well speaking from a person that WAS hacked via brute force.. How do i know it was brute force? I don't run programs normally that i have not vetted properly I had a good AV scanner this means that i did not do foolish things and so there was no keylogger possable After the hacking i scanned my computer with EVERY single scanner i could find.. nothing.. nada (though i admit the possability if there was a program it cleaned up after itself, but how did it get into my computer) well there was only ONE WAY for a hacker to gain access the WMF bug in windows (Windows Meta File bug was where ANY image could allow a keylogger or such thing into a computer) but i say nay to that... why? i was not capable of being infected... I used firefox which is not suseptable to this since it does not rely on windows to process images. I used thunderbird for e-mail.. same situation.... I used trillian for chatting (i put this possability at more likely to have a billion dollar appear in my room right as i type then this happening) So there is NO conceivable way for my computer to have been compromised (also i used my bank and other things during this time and they were never compromised) so the only way that could have done is a brute force hacking of a password that would have been similar to rqq34qrp which is not the longest.. but it is safe... so therefore.. it had to have been a brute force from one person who saw bank pics of me or something.... so brute force is possable I now get my passwords from http://www.grc.com/passwords which is psyudo random and safe enough