8 Free Tools To Recover Your Lost Password Stored In Popular Applications

Loosing a password is an undesirable situation that anyone of us want to come across. However, it might appear accidentally that we can’t foresee. In that case, you might loose the password of your IM account stored by Yahoo Messenger or GTalk, the Firefox master password or the password of an POP3 email in Outlook Express. Here are tools that help you to recover passwords stored popular applications.

Network and System

Network Password Recovery will recover all network passwords stored on your system for the current logged-on user. When you connect to a network share on your LAN or to your .NET Passport account, Windows XP allows you to save your password in order to use it in each time that you connect the remote server.

VNCPassView is a small application that will recover the passwords stored by the VNC tool. VNCPassView can recover 2 of passwords: password stored for the current logged-on user, and password stored for the all users.

Cain & Abel is a password recovery application for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.

Firefox

PasswordFox was designed to be a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox browser. By default, PasswordFox displays the passwords stored in your current profile, but you can easily select to watch the passwords of any other Firefox profile.

FireMaster is the first ever built tool to recover the lost master password in Firefox which is used by Firefox to protect the stored sign-on information for all visited websites. FireMaster uses combination of state of art techniques such as dictionary, hybrid and brute force to recover the master password from the Firefox key database file.

IM tools

MessenPass reveals the passwords of the following instant messenger applications: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ Lite 4.x/5.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger, Trillian, Miranda, GAIM/Pidgin.

PassTool Password Recovery was designed to be a small tool that will recover your passwords on most popular web browsers, mail clients and IM's. Just select the program to be processed and the password will be showed.

Email client

Mail PassView is a small password-recovery program which shows the passwords and other account details for popular email clients such as Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, IncrediMail, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, Group Mail Free…