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Passwords are perhaps the weakest links in the cyber-security chain; if they're complex enough to be secure, you probably won't be able to remember them. Add the fact that every other site seems to require a password, and it's easy to see why far too many people end up using one or two simple passwords that are easy to remember, and easy to crack, too. You can write your passwords down on a piece of paper that you can look for and fail to find when you need it, or you can download and install G&G's Password Cracker. It's a tiny, free, totally portable utility that can recover lost passwords from applications.
Password Cracker downloads as a compressed file but runs as soon as you click the unzipped program file. The tool's interface is a tiny dialog, about the size of the average error message, with two text fields, labeled Test and View, and four buttons: Enable, Options, About, and Help. Other than some links to the program's Web site and some of the developer's other wares, that's it. However, the button's labels describe their functions clearly enough, so we started by checking the options, which are minimal, with check boxes to recover passwords in Internet Express or all of Windows. We checked the latter, opened a browser window, and navigated to a site that required a password log-in. We clicked Enable, hovered the mouse cursor over the password field (as delineated by asterisks), and Password Cracker displayed the alphanumeric password in the View field. We repeated the process with a Windows program that requires a log-on to open, with the similar success. The always-on-top option is handy since it keeps the little dialog from getting lost in a stack of open windows.
We installed Password Cracker 3.88, the latest version, in machines running Windows XP and Windows 7. The program performed its function in XP but not in Windows 7. Since the Windows 7 update is a recent release, it may be buggy, and we can't recommend Password Cracker to Windows 7 users until it performs reliably. Other Windows users can certainly benefit from it, especially the forgetful ones.
Publisher's Description
From G&G Software:
Password Cracker software that was created to ensure that you never worry about misplacing or forgetting passwords. Tool for restoring forgotten passwords (also in Internet Explorer). So using this application, you will no longer have to panic when you lose any of your passwords.
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1.5 starsout of 36 votes
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"boring boring boring"
Version: Password Cracker 3.95
Pros
boring boring boring
Cons
boring boring boring
Summary
boring boring boring
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"Worthless."
Version: Password Cracker 3.95
Pros
Worthless.
Cons
Worthless. Downloaded the program, unzipped it, couldn't get the exe file to do anything. Zip.
Summary
Waste of time.
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"Don't bother"
Version: Password Cracker 3.95
Pros
Absolutely nothing
Cons
No instructions, there's no even supported file types list. and it's NOT FREE!
Summary
Can't really imagine who need this... If you need free password recovery, there's Free Word Excel password recovery Wizard on CNET. If efficiency is most important and spending little money is not a problem to you, there's fast and affordable service www.Password-find.com
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"Not good tried and deleted"
Version: Password Cracker 3.92
Pros
doesn't work and seems fake
Cons
as said above
Summary
i found some nice working password crack toos at a site here www.Passwordcracker.me
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"Instructions say almost nothing"
Version: Password Cracker 3.92
Pros
Directions say how to install it. Nothing more.
Cons
Nothing says what it does; what passwords are recovered or how. Lkie so many others, I could not make it do anything productive.
Summary
I am very suspicious of what this software is doing. Maybe even installing malware that does something malicious days later?
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"FAKE SCAM it does nothing"
Version: Password Cracker 3.92
Pros
waste of time
Cons
I really trusted Cnet i use them for everything after this program Im unsure
Summary
dont waste yiour time
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"Waste of Time"
Version: Password Cracker 3.92
Pros
Easy to install
Cons
Annoying to use, doesn't work.
Summary
Don't waste your time
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"Installed it - tried it - deleted it!"
Version: Password Cracker 3.92
Pros
how do I say "none" in 10 characters?
Cons
Didn't do anything but made infuriating bleeping whenever I moved my mouse even though I turned off sounds and had given up trying to make it work.
Good idea but no use to me on my winXP PC.
Helpful hint on their forum, in answer to the question "how to uninstall?" = "delete all files" -
"Seems to be a haux."
Version: Password Cracker 3.92
Pros
Does absolutely nothing!
Cons
... nothing happens
Summary
Better someone post a way to unistall it asap.
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"Email cracker that ACTUALLY works!"
Version: Password Cracker 3.91
Pros
I was worried about downloading this due to other peoples comments, but I went ahead, bought it and ran it in sandbox to be safe. First of all, the people below probably didn't buy it from the site ( http://EmailZap.yolasite.com ) and there is no install required. You get an automatic dowmload once you've paid and it runs fine with no malware at all, and no problems removing it so I can only persume the other people complaining have a pirated copy gained from a torrent or dodgy file share site because I didn't have one single problem, and the software does actually work because I recovered two of my email accounts within the space of an hour.
Cons
It can take a while depending on the complexity of the password.
Summary
Fantastic, one of the best software I've ever used.
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