Most instant messaging applications have an option to remember your information (username and password) so you don’t need to input it every time you want to log on. This might be a handy feature, but it’s quite dangerous (as are all systems which remember your password, unless they are specifically designed for security).
If the applications remembers your password it has to store it somewhere, usually in a file in the disk or in the Windows’ registry. Most time it’s encrypted so you can’t look directly at it, but this encryption is useless as the program has to recover it some time, something other applications can also do.
The advantage of this is if you forgot you instant messenger password you can recover it easily. Just download MessenPass and it will find all the stored passwords for your user. Remember, only for your user, not for other users in the same computer.
The disadvantage is someone can get in your account if he has access to your computer when you are logged on, and can also recover the password.
The best option is to choose a good password and not to store it in the computer, inputting it each time we want to logon.
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