SniffPass captures email and FTP passwords from network traffic

Saving email passwords in the client is quick, easy and convenient -- unless you need to recreate the account somewhere else and can’t remember the details. Most clients have specialist password recovery tools which can help. Mail PassView, for example, accesses a local Outlook installation to display its stored account details. But if nothing else works for you, NirSoft’s SniffPass can recover passwords for any program by capturing its network traffic: IMAP4, SMTP, FTP and HTTP (basic authentication) are supported. The program is compact, even by NirSoft standards (sub 50KB), and there’s no installation required -- unzip it and go.… [Continue Reading]