Legitimate website?  

kevvyb said:

How can I tell if this is a legitimate Kaspersky website?

Password Check | Kaspersky – It is important to choose passwords wisely. To check how strong your passwords are, visit this website.

I don’t know if it’s legit or not but why would anybody need to check their password(s) on a web site when there are general rules you can follow for selecting passwords as well as app that will generate random passwords for you. It sounds suspicious to me and I’d stay away from it.

SoFine409 said:

I don’t know if it’s legit or not but why would anybody need to check their password(s) on a web site when there are general rules you can follow for selecting passwords as well as app that will generate random passwords for you. It sounds suspicious to me and I’d stay away from it.

Sometimes we get caught up without reading. What Kaspersky is offering is a password "strength" meter. All the service is doing is testing the strength of a proposed password. After all it does warn... "Never enter your real password"

Many people use weak passwords that are easily cracked. It's why many sites, especially those of a financial nature demand passwords that are at least 8 characters long and includes a special character, number, lower case and uppercase letters. And some sites actually do provide a strength meter when creating a password.

Anyway there's nothing "nefarious" with that site. Its just testing the strength of a proposed password. Would I use it? Probably not, but not out of fear, but that I typically create strong passwords anyway. I can see its usefulness though.

My two cents.

Yeah, if you need a strength meter that's a good one. Just type a phony password of a certain length to get a strength indicator, then type your real password to wherever using that meter as a guide. For the faint of heart don't use it.

Strong passwords are good until you fall for a well crafted (some are not that well-crafted Phishing email. Then ALL bets are off. Your complicated password is now rendered useless because you just gave it away.

I'm a dead-set Kaspersky devotee, have KIS on all my devices (3 PC, 3 laptop), but Kaspersky of recent times seems to have become obsessed with password management. Continual pop-ups about saving/managing/storing/etc.

Easy to shut the pop-ups down and turn them off, but annoying in the first instance.

Maybe their current marketing program ... ?