This morning, I was at the office of one of my customers, and I saw her writing down the password to her bank account on a sheet of paper located under her keyboard. Now, I really hate to call a customer out on this one (especially when I know she will be reading this), but I hope this blog post can help out my dealers to store their passwords in a safer place.
As we all know we should have hard-to-guess passwords for all of our online accounts, everything from our Facebook login, to our Bank of America accounts. The problem is keeping track of these passwords can be a real pain in the butt.
Passwords: Don’t write them on sticky-notes!
Editing Your Hosts File Can Kill Web Bugs and Spyware!
Look in your windows directory on your PC for a file called “HOSTS” (not “HOSTS.bak” or “HOSTS.SAM”, just plain “HOSTS” w/o any extension on it). Open this file in notepad so you can edit it. Please be aware that some versions of Windows keep the HOSTS file buried somewhere deep under the system or system32 directory so you might have to perform a “find file” search to locate it on your machine.

