Online password recovery

[Primarygun]

Recently, I lost my password for a web site. Only the IE saved the password for me but not my firefox.

Are there any softwares allowing me to check my password recorded just like I can check mine in firefox?

Thanks

[RyanJ]

Recently' date=' I lost my password for a web site. Only the IE saved the password for me but not my firefox.

Are there any softwares allowing me to check my password recorded just like I can check mine in firefox?

Thanks[/quote']

 

Not for IE I am afraid

 

You'll probably have to see if you can recover your password through the website...

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

[Aeternus]

If this is a non SSL site/page (ie not HTTPS), you might be able to find it out by using a Packet Sniffer such as Ethereal and monitoring the packets sent as you submit the password in IE.

 

Also, if you look in the page source a bit, you can probably get the value using a bit of javascript in the URL bar, for instance if the password input has an id (say "passwordInput1" from <input type="password" id="passwordInput1" name="someName" />) you can use "javascript:alert(document.getElementById("passwordInput1").value);" in the url bar to have the password shown to you in an alert/dialog box.

 

If the password field doesn't have an Id, you can do the same thing but it gets a little harder, something along the lines of "javascript:alert(document.forms[$x].$inputName.value);" where $x is which form it is in the page (ie if it is the second form in the source, you want $x to be 1 (as it starts at 0)), and $inputName is the input fields name (ie with <input name="password1" type="password" /> the $inputName would be password1 ).

 

You might get some security warning in IE about using active content, you should be able to allow it for this site (clicking the yellow bar at the top) and then when you've found the password, disallow it again (I don't use IE normally so...).

 

This is intended to help you retrieve your OWN passwords, and I am assuming you are telling the truth. I do not condone using this to find for instance the passwords of family members or others on a shared or public computer.

[Primarygun]

I could find the first several digit of my password by a IE recovery.

However, the software is subject to the trial, so I couldn't find the entire one.

Do you know any software which offers full functions for 1 day , or else instead of partial functions?

I doubt whether the password is in my regedit?

[Edit again:]

Thanks everyone, I downloaded the Internet Password Recovery Toolbox and found my password.