So awesome. Nice work man. I can't believe most of your vids only have a few hundred hits. Every poker player should do this IMO.

Thanks a lot.

What if you have a mobile phone that you like to check email from and/or visit sites that require you to log in?

What would be the best way to go about it since it will store you passwords?

Is it better to just go with out this and only do these things from your computer?

Is keepass actually safer if you already have a complicated password or is it for people who have trouble memorizing passwords and they just copy and paste which is vulnerable to keyloggers?

I know the Blackberry Bold has a built-in password manager. There is also a keepass-like product currently being developed for the iPhone called iKeepass.

The main benefit of keepass is that it allows you to have strong and unique passwords for each account. Having a complicated password is good but the benefits are negated if you're using the same password for all of your sensitive accounts.

big thx man!

U rule funky. Thanks heaps for this thread, wish id checked it out b4 i bought AVG!!

1password is also an iPhone app for passwords that integrates really well with a native Mac version.

How do you like sugarsync?
Does it hog a lot of resources?
How do you think it fares against LiveMesh?

@funkyworms,

What are your thoughts on the relative safety of Virtual Machines?

For example, I am running Linux as the host OS and Vista as the guest OS in Sun's VirtualBox. The only thing I run in the VBox environment is the Poker Stars client. Does this protect me from keyloggers? It seems to protect me from malware and viruses in the host OS.

A Linux host and Windows guest is what I consider an ideal setup for a poker computer. While nothing other than your brain can protect you from every form of malware (including keyloggers), your setup is very secure as long as you follow a couple of steps.

1. Keep Vista updated, don't use it for web browsing, and only install the necessary poker apps (Stars, HEM, etc)
2. On the host, only use packages from the official repository.

Some people will say you should still run anti-virus software on your Windows guest but I disagree. I don't think it's needed.

I would still run NoScript on the host.

Just watched all the vids- Really cool of you to do this as it helped a lot.

As a side- Do you like Butterscotch? Anywhere you point me will be cool.

Thanx again

www.butterscotch.com - this is the home of a lot of Creative Commons licensed content including indie bands, movies, and documentaries

http://www.butterscotchbutterschotchbutterscotch.com/ - good pudding

http://butterscotch-lover/ - concert recordings from bootleg-friendly artists.

http://www.hownowbutterschotch.com/ - a bunch of butterscotch recipies that have fallen into the public domain.


Not all butterscotch is bad, but most of it is so we don't talk about it much.

Thanks for taking the time to write this (and so quickly )

Just finished adding no-scripts to my [new] firefox browser with secunia and Avira on my list...

Thanks again- much appreciated to a computer newbie

I just megafailed securing my passwords. I was in the process of changing my poker email account password to something more secure. Problem is I accidentally didn't save my KeePass db so I don't know the password to the email account.

It's a yahoo account and I don't remember ever setting the challenge question and my incorrect guesses lead to my account being locked. Considering all of my poker accounts are connected to this email I'm royally fudged if I can't recover the account.

Anybody ever have the same thing happen to them? It took me about 20 minutes to find a way to get in touch with yahoo support so I've sent them an email explaining the situation.