Passwords revealed
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Passwords revealed
I have just been playing with the SIW software on me W7 machine, as you do, and I noticed that under the 'Software' heading there is a reference to 'Passwords' Clicked on that out of curiosity and there under an 'Auto complete password' heading is my PayPal user name and password. Ouch! Each time I log on to PayPal it asks me for the password, there's no 'autocomplete' involved. How did SIW find it and, more importantly. does anyone know how I can get rid of it? Given how easy it is to load and run SIW it seems to be quite a serious security risk. If I can't kill it I could create a new password - but will SIW get hold of that too?
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Interestingly it only seems to know Internet explorer passwords, not those used by Firefox etc
Presumably I.E stores it's passwords in the registry, whereas FF stores them in it's user profile. As it happens I've got SIW locked down in Zone Alarm so that it cannot go on line.
Presumably I.E stores it's passwords in the registry, whereas FF stores them in it's user profile. As it happens I've got SIW locked down in Zone Alarm so that it cannot go on line.
Last edited by green granite; 27th Apr 2013 at 18:15.
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if you think thats bad, you should see how much fun you can have with these
Password Recovery Tools for Windows
and the way to cure your problem is to set Internet Explorer to clear its cache at every log off
control panel > internet options > delete browsing history on exit
you also have to click on the "delete" button and make sure "passwords" is among those selected.
The IE cache retains passwords unless you specifically delete them even if the remember box is unticked. Ticking the box just flags a cookie, but the IE cache can still retain the password elsewhere
Password Recovery Tools for Windows
and the way to cure your problem is to set Internet Explorer to clear its cache at every log off
control panel > internet options > delete browsing history on exit
you also have to click on the "delete" button and make sure "passwords" is among those selected.
The IE cache retains passwords unless you specifically delete them even if the remember box is unticked. Ticking the box just flags a cookie, but the IE cache can still retain the password elsewhere
Last edited by Milo Minderbinder; 27th Apr 2013 at 18:47.
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I am just trying this program which is free and during the installation routine finds all the existing 'remembered' passwords in your various browsers, asks if you want to import them and once imported asks if you want to delete them from where they were imported in order to make your machine secure.
