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Hacked Computer
Des:
Many thanks for your outstanding contribution here Neil.
fandango:
--- Quote from: Des on January 01, 2012, 11:33:47 AM ---
Many thanks for your outstanding contribution here Neil.
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Yes many thanks Neil, great advice i am running a couple of programs at the same time Emsisoft Anti malware Emsisoft Online Armor firewall and Stopzilla.. think i need to turn off Stopzilla?.. Both are fully paid.
Regards Carl
lukybugur:
I"m not aware of Emsisoft"s offerings or StopZilla so I"d be hesitant to advise you to turn anything off. If it"s working for you - if you have booted into Safe Mode as per Foggy"s advice, scanned your system using the tools I recommended and all is clear - you probably don"t need to do anything further.
When your Emsisoft subscriptions come up for renewal, consider ESET Smart Security 5 as mentioned above and which I"ve just found out now comes with a Parental Control. I have never set up the Parental Control as we usually only recommend ESET Anti-Virus 5 for business users with servers - our normal kind of client - but this should help anyone wishing to investigate this further - hw to configure Parental Control in ESET Smart Security 5
MintTrav:
--- Quote from: lukybugur on January 01, 2012, 11:20:54 AM ---
Good passwords should be 8 characters long and contain uPPeR and LoWer case characters, at least one number and one symbol. Using a % * or ^ adds that little bit more to a password and should stop folk ever being able to "guess" it.
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I"m not an IT expert, but I read somewhere recently that most of us have been taught to choose passwords that are easy for a program to break but difficult for a human to remember, whereas we should be choosing ones that are easy to remember and difficult for a program to break. A program doesn"t care whether the digits are letters, numbers or symbols - they are all just another possible digit to be tried and an 8-digit password of any type an be cracked in a short time, whereas a 30-digit one would take squillions of years longer (or something like that). The article suggested that running a few easy-to-remember words together was way more effective, ie SOLENTPOKERCLUB is far superior to BCPC**00. I"ll leave to the experts to confirm or not.
In keeping with this thread, if anyone needs a mobile nail technician, etc.............
Jon MW:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on January 01, 2012, 14:33:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: lukybugur on January 01, 2012, 11:20:54 AM ---
Good passwords should be 8 characters long and contain uPPeR and LoWer case characters, at least one number and one symbol. Using a % * or ^ adds that little bit more to a password and should stop folk ever being able to "guess" it.
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I"m not an IT expert, but I read somewhere recently that most of us have been taught to choose passwords that are easy for a program to break but difficult for a human to remember, whereas we should be choosing ones that are easy to remember and difficult for a program to break. A program doesn"t care whether the digits are letters, numbers or symbols - they are all just another possible digit to be tried and an 8-digit password of any type an be cracked in a short time, whereas a 30-digit one would take squillions of years longer (or something like that). The article suggested that running a few easy-to-remember words together was way more effective, ie SOLENTPOKERCLUB is far superior to BCPC**00. I"ll leave to the experts to confirm or not.
In keeping with this thread, if anyone needs a mobile nail technician, etc.............
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It depends if it"s a program trying to break it or a person.
Most people"s passwords are so poor that people only need to look around online to find their details and try different combinations of thing"s connected to them.
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