It's a clever idea, but very irritating when you have a long password.

Ah very good, I haven't seen a site request passwords like this.

Random characters seem like a really shooty defense mechanism, especially for bank accounts.

The keys on the virtual keyboard are different every time and randomly generated and positioned. So the pattern doesn't stay the same.

Seems like a very good idea. I think that may be the idea behind asking for random characters because there's no pattern

I have an online back account, where every time I sign in, it prompts a dynamic or virtual keyboard for me to input my password. It basically offers an extra layer protection from malicious software designed to capture the keystrokes.

In the UK, not sure about anywhere else; to log into your bank account you have to enter random letters from your Password, so obviously you use a long password for strength but it gets annoying taking ages to find the exact characters every time, so I use this. Thought i'd share

What is the purpose of this?