Be careful when using the password listener.

Dear friends, I have a bad news to tell you that while you are surfing the Internet, someone may be monitoring your mailbox and other passwords! This is not an alarmist. Do not think how difficult it is to listen to the passwords of all users in the LAN. In fact, you only need to use the "password listener" software, it can listen to Web-based email passwords, POP3 email receiving passwords, and FTP logon passwords. Next, let's take a look at how others take your password. You must be careful when surfing the internet in the LAN!

　　1. Understand your "burial place"

1. Listener settings

Switch to "email" in the mailbox settings, fill in the email sending and receiving parameters, and then click "test, if the information you entered is correct, a dialog box will prompt you "the test email is successfully sent". If you see this dialog box, you can receive the password. Then select "send every five passwords" in "automatic mail Settings". You can also choose other methods, but I think this is more reasonable, click "Apply" after setting.

TIPS:

1) You can enter the same sending and receiving email addresses.

2). It is best to select an email address that does not require SMTP password verification. Otherwise, the email may be blocked by anti-virus software.

3). The latest version of rising can check the software for the password listener, so please upgrade it as soon as possible.

Password setting: to prevent others from opening the software for viewing, you can set a password. The specific method is to switch to "password protection, enter "new password" and "Confirm Password", and then click "application". In this way, you need to enter the password to access the software the next time you open the software. Other settings: First switch to the "other" option and select a hot key in "display/hide interface hot key settings", such as "Alt + F9" (note: it is recommended that you do not use the default hotkey), and then select "Hide interface at startup" in "Startup parameter settings". After the settings are complete, don't forget to click "application ".

OK, so that all the settings are complete. Then you can start listening and click the "hide" button (note: the installer can click "Abort" to end the running of the software ), A dialog box will pop up prompting you to call out the software through the hotkey. Click "OK" and the software will disappear. Then you can open the receiving mailbox and wait!

2. view results

After just a few minutes, I have seen many usernames and passwords. Of course, these usernames and passwords have been sent to my inbox, even the internet password of every student in our school is not used up. It's amazing! If these passwords fall into the hands of bad guys, the consequences would be disastrous.

　　Ii. How to Prevent

See it! It takes only a few steps to get your password in the hands of others. It's dangerous! It is difficult to prevent such software, not to say it is difficult to detect and kill, but to find out which machine has installed the "password listener ", because other machines do not respond during installation. However, if you find the machine on which it is installed, it is easy to scan and kill. The specific process is: Enter "regedit" in "Start> Run", Press enter, and expand in sequence: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunServices. You can see the "pswmonitor" key value. Locate the location of the "password listener" based on the key value path. The "password listener" is running at this time, therefore, we cannot delete it. In this case, you can delete the "pswmonitor" key value found above and restart the machine. Then, the "password listener" will not run automatically, find the location where it is stored and delete all the files related to it.

In addition, as I mentioned earlier, the anti-virus software of rising star can scan and kill it, so ask the network administrator to upgrade it as soon as possible. How can I find a machine with a "password listener" installed, here, I also provide a way to search for the "pswmonitor" key value through the Remote Registry. If the key value is found, the machine must have been installed with the "password listener, as for how to access the Remote Registry, I will not detail it here. Please check the relevant information!