Secure your LJ account

[marta]

Days just fly by. At least this time I started to think about posting before 11:15 p.m. This NaBloPoMo thing might be good for me after all. This might be a very good time for a Public Service Announcement. Please do spread this information, link around, whatever you want to do - the account you save could be your friend's.

Keeping your

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[maidenus]

Worship teh lolCats

Seems like you covered everything:)

[narcissus]

Run spyware detectors on a regular basis. That's the one I noticed you missed. :)

[marta]

Yes! I linked to Spybot and AVG. Any other good ones?

[jai_dit]

Lavasoft Ad-Aware.

[marta]

Ah, yes. Added.

[raynedanser]

I recommend you go in and remove any old emails that you've ever used with your LiveJournal account. First, you should select the oldest email on that list that you have control over, and change your email address to that one. Once you've validated it, you'll be able to go in and remove any newer email addresses (any email added after the one you selected). For security reasons, the first-validated email cannot be removed at this time.

And if you're unable to click and select any of these email addresses? Is this because I'm not running Windows?

[marta]

For security reasons, you can only delete emails that are newer than your currently validated one. So you will need to make sure that a) you're using an older email than the one you want to delete and b) that you change the email on your account to that one, get the email with the validation link and click it.

Even if you aren't currently using your old email accounts, you might be able to get it back, if it's a web-based email service. You should try to sign in with any password you might have used, do a "lost password" reset on their service, or possibly email with their support department about getting it back.

I don't *think* that not running Windows should affect which ones you can delete. If you've changed to an older email, and clicked the email validation link, the boxes should be un-grayed. If they're not, please go ahead and open a Support Request and people much more knowledgeable than me will be able to help you out.

[raynedanser]

I can't even click in the box. Any of them. They aren't greyed, but I can't click in them, or do anything else. Will definitely be opening a support ticket because I'd just like to clean that list up out of general principal. ;-)

[marta]

There was another change today - you can now go here and remove all old email addresses except for the one that's been validated for at lease six months!

[ramble_corner]

I saw your post from one of my flist and will spread this as well as this is good to know
Thanks for putting this together