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Advanced Zip Password Recovery
This program (Advanced ZIP Password Recovery, or simply AZPR) can be used to recover the lost password for a ZIP archive. At the moment, there is no known method to extract the password from the compressed file, so the only available methods are "brute force", dictionary-based and known-plaintext attacks. Our Review: Well, if you have a fast machine, or have some idea of what the password might be then this is the program for you. If not, then be prepared to wait a while. Advanced Zip Password Recovery has several ways of finding out the password, the slowest way being searching every single combination of letters and numbers. Of course, if they have used $%&!@# or any other special characters, or UPPER CASE letters, then it gets exponentially longer. It has other modes of operation too, where you put in a mask of what you think the combination might be, which narrows things down. It also does dictionary searches, where it goes through the dictionary looking for words. All in all, a slow way to crack a zip file, but when there is no other way to do it... Advanced Zip Password Recovery is a good program, that is easy enough to use, with a little help from the help files.
Licence: Shareware - 30 Days Trial Version: 3.21 OS: Win 95/98, Win 2000, Win NT Date: 2000/09/01 Developer: ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. Size: 683.00 KB		Free download
Yippee Ratings Breakdown (5 is best): Installation: 43 Interface: 35 Functionality: 33 Documentation: 33