Saturday, June 14, 2008

View Passwords Stored by Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Google Talk Messengers & Email Clients!

We are covering few small utilities by NirSoft which will expose lack of security in worlds top browser (as per stats) Internet Explorer, famous email client Outlook Express and my favorite GoogleTalk, Pidgin.

Google Talk,  Pidgin  & Live Messenger Password

In total four programs tested which are presented below. All these utilities are free, small zip files (around 30-60KB in size) and requires no installation. Just download, unzip and run! Also these are only for Windows Platform (tested on Windows XP).

Please note each of following utility claimed to work with many programs. Program names highlighted in bold are tested successfully by us. We could not test rest of the programs due to technical limitations.

#1. PSPV (Protected Storage Password Viewer)

This utility can show passwords from following programs:

  • Internet Explorer 6.0
  • Outlook Express
  • MSN Explore

Some antivirus notably Quick-Heal & McAfee detects pspv as its popularity grew over the time. I am using this for more than a year. In earlier days it never got caught! ;-)

PSPV Links: Download | Homepage

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