Changing your passwords is only useful if the companies you have accounts with (paid or free) have changed their software. Otherwise, changing your passwords won't make any difference because they will have your new passwords too, through the Heartbleed Virus that affects servers that actually allow the internet to operate.
Here are the places that have changed their software where changing your passwords would be useful now.
Airbnb, Google, YouTube, Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo, Tumblr, Flickr, OKCupid, Pinterest, Wikipedia.
If I find out more sites where it might be useful to change passwords I will try to notify you.
The following sites passwords don't need to be changed because they were not affected by Heartbleed virus:
Amazon, AOL, Mapquest,Apple, I Cloud, ITunes, Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, Citibank, E*trade, HSBC, Microsoft, Hotmail, Outlook, Paypal
Once again this last set don't need their passwords changed because they were not affected by the Heartbleed virus in the first place.
My source for this information is from TV on CNN Newsroom at around 1 pm PT on Saturday April 12th 2014.
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