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Importing from Password Safe to KeePass database

Published on 8 August, 2006 in Security & Spyware and Tips & Tutorials. 0 Comments Tags: .

So I moved from Password Safe to KeePass. After some false start (remember to backup) the data was imported from Password Safe database into KeePass.

If you want to migrate the Password Safe database to KeePass, here’s how you do it.

  1. Use the Password Safe function to export to CSV file
    File > Export To > Plain Text
  2. Import the text file into KeePass
    File > Import From> PWSafe v2 TXT file

The mistake I made was to import the encrypted datafile which produces garbage. You need to export to plain text and import the text file.

Remember all your passwords with KeePass

Published on 7 August, 2006 in Security & Spyware. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

KeePassI consider myself a security paranoid. When I sign up with a site, I use a different password, sometimes even different username. Over the years I must have hundreds of account accumulated on the internet.

To help with remembering, I started with standard menonics, then use associations. Then I became more lazy started using standard passwords for sites that I don’t really care about.

Still, the problem is how to manage passwords overload ?

Let me introduce KeePass .

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Integrated instant messaging with Gaim

Published on 5 August, 2006 in Chat & E-mail. 4 Comments Tags: , , .

GaimICQ, Yahoo, MSN, QQ, GoogleTalk.

If you, like me, have an account in each of these instant messaging (IM) services then you probably have all these client programs installed.

These client not only take up valuable space in the notification area (especially on a notebook), they are also notorious memory hog. Each comes with heaps of “features” that I never use and are piling on more with each new version. Worst, some like QQ forcefully install programs you don’t need and changes your system settings.

Wouldn’t it be great if a single program can replace all of them?

Enter Gaim.

Gaim account showing multiple protocols

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Open Source Anti-Virus for Windows – ClamWin

Published on 2 August, 2006 in Security & Spyware. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Anti-Virus is a class of software that remains a firmly held by commercial companies.

ClamWin

ClamWin Antivirus is one of the better open source anti-virus program that is invading that stronghold in the MS Windows domain. (Is there others?)

ClamWin is based on the ClamAV antivirus engine. Harnessing the power of the community, the concept of an opensource virus directory look set to take on the commercial counterpart.

I decided to check it out a year ago when reinstalling my Win XP. The last anti-virus from Trend Micro never make a return.

My first impression after seeing the main screen of the program is that it still have some way to go in catching up with commercial equivalents.

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