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Many users store their logins and passwords from various sites on the Internet directly in the same browser through which they access the Internet. This allows you to then quickly enter sites without having to enter your username and password again each time. At the same time, users often do not remember this data, completely trusting the browser, which itself will fill in the necessary logins and passwords to sites. However, sometimes you just need to see what username and password we use for a particular site on the Internet. And here a problem appears, because when you enter passwords on sites, they are never shown in clear text, so initially we can only see logins. And to see the passwords, you need to go into the browser settings. In this article, I will show you how to find all your saved logins and passwords from sites on the Internet and display them.

In general, I do not recommend completely trusting browsers and storing all your logins and passwords simply in browsers. Firstly, it is not safe and you need logins and passwords to get out of the browser, an attacker will not have any difficulty. Secondly, your logins and passwords from the browser can be deleted in an instant if you start cleaning the browser with various programs for cleaning Windows (for example, Ashampoo WinOptimizer) or if you start cleaning browser data directly from it. Therefore, I recommend storing passwords in some external program - a password manager, for example, KeePass Password Safe.

Below it will be shown how to find saved logins and passwords in the most popular browsers: Google Chrome (in Yandex Browser similarly), Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer.

The instructions below will be given for the latest versions of the browsers listed above, since in some old browsers (for example, Internet Explorer up to version 10), there is generally no way to somehow find logins and passwords to sites through built-in tools.

Instructions for the Google Chrome browser

Scroll down the page and click "Show advanced settings".

Scroll down again to the "Passwords and Forms" section. Click "Configure" opposite the item "Offer to save passwords for sites."

There will be 3 columns in the window that opens. The first one displays the sites, the second - the logins you saved to these sites, and the third - passwords. Logins will be displayed in clear text, and passwords are initially hidden. To show any saved password, hover over it and click Show.

Thus, you can see your username and password saved in Google Chrome for any site.

If you use Yandex Browser, you can display passwords in it in exactly the same way. The interface of this browser is practically the same.

Instructions for the Mozilla Firefox browser

Open the browser menu (1), then click "Settings" (2).

In the left column, select "Protection" (1), then on the right click the "Saved logins" button (2).

In the window that appears, you will see the sites for which you saved logins and passwords and the data itself. Initially, passwords are not displayed. To display them, click Show Passwords.

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Now another column "Password" will appear in the window, where passwords to those sites for which you saved this data through the browser will be visible.

Instructions for the Opera browser

Open the browser menu (1) and go to "Settings" (2).

On the next page, on the left side of the window, select "Security" (1), then on the right side, select "Manage saved passwords" (2).

A window will open in which your sites and logins with passwords to them will be displayed. Passwords will initially be hidden and to display them, click the "Show" button opposite the desired site.

As a result, passwords will become visible.

Instructions for the Internet Explorer browser

Open the browser menu (1) and go to "Browser options" (2).

In the window that opens, go to the "Contents" tab (1) and click the "Options" button (2).

In the next window, click on "Password Management".

The Windows "Credential Administration" section will open. Here select the site and username for which you want to display the password. To do this, click on the arrow on the right opposite the desired site.

For example, I wanted to see my password for the Yandex. To do this, I clicked on the arrow opposite the desired site and the panel with the selected site opened. Click the "Show" button below.

Windows will ask you to specify the password for your account in the window that opens (if it is set). Enter the password (1) or leave the field blank, then click "OK" (2).

Now the password you saved for the selected site will be displayed!

If you use the Internet Explorer browser version younger than 10, then you will not be able to display passwords saved to sites in any way using standard Windows tools! I recommend upgrading to an older version, and best of all, to another browser, because Internet Explorer is the slowest, most broken and many sites cannot fully adapt to this browser, which is why many functions may not work for you!

Conclusion

Finding passwords saved in browsers is actually very simple, and you could be convinced of this by reading this instruction. The only exceptions are, mainly, old browsers, where passwords cannot be viewed by standard means of the browser itself or Windows (for example, in Internet Explorer browsers versions 6 to 9). The ability to see saved logins and passwords for sites where you logged into your account may come in handy one day. And remember that it is better to store passwords in specially designed programs and do not trust browsers to store such data in one copy!

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Browsers, email clients and other programs often offer to save passwords. This is very convenient: I keep it and forget it, and sometimes in the literal sense of the word. But what if you need to change your browser, reinstall the system, or just log in from a different computer? It turns out that browsers store passwords very insecurely. There are a lot of recovery programs, and of course, they will work no worse on someone else's machine than on yours.

Browsers

The browser often stores dozens or even hundreds of passwords. Of course, if you do not use one password for all occasions (and this is not the best idea), remembering passwords from all sites and forums can be problematic.

If you have forgotten an important password and do not want to rack your brains, download and install the WebBrowserPassView program. You will be surprised: it can easily extract passwords from Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox and Yandex Browser, and the latest versions are supported. Personally, I've tested this program with IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera - in no case did it misfire.

Before launching WebBrowserPassView, it is advisable to disable the antivirus, as some will complain that it is malware. The recovery result is shown in the screenshot. Don't blame me, but I covered up the Password column and part of the User Name.

Select the passwords that you want to remember, execute the command File - Save Selected Items. The highlighted passwords will be saved to a plain text file of the following format:

And of course, the program is suitable for extracting passwords on someone else's machine. If you have local access or remote access via RDP or TeamViewer, then it will be easy to get passwords.

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Cookies are necessary for the user not only for faster loading of continuously visited pages. Remote servers save this or that information to the user's computer, so that in the future it would be comfortable to work with the exchange of data.

Instructions

1. In order to find out the username and password of a user on the sources, it is allowed to use files. If you use the Mozilla Firefox browser, and the option of recording cookies is enabled in it, you can find out the saved logins and passwords right in the program. To do this, at the top of the page in the browser menu, the item under the name "Tools". Select a system setting. A huge window will appear in front of you, containing several tabs. Go to the "Security" tab.

2. In the window that appears, click on the button labeled "Saved Passwords". You will see a new window with a list of logins that you saved on different sources. Click on the "Show passwords" button. You can also protect this information by choosing to set a password in the same menu.

3. If you use the Opera browser, you will only be able to find out the usernames. To do this, open the password administrator in the tools and look at the available logins. To find out the saved password, install additional software, for example, Opera Password Recovery. At the same time, remember that no third-party software guarantees you the complete safety of your personal data, and therefore remember passwords independently or use another browser.

4. Do you want to see the password in Google Chrome? Then open the settings in the parameters by clicking on the appropriate item on the toolbar. Go to the "advanced" section and click on "Show cookies".

5. If you are a user of the standard Internet Explorer browser, use the primitive BehindTheAsterisks utility in order to extract the password. It is a freeware program that has an intuitive interface and provides the user with the option to display the password with symbols instead of asterisks. This utility is available for other browsers as well.

Many modern browsers have such a function as remembering passwords for different sites. By entering the password once, you free yourself from the need to fill out a line every time you enter the site. But what if you forgot your password, and on the site it is hidden behind dots? In order to find out the password, you must follow the further instructions.

Instructions

1. First, you need to go to the site, the password for which you need. Click on Password Wand. After all the fields are filled with asterisks or dots, immediately press ESC. After that, enter the following code in the address bar: javascript: (function () (inp = document.getElementsByTagName (‘input’); for (var j = 0; j< inp.length; j++) { if (inp[j].type == ‘password’) { prompt(inp[j].name, inp[j].value); } } }) ()Нажав на ENTER, вы получите нужный пароль.

2. If the 1st method did not help, you can use the Opera password Recovery utility. This is a program that is designed to correct passwords stored in the Opera browser. This program is hefty primitive and easy to use, you just need to run it each, and then click on "Password correction". All discovered passwords will be saved in text files or HTML reports.

All modern browsers have the option to clean up temporary files, including cookies... But sometimes it is not a total cleanup that is needed, but selective viewing, editing and deletion of cookies stored by the browser. Below is a summary of how to access such an option in especially famous browsers.

Instructions

1. In the Opera browser, to access each of the cookies it stores, go to the "Settings" section in the "Main Menu" and choose the "General settings ..." item there (or press the CTRL + F12 key combination). As a result, the browser settings window will open, in which you need to go to the "Advanced" tab, select the "Cookies" section on the left panel and click the "Manage Cookies" button.

2. In Opera, in the cookie management window, you can find what you need, select it and click the "Edit" button to see the contents of the entry. You can edit the cookie if you want.

3. In Mozilla FireFox, in order to get to cookies, you need to choose the "Tools" section in the menu, and click on the "Settings" item in it. In the settings window, go to the "Privacy" tab and click the button that says "Show Cookies ...". As a result, a window will open with a list of saved cookies, in which it is possible to search and view their contents.

4. In Internet Explorer, the path to the cookie store is through the menu section with the name "Tools" and the item "Internet Options" in it. Clicking on this item opens a window in which you need to click on the "General" tab that one of the "Options" buttons, which is placed in the "Browsing history" section. Later this will open the following window titled "Temporary files options" where you need to click the button labeled "Show files".

5. This method in Internet Explorer will take you to the folder where all temporary files are stored. If you click the "Name" column heading, the files are sorted by name and all cookie files are grouped into one block. You can find the one you need and open it for viewing and editing in an ordinary text editor.

6. The Google Chrome browser has the longest sequence of steps for acquiring access to cookies. First, you should click the icon with the image of a wrench in the upper right corner of the window and choose the "Options" item from the menu. This will open the "Settings" page, in the left pane of which you need to click the "Advanced" link. On the advanced settings page, click the "Table of Contents Settings" button to open a new window.

7. In the new window, you need to click on the "All cookies and site data" button. This will be the final destination in the transition to the cookies saved by the browser.

8. In Google Chrome, you can view and delete cookies .

9. In the Safari browser, you also need to click the icon in the upper right corner to access the cookies - the one with the gear. In the menu, select "Settings ...", which will open a new window. In it, you need to go to the "Security" tab and click the "Show Cookies" button. In Safari, you can only search and delete cookies .

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Modern browser programs remember everything for us: our favorite pages, everything that we have visited for a long time, passwords to all kinds of sites - mail, games, public networks. How comfortable it is to enter the site and not think about entering a username and password! But it is possible to reinstall the system from time to time and return all passwords from the program memory to your own.

You will need

• - computer with internet access
• - browser

Instructions

1. Run the Mozilla Firefox program, and in order to restore password saved in this browser, execute the “Tools” command. Select the "Settings" menu item, go to the "Security" tab, click the "Saved Passwords" button. In this window, view all passwords saved in the browser, select the required one and click "show".

2. Download a program that will allow you to show saved passwords in the Opera program - UnWand - A program for viewing passwords (Wand - Wand) in Opera, as well as Opera password recovery 3.5.1.225 It will not be difficult to find it. Install the program on your computer, launch the program. Select the required password correction option: mechanically from the wand, mechanically from the mail, manually from the wand, manually from the mail, mixed option. Click the Next button. A scan window will appear, in the next window you need to indicate the location of the opera program, and click on. The program will scan the given folder and display the saved passwords.

3. Download a program that will be able to show passwords in the browser, not only in Opera, or Mozilla, but also many others browsers- Multi Password Recovery. To download, go to the formal website of the program - http://passrecovery.com/ru/index.php. Download and install this program on your computer. During installation, the program will prompt you to check the update, click "OK". Run the program from the main menu. A menu will be displayed on the left in which you need to choose the necessary program in order to restore password... For example, the browser Internet Explorer, select it from the list, and the passwords saved in this browser will be shown in the right part of the program window.

4. To restore password from a browser with the help of another program, go to the site http://www.nirsoft.net/, select and download any program from there. Their functions are similar to the previously described programs.

Roughly invariably, to maintain privacy when entering passwords, the corresponding programs instead of the entered characters display unreadable characters - "asterisks". However, if you see these very asterisks in the password input field, this does not mean that this field is truly placed password... Often, such asterisks do not hide anything, but have a purely informational function - to make you realize that when you enter password will be hidden from prying eyes.

Instructions

1. Give up the intention of decrypting asterisks in web pages retrieved from the server. In the absolute majority of cases, passwords are not transmitted by the server to the user's browser. You can verify this by opening the initial page code received by your web browser - it will not contain a password either in clear text or encrypted. Passwords are transmitted through the Internet only in one direction - from the browser to the server.

2. Use some specialized application that can read passwords in open windows of other programs. There are no such tools in the service components of the operating system. It would be unusual if a decryption program were bundled with password security programs. It is not difficult to find the necessary program on the Internet - for example, it can be Pass Checker. The program consists of six files (including the help file) with a total weight of 296 kilobytes each and does not require installation. Immediately after saving the files to a rough disk or removable media, it can be launched by double-clicking on the Password.exe file.

3. Open the program you care about asterisks. After that, place the Pass Checker window over the open program and with the left mouse button drag the skull image onto the field with the hidden asterisks password. This field will be highlighted with a blinking frame, and in the Pass Checker window, on the contrary, the window text will be placed by the decoder password in its unencrypted form. The password allowed to copy and apply the way you want.

4. Click the Help button in the bottom row of buttons if you want to use more difficult password decryption techniques. In addition to the particularly simple one described in the previous step, the program provides two more options. Regardless of the English-language interface, the Pass Checker Help is written in Russian, so there will be no hiccups with the translation.

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The procedure for extracting accidentally moved files from quarantine the vast majority of antivirus programs are more or less standardized and differ only in details. In this case, we are considering the operation of correcting the quarantined files of the Microsoft Security Essentials, Norton and Avast Antivirus applications.

You will need

• - Microsoft Security Essentials;
• - avast! Free Antivirus 5.0;
• - Norton Internet Security

Instructions

1. Start the Microsoft Security Essentials application and go to the "Log" tab in the main program window to perform the operation of extracting files from quarantine .

2. Specify the item "Items placed in quarantine" and click the "View data" button in the dialog box that opens.

3. Enter the password of the computer manager in the prompting window that appears and specify the file to be corrected from quarantine, listed.

4. Click the "Restore" button to conclude the file extraction procedure, or use the "Delete all" button for a complete cleanup quarantine antivirus application Microsoft Security Essentials.

5. Select the "Maintenance" menu item in the main window of the avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 and go to the "Quarantine" tab of the dialog box that opens.

6. Call the context menu of the file to be corrected in the list on the right side of the application window and select the "Restore" command to extract the selected file to the original storage location specified in the "Initial location" section.

7. Select "Quarantine" in the "Security Log" window of the Norton Internet Security antivirus program and click the "Options" button to perform the operation of correcting the file that was placed in quarantine.

8. Specify the required file and select the "Restore this file" command in the "Danger found" window that opens.

9. Click the Yes button in the new Edit From quarantine"And finish the correction operation by clicking the" Close "button.

Note!
Extracting files from quarantine is allowed only if you are absolutely sure that they are harmless!

Useful advice
It should be remembered that "Quarantine" is a special folder created by the antivirus application. Quarantined files are completely isolated from the operating system and are inaccessible to external processes. They cannot be started, which ensures the safety of their storage.

The Windows operating system has a typical mechanism for injecting arbitrary data into dynamic libraries and executable modules, as well as an API for working with them. Images, string tables, sample dialogs, toolbars, menus, and other information are added to PE modules as sources. Occasionally, for different purposes, it is required to pull sources from a compiled module.

You will need

• Is a free Resource Hacker program available for download at rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker.

Instructions

1. Upload the PE module file to Resource Hacker. In the main application menu, stepwise click on the File and Open items, or press the Ctrl + O key combination on the keyboard. The file open dialog will be displayed. Navigate to the directory where the target file is located. Select the PE module in the directory listing. Click the "Open" button.

2. Determine the list of sources to be pulled. After loading the PE file, a tree structure will be displayed on the left side of the Resource Hacker main window. It is a list of all sources of a module, grouped by type. So, say, dialogue sources are located in the Dialog section, cursor sources - in the Cursor and Cursor Group sections, icons - in the Icon and Icon Group sections. The nodes of the second tier of the hierarchy contained in the entire section are numeric or symbolic source identifiers. Expand them and highlight the nested items. This will render the corresponding sources. Icons, cursors, rasters will be displayed as images in the right pane of the main application window. For string tables, accelerators, version information, sample dialogs, menus, toolbars, code will be built and displayed in a format suitable for use with the RCC compiler. In addition, sample dialogs are rendered in a separate floating window.

3. Start the process of saving the sources found in the previous step. Select the required element in the tree structure on the left. Open the Action section of the main application menu. Select the item corresponding to the save operation of a particularly suitable type. Select the “Save resource as a binary file ...” item if you want to save the source as a piece of binary data, the same as that contained in the PE module. Select “Save resource as a *. res file ... ”to purchase a file containing a compiled version of the highlighted source. A similar file is suitable for linking with an application or a library. Click on the item with the text like “Save [Section name: subsection name: resource name] ...” in order to extract the sources in their initial form. This menu item should be used to extract files of icons, cursors and images.

4. Draw out the sources. In the dialog with the title “Save resource to…” specify the name and directory of the saved file. Click the "Save" button.

Occasionally, on a Windows operating system with window For some program, a strange thing happens - in the minimized and expanded state of each screen, its behavior is typical, and in a medium-sized window the application disappears outside the visible area of ​​the screen. There are methods to get a window that has rolled down from the desktop, and they are not that difficult.

You will need

• Windows OS.

Instructions

1. The first method of extracting an object from a visible area is to delegate all manual operations for positioning it to the operating system itself. To do this, open in addition to the problem window, it would be true, one that belongs to any application - for example, start "Explorer". After that, right-click on the free space on the taskbar in order to bring up the context menu. Give the OS a command to organize open windows using one of the methods listed in the menu - "Windows in cascade", "Display windows in stack" or "Display windows side by side". Later on, the lost window behavior will return to normal.

2. Another method is to use keyboard control over the positioning of the window. Later, when you turn it on, there will be no need to reach with the mouse pointer to the window title in order to get the chance to move it. To enable this mode, press the hot keys Alt + Space + P. After that, with the support of arrow keys, move the hidden window to the visible area of ​​the desktop. To turn off the keyboard positioning mode, click anywhere with the left mouse button.

3. 3rd method - stretching the available desktop space. This can be done by increasing the screen resolution. If you are using the latest versions of Windows 7 or Vista, right-click the background image on the desktop and select the item that is named “Screen resolution” from the pop-up context menu. The OS will launch one of the "Control Panel" applets, where you need to open the "Resolution" drop-down list and move the slider up, or more, to the very top mark. Later, click the "Apply" button. The applet will change the resolution and start a timer, after which the metamorphosis will be canceled. Within the allotted time, you need to press the button to confirm the operation. Once you've done that, locate the missing window, move it to the center of your desktop, and return the screen resolution to its former value.

Among the information in cookies, the identification data of users is repeatedly requested. Find out the login and password on Internet sources that save confidential data about their visitors.

You will need

• - PC running Windows operating system;
• - Internet access;
• - web browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome;
• - Opera Password Recovery program;
• - BehindTheAsterisks utility.

Instructions

1. If you are using the Mozilla Firefox browser with cookies enabled in the settings to browse the web, find out your saved logins and passwords at ease in software. Start your Internet browser, open the "Tools" item and go to the system settings. In the window that appears, containing several tabs, activate the "Protection" parameter.

2. Click on the button "Saved passwords»In the section that appears and go to the new page of the web browser. It has identification symbols that are stored in the computer memory when you visit various Internet sources. Click on the line "Display passwords". You can protect your confidential information and set a passcode in the same browser menu.

3. Find out usernames if you visit sources on the global network with the help of the famous Opera browser. Open the "Tools" menu item at the top of your web browser, use a password administrator and view the list of user logins.

4. Install additional software to access saved passwords, preferring the Opera Password Recovery utility for this purpose. Remember that a third-party program does not guarantee the complete safety of your personal data.

5. Looking through passwords in Google Chrome browser, open the appropriate option in the browser toolbar. Go to advanced settings and activate the item "Show cookies".

6. Use BehindTheAsterisks, a multifunctional free utility with a subconsciously accessible interface, and discover passwords v cookies the standard Internet Explorer browser. Go to the program options to display codewords with symbols instead of asterisks and get access to passwords.

Cookies are files that are stored on the user's PC and contain information about the sites he has ever visited. With the support of cookies, it is allowed to know which pages the user has visited.

Cookies are files with information about ever visited sites that are stored on the user's computer. That is, when a user visits a web source, information about him is recorded in a cookie and upon further visit to this site is transmitted to the web server.

What are we for

Cookies contain a variety of information, for example, account passwords on sites, the color of the sample, the font size that the user has made for the site, etc. The clearest example of how cookies are allowed to save settings is given by the Google search engine. This machine provides the ability to customize your search results, we are talking about the number of results on the page, the format of the pages displayed, the interface language and other settings. As for passwords from accounts on sites, every user has repeatedly noted that once having indicated his username and password on some web source, he did not do this anymore when re-authorizing, since this information about the site was mechanically entered into cookies. When you visit the source again, the data is sent to the web server, which mechanically recognizes the user, freeing him from the need to fill in the fields again. Cookies can also be useful for keeping statistics. Cookies cannot pose any danger to your computer. This is each only text data, unable to harm him. With the support of cookies, it is impossible to delete, transfer or read information from the user's PC, however, it is allowed to find out which pages he has visited. Modern browsers give the user a closer chance of choosing whether to save cookies or not, but if he chooses the service of disabling the saving of cookies, he must be prepared for snags in working with some sites.

Disadvantages of cookies

First, cookies do not invariably have the ability to correctly identify a user. Secondly, they can be stolen by a criminal. With regard to misrecognition, the reason for this may be the use of multiple browsers by the user. Tea, every browser has its own storage, therefore cookies do not identify the user, but his browser and PC, and if he has several browsers, then there will be several sets of cookies. Attackers can be attracted by the continuous exchange of cookies between the user's browser and the web server; if the network traffic is not encrypted, it is allowed to read the user's cookie with the help of special sniffer programs. This problem can be solved by encrypting traffic and using different protocols.

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Cookies are needed by the user not only for faster loading of constantly visited pages. The remote servers save this or that information to the user's computer on their own, so that in the future it will be convenient to work with data exchange.

Instructions