Paraben's Decryption Collection Enterprise Edition 2.5

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This extensive suite of password-recovery utilities will crack just about any popular business application, but its price will deter home and small-office users. Paraben's Decryption Collection Enterprise Edition comes with 30 cracking programs, including ones for MS Office, ACT, Acrobat, and 1-2-3. It offers several attack methods, from dictionary to brute-force, including Xieve optimization. It performed well in our tests, cracking the password unbreakable for a Word document in several seconds. It didn't slow down our system while breaking a password in the background. As with most such programs, the trial version cracks only small passwords; in this case, it's two characters or fewer, so the demo won't be of much practical use. Paraben isn't kidding around about this being an enterprise edition; the $495 price tag rules it out for everyone but the IT staffers in its target audience.

Publisher's description

From Paraben :

Recover passwords for more than 30 applications. This advanced password-recovery suite recovers passwords for Office, Excel, Word, Windows XP/2000/NT/2003 Server, EFS, Access, Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange, WinZip, PKZip, ZIP, VBA Visual Basic modules, Internet Explorer, Acrobat, Quicken, QuickBooks, Lotus Notes, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Organizer, Lotus WordPro, Backup, Project, MYOB, Paradox, ACT, Mail, Schedule+, Money, WordPerfect, FileMaker, and Peachtree Accounting. The program utilizes MD5 Hash Verification for forensic integrity. The interface is simple and easy to use--just drag and drop the file to be recovered. Also available are HTML reporting of recovery results and a password cache for quick recovery of repeated passwords.