- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Recovers short passwords only); $39.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: August 27, 2008
- Total Downloads: 15,160
- Downloads last week: 14
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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
You will be able to recover the lost passwords that guard your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, as long as they're short (thanks to trial restrictions) and you have some time on your hands.
Excel Password's interface is bogged down with information about methods of password recovery and links to learn more about Brute Force recovery, dictionary attack methods, express recovery, and other methods. We successfully used the featured automatic recovery option. With it, the program determines what it thinks is the best method to recoup your passwords. The user-defined route is especially useful if you know the password length, starting and ending characters, or letter casing, although it was slow, considering the short passwords it turns up.
The demo program only shows passwords up to three characters in length; any longer and it tells you to buy Excel Password. Its touted guaranteed recovery method is unavailable until you purchase the full version. We didn't care for weaving through all of the documentation on recovery methods, but Excel Password slowly proved its competence for finding lost passwords.
Publisher's description
From LastBit Software :LastBit Excel Password Recovery recovers Excel 4.0-2007 passwords using various attacks, providing a 100% satisfaction guarantee and offering your money back if it cannot unprotect a protected XLS document in 36 hours (97% of all spreadsheets can be usually recovered within just a minute). Distributed Password Recovery attacks allow recovering even complex passwords that protect the most secure Excel 2007 spreadsheets. Version 11 build 8051 has improved password recovery engine.
What's new in this version:
Version 11 build 8051 has improved password recovery engine.
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Version: LastBit Excel Password Recovery 11 build 8051
Pros: Seems to be working to crack an Excel 2007 open password on a Core i7 920 at 200 passwords/sec.
Cons: Horrible support! (See the bottom-line summary for details)
Can't get it working on my NVIDIA CUDA GPU set up. It'd be nice to have a bunch of stream processors working on this file as well.Summary: I've purchased this software (version 12 in November 2009) direct from LastBit but couldn't get it working on my GPU, even though I met all the written requirements. I've tried contacting the company for help over the last week with zero response. ... read more >>
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Version: LastBit Excel Password Recovery 11 build 8051
"Useless; mostly ads for other services."
Pros: Nothing, really.
Cons: Pretty much everything.
Summary: Don't bother.
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