So protecting your coins relies upon trusting the websites WalletGenerator.net and MyEtherWallet.com ?
https://github.com/MyEtherWallet/MyEtherWallet or https://github.com/MichaelMure/WalletGenerator.net
Recently there has been an influx of scam attacks using forged myetherwallet URLs in all the altcoin slack channels. Using your own is really the better way to go about this.
The article mentions ways to run both solutions offline but going to the source is probably the safest way.