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- Price: Free to try (Short passwords recovery trial); $45.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 30, 2003
- Total Downloads: 45,167
- Downloads last week: 55
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Yet another PDF password cracker with a draconian trial limitation, Acrobat Password Recovery Key appears to get the job done--though you'll need to pay the registration fee to be sure. Acrobat Password Recovery Key recovers lost or forgotten passwords using brute-force attacks or ones with Xieve optimization, which allows faster results by skipping password checks of nonsense combinations of characters. If you used a meaningful word as your password (for shame!), the dictionary-attack feature will probably turn it up in a jiff. If not, the program can pause and resume cracking so you don't have to keep your computer on while running a brute-force attack. All in all, Acrobat Password Recovery Key seems capable enough, though no more so than countless other programs.Publisher's description
From Passware :Acrobat Password Recovery Key finds passwords for Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) files. Forgetting a password for an important document is no longer a misfortune! Acrobat Key is an easy and fast solution saving your time and data. Our software works with all versions of Adobe Acrobat and provides recovery for all types of passwords, including decrypting documents protected with owner passwords. All documents protected with owner passwords are decrypted instantly. Adobe Acrobat user passwords are recovered using a combination of Brute-Force, Xieve, and Dictionary attacks. Acrobat Password Recovery Key has support for multilingual passwords, automatically saves password search state and can resume it after a stop or a crash. Has online help and full install/uninstall support.
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Version: Acrobat Password Recovery Key 6.1
Cons: It showed the message that the .pdf file I was trying to unlock had no password, but that's wrong since I can see the locks while reading it in Acrobat Reader. Useless to me.
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Version: Acrobat Password Recovery Key 6.1
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