"Someone is trying to log onto your account from another computer"

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Good passwords should include some combination of upper and lower case letters (NOT full English words), numerals, and punctuation.

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QFT. People, please heed the above advice. I used to work in software design, and I was horrified at the percentage of end users who would try to set passwords to things such as their birthday, daughter's name, etc. This totally defeats the purpose of having a password in the first place.

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Yeah that is stupid - I use 1234. Damn I have to change it now I told you. Mmmmm 2345. Damn again. 3456 Damn. Ok I have a new one but I wont tell you

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"monkeydoodle5"

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WTF? How did you figure out my password?

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Did Raymer ever say what his "weak" password was when he got hacked by someone guessing it?

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My reply is a little late, but better late than never I guess.

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You might change your password from a different computer to ensure that if you did have a keylogger/trojan, that they also don't have your new password. Also, check out SnoopFree to ensure you don't have any keyloggers.

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I used the "character map" to change my password because to my knowledge this isn't trackable with keyloggers.

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How strong is/was your password? If you have any kind of notoriety on FTP (i.e., people think you have a lot of money in your account), it's possible that somebody was launching a "dictionary attack" on your screenname--effectively trying every combination of letters until they happened to stumble across your actual password. In theory, FTP should also be on the alert for this sort of thing--too many failed attempts to log into an account should trigger some action on their part, at least sending you an email asking if there's a problem, perhaps temporarily suspending the account pending notification from you, etc.

Good passwords should include some combination of upper and lower case letters (NOT full English words), numerals, and punctuation.

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My password was made up of both letters and numbers and isn't a word found in the dictionary, nor anything that could really be connected to me.

On another note, doesn't the log in ignore upper and lower case letters?