Someone trying to hack my account?

[NeilBlanchard]

The message is (I believe) an automatic warning that comes from this forum's server? It sounds like someone/thing has been attempting to login using the account of an existing forum member.

[overpowered]

Yeah. Lots of forum software does that, as does lots of other software that requires a login process. The idea behind locking the account for a while is to keep them from continuously trying to hack the same account. That timing thing really slows things down.

I use a password "safe" program that stores all of my passwords for me. There are several such programs available. I have it generate a unique password for each site. It keeps them in an encrypted database. I have to remember the password for that, and it remembers the passwords for everything else. The downside is that I have to have that program running to login to anything so that I can copy/paste from it, which is why it's nice when forum software recognizes the same login cookie for a significant period of time so I don't have to keep logging in over and over again.

[randyd]

Originally Posted by A1phaGeek

If you want very strong password manager/generator, this is what I recommend. AND it is free!
LastPass - Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Management http://bit.ly/fVrg7F

Forgive me for being reluctant to click on such a cryptic URL. :-) Why not simply point to http://lastpass.com/?

I use and can recommend KeePassX. It has all the bells and whistles mentioned in this thread and it is free. It runs on Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux:

http://keepassx.org