Without my password, can anone else log-in to my Yahoo email?

Question

Without my password, can anone else log-in to my Yahoo email account from the computer I always check it from?

Answer 1

If they have access to your PC, yes, quite possibly .. (and 'yes for sure' if you ever clicked on 'remember this password')

1) Make sure your PC log-on and Yahoo mail accounts have 'strong' passwords (i.e NOT 'blank' or 'password' :-) ) ... most of the time people use stupid passwords that others can easily guess ..

2) Make sure you have a 'screen-saver' that returns to the Log-On / Password protected mode when you leave it unattended (eg. for 10 mins) OR always log-out or switch off when you leave it ... (stop them getting access to your running logged-in PC)

Answer 2

If someone REALLY wants to, then yes. No web-based e-mail service is completely secure. Actually, NOTHING on a computer connected to the internet is COMPLETELY secure. Although, it would take a lot of effort usually, and a want to get into your SPECIFIC account/computer, so unless you tick off some immature little script kiddie, don't worry about it.

Although, we're talking about your computer here. Check the settings for your account to see if it keeps you logged in for a specific period of time. Don't forget to always log out when you're done reading e-mails. And it can't hurt to clear out your internet cache and cookies when you're done. that'll make it pretty dang hard to break into your account without breaking into yahoo's servers directly.

Also, never store important personal information on an e-mail account. Save it to your computer or print it out and then delete it, just on the off-chance someone does break into your account.

Answer 3

Technically, unless they KNOW or can GUESS your password. If this isn't the case they wouldn't be able to log-in to your email account unless they were a decent script kiddie ;). All you really need to worry about is that your password is strong enough to not get brute forced.

Weak passwords

A weak password is short, common, a system default, or something that could be rapidly guessed by executing a brute force attack using a subset of all possible passwords, such as words in the dictionary, proper names, words based on the user name or common variations on these themes. Passwords that can be easily guessed by acquaintances of the user, such as a birth date and pet's name, are also considered weak.[1]

Examples of weak passwords include:

* admin -- too easily guessed
* 1234 -- too easily guessed
* abc123 -- too easily guessed
* susan -- common personal name
* password -- trivially guessed, used very often
* p@$$\/\/0rd -- simple letter substitutions are pre-programmed into cracking tools
* rover -- common name for a pet, also a dictionary word
* 12/3/75 -- date, possibly of personal importance
* December12 -- Using the date of a forced password change is very common
* nbusr123 -- probably a user name, and if so, very easily guessed
* asdf -- a sequence of adjacent letters on many keyboards
* qwerty -- a sequence of adjacent letters on many keyboards
* aaaa -- repeated letters, can be guessed
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:GVoRpYKcVxUJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength+wiki+password+security+brute&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Answer 4

There is a possibility.. that is if the computer you previously logged in to has password capture/remember password options and i turned on..

Answer 5

Yes. On a grand scale hackers got into monster.com and got information on thousands of people. The story is in to-days Yahoo Technology News and also in the news at
www.bbc.co.uk/news Click onto Technology and scroll down to the story.

Answer 6

I suspect the administrators at Yahoo could access your email if they chose to. Otherwise your user name and password are required. If you think your password may have been found out, then change it.

Answer 7

If you have shared account on your computer yes or if you automatically saved your password on your computer. You can always disable that setting.

Answer 8

not in theory,but if they are using your computer make sure the password is not saved on there as they could then. also its possible to go into temporary files in windows explorer and see what someone has visited.

Answer 9

yes, ive done it. not telling how because it may cause problem of people going in others mail. i only did it cause i had to.

Answer 10

Not unless you have gave it to them.