With the ever increasing need to protect data in a system and on a network from threats in the form of viruses, malware, adware and hackers, numerous methods are being employed to protect important information. The simplest of all methods would be to just provide a password to the file which will block all unauthorized users from accessing the stored information. However, if the owner tends to forget the password, then attempts must be made to either reveal the password to the user or restore the password through password restoration techniques.
A tool which is instrumental in recovering such lost passwords is the Password Cracker. Since the program in universal it is able to support different versions of the application it works on. Passwords are cracked and restored within minutes by simply installing and running the program.
Most of the passwords cracking utilities are program specific which requires the type of password to be known before restoration. Accordingly, there are two basic cracker utilities:
A brute force cracker cracks passwords that contain random character strings. Every possible combination of numbers, letters and symbols is tried out until the password is revealed.
A dictionary based cracker contains a database of numbers, letters and common phrases and tests the possible combinations arising out of those entries. This method does not support passwords containing random character strings.
Able to run on Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista, password cracker 1.2 can fetch numerous file related passwords. Some of them would be:
Passwords for opens and write reservations, passwords for file types like MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Outlook, Word Perfect, Visual Basic, PLS Money Accounting, Acrobat Reader etc. Passwords related to these file types and more can be easily retrieved by using the file extensions in the search.