[mshmodela]

As a person who makes his daily bread as a UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer, there are computer programs (e.g. CRACK, not rock cocaine) that can break most passwords
from a encrypted password file... Password should be changed at least every 90 days and never use a single world in ANY dictionary, in ANY language... Hotmail use MSFT Exchange, which like all MSFT products has holes and open to virus attacks.