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- Price: Free to try (4-character password trial, some features disabled); $49.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: February 21, 2008
- Total Downloads: 139,579
- Downloads last week: 250
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Recover forgotten or lost passwords for encrypted archive files effectively with Advanced Archive Password Recovery. Packed with neatly organized options, the application's compact GUI is a bit congested but still proves fairly easy to follow. You can choose brute-force, mask, dictionary, or plain-text algorithms to retrieve passwords from several archive types, including ZIP and RAR, although some features will only work with certain formats. To narrow the scope of the recovery process, you can select beginning and ending characters and specify range options such as numbers, letters, or symbols. We were impressed watching Advanced Archive Password Recovery swiftly arrange and rearrange words to decipher passwords during our dictionary algorithm tests, and results were quickly returned. It supports multiple languages and can easily recognize non-English symbols. To safeguard the retrieval process, the program autosaves a backup to make sure your information won't be lost. The trial version only reveals passwords of five characters or less, and the price tag for the registered version may deter the casual user. That said, this feature-rich utility had a 100 percent recovery rate in our tests, and users who absolutely need access to protected archive files will certainly appreciate its capabilities.Publisher's description
From ElcomSoft :Advanced Archive Password Recovery recovers passwords and removes protection from ZIP and RAR archives created with all versions of PKZip, WinZip, RAR and WinRAR in their GUI and command-line incarnations. Being a flexible, customizable and highly-optimized password recovery tool, it offers best-in-class performance for recovering the most complex passwords. Guaranteed recovery is often possible for many ZIP archives in less than one hour.
Version 4 now supports archives larger than 4 GB and all modern compression methods (WavPack, BZip2, PPMd.
What's new in this version:
Version 4 now supports archives larger than 4 GB and all modern compression methods (WavPack, BZip2, PPMd.
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Version: Advanced Archive Password Recovery 4
"Doesn't work well-don't bother"
Cons: As downloaded in shareware format this program doesn't recover anything. No one uses a three character password so it's useless.
It also seems to slow down the PC after install and even after uninstall. I suspect that the uninstall is not clean and utilities need to be run to get the remnants out.
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Version: Advanced Archive Password Recovery 4
Pros: Easy & initiative interface.
Cons: RARs with more than 4 characters of password takes AGES..
& doesn't support multi-part.. which is a killer for the fact it's priced at 49$!
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