I talked to Jan on Friday and then on Saturday, probably another week, I believe that Brent is going to upgrade his software, but not positive. I have saved in html 114 threads of info (33.2 megabytes), so will send them via CD-Rom to Jan, it is mostly police info, some PPK, etc., items I had saved for myself, but might help to get the site going again.

I also believe that Jan's site was on its own server, so that might explain why his site was hit and not other gunboard sites.

Ed

Yes it is true that the Initial passwords ARE randomly chosen for new users on the Lugerforum... but all are encouraged to change passwords to something you can easily remember...

Best industry practices for passwords are:

...at LEAST 8 characters long

...contains Upper and Lower Case characters, at Least One Number, and also includes special characters like punctuation

...Don't use a password that uses two consecutive identical characters

...When you change passwords, don't use any portion of the last 6 passwords that you have used

...Don't use a password that contains any reference to your life such as names of friends and relatives, birthdates or anniversaries and such

...NEVER use a password that contains any dictionary word in any language as even a portion of the password, because password guessing software checks those first

...Change passwords at least every 90 days

...Don't use the same userID and password for your financial information that you use for casual access to things like forums

To remember your password, choose a password that is made up from letters in a particular position in each word of a familiar phrase...such as this example password:

Tr(2)kabA!

This password uses the first letter of the words in the phrase:

"The right (2) keep and bear Arms!"

...and follows the other rules mentioned above... use your imagination and you can come up with a pretty secure password that you can remember.

I recommend that everyone visit Komando.com and download a free program called Password Safe... it is a very small program where you can store all your account information and your passwords for different functions that uses a very secure encryption algorithm to protect your passwords... Then you only have to remember ONE password... the one that opens the password safe.

BTW, for those hackers out there...I don't use the example password for anything... I just made it up... :)

Just to add to John's very good advice.

I keep a small Excel spreadsheet of all my log-ons & passwords. This is a hard copy print-out kept next to my PC's which is updated when it is needed. This electronic file is only kept on a floppy disc and not on my hardrives, at all.

Did not want this file on the drive, in case I was hacked...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

<img border="0" alt="[ouch]" title="" src="graemlins/c.gif" /> Pete, your habit of having that printout next to your PC is exactly what the Password Safe is intended to replace...

Any guest, visitor or breakin to your home might just remember one or more of your UserID's or passwords written down next to a PC...

If you must have it written down... put the userID's and passwords on different pages in a notebook...mixed in with some other material so that only you would know what you were looking at...

"Hacked" can mean that you have been "social engineered" by someone you know... :(

(Just $0.02 worth of opinion from a senior [that means OLD] computer security consulting engineer... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" /> )

must be in the air, I got up and the first thing I did this morning after the boot up was to get my virus protection updates. After reading JS posts today, I sure am glad I did.

Anyone got any word on the recovery of Jan's website yet? Do we have an estimate of when it will be open for business?

I have been playing on the "trial" site the last couple of days. Tuco and friends are working some kinks out, and Tuco is changing the ENTIRE gunboards over to the same code, he expects it to go live by mid-next week, although he is hoping for this weekend.

Ed

Thanks for the update Ed... that is good news..Be sure and post when they are ready for the registration rush... :)

This message posted at the address of the old Jan Still Forum........

Jan C Still's: GERMAN LUGERS

CENTRAL POWERS & AXIS PISTOLS 1900-1945 WORLD WAR I & WORLD WAR II

Will re-open September 5, 2003