XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:16:41 -0500, Paul   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 11/22/2025 7:09 AM, micky wrote:   
   >> OT, but I don't know what ng it would be on-t for, and I hate the web.   
   >>   
   >> I tried to log into my bank on the old computer, which I used for at   
   >> least 5 years and logged in with many times, but it said the info was   
   >> wrong,  the UserID or password. Win10.  I tried 2 or 3 times.   
   >>   
   >> Then I went downstairs and logged in there with no trouble. Win11.   
   >>   
   >> Then just now a day or two later I wes upstairs and tried again with the   
   >> first computer, twice, and again it would not let me.   
   >>   
   >> How can this be?   What is going on?   
   >>   
   >   
   >We need some more color commentary with these setups.   
   >Like, the versions of things in the working and   
   >not working cases, whether the login dialogs look   
   >different at all.   
      
   Actually when it didn't work,  there were two login pages.  The one that   
   comes up first with fields on the left (for Bank of America) and the one   
   that comes up when the first try fails, with fields in the middle   
   horizontally.   
      
   I'm using Firefox 145.0 (64-bit) in win11 and probably the same in   
   win10.   
      
   >   [Picture]   
   >   
   >    https://i.postimg.cc/Z585721y/logging-at-the-bank.jpg   
   >   
   >It could be, that the working version is using an   
   >authentication token from a few days ago, and when   
   >that ages out, that config will stop working too.   
      
   I don't even know what a token is, but I don't think there is one in   
   use.   
      
   >Maybe one setup uses a web browser, the other uses   
   >a MyBank Metro.App ?   
      
   No, I would have mentioned something like that.  Both using Firefox, the   
   most recent verison for 11, and I think that's the same version for 10.   
   But even if it's not, I dont' think  there is any relevant distinction   
   between the current version and what would work on win10.   
   >   
   >Maybe they use 2FA or a pair of FIDO keys or   
   >a biometric identification method, or so on.   
      
   I think BoA used to want some confirmation whenever the Firefox version   
   changed, and in Firefox that's all the time.  I'm sure I wasn't the only   
   one who disliked that and I think they stopped and go by some id of the   
   computer itself.   
      
   At any rate, it didn't offer to send a code   
      
   I don't share my biometry with anyone!  And boa has never asked.   
      
   >You need to paint us enough of a picture so we   
   >can make a credible stab at it.   
   >   
   >The picture of the individual used in my example,   
   >that's just to establish someone who is in a   
   >relaxed frame of mind while logging in.   
   >   
   >   Paul   
      
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