IE PassView - what's in your wallet?

review from ClifNotes, Sept 2006, permalink

Who? Someone just walked away from your PC with all your web passwords.

What? Internet Explorer is easy to hack into. In five minutes, I can sit down at a PC that's logged in, and walk away with every password stored by IE's AutoComplete features.

How? Just drop IE PassView onto my trusty thumb drive and now I'm ready to spy on all my friends. Actually, I'd never do this, but when it's this easy, the less morally sensitive people among us cannot resist the temptation.

Why? I don't want only the bad guys to know about stuff like this. Go ahead and download this tool for yourself. Just unzip it to a folder somewhere, then double click the iepv.exe file to run it. Prepare to find out how vulnerable you are to a passing "friend".

Nobody should be using AutoComplete to store their passwords. I recommend either the last freeware version of AiRoboform, or KeePass. If you password protect either one of those, you are much safer.


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Quote from the website
IE PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer browser. It supports the new Beta version of Internet Explorer 7.0, as well as older versions of Internet explorer, v4.0 - v6.0

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/internet_explorer_password.html

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