How do I reduce the risk of someone seeing me select my Passfaces or enter my password?
Take note of your surroundings and prevent others from seeing you enter your password. To reduce the risk of other methods of spying on your password entry, use firewalls, anti-spyware, and anti-virus software to protect your home computer and keep them up-to-date. If you are concerned about someone observing the choices you make when you use your mouse to click on your Passfaces, you have another option. You can use the numeric keypad on your keyboard instead of clicking on your Passfaces with your mouse. The Passfaces images are arranged in a 3×3 grid just like your numeric keypad arranges the numbers from 1 to 9 in 3 rows of 3 numbers. You can enter the number on the numeric keypad that is in the same position as the Passface that you want to select. To pick the Passface in this illustration, you would press the number 6 on your numeric keypad.
Take note of your surroundings and prevent others from seeing you enter your password or Passfaces. If you are concerned about someone observing the choices you make when you use your mouse to click on your Passfaces, you have another option. You can use the numeric keypad on your keyboard, or the “QWE, ASD, ZXC” keys (great for laptops!) instead of clicking on your Passfaces with your mouse. It’s easy! Use the pictures below as an example. The Passfaces images are arranged in a 3 × 3 grid just like your numeric keypad arranges the numbers from 1 to 9 in 3 rows of 3 numbers. The “QWE, ASD, ZXC” are arranged in the same way. You can enter the number on the numeric keypad or keyboard that is in the same position as the Passface that you want to select. To pick the Passface in this illustration, you would press the number 6 on your numeric keypad or the letter D on the keyboard. To reduce the risk of other methods of spying on your password entry, use firewalls, anti-spyware, and anti-vir
