Breaking a MS Word File that is password protected?
19 August 2003, 01:28 PM
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Got loads of old files that I password protected a long time ago and for the life of me cant remember the passwords. Any idea if its possible to crack them and if so, how?
19 August 2003, 01:43 PM
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Sometimes possible to open with notepad - although there will be plenty of formatting information there, the content
should be visible! (I hope!)
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19 August 2003, 01:43 PM
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Do you want me to email you an application that can?
19 August 2003, 01:44 PM
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Yes please Andy!
19 August 2003, 01:45 PM
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YHM!
It should be the demo version, but I may have emailed you the full version by mistake!!
19 August 2003, 01:47 PM
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Even better if you have one for Excel as well!
19 August 2003, 01:48 PM
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It does Word, Excel and WinZip from memory!!
19 August 2003, 01:49 PM
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Andy you H@x0r
19 August 2003, 01:50 PM
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More information and demo version download available from
here
19 August 2003, 01:51 PM
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What are you on about Rich???
19 August 2003, 02:24 PM
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Cheers Andy. Have started it of, although not sure if it will work though as all it appears to do is search for strings rather than actually hack the file. And its the trial version which only checks first 5 characters of password.
19 August 2003, 02:26 PM
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Simon YHM! (Or will have soon!
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19 August 2003, 02:30 PM
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Cheers Andy - trying it now!
19 August 2003, 02:34 PM
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With Excel you can try this....
Just save as another name and sometimes it looses the password protection (sometimes)
19 August 2003, 03:48 PM
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Did it work, or is it still going?
19 August 2003, 04:26 PM
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His Anti-virus SW had detected it
and quarantined it and is cleaning it now
19 August 2003, 04:27 PM
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LOL!
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