Re: Cannot Remove AutoComplete Informations

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<lylefairfield@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have installed IE 7. It works well.

To confirm old passwords I used a freeware program called Nucleus
Kernel Internet Explorer Password Recovery (NKIEPR). I was surprised
when it showed me some passwords which were several years old.
I decided to start again. In IE7 I followed Tools->Internet
Options->General->Delete and deleted Form Data and Passwords.

I checked NKIEPR again. It still showed the old passwords. I examined
my registry and did several file searches to see if I could find
something similar or suspicious. I could not.


What tool are you using to do that? E.g. RegEdit can't find binary strings
which is how strings are often represented, e.g. in order to save doublebyte
characters such as Unicode. More significantly, in the case of passwords,
however, is that they are usually encrypted anyway, so even if you could
search for strings reliably, you would be unlikely to find passwords in clear
text.

One thing that might give you a clue about where the program is finding
them, at least it works to some extent with another AutoComplete data
saver called PSPV (by NirSoft), would be to run RegMon (from SysInternals)
while the password saver was running. That can expose otherwise hidden
keys and values.

BTW there is an update to PSPV for IE7 as apparently some of the
implementation for storing and retrieving password data has changed:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/internet_explorer_password.html


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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