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The Malwarebytes Password Generator doesn't do you any favors


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Apart from the fact that as a matter of principle, you should never rely on an online tool to create passwords: The Malwarebytes password generator at  https://www.malwarebytes.com/password-generator is just bewildering.

As a marketing tool, it is comically counterproductive, because it leaves the impression that the people at Malwarebytes have no idea what they are doing or talking about. Case in point, I'm not sure I would have become a customer if I had seen this before I signed up.

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Note that a Password should contain at least...

  • 2 x Upper case
  • 2 x Lower Case
  • 2 x Numbers
  • 2 x Special Characters.

That's 8 characters right there and that's the bare minimum and the construct is known as Password Stength

You unchecked Character type selections,

 

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