Ever thought: "If I were a hacker...?" No, I don't mean you'd rob banks via the Internet. Being a hacker, though, you'd never have to re-write an annual report just because of a lost password for an Office document. You'd never have to wait if your colleague forgot to send you the info needed to open an Excel spreadsheet. Sometimes you'd wish you had some hacking skills just so as not to lose the results of your own work.
You think that these hacker guys are all geniuses? That's a myth. Stop watching those fairy tale hacker movies! The usual hacker is just a next-door teenager that learned how to apply some password-cracking algorithms.
And the truth is that you can do exactly the same thing. The theory is quite simple. Any password can be cracked. It's just a matter of time. A "brute force" attack on a password means that the software will try all possible combinations of characters. It's the longest way. But it works best for short passwords. For long passwords, you can speed up the process by choosing only specific symbol ranges or by using other clever algorithms that try words and word-like combinations first. That's all you need to know in order to start.
We recommend that you start with Accent OFFICE Password Recovery. This utility supports a wide range of Office document formats (from the XX century MS Office version 6 to Office XP/2003) and includes a handy Wizard that helps you to choose proper password recovery algorithms. The Wizard will ask you several questions about the password that you need to recover and choose a proper strategy.
While the program is very easy-to-use, it also has many advanced features. Accent OFFICE Password Recovery allows you to manage vocabularies and provides several word transmutation algorithms (case alteration, letter swapping and others). In addition, it can work with non-English alphabets if needed.
MSN Messenger Password 1.0.292
MSN Password is a password recovery tool (although not a password cracker) that is used to recover lost or forgotten passwords for your MSN messenger accounts. It is important that the password you are trying to recover is stored on your computer...
Price: USD $25.00;
File Size: 150 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
MessenPass 1.04
MessenPass is a password recovery tool that reveals the passwords of the following instant messenger applications: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger (In Windows XP), Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger, AOL Instant...
Price: USD $0.00;
File Size: 45 KB;
Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
RAR Password Recovery 1.1 RC16
RAR Password Recovery is a powerful tool to recover lost (forgotten) passwords for a RAR/WinRAR (2.xx and 3.xx) archives. The program supports the "brute-force" attack, dictionary-based attack and dramatically fastest...
Price: USD $29.95, EUR 29.95;
File Size: 718 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
Actual Spy 2.7
Actual Spy is a computer activity monitor and keylogger, that allows you to keep track of what is happening on your computer. Actual Spy includes a keylogger, screen capture, program log, clipboard monitor, printer monitor, websites monitor and...
Price: USD $39.95;
File Size: 1227 KB;
Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Instant Password Finder 1.74
Instant Password Finder is the fastest way to check a system for possible passwords, and show you the passwords immediately. When Windows system running, many important data are stored into system area silently and stealthily, includes your...
Price: USD $39.95;
File Size: 57 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista
Website Block 3.02
Website Block software utility allows you to block unwanted websites from display in Internet Explorer. If a website is blocked the user is forwarded to a blank page and the contents of the page are not loaded on your PC. Stop loading banners and...
Price: USD $29.95;
File Size: 978 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
SpotMSN Password Recover 1.5
SpotMSN is a password recovery tool that is used to recover lost or forgotten passwords for your MSN messenger, Windows Live Messenger 8 and Windows Messenger accounts. SpotMSN is the best MSN password finder that instantly cracks and decrypts...
Price: USD $14.50;
File Size: 1002 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
Yahoo Messenger Password 1.0.292
Yahoo Messenger Password is a password recovery tool (although not a password cracker) that is used to recover lost or forgotten passwords for your Yahoo messenger accounts. It is important that the password you are trying to recover is stored on...
Price: USD $25.00;
File Size: 154 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
!Date Cracker 2000! 2.0
Date Cracker 2000 is a program which removes the date protection from programs which expire after a specific date. It is most useful for shareware or trial versions of software. Note that this program should be used for educational purposes only....
Price: USD $0.00;
File Size: 146 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
RAR Password Cracker 4.12
This program is intended to recover lost passwords for RAR/WinRAR archives of versions 2.xx and 3.xx. The program finds by the method of exhaustive search all possible combinations of characters ("bruteforce" method), or using passwords...
Price: USD $0.00;
File Size: 200 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003