A large number of various online services, affiliate programs and payment systems require password authentication. Putting the same password on all services is not recommended. And that is understandable. It remains to decide what to do if you have these passwords, for example, from 5 to infinity. After all, remembering all this is simply unrealistic or requires considerable effort and super-memory. Fortunately, you can not resort to the services of third-party software (although there are many programs for storing passwords ) - even in a standard Internet Explorer browser there is a similar mechanism. Let's take a closer look at it to answer the question of where passwords are stored in this still quite popular browser, and most importantly, in what form. IT snobs will be outraged - "this is the last century, use this sieve, you must install a quality third-party browser!" But it should be noted, firstly, that in Windows you can configure a fairly high level of security using a good antivirus and an account with limited rights. And secondly, this is the easiest way to store, excluding the installation of additional software. The simpler the system, the more reliable it is.
The password keeper settings can be found on the "Content" tab ("Autofill" button) of the " Control Panel Browser Properties" icon. Passwords to sites (including those stored by the autocomplete method) and information for autocomplete (logins) can be stored there. Do not forget to check the box " Password request ". It is convenient to set the password by typing it in a notebook, and using the "cut" operation transfer it to the corresponding field of the open site. Internet Explorer asks if you want to save the password, you need to answer positively. Then, the next time you go to the authorization page and left-click, the system will prompt you to select a login, and the password field will be filled out independently. Despite the popular misconceptions about the insecure storage of passwords in Internet Explorer, they are encrypted, unlike the same Google Chrome. Of course, there are already numerous special utilities for decrypting them. The storage location is the Cookies directory in the user folder under which you saved the password, directly in Documents & Settings. This is the easiest and most reliable method of storage, at least it’s better, because some services offer storing passwords on the Internet, which is very unreliable. But what if you are comfortable using a different browser or want to improve usability? To do this, Opera and Firefox also have an autocomplete mechanism.
Let's see how you can configure password storage in the opera. Just open the menu, similar to the Windows launch, and select "General Settings" there. We are looking for a noticeable tab "Forms" and put a daw "Enable password management." As a result of these manipulations, the next time passwords are set, a special panel will appear at the top, offering to save the entered password in the Opera database. The answer to the question of where passwords are stored is simple, you can find all opera passwords in the wand.dat file located in the Application Data folder (located in the user profile) / IOpera / Opera. On Windows 7 / Vista, in the Appdata \ Roaming \ Opera \ Opera directory.
There is a password manager in Mozilla FIrefox. Saving passwords in this browser is done by default, their file is in the profile, so the answer to the question where passwords are stored is simple for this browser. It is desirable to keep a copy of the profile along with a backup of the system.
It should be noted that all of the above methods of storing classified information are relatively inconvenient. Still, you yourself have to invent a password each time, and this is fraught with the fact that attackers can easily pick it up by dictionary search. So if, by the nature of your professional activity, you have to save really a lot of personal data, the Roboform Lite utility, suitable for all common browsers and platforms (including Linux and Mac), will help, which will not allow attackers to understand where passwords are stored, and if they succeed to find out, they will not be able to use them (since they are encrypted).