Re: Password Recovery

de socrtwo 06/24/2006 01:22

socrtwo wrote:
> BT wrote:
> > I have several old files on floppies, written with office '97 that I
> > password protected. I have tried all the old passwords I can think of, but
> > two files have different passwords.
> >
> > Can anybody suggest a free password recovery tool. (even if it only gives me
> > the first three letters, it will help)
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> http://www.s2services.com/word-password.htm

See also http://www.s2services.com/excel-password.htm for Excel.

When I did the pages above of freeware Word and Excel password crackers
I was asurprised how many there were. Here are the relevant ones:

++Word Password Cracking Freeware++

* GuaWord - http://www.password-crackers.com/crack/guaword.html - Pavel
Semjanov, the author. He is an interesting Russian password expert who
hosts a comprehensive password recovery software review site. He
inspired me I think. The actual download is here:
http://www.password-crackers.com/DOWNLOAD/guawrd09.zip. It's in
English.

* Password Recovery Suite 3.1 -
http://www.s2services.com/textfiles/prs31setup.exe - the author is now
embaressed by this program, but it still works pretty well.

* Crackit - http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/crackit.zip -
Jack Kennel wrote this hard to find freeware, but works well enough
that someone translated another version into Turkish!

* Word97cr - http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/word97cr.zip -
Dimitry Sumin wrote this and then he went commercial in a big way (see
lostpassword.com). His company is near the top or is the premier
commercial password cracking software site.

++Excel Password Cracking Freeware++

* Password Recovery Suite 3.1 -
http://www.s2services.com/textfiles/prs31setup.exe - works for Excel as
well.

* Crackit - http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/crackit.zip -
works for Excel well.

* Excel Password Remover - http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html -
unprotects Excel documents but doesn't crack passwords for opening
Excel spreadsheets.

There are a few others for Word and Excel earlier version (Office 95
and below). You can see them on my pages. I don't think they work on
Office 97 files because I believe the 40 bit key encryption default was
introduced with Office 97 (and continues through Office 2003.