Security

[Roddie]

First off I love Windows 10 however I have one beef. I will try to make it short. 1 year ago I went to my Mother's to order some filters on Ebay and since she had no account I used mine with PayPal. Everything went great. I made sure to log off on both accounts and not save anything. She was running Windows 7 and didn't want to upgrade cause her onboard video card had no drivers for 10. I knew the rest of system would be ok since I have same PC and I upgraded my video card when I got PC couple of years back as we bought both on sale at same time. Well someone updated to 10 with update going great but I haven't checked on what drivers it used but is working for her. Here is where things get bad. Niece decided to go and look at Ebay Thursday and wanted an item listed so she hit pay now and it came up with all my information. Not only did she log into Ebay with my account and password she purchased item with my PayPal. I got an email stating I was being charged on the 29th after I received item that I knew nothing about. I seemed to have found the hard way that no matter what you do on Windows it is saved forever and anyone can hack easily into your account costing you money. I did get with PayPal and cancel which I am glad that I get emails for charges as this could be devastating to us being disabled. I had no idea who did it until wife talked to her yesterday and she was happy to make such a great purchase at a great price. When wife stated it was us who was paying she then stated it was an accident and Mother used her card to purchase which I know was a lie since I was charged. Point is I did a complete clean on her system couple of months ago and they did upgrade to Windows 10 at which time they lost all saved passwords with the exception of my information on Ebay and PayPal. Only solution is if I use someones computer is not only don't save anything but also then go home and change password. Just a warning that everyone needs to aware of. I will take a negative rating on Ebay not to take a loss from someone else.

 

[Trouble]

Thanks for sharing.
I'm wondering if you would have taken a couple extra steps to reset the browser, clear history, cookies, passwords, etc.,
If that would have been sufficient to prevent something like that from happening.
The browser, especially third party browsers, might have been missed by any "cleaning" you might have performed and would not likely have been impacted by the upgrade to 10

 

[Roddie]

Did all this. I used Advanced System Care with Windows 7 and with so many people on her computer I had to do the action at least every other month. This was quite awhile back that I made the order and when it came up to save information I checked never save for this site. I used Google Chrome but don't know which browser she used but suspect it was Edge as they only use Edge which they call Internet Explorer which was there favorite with 7. Again with each cleaning we lost passwords for her bills so I know cookies and browsers were reset. It just doesn't make any sense. Only thing I can think of is Ebay keeps this on there servers and Windows can't or won't detect this as a security issue. I just don't understand how to different operating systems and right at 1 year ago with all the protections I take as well as different browsers would come up with my information. Only thing I take from this is if I am on a different computer is change password when I get home.