Greetings --
1) Deny physical access to the computer to anyone you don't
completely trust. Any one bright enough to use the Google, Yahoo, or
Lycos search engines can easily find and download a Linux-based
password "cracker" from the Internet. If you don't have physical
security, you have NO security.
2) Set a strong password, but one you won't forget, on the built-in
Administrator account.
3) Set strong passwords, but ones you won't forget, on any other user
accounts with administrative privileges.
By a "strong" password, I mean something that:
1) is at least 8 characters long, the longer the better
2) contains at least one upper case letter, at least one lower case
letter, at least one numeral, and at least one special character, such
as @, !, $, *, or #
3) contains no consecutively repeating characters, such as aa or 88,
4) contains no series of characters that appear in the same order on
the keyboard, such as "qwerty"
5) consists _no_ words from _any_ language for which a dictionary can
be found on the Internet
6) does not consist of "munged" words or phrases, such as
"4everm0re," "RuReady," or "1life2live"
7) contains no names of pets, family members, or favorite celebrities
8) contains no dates, like birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH
jj said:
Recently someone went into my PC and changed my log on password to
XP out of malice. There is no way this person could have known what it
was since it was in a foreign language that he does not speak. How can
I prevent this from happening again? I have Win xp home edition.
Thanks
