Almost always, to maintain privacy when entering passwords, the corresponding programs instead of the entered characters display unreadable characters - "asterisks". However, if you see these very asterisks in the password entry field, this does not mean that the password is actually placed in this field. Often, such asterisks do not hide anything, but are purely informational - to let you know that when you enter the password, it will be hidden from prying eyes.
Instructions
Step 1
Give up the intention of decrypting asterisks in web pages received from the server. In the vast majority of cases, passwords are not transmitted by the server to the user's browser. You can verify this by opening the source code of the page received by your web browser - it will not have a password either in clear text or encrypted. Passwords are transmitted via the Internet only in one direction - from the browser to the server.
Step 2
Use any specialized application that can read passwords in open windows of other programs. There are no such tools in the service components of the operating system. It would be strange if the decryption program were bundled with password security programs. The program you need is not difficult to find on the Internet - for example, it can be Pass Checker. The program consists of six files (including the help file) with a total weight of only 296 kilobytes and does not require installation. Once the files have been saved to your hard drive or removable media, you can launch it by double-clicking the Password.exe file.
Step 3
Open the program whose asterisks are of interest to you. Then place the Pass Checker window over the open program and with the left mouse button drag the skull image onto the field with the password hidden by asterisks. This field will be highlighted with a blinking frame, and in the Pass Checker window opposite the window text, the decoder will place the password in its unencrypted form. This password can be copied and used in any way you want.
Step 4
Click the Help button in the bottom row of buttons if you want to use more advanced password decryption methods. In addition to the simplest one described in the previous step, the program provides two more options. Despite the English-language interface, the Pass Checker Help is written in Russian, so there will be no problems with translation.
