Choose a strong password

[Wonderwoman]

HOW TO MAKE SAFE AND STRONG PASSWORDS.

How to Choose a Good Online Password -...

http://youtu.be/543dnCO0Qfg

http://wolfram.org/writing/howto/password.html

[JoeNinety]

When you've chosen your password, you can check out how secure it is at the following sites:
http://howsecureismypassword.net/
https://www.microsoft.com/security/p...d-checker.aspx

[Wonderwoman]

Thanks JoeNinety They are good websites.

[Mister X]

lol tested with the side .. out on my PW...

Still on some points it can be improved..

Repeated Pattern
Repeated characters or patterns can make your password more predictable
Possibly a Word

Your password looks like it could be a dictionary word or a name.
If it's a name with personal significance it might be easy to guess.
If it's a dictionary word it could be cracked very quickly.
Character Variety: Just Letters

Your password only contains letters. Adding numbers and symbols can make your password more secure.
Length: Long

Your password is over 16 characters long. It should be pretty safe.

But a hacker must have some free time to guess it..

It would take a desktop PC
About 53 duodecillion years
to hack your password

The improvement was adding a ! at the end, whats add a fuw more years to the crack time

It would take a desktop PC
About 15 quattuordecillion years
to hack your password

[Wonderwoman]

Look what it says about mine:

It would take a desktop PC
About 690 trillion years
to hack your password

Length: Long

Your password is over 16 characters long. It should be pretty safe.

and for another:

It would take a desktop PC
About 231 quintillion years
to hack your password

Length: Long

Your password is over 16 characters long. It should be pretty safe.

Anyway...I will continue changing my password frequently. We know that scammers work in teams and full time.... LOL

[Shimon1937]

I change my password as frequently as possible and add special characters into it. Upon checking my password, it says that it will take 98 million years to crack it.

[Lioness1]

I am living alone in my house, but my notebook has very, very strong passwords for all, lots of.....! I have saved nothing, except in my mind.

[JoeNinety]

Another site is: https://shouldichangemypassword.com/
It will let you see if your email features on any of the (known) leaked password lists produced by hackers. It has a 10-step guide telling you what to do if you have been compromised.

[De Master Yoda]

Thanks to our members for the tips.
It is a very wise move to REGULARLY change our passwords. There are a lot of people on the internet who would like to have our passwords so changing them is always a good move.

A "safe" password is usually at least 15 characters long,

A 15-character password composed only of random letters and numbers is about 33,000 times stronger than an 8-character password composed of characters from the entire keyboard.

The safest way is to use a combination of letters AND numbers.

One of the best ways to help protect ourselves is to REGULARLY change our passwords.

Contrary to popular opinion it is ok to write down our passwords so we can remember them, PROVIDED this information is kept safe and secure.

Instructions on how to change the password in windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true

Instructions on how to change the password in windows VISTA:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ndows-password

Instructions on how to change the password in Windows 7:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ndows-password