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MrDoubtFire
02-23-2003, 03:12 AM
Ok, when you are filling out a form on a questionable webpage somewhere (one that perhaps you don't put 100% of your trust in) and you start off by typing say, "F", and a small box appears highlighting the past form answers with "F" as the starting letter, is that box something that code from that webpage can "acquire" somehow? And when I submit could it be taking all that information that I didn't want to impart?

I thought about this for a while, and after a while I came to the not-so-confident conclusion that there are brighter people than I in the world, especially working at Microsoft (somewhere, anyways), who have already thought about this and it's all secure.

Am I right?

MrDoubtFire
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cg9com
02-23-2003, 05:55 AM
hi,
im pretty sure thats only on your local machine ....
:)

redhead
02-23-2003, 04:33 PM
yeah... its stored on your PC... methinks its called "AutoComplete" or something... you should be able to turn it off in some deep lost menu...