Password Security on Car Forum

[Kato]

You can install a keylogger on a computer that logs everything typed.

Then going through that it is pretty easy to work out a user/pwd being filled out.

However, someone has to target you directly for that, it is not just a random virus. If someone is doing that, you have larger problems to worry about that a forum log in.

Edit: You said you were 'hacked' any more information on what happened?

[Darken]

It was prolly just one of the ISP staff stuffin around! What did they do?

Originally Posted by Spyder

reason i asked, yes i got hacked, but nothing happened in regards to the car forums, and nothing important was hacked, i jsut was curious in regards to privacy protection on these forums.
i also heard about some sort of program/virus that detects keyboard patterns eg once a username enters frequently followed by a password, the password can be detected through that software. anyone heard of anything like that???

[gumby]

pfft, whats your definition of 'hacked'?
Pretty unlikely a personal computer was actually hacked unless you were specifically targetted.

[westoz]

For the important stuff, to defeat keyloggers I just use the onscreen keyboard located in Start - All Programs - Accessories - Accessibility..... but there's bound to be someone on 'ere who is gonna say that it's not secure either.....