Unlikely that it is using passport to authenticate on the
local machine. My Money '04 authenticats against my
local password. However I canno't connect to passport
through Money, but I can login to passport through other
MS passport programs (msn messanger). I don't think this
is tied to the Denial of Service attack. It maybe
related to the latest patch MS has issued for all MS OS's.

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:09:43 GMT, Dale <dale.gj[at]nospaming.bresnan.netwrote:

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All very true and this is most likely the case.

However it did bring me to question why on Earth I'm using an external
source to authenticate to an internal file anyway. (Especially when I
wasn't gaining any real advantage by doing so.)

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 04:13:36 -0800, "Rick" wrote:
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I think you are right about server problems. It is entirely possible
that all of these are caused by the DNS (Denial of Service) attacks by
the most recent worm.

I read that SCO (http:/www.sco.com) was brought down by the first
variation (Win32/MyDoom.A), and that the second version
(Win32/MyDoom.B) was aimed at Microsoft. This may also be attacking
the update server.

Dale

Just an opinion, however, I think that the sign-in
problems which seem to cut across all versions of Money
are with the Passport servers authenication process, not
with the programming of Money itself. I base this opinion
on the fact that, as stated, several versions of Money
are affected which makes a software glitch extremely
unlikely; as well, Money does sign-in properly without
problem frequently which would diminish the possibility
of a internal Money problem; in fact, in working with
Money02 for a year, I didn't even have this sign-in
problem, and didn't with Money04 until just recently. All
this points to an external (to Money) problem, like the
Passport servers and/or authenication process. Whatcha
think???

God Bless!

Rick www.EmbraceHisGrace.com

In microsoft.public.money, Alex wrote:

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While reinstalling is not drastic, there are some temporary problems
at the moment. It affects people to varying amounts.

I too am having this problem and I use Money 2001.
Obviously this is a problem affecting a number of people
judging by the posts recently. I've tried the "tricks"
offered in other threads but none of them fixed it. I
guess I may have to reinstall. I've been using Money for
3 years and have never had this kind of problem before.


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See a post by Chris Sasarman on 2/9 below in the "Why wont it let me get
in?" thread below


"Urwethe" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:37:06 -0800, "Paul Pedersen"
<prpeders[at]nospam.pacbell.net> wrote:

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Futile. No time to fix bugs. The focus is on adding more stuff to
the product.

See other recent messages on this topic.

Oh yeah, and bitch to Microsoft. Maybe they'll fix it.


"Urwethe" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Urwethe wrote:

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Read?

I have been using MS Money for 6 months now with no
problems. Now when I try to sign-in using Passport, I get
the following message:

"The sign-in attempt for <user-name> was unsuccessful.
Please try your sign-in name and password again."

Sometimes I can sign-in and other times I can't. I have
verified that I am entering the correct password, which I
have not changed.

Any ideas???