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Someone explained that after he got some malware on his computer and subsequently all his websites were hacked. The response? Once you've got malware on your c

• lmm 11y ago
  That's correct though. Even if the passwords weren't stored at all, malware could just install a keylogger and record them when you typed them in.
  • joopxiv 11y ago
    The fact that there are ways to obtain passwords even when they are not stored unencrypted is not really a reason to make it as easy as possible for malware to get every password on your system.
    • DanBC 11y ago
      No, you're wrong. If you've run malware on your machine then it's not your machine anymore. This is exactly the thing that Google spent months trying to tell people when it was refusing to include password access to the password list. That extra password does nothing to increase security, and may be counter productive.
    • lmm 11y ago
      Encrypting stored passwords gives users a misleading false sense of security.
• zamalek 11y ago
  > botg: All third-party offers can easily be declined. Nothing unwanted is being installed without your consent. Talk like that can only mean that they know about the malware bundling. Extremely interesting in combination with that quote of yours. Essentially: "the malware we install on your machine will get access to your passwords anyway." Looks like Filezilla will not die a hero's death.