Thunderbird safety

Hi,

I use Tbird as  I find its ability to handle several accounts very handy;  keeping its Profile on a separate drive from C:

If an online hacker got into my system, can they then gain access to my stored mails or  the  passwords for the servers like Gmail etc?

Is there anything I  can do to protect Tbirds files ?

If I Encrypted or Vaulted  the Profile does that include all the passwords or are some held in the program files ?

Have read about MasterPassword+ but think thats more to stop actual users on the keyboard gaining access...?

thanks

Edited by hamluis, 19 April 2017 - 06:58 AM.
Moved from Web Browsing to Gen Security - Hamluis.

Hi,

For the passwords part https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Basics/Protect-your-Thunderbird-passwords-with-a-Master-Password/ta-p/14829

Just to be sure I understand, you do use option --ProfileManager to launch ThunderBird and then select your profile that is on drive X: ?

Just to be sure I understand, you do use option --ProfileManager to launch ThunderBird and then select your profile that is on drive X: ?

I have modified the profile.ini  so it automatically goes to my drive D for the Profile.

Have followed the link Sleepydude mentions, which shows how to use a Master Password for all the account passwords, so job done , thanks