but it sure looks like I did!

Possible he used your computer - you said his memory wasn't "tops".
When you ordered the medicine - is it a place you BOTH order from?

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DJBig Al - 29 Jul 2005 16:00 GMT

Most sites allow you to check a box that will store your cc info in their
database and make it easily available next time you want to purchase
something. Usually it will ask you if you want to use your saved cc or
whatever. This being true if you are logging in as the same user. Does gramps
buy things from that same place? Does he log in there? This has very little
to do with local security. If anything would come up from swapping computers,
it would be a username and possibly a stored password but again it would
probably say "welcome back gramps" and this would be only if he shopped at
the same place you do.

> > Here's the scenario - I have a network w/2PCs on XP Home SP2 w/2wire
> > homeportal/ethernet connection. Gramps is on one, me & hubby on the
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> Possible he used your computer - you said his memory wasn't "tops".
> When you ordered the medicine - is it a place you BOTH order from?

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Leythos - 30 Jul 2005 16:23 GMT

In article <86D1EEF2-0A13-4B76-8466-050B79D38B0D@microsoft.com>, "=?Utf-
8?B?amFpbGJpcmQgaW4gdHJhaW5pbmc=?=" <jailbird in
training@discussions.microsoft.com> says...

> Here's the scenario - I have a network w/2PCs on XP Home SP2 w/2wire
> homeportal/ethernet connection. Gramps is on one, me & hubby on the other.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> my pc picked up his not-so-secure cc# info??? I know I didn't do it, but it
> sure looks like I did!

If you both logged into the site using the same user/password, then the
site is storing the transaction information for charged and you just
didn't check when it automatically charged the account.

As an example, I have a number of accounts with computer vendors, they
have my business credit card on file, when I make an order under my
user/password I can just click next a bunch of times, but it also shows
what card it's charging each time.....

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