1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark (ceruleansparkold) http://rainbowdash.net/ceruleansparkold http://rainbowdash.net/notice/498516 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/3834" class="url" title="Dylan Sorrell"><span class="fn nickname">ladestitute</span></a></span> To determine the security of your password, you first must calculate your level of password entropy. In the case of a non-dictionary password using a set of all the available symbols, your password has an entropy value of 32.54. As a general rule, a password of N entropy can be cracked in 2 to the power of N attempts, which, for your password, equals 6235849138 tries. (source: <a href="http://www.redkestrel.co.uk/Articles/RandomPasswordStrength.html" title="http://www.redkestrel.co.uk/Articles/RandomPasswordStrength.html" rel="nofollow external">http://www.redkestrel.co.uk/Articles/RandomPasswordStrength.html</a>). However, this is not the only concern, if the hacker in question is compromising the machines en-masse, it's more likely that he's using a windows exploit than manually cracking every password. To alleviate the likelyhood of this taking place, ensure you've fully patched your copy of windows. Hopefully you're running with a firewall installed too. Have you also checked for possible viral backdoors?