Managing and remembering passwords is a problem for many. We use more and more services, and as you know, it is not recommended to use a common password for all of them. Once someone figures it out, they will have full access to all protected services under the same credentials.
For Google Password Manager for Android, you can create and protect your passwords in your Google account, saving credentials across sites and making them available across other devices and browsers. Of course, this tool will also allow us to eliminate possible problems with passwords stored on the mobile phone that we find in everyday life.
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- Google Password Manager Save passwords or not
- What saved passwords look like on Android
- Enable automatic login
- Is my password at risk?
1Saving a password in the Yandex browser
In Yandex Browser, you can use the “Automatically save password” function. To do this you need:
- Go to the browser menu. On the right side of the monitor, at the very top there will be a button, after pressing which the main menu will be displayed.
- Next, select “Settings” from the menu.
- At this point, select “Passwords”, and then “Settings”.
- In the settings, check the box next to “Save passwords automatically.”
After which passwords will be saved not only from the VKontakte social network, but also from other sites.
When automatically saving passwords, Yandex Browser will always ask if you need to save the password, and will also offer your already created passwords.
Using this principle, you can save passwords using any other browser.
Browser help
Initially, every browser is automatically designed to save passwords. This is done for the convenience of users. Some of them create several profiles on the same social network at once, and remembering all the passwords is not an easy task. Thus, the browser makes life easier for those who use it.
So, if the autosave function is not disabled, the browser will automatically offer to remember the authorization values.
Let's look at the process of saving a password using Google Chrome as an example (https://www.google.ru/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html). Essentially, other browsers work in the same way. As soon as you log in to your personal page, Chrome will prompt you to save your password. The notification will automatically appear in the address bar. If you accidentally close the window, open it again by clicking on the key symbol there.
But what to do if this notification does not appear. In this case, most likely, saving passwords in the browser itself is prohibited. Here you will have to go to the settings and correct this option. Open Chrome Tools, scroll down to the "Passwords and Forms" option.
Check the boxes and try logging into VK again. After these steps everything will work out. In other browsers, approximately the same scheme works. For Firefox (https://www.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/new/) the path will be as follows: Tools – Settings – Protection – Exclude. In Opera (https://www.opera.com/ru) find Settings - Forms - Password Management. Well, in IE (https://www.microsoft.com/ru-ru/download/internet-explorer.aspx) go to Tools - Internet Options - General. There, delete the history and give the browser permission to save logins and passwords.
Some people do not trust this method, so they prefer special programs. If you are one of these types of people, the following information in the article will be just for you.
2Saving multiple VKontakte accounts
You can save several accounts at once to log in to VKontakte.
- First, you need to prompt the browser to save one password, then exit this profile and enter the password for the next account that you want to save.
- To do this, you need to place the mouse cursor in the Login line and select the required one from the list.
- Also on VKontakte, before entering your profile, information appears about accounts that you recently logged into from a computer or mobile device.
- You just need to click on the required profile and you will be logged in automatically. To add another profile, just click: “Login to another account.”
What is a VK password and why is it needed?
A password can be considered a symbol, most often a set of letters, numbers and other characters, which is intended to confirm authority and identity. Passwords are used to protect information from access by unauthorized persons. Despite all the seriousness, you can make sure that the VK password is not saved.
In order for the password to provide high-quality protection against unauthorized access to the VKontakte page, you should think carefully about creating it. Quite often, people use their first and last names and date of birth as a password. The names of loved ones and their dates of birth are also provided with a password. This action can be considered wrong if among your friends there are individuals who may want to visit your page without your knowledge. In such situations, choosing a password to log into your account will not be difficult. As a rule, your friends know what day you and your relatives were born on; they also probably know the date of your wedding and other important events.
In order to ensure that the information on your social network page remains truly yours, you should take care of a more complex combination of characters that will serve as a password for your page. If you suddenly forget your password, you should recover it (See How to recover your VKontakte password)
It will be even easier to obtain your information if you save your VK password in the browser you use. To do this, you just need to turn on your computer, open your browser, and it will give absolutely anyone access to log into your account.
3Password protection
The most important way to protect passwords remains a simple method - at least sometimes changing your password. If you have to save your VKontakte password, it is also better to use complex passwords consisting of large, small letters and numbers.
- Nowadays, browsers have special upgrades that allow you to protect passwords from intruders.
- And to make sure that the page is not hacked, you can view the VKontakte activity history. To do this, go to your profile settings and select Security.
- This history displays all user activity. If you notice suspicious activity from the current page, it is best to change your password.
In fact, saving your VK password is easy and simple, and current technologies make it possible to protect your social network page from hacking.
Password program
In general, saving secret data in the browser is not a good idea, since it can be easily extracted from there by malware, and any user who accidentally gains access to your computer can obtain data that you would not want to provide to them. The VKontakte password saving program allows you to receive login information for a specific account every time you enter the appropriate login. The program for remembering authorization data must be downloaded from the Internet and launched on your device.
One popular program for remembering passwords is LastPass. It can be downloaded from the official website https://lastpass.com/, it also provides the ability to synchronize data for all your devices:
lastpass program
A special program for saving VKontakte passwords can be found in the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vk-multi-user/pamdjlihnncnhlofjhecimabfhmoaefi?hl=ru:
VK multi user program
There are also paid programs - password managers. One of them provides the basic option for free (saving up to 10 records), the rest can be purchased for a modest fee. This is RoboForm - www.roboform.com:
Roboform Data Manager
How to remove a password in Opera
When you have learned how to delete a saved VKontakte password in the Yandex Browser, it is also recommended that you familiarize yourself with the tips on what you will need to do to perform a similar operation in Opera.
Launch the Opera web browser and open the menu items by clicking the browser logo key in the upper left corner. In the next step, refer to the “Settings” function, and then to the “Security” section. Here you need the “Manage saved passwords” button. Click it, and in the window that appears you will see a list of pages and saved passwords that should be deleted by clicking on the cross.
In addition, you have a chance to find a forgotten password from another resource on which you are registered. To do this, click on the contrary “Show” data for the site you are trying to find out. This browser also allows you to remember your password.
Mozilla Firefox
- Windows : browser menu → “Settings” → “Privacy and protection” → “Browser privacy” → “Saved logins”.
- macOS : Firefox → “Settings” → “Privacy and Security” → “Browser Privacy” → “Saved Logins”.
- Android : browser menu → “Options” → “Privacy” → “Logins” → “Manage logins”.
- iOS : browser menu → “Options” → “Privacy” → “Logins”.
How to recover saved VK password
In addition to cases when it is necessary to remove saving a password from the browser settings, there are completely opposite cases when the user constantly forgets the password. Here you need to go to the same settings and go the opposite way.
This is absolutely not difficult to do in Chrome settings. In the same right corner of the browser, click on the icon with three horizontal stripes. You need to click on it and select “Settings”. At the very bottom, click “Show advanced settings”, find “Passwords and forms” and check the box “Offer to save passwords”. This way the entered password will be saved.
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 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”.
Set the maximum period. Next, click on the “Clear” button.
In just a few seconds the data will be deleted.
How to change VK
While on your page, this is very easy to do. You need to click on your avatar in the page header on the right, and select “Settings” in the menu that appears. The VKontakte control center will appear, and the “General” tab will immediately open. Here you need to find the “Password” block. It will say when it was last changed, and on the right is the “Change” button. If you click on it, a form for changing will open.
As you can see, here you need to enter the old password first, and then the new one twice. If you remember the old one (that is, the current one), then the change procedure will take no more than ten seconds. But if the old one is forgotten, then nothing will come of it. You will have to contact the administration and go through the restoration procedure. Or try using one of the methods described above.
Why do you need to delete your saved password?
If you value your page, especially if you conduct commercial activities from it, we recommend that you definitely delete the saved key and login in Contact after logging into your account from someone else’s device. What can attackers do if they accidentally get hold of your saved secret code?
- They will assign a profile and begin conducting their illegal activities on your behalf;
- They will begin to distribute prohibited content, for example, extremist, pornography, scenes of cruelty, and create teenage groups with calls for destructive activities (including suicide);
- They will appropriate your groups and communities and use commercial data if you run a business in VK;
- They will create a dozen fakes and clone profiles, where they will sell all sorts of nonsense on your behalf, promote network marketing, or use it for other purposes;
- Hooligans can simply delete all the content of the page: photos, videos, products, music;
- Or send obscene or offensive messages to your contacts;
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.
We save all browser passwords
A neighbor or a specialist on call will install a new operating system, and who will recover ALL PASSWORDS FROM ALL BROWSERS for you?
There are several ways out of this situation. If synchronization was enabled in the browser, then all data can be restored from the cloud.
If you periodically made backup copies of your Internet browser profile, then you can insert it into a freshly installed browser and everything will be fine again. There is a program for this called MozBackup, for example.
And users of the LastPass program (and service) don’t have to worry about this supposed problem at all.
But you know what’s most surprising: literally only a few users use all of the above means of saving their data. Everyone is sure that this will not affect them and that everything will be fine with them forever, they are charmed, they are not some kind of “dummies”.
Firefox
To remove characters from being stored in fields, follow these steps:
1. In the main menu, click the “Tool” → “Settings” section.
2. Go to the “Protection” tab.
3. Click the mouse to uncheck the “Remember logins...” and “Use wizard...” boxes.
Note. To selectively clear, click the “... logins” panel.
4. Press “Ctrl + Shift + Del” together.
5. In the “Delete” menu, set it to “All”.
6. Click “Form Log…. "
7. Activate - “Delete...”.
Google Chrome
To remove a saved login key:
- press "Ctrl + Shift + Del";
- in the panel that appears on the display, set the value to “All time” to remove all data from storage;
- click the “Passwords” box;
- Click Clear History.
If you want to prevent the password from being saved:
1. Click in the Chrome panel - “three stripes”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Select "Show additional...".
4. Uncheck the boxes in “…. autocomplete...", "Suggest saving...".
Attention! For selective deletion, use the “Customize” option.
