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P.S., I looked at the AV-Test.org site referred in the opening post and I did not see Norton listed. I even searched their site for "Norton" and nothing was found. How does Norton AV rate and why is it not listed? It's there. It's listed as "Symantec: Norton". Norton was bought ...

The primary reason that Microsoft failed the past two tests is that its zero-day protection hasn't been as good as the other anti-virus vendors. For those who aren't familiar with the terminology, a zero-day threat is a virus or a piece of malware that was previously unknown. Today is the first day ...

I never used dropbox, but doesn't it just show up as a remote drive. You can just use windows backup to backup to the dropbox, thought the first backup may take a while depending on your connection and size of your drive. Note that upload speed is usually half that of the download speed or less. Fo...

But this only works if you have a cell phone, correct? That's not absolutely necessary. Instead of sending a text message to your cell, there is also an option to have them call your land line phone. An automated voice will then read off a six digit code you need to log in (in addition to your pass...

PS: It would be really nice to have read-only access to e-mails. While they would still not be secure, at least it will be more secure than having complete access to fiddle with the account (send e-mails, receive e-mails and alter password)! That's sort of doable. You can just create a second email...

Here's an article from May that explains how to transfer from Lastpass to Keepass with a csv file. However, things could have changed since May, so be sure to check if each step still makes sense before doing it.

http://www.guidingtech.com/11787/transf ... right-way/

Jerilynn wrote:If the password that the computer is trying to crack is from a website that locks out the account after X trys. Doesn't that help?

It helps as long as someone doesn't manage the steal the whole password file without anyone noticing.

Here's a list of some of the basic rules included a password cracking tool. I would assume these rules are included as there have been many example of them being used on already cracked passwords. So you could try every one of these rules on the words in your starting dictionary. And when the rules ...

But there is no way to know beforehand that those 10 particular "rules" are the ones which will crack that password. How many rules exist? Do they have some statistical information from pattern matching their database of passwords that tells them to try these 10 rules first? I'm not famil...

What I don't like and have no ability to effect is places that limit a password to just 8 or 10 characters like Vanguard and then disallow upper/lower case. Small number of characters can be tolerable if they are using a very slow password hash. For example Linkpoint used SHA-1, which is a very fas...

Randomly substitute numbers for letters that look similar. The letter ‘o' becomes the number ‘0′, or even better an ‘@' or ‘*'. (i.e. – m0d3ltf0rd… like modelTford) Randomly throw in capital letters (i.e. – Mod3lTF0rd) As already mentioned, this definitely doesn't work. Years ago, millions of unenc...