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Securing Your PC
Create a Strong Password

God. Love. Happy. These are a few of the most common passwords people choose to protect their most sensitive information. They are also the easiest to guess, and the first passwords all cracking software checks first.

When creating a password, there is a criterion you can follow to create an air-tight, hard to guess and crack password.

Criteria 1: Password length should be at LEAST 6 characters. I know this sound like a lot to many people, but the more characters you have the better chance you have to keeping the password secure and harder to crack.

Criteria 2: Use at least on number and symbols in you password (e.g. %#@^!&*@)

Criteria 3: Do not use trivial passwords – there should be NO pattern to the sequence of characters, or an obvious meaning behind them. For example, do not use the number “4” as the word “for” like this: “good4you!”

Criteria 4: This is the most difficult one to follow, but using best security practices you should change you password every 90 days or so.

Criteria 5: The most obvious of all – do not share your password with others!