WebBrowserPassView — Take inventory of your stored passwords

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FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen By now, you probably have dozens — if not hundreds — of passwords saved in your Web browser. Those created by yo
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Steve S., abbodi86, fisher75

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Thanks for the good tip on WebBrowserPassView.

On my Windows 11 24H2 Home PC, I did need the password to open the ZIP file but I did not need to temporarily disable Windows Defender, which is the only antivirus I use.  WebBrowserPassView.exe ran with Windows Defender running.

Dell XPS17, 11th Gen Intel I7, 64gb RAM, Windows 11 Home 24H2

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Deanna McElveen

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If you DO disable it, don’t forget to re-enable your anti-malware software. At least some automatically re-enables after a time, but it never hurts to be sure.

-Noel

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I would replace the blurred passwords with black bars over the passwords immediately.

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/23/pixelating-text-not-a-good-idea/

This will only get easier with AI.

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Great for demonstrating why it is not wise to allow browsers to save your username/password info. I know several people I’ll be demonstrating this to. My preference has always been to block browsers from saving sign-ins.

KeePassXC is a good, feature-rich, standalone program that stores all my passwords locally in a password-protected file. The password is a long but easily remembered (and typed) password that exists only in my and my wife’s memory. It’s the only one we have to remember other than our computer sign-ins. It takes a bit of initial set-up for features like auto-type to work for each site. A slight bit of “friction” but it works well. I also have it set to auto-lock after 180 seconds of inactivity.

I synch the password-protected KeePassXC data file to our other computers via Dropbox but am currently  looking at Proton Drive instead.

Win10 Pro x64 22H2, Win10 Home 22H2, Linux Mint + a cat with 'tortitude'.

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dg1261

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Deanna McElveen wrote:

By now, you probably have dozens — if not hundreds — of passwords saved in your Web browser.

Well, actually no, nary a one. I’ve long used password managers (KeePass and Bitwarden), and have never had any passwords saved in any browser.

 

Steve S. wrote:

Great for demonstrating why it is not wise to allow browsers to save your username/password info.

My reaction, exactly.

Deanna McElveen wrote:

First, we’ll take a peek at all those saved passwords and make note of the weak ones that need to be changed.

Does this mean the utility can show your passwords unencrypted? So anybody with access to your computer can walk up and look at your passwords?

As mentioned, I have no passwords saved in my browsers so of course the utility does nothing on any of my systems, but perhaps somebody for whom this utility works can comment on the security aspects?

 

 

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