What is in your clipboard? (revisited)

In response to my note on "What is in your clipboard?" (Dated: Wed Aug 13, 09:01:38 PM) Okay Todd, I was reading your "Blog" and now I am totally paranoid regarding the Clipboard. How do I go about checking this and more importantly, is there a way to delete anything I find? Lora OK, the problem is not what you find, it is more along with what data you used or manipulated. The clipboard contains anything you use as a copy or move operation. In other words, if you highlight some text in a notepad text document, and paste it in a different document, that information you copied / moved stays in the clipboard. until you highlight and work with other data. In other words, if you copy your account numbers and passwords from your online bank account statement, then visit some other unscrupulous site, they can grab the data. Yep, its scary. To view the information in your clipboard while running XP, you can run the Clipbook viewer. Go to "Start", then "run", and type in "clipbrd.exe" and hit enter. That will start the 'Microsoft® Clipbook Viewer', where you can see what you have at this moment. I don't have a 98 or 2000 machine running at the moment but the situation should be the same. Most times, people don't even install the 'Clipbook' or 'Clipboard' viewer. If you don't see it in your windows/system32 directory, go to "add and remove programs", then the "Windows Components" area. you can install it from there. Just remember to have your CD ready. If it isn't one thing, it's another (thousand things).