Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:59:54 CST
From: BRH 
Subject: Re: Personal finance software
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
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Well, in my case, I don't use Quicken's online features (other than 
1-step update for mutual fund quotes); I don't enter ANY account numbers 
into Quicken; and I even don't enter the bank names for my banking 
accounts.  So, even if it does get hacked, the most critical information 
isn't there.

Hopefully, ths would also prevent damage being done to my accounts if my 
computer ever gets stolen.



sudhir wrote:
> Thank you all for your responses. This was great information. However,
> now I have  another problem. Since quicken files contain all the
> financial data, how to prevent hackers from accessing my computer and
> prevent access to the confidential data.
> 
> I know firewalls may be one of the answer, but I was just wondering
> hackers/spywares would be spending a lot of time hacking the QIF files.
> 
> So, my question is what preventive measures are people taking to
> prevent such access to the QIF files ??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Sudhir
> 
> 
> EnoRiverBend@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
>>leander wrote:
>>
>>>I have found 2 online services which are free and do most of what
>>>quicken and money do... Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com) and
> 
> Yodlee
> 
>>>(https://www.yodlee.com/newarch/index.do).
>>
>>I was a great fan of Yahoo Finance's portfolio tracking.  For free,
>>it vastly outperformed the copy of Money 2005 I wasted my money on.
>>(And was better than Yodlee for my particular mix of investment
> 
> types.)
> 
>>Unfortunately, Yahoo is yanking all of their wonderfully useful
>>Money Manager stuff, which includes the portfolio tracker.  I have
>>yet to see an explanation of why they are withdrawing this public
>>service.
>>
>>-- Eno
> 
> 


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