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Prevent Being Hacked Or Unwanted Use Of An Account


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#1 Hooligan

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Posted 24 March 2005 - 11:56 AM

There has been a lot of theft in the past and present and talk how to stop it, By placing a second password on the account and other ways stated on forums and none of these ways seem to work.

How about a security question?

The first time you log into the Account Manager from your pc it asks you a security question and set it. Then when your account is attempted to be logged in from a unknown pc. It will be prompted to enter the security question that was set.

Note: If you fail to remember the security question that was set you will have to deal with staff. No e-mailing to prevent the same problem as lost password.

#2 Crane

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Posted 24 March 2005 - 01:50 PM

I think that can be bypassed quite easily, especially if the flag used to indicate that a PC has not been used before for a particular account is nothing more than, say, a registry key on the client computer (storing it on the server might get prohibitive with storage space).

The administrators have also stressed several times that they will not support measures to protect against something they do not support in the first place... sharing.
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