2 Free Apps To Reveal Asterisk-Hidden Passwords

By: Karan Goel | 2nd July 2010

A password is a secret word, that provides the access to a resource. A password, other than emails, social networking sites, also applies to credit cards, bank logins, security vaults etc.

For most of the applications and web logins, the password field text is hidden by asterisks (or stars aka ******) to prevent a hacker see your password over your shoulder. This is a very good measure to prevent security issues, but might be a pain in certain cases.

For instance, you might need to view your one of the auto-login password, remembered by a web browser like Firefox, Google Chrome etc.

So, here are 2 best Free software to reveal and uncover Asterisk-Hidden Passwords

Asterisk Key

Asterisk Key uncovers hidden passwords on password dialog boxes and web pages. It provides the State of the art password recovery engine – all passwords are recovered instantly. Best of all, it’s totally free. It supports Multilingual passwords and Full install/uninstall support is provided.

Asterisk Logger

Applications, like CuteFTP, CoffeeCup Free FTP, Outlook Express, and others, allows you to type a password for using it in the application. The typed password is not displayed on the screen, and instead of the real password, you see a sequence of asterisk (‘****’) characters. Asterisk Logger can reveal the passwords stored behind the asterisks in standard password text-boxes.

Do let us know which software you use in your system to reveal Asterisk password?