Are your Passwords and Web visits safe?

tjs · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:17 pm

Guys,

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

It turns out that some/most Browsers (not sure which) can be attracted to reveal your "Remember my Password" etc. details by way of MalWare!!!

There is a FREEWARE proggie that can:

Display what it (and, of course, anyone else) knows about you...

Offer to Delete this information (be sure you know what you are doing here).

I found some 'old' entries in my Registry that I was more than pleased to Delete!!!

It's here (and a TINY download):

Web site: http://www.nirsoft.net

Hope this may help some of you

tjs.

chef · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:20 pm

Luckily I strictly avoid IE.

Firefox and SeaMonkey are my faves. 8-)

tjs · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:24 pm

[_chef_] wrote:

Luckily I strictly avoid IE.

Firefox and SeaMonkey are my faves. 8-)

Hi Chef,

I'm not at all sure, but this new threat may also affilct FireFox et al

Like I say, I'm not sure this is the case...

Terry.

chef · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:25 pm

Yup, you are right.
Firefox is good, no doubt. But the popularity has its downsides.

tjs · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:44 pm

[_chef_] wrote:

Yup, you are right.
Firefox is good, no doubt. But the popularity has its downsides.

Chef,

How right can that be

It seems to follow that the more a program proves popular, the more it will become attacked!!

Terry.

nemesis01 · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:46 pm **Posts:** 64

Dumb people are worse than Malware IMO, their ignorance allows crap like password stealers, keyloggers etc to spread.

There should really be 2 internet's, one for dumb, ignorant people and one for all the nice people who can read.

chef · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:41 am

Who decides then who is "dumb" and who "nice"............... :?:

nemesis01 · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:46 pm **Posts:** 64

[_chef_] wrote:

Who decides then who is "dumb" and who "nice"............... :?:

The nice people decide, when they can access the internet with no worries but have to put up with dumb people using their access because their own access has been affected by nastiness.

Seriously, malware relies on dumb people to propogate.

tjs · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:06 am

nemesis01 wrote:

[_chef_] wrote:

Who decides then who is "dumb" and who "nice"............... :?:

The nice people decide, when they can access the internet with no worries but have to put up with dumb people using their access because their own access has been affected by nastiness.

Seriously, malware relies on dumb people to propogate.

Some of what you say is true nemesis01 but, and I like to consider myself as VERY security aware, the 'clever' people (however nasty - and not the 'script kiddies') keep finding new ways to attack systems so none of us can claim to be fully bullet-proof however hard we try...all we can do is try to stay on top of the situation.

tjs.

DarkJ5 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:14 pm **Posts:** 40

I use Opera.

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