[My hearts in London - Everett]

I’ve used this site to test the strength of passwords I’ve created. It seems to work well. http://www.securepasswords.net/site/TestPassword.html

Also, how do you know when it’s safe to let your system update with the updates by MS? I’ve read on FR posts where people state that the updates themselves can also cause problems.

[driftdiver]

Worthy a post all by itself - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9147138/Users_still_make_hacking_easy_with_weak_passwords

In fact, the most common password among RockYou users was “123456,” followed by “12345” and “123456789.” The other passwords rounding out the top five were “password” and “iloveyou.”

Really doesn’t matter what OS you are using if you use these passwords. On a recent scan of a corporate application there was only 1 user password we could not break. We only tested for 15 minutes.

Any software installation can cause problems. I let others try them first before I install. The only problem I’ve ever had though was an automatic install Seagate did on some drives which turned them into bricks. Kinda scary that harddrive makers are tracking our drives and installing code on them without approval.