If you click on “File” to see the pull-down menu, you can see what file Quicken is using to store your financial data: You can see that your Quicken program (QW.EXE) is running as user “John Smith”. Let’s take a look at your Quicken Program: When you run your Quicken program, it will be running as user “John Smith”. Then click on the browser’s Back button to come back to the article. Note: If you have trouble seeing the images, click on them to make them bigger.
Once you have logged in, you can see your user name is “John Smith”: Let’s say your user name is “John Smith”.
When you login to your PC, you login as your user. Any other Windows program that you install would have the same issue. They are just the example programs I chose. Note: I am not trying to pick on Quicken 2002 Deluxe and Living Cookbook 2013. And, also suppose that you like to cook, so you download and install a recipe program (I choose “Living Cookbook 2013” as an example program). Suppose you are running a program where you enter (and store) sensitive financial data (I chose “Quicken 2002 Deluxe” as an example program).
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Also, make sure you read my follow-up post, How to Protect Your Quicken Data from All Your Programs. It’s at the heart of many other security issues that I’ve written about on this blog. It’s a long post, but I encourage you to take the time to understand it. This is such an important issue that I submitted a vulnerability report to CERT.
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