MithraPride

Hmmm... well there only a few ways that person could have gotten your password (all of which were posted on the thread).

If it was an easy to guess password that was the problem, make sure your password is hard to guess (like the suggestions that they gave). Also game related names are a no no like "sepiroth" "chocobo" etc.

If it was a key logger, your best bet is to reformat your computer IMHO. LOTS of dangerous data theft can accure from a key logger not just FFXI stuff. Credit card numbers etc can be stolen as well. Reformating is the way to go in that regard. Better safe then sorry.

If you are in an environment that's phycially secure (as in, no one can see you as you type in the password) a good way to set one up is to hold SHIFT while hitting a few keys in a row, then release SHIFT and hit a few more. Make an easy to remember pattern on the keyboard. Also make sure it's one that gives you a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number, and a symbol.

For example: )O(I8u7y
This was done by holding SHIFT as I hit 0, o, 9, and i. Then I released SHIFT and hit 8, u, 7, and y. If you look at these keys on the keyboard you'll see it's a very easy pattern to remember, and the password itself is impossible to guess since it's just gibberish.

I use this technique to create my passwords. This way I get a good one that I can remember to type in everytime. I don't use the auto-save feature cause the pw has to be stored somewhere and that 'somewhere' is the registry, which can be read by people more l33t than I.

Unfortunatly, FFXI doesn't allow you to use symbols. Only numbers and letters. Why? I have no clue. This reduces the strenghth of the password, but the greatest strenghth is it's secrecy. As a substitute I use CAPS LOCK instead of SHIFT.

Lastly, just like Fight Club, never talk about your password.



/em goes to change her password since she talked about it.


(edit: forgot that FFXI doesn't allow symbols >.<)

Dohith. Sorry about the wrong link. Grrr. Thought I had the right one. Oh well. *goes to read*

-- sarah

If you dislike the Alakazam forums, do NOT go to GameFAQs. Trolling and flaming are considered art forms there. The best and worst ones get gradded on a 1 - 10 scale.

I am NOT making this up.

Hmm. So it's kind of like Fandom Wank in that respect, I suppose. I love F_W so much. That and LJDrama.

-- Sarah[/url]

Oh man, Allakhazam is bad but GameFAQs is a lot worse. Sometimes I lurk on GameFAQs's boards when I need a good laugh at sheer idiocy. I used to post fairly often on Alla, but lately I've gone from poster to lurker, and now I don't even read the forums that often, mostly because the threads are all the same: "OMG Chinese gil sellers botters crappy GMs stupid noobs I hate this game I'm getting WoW EQ2 STFU gheywad craphole." The Warrior forum and the Midgardsormr forum are still decent though (dunno about the other job/server forums).

Of course, I've scanned through Alla's EQ forums, and let's just say that's where I was introduced to a whole new level of immaturity and online hate.

/laugh

I go to places like that just to laugh at them. I mean, they're so ludicrous. Then again, I've seen "flame wars" happen in real life, so they really don't surprise me all that much.

-- Sarah

I go to Allakhazam for the info, NOT the intellectual rehetoric.

Klenath wrote:I go to Allakhazam for the info, NOT the intellectual rehetoric.

I suppose you read Playboy for the articles.

Forever anti-alla

Tsybil wrote:I suppose you read Playboy for the articles.

Heck no - pictures all the way!

Tsybil wrote: I suppose you read Playboy for the articles.

there are articles in Playboy

I've read an article in playboy. But thats just cause it was Bruce Cambell and he's greater then god...so ya. ^^;

I tried to read an article but it was too funny and I had to stop ^^