Firefox stores my payment details

marylee

Just signed with 18185 yesterday, was indeed surprised to see my security code in my payment details, the three digits but the card itself was not completed. Is this normal with 18185?

I am using firefox but not always and it tends to store my customer number or phone number which is handy but I do not always want it to do it for security reasons. My son also booked a hotel with hostelworld and as soon as he hits the first digit the whole number came up again. Sometimes it does ask whether I want the log on details to be remembered. This is worrying. Is there any way I can deal with this? I do intend to get rid of this computer and am a bit concerned who I give it to. Any advice will be much appreciated? Thanks

penrhyn

On firefox, tools-options, privacy.

Then delete your private data.

I would also recommend using Ccleaner to remove other tempory data, cookies and the like.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

The best way to ensure that all data is permanently removed from your harddrive is a hammer.
Others may suggest less drastic measures!

ABH_3

In Mozilla FireFox, goto Tools\Options\Privacy - There will be a selection of "bullett points" ie: ">". You can simply click the "Empty" button next to each entry and this shall delete any identifying content that FireFox has stored. Or to be more precise you could click the "Saved Form Information" one and it shall expand. Remove the "tick" from the box "Save information I enter in web forms and the search bar". You may also like to expand the "Cookies" option and set them how you prefer.

As for when you want to sell the computer. It would be easier to remove the harddrive and install it in or alongside your new computer. As despite assurances from various companies there isn't an effective means of deleting the information contained on a hard disk platter. A fair number of programs can be run to retrieve that information should the new user decide to do so.

HTH

ABH_3

penrhyn wrote:

The best way to ensure that all data is permanently removed from your harddrive is a hammer.
Others may suggest less drastic measures!

But not as "pleasurable" but then again; How about a 2ltr Ice Cream tub - eat ice cream Wash and rinse tub well, pour 2ltr's of coca-cola into tub. Take apart harddrive untill you are left with the "platters" - small brown disk shaped things. Insert into tub of coca-cola, apply lid and return in a week. Assuming the coca-cola is still as acidic as it once was. You should be left with something that resembles a shiny 2p piece. If not, hit with hammer!

sra

In the latest version of Firefox (1.5), there's a new options -

press Ctrl+Shift+Delete to erase all data (can tailor it to delete whatever you like from options)

matty_c608

If your on the New Version 1.5, recently released, simply press CTRL + Shift + DeL together, and it should all go away

marylee

Thanks to all of you for taking the trouble to answer my post. It's an old window 98, guess will keep it in the garage oor in the loft instead of giving it away. Somebody said you can put the recovery disk and it revert it to factory settings. Any truth in this? Thanks again guys.

ABH_3

marylee wrote:

Thanks to all of you for taking the trouble to answer my post. It's an old window 98, guess will keep it in the garage oor in the loft instead of giving it away.

You could do that. I suppose it could be useful in the garage or somewhere else, especially if you have a large family. Of course you just need to appreciate that your computer contains a harddrive inside and as such it is one or a bunch of seperate components, so you could take your existing harddrive out. Buy a new drive, insert that then sell or give away computer as appropriate. Plug old harddrive into new system and you shall still have your "old" data.

Somebody said you can put the recovery disk and it revert it to factory settings. Any truth in this? Thanks again guys.

Yes, a recovery disk shall return the computer back to its original state. It will not necessarily remove all your old data. There are programs out there that can return a harddrive back from being formatted. Or at the very least recover some of the files that were "deleted" after being formatted. Now when you consider that Windows98 keeps files in a FAT (File Allocation Table) and when you press "Delete" on your keyboard, you aren't actually deleting the file. You are merely informing Win98 to mark the file as "old" and it can be overwritten the next time you reboot your system. As you won't need the operating system to keep track of that particular file any longer. You may start to appreciate that the file is there for posterity, as you may never boot back to the same part of the harddrive and unless you are doing some heavy data processing that particular "old" file may never get overwritten enough times to make it illegible to some programs.

Personally, I keep all my old harddrives. As you never know when you shall need some extra space to store anything.

HTH