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Date: August 28, 2009
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Acing The Ace Password Sniffer

 

When you go online, what is it that you are doing there? Are you playing games, does it help you escape to another dimension? Are you catching up on the latest gossip with a friend overseas? Are you sorting your finances out with internet banking? Are you shopping online, browsing products that only exist in other countries, and deciding what purchases to make? Or are you just getting up to date with your emails and replying to people who have sent you messages? Whatever the activity they all have one common factor, one common requirement for everything and that is one thing you would never want anybody else to ever be able to access. Can you guess what it is? What is the one attribute that all of these online activities share? I am talking about passwords! No matter what you do online; it is common for the majority of activities to use passwords. If a malicious program could steal your passwords, wouldn't it be terrible? Ace Password Sniffer does exactly this and can cause all types of problems if you are a targeted victim.

Ace Password Sniffer Aliases
Suspicious file
Spyware.AcePasswdSnif

Table 1.  Alias names of Ace Password Sniffer

Ace Password Sniffer can also be used by companies in order to recover passwords, that they may have lost and require once again, on their networks. It may also be used to monitor the abuse of specific administrator passwords. So there are a few good aspects to Ace Password Sniffer but only if the passwords are being recovered for legitimate reasons. To get more technical, Ace Password Sniffer is associated with a number of files including: ApsSetup [1].exe and APS.exe. These files come with the following MD5 signatures: 9daf1a60999dd198fa084093e0a2e42a and ec947197dd92996657874b12efa7b995.

Ace Password Sniffer has been designed to monitor http, ftp, SMTP, pop3 as well as any telnet traffic on your machine. The most alarming aspect with regard to the Ace Password Sniffer is that if it runs the risk of being configured by malicious online characters in order to run in hidden mode, which means that it will not generate any network traffic. Therefore the chances are extremely high that if you are a victim of the Ace Password Sniffer, you may not know it until it's too late. The Ace Password Sniffer is a complete violation of your privacy and needs to be removed immediately.

Ace Password Sniffer Manual Removal:
You will first need to use the Windows File Search Tool to locate the Path.
Ace Password Sniffer may be located in the following directory path:

  • %Program Files%\Ace Password Sniffer

The next step is detecting and deleting any other Ace Password Sniffer Files.
You need to remove all the Ace Password Sniffer process files:

  • Ace Password Sniffer.lnk

Please note that if you attempt the manual process, you will really need to know what you are doing, otherwise you run the risk of seriously causing damage to your machine. If you don't feel very secure in doing this, then it may be a better idea to try the next idea. Basically this idea entails purchasing a decent malware removal program which will be able to track and locate Ace Password Sniffer and automatically remove it for you. Even if you have not had any unpleasant experiences, with Ace Password Sniffer, you should consider investing in a decent malware detection and removal program in order to avoid any future encounters with it.2Password.jpg

 

 

 

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