MsoPsw97
v1.5

password recovery tool for
MS Word, Excel & Access
(including Office 97 version)

(c) 1998 Vitas Ramanchauskas, vitas@webdon.com, v-t-s@usa.net

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You should select search mode and capitalization rules. In DEMO version the only choice is a brute-force attack. In commercial version dictionary search is also available. Dictionary search provides a way to significantly reduce search time. If you used a long password (8 character and longer) dictionary search is the only way to recover password. Even with large dictionaries you'll spend minutes for search while to recover password of 8 lowercase letters using brute-force attack on Pentium200 you need for 4 months...

Another way is 'smart force attack'. This technology is under development now. All registered users will receive it for FREE. More information about brute force attack provided on my site.

Capitalization rules depend on search mode.

In brute-force mode:

lower case

search for lower-cased passwords only.

upper case

search for upper-cased passwords only.

smart mix

not implemented, same as 'no rules'

no rules

search for any password.

  

In dictionary search mode:

lower case

lowercase all words in dictionary and check them

upper case

uppercase all words in dictionary and check them

smart mix

for each word in dictionary check three variants: 'word', 'WORD' and 'Word'

no rules

check every word from dictionary as is (no conversion applied).