Almost all browsers have a function to remember entered logins and passwords. On the one hand, it’s very convenient: you log in to VKontakte once, allow the browser to “remember” your credentials, and that’s it, you open the site and immediately get to your personal page. But on the other hand, this setting reduces the level of security: the VKontakte login and password saved in the web browser can be stolen either by hackers, through a network attack, or by other users in the absence of the PC owner (they will only need to look into the settings ).
Of course, dear reader, the choice is yours, but is it worth risking your account for short-term convenience? Agree, it’s still better to spend a few minutes authorizing when logging into VKontakte than to be nervous, worry and restore access to a hacked account.
This article will help you delete a saved VK password and tell you how to cancel saving credentials in all popular browsers.
Google Chrome
If you are an active user of social networks, then you may be interested in learning how to delete a saved password in Contact, because sometimes we do not need the data that we use to log into a particular site to be saved in the browser.
For example, you forgot your device at home, but you urgently need to log into your VK page and arrange a meeting with a friend. Alternatively, a person can go to a computer club and use another device. But if you do not check the checkbox next to the “Someone else’s computer” option, then the login and password will be saved in the web browser. As a result, any “user” will be able to open your page on the social network using the device after you.
That's why you need to know how to get rid of passwords saved in your browser. This article will discuss the three most popular web browsers: Yandex, Chrome and Opera.
Internet Explorer
1. Open the main menu of your web browser (click the gear icon).
3. Go to "Contents".
4. Click “Options”.
5. Click the mouse to uncheck the “forms” and “usernames…” items.
6. Click “Delete log...”.
7. Click on the “Passwords” object in the list.
8. Select "Delete".
Check the boxes next to the “passwords” and “autofill data” objects and click “Clear history.”
Good luck setting up your browsers and having a safe time on the VKontakte social network!
Any browser has a feature that allows you to save the credentials that you use to log into sites (see). This makes life much easier for users. The next time you log in, the data will be automatically entered into the form.
But at the same time, this is a serious security threat. Any user who has access to your computer can access your page using the saved data (see).
Let me show you how to make sure that the VK password is not saved in the browser
.
How to delete a saved password in Yandex Browser
Of course, Yandex.Browser is rightfully considered one of the most popular web browsers today. Made on the same engine as Google Chrome, it also has its advantages. However, now we will not talk about the merits of this browser, but about how to delete a saved password in “Contact” or login data for any other site while working in this web browser.
So, in the right corner, at the top, find a button with three horizontal stripes. By clicking on it, go to the “Settings” section, then scroll down the page and go to additional settings by clicking the corresponding button. Find the “Passwords and Autofill” subsection and click “Manage Passwords”. A window will open where you can select and delete data from any site on which you are registered.
How to delete saved passwords in Opera
Once you have learned how to delete a saved password in Contact in Yandex (browser), we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the steps that need to be performed to perform the same operation in Opera.
So, launch the Opera web browser and open the menu by clicking the button with the browser logo in the upper left corner. In the next step, refer to the “Settings” option and then to the “Security” section. Here you are interested in the “Manage saved passwords” button. Click it, and in the window that appears you will see a list of sites and saved passwords that can be deleted by clicking on the cross.
In addition, you have the opportunity to view the password for a particular resource on which you are registered. To do this, click “Show” opposite the site for which you want to find out the data.
Opera
- Windows : browser menu → “Settings” → “Security” → “Passwords” → “Show all passwords”.
- macOS : Opera → “Settings” → “Security” → “Passwords” → “Show all passwords”.
- Android : Viewing passwords is not available.
- iOS : Viewing passwords is not available.
How to remove passwords in Chrome
If you use the Google Chrome web browser, then in order to get rid of saved passwords, you need to perform almost the same steps as in the case of Yandex.Browser.
To get started, go to Chrome settings and click on the “Show advanced settings” link. In the “Passwords and Forms” section, click the “Customize” button, which is located next to the “Offer to save passwords for sites” item. You already know how to delete a saved password in Contact in the Opera and Yandex browsers, so you shouldn’t have any problems with Chrome.
How to prevent VK password from being saved
In fact, you can simply close the window each time, prompting you to save the data. But it's inconvenient.
This feature can be disabled. Let's do this using the Mozilla Firefox browser as an example. Open the menu and go to settings.
Now open the “Protection” tab, and uncheck the box next to “Remember logins for sites”.
How to delete a phone number in a contact when logging into Google Chrome and Opera?
Getting rid of a saved VK login is quite simple. You should clear the data from your browser cache.
- If you prefer Google Chrome or Opera, developed on the basis of Chromium, then use the keys simultaneously: CTRL, SHIFT, DELETE.
- A window will appear on the screen. In it, mark the items that require deletion: “Passwords” and “Cookies”.
In just a few seconds the data will be deleted.
How to check whether the manipulations performed gave the expected result or not?
Now you know how to delete your VK login when logging in. If it is accidentally saved again, it will not be difficult to deal with the problem.
How to remove a saved VKontakte password in the Yandex browser?
Do you have to change your location often? Just don’t like leaving your login details for the VK social network saved in the Yandex browser? You must remember to delete them after your next Internet session. It doesn’t matter what dictated the desire to remove personal information from the browser’s memory, the main thing is to know how to carry out your plans quickly and without unnecessary difficulties.
The browser has its own settings system. Is it difficult to figure out where logins and passwords are stored? Using the instructions, you can easily remove the saved password from the Yandex browser, and it will no longer appear when you log into VKontakte.
- Go to “Settings”.
- Select the “Passwords and Autofill” tab.
- Click "Manage Passwords".
- You will see saved passwords from all Internet resources.
- To delete, move your mouse cursor over the cross and click it.
Five simple manipulations and the information will completely disappear from the computer’s memory.
It is known how to delete a saved password in VK when logging in. But the “Auto-save” function is enabled in the settings; it will be re-saved during a new session.
Safari
- macOS : Safari → Settings → Passwords.
- iOS : system settings → “Accounts and passwords” → “Passwords for programs and sites.”
- Windows : browser menu → “Options” → “View additional options.” Settings" → "Privacy and Services" → "Password Management".
- Android : browser menu → Settings → Basic → Save passwords.
How to avoid problems in the future?
Don’t want to delete your VK login information every time? Turn off AutoSave.
Go to settings. Scroll to the very bottom of the page until you see the “Advanced Settings” button. Click on it.
In the “Autofill Passwords” section, uncheck the “Save passwords” checkbox.
Now you can safely use the Yandex browser on your computer without worrying about the security of your VK profile. Even if the phone number is saved in the authorization form, no one will be able to log into the account without a password.
Who knows how this might end. Especially if you are used to discussing important matters during correspondence on social networks.
Surely it has happened to everyone to forget their password for an email or an account on any social network. Many Internet resources that provide an authentication procedure offer the user in such a situation the opportunity to recover a forgotten password. This could be a security question specified during registration, an SMS message sent to a phone number, etc.
However, cases cannot be ruled out when the phone number or the same e-mail is lost. Then, for example, having forgotten the password for a VKontakte account, the user will not be able to send a special code by message due to the fact that the subscriber number has already been linked to another page, and the mail account has not been used for a long time.
In such cases, the password recovery procedure takes quite a long time and consists of compiling an entire questionnaire indicating passport data, sending a screenshot from the display where the completed page would be visible.
It turns out that owners of Android devices have the opportunity to recover the password for their VK page much easier. How to find out the password for VK on Android? To do this, you need to know where passwords are stored. This is what we will talk about now.
If you have used the password saving function on your device, then it will be easy to see your forgotten password:
The fact is that saved passwords are located in the browser, where, as a rule, it is possible to see the password that is hidden behind asterisks. What should we do:
Using system functions
Open the browser (Google Chrome in the screenshot) and enter the link passwords.google.com
In the “
Saved Passwords
” window that opens, we find the desired application or site, in our case, it is “Vkontakte”, we see the login (email address) and password hidden behind the asterisks. To view the password itself, you need to click on the icon that looks like an eye:
Via a browser on a computer
If you have one VK account on all devices and logged in automatically (i.e., the password was saved), then you can see the password hidden under the asterisks on your computer. This method will be relevant if for some reason you cannot use the previous instructions.
First way
Open a browser window. In the upper right corner, click the icon to call up the settings (three parallel lines). In the “Settings” section, at the very bottom click on “Advanced settings”, find the “Passwords and forms” item, select the second line “Offer to save passwords for sites”, click on the “Customize” position. In the password window that opens, enter the address of the site you are looking for or login in the search bar:
Now in the list of sites with saved passwords, click on VK and then activate the “Show” button, after which, in the field where the asterisks were, we will see our password:
Second way
We are pleased to publish instructions for those users who are not used to looking for easy ways to solve a particular problem. This is exactly the same case. Although, it is quite possible that this particular method will be the most convenient for you. So.
We go to our VK page. To log in, a window will open with your login (phone or email) and password hidden by asterisks, select them with the left mouse button and right-click on the highlighted password. A line will appear containing the type parameter.
Double-click with the left button on its
password
(
or pass.
) value. From the list of actions that opens after this, select “
View element code
”.
Now, we make changes to the page code - replace type = 'password'
to
type = 'text'
After this simple manipulation, instead of asterisks, we will see our saved password.
Finding a forgotten password using a traffic analyzer
Using Wireshark (PC)
We will need any program that analyzes network packets (sniffer). You can use one of the most popular in this segment - Wireshark. It is a cross-platform tool that works on almost all operating systems, including Windows.
The program has a logical and understandable interface and works with most protocols.
We won’t talk about the program itself and its advantages now (those who are interested can easily find the necessary information on the Internet). We are now interested in the possibility of solving the problem of finding a password in VK. To do this, download Wireshark from the official website:
Installation on OS Windows is extremely simple (next->next->next).
Connect your Android to your PC via USB. Now we need to configure the program for the network that is to be analyzed and enable it to search for packets:
Then we send the form with the password from the smartphone. After receiving the packages, turn off Wireshark and look for the keyword “password” among the received data, where the login and password will be displayed.
It is important to say the following here. Working with sniffers is a topic for a separate discussion, and quite a voluminous one at that. Therefore, an untrained user should not take this method as a guide to action. We briefly talked about Wireshark, only to indicate to our audience the existence of such a possibility for solving the issue under study.
If you consider yourself an advanced user, and even more so, have experience working with such software, you can easily solve the problem of a forgotten password.
Video instructions on using Wireshark:
Download WebBrowserPassView
At the very end of the page of the program’s official website you will find two links - we need the first one...
We unpacked the archive and received a folder with the program...
We go into it and see...
The program itself is on the right, one file. Those two files on the left can be safely deleted.
