Location Of Saved Password

                                     

Hello friends, Today in this post I'll tell you how can you find your saved passwords stores in windows. In today's Internet driven world, all of us use one or other applications starting from browsers & instant messengers. Most of these applications store the sensitive information such as user name, password in their private location using proprietary methods. This prevents hassle of entering the credentials every time during the authentication.

  However it is important to know that this secret information if landed in other person's hands either    accidentally then it can easily put your privacy at risk.

                                     Password Secrets of Windows Applications

            
                 Here is the list of popular applications falling into various categories such as Internet browsers, Instant Messengers whose password secrets are exposed below.
                                   
                                         ====================  
                                             === FIRE FOX=======         
                                         ====================

The passwords are stored in one of the following filenames: signons.txt, signons2.txt, and signons3.txt (depends on Firefox version) The passwords stored in this sign-on file are encrypted using 3DES followed by BASE 64 encoding mechanism. Here is the default location of Firefox profile directory, 

 [Windows XP] 

C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<random_name>.default

[Windows Vista & Windows 7] 

C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<random_name>.default

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                                           ====================
                                              ==Google Chrome==
                                          ====================
                                             

Google Chrome stores all sign-on passwords in the sqlite database file called 'Web Data' within the profile directory. Here is the default location of Chrome profile directory.


[Windows XP]
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

[Windows Vista & Windows 7]
C:\Users\<user_name>\Appdata\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

                           

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