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Yep, salt. Also, there are much better options than MD5. I used bcrypt in systems I built a while back. There's also scrypt and argon2, which are newer. (Just be careful that you don't create a DoS vulnerability while hardening your login system...)
Yep, and md5 is only used by many because it's so fast. Cutting corners for speed's sake is always going to come with a penalty somewhere.
And, you know, checksums, which MD5 is honestly great for
MD5 is vulnerable to collisions, so it's possible for an attacker to match checksums, too.