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Where does WLM store passwords?
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RE: Where does WLM store passwords?
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It stores it in a part of the registry that you can't get to with Regedit.

You can access everything in RegEdit, thats kinda the point ^o)

There is a Secrets folder that is hidden in the registry.

I should hope not. AFAIK the only way to hide a reg key is to give it a name longer than 256 chars (I think)... Having hidden registry keys is a massive security threat as adware and spyware could easily hide it's own information from you.

The only over method I've heard of blocks the key being read via Win32 API, but not the native API, meaning Windows can still access it, but only Windows, so no risk...

If you could show me an article pointing to the existence of this key, it'd be much appreciated
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Where does WLM store passwords? - by callistra on 04-19-2009 at 10:31 PM
RE: Where does WLM store passwords? - by Lou on 04-19-2009 at 10:55 PM
RE: Where does WLM store passwords? - by Spunky on 04-20-2009 at 10:47 AM
RE: Where does WLM store passwords? - by Spunky on 04-20-2009 at 01:19 PM
RE: Where does WLM store passwords? - by col32n on 04-20-2009 at 02:10 PM
RE: Where does WLM store passwords? - by Spunky on 04-20-2009 at 04:29 PM


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