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Designed to recover passwords, this program's questionable performance and trial restriction keep it from being a more compelling option. Ultimate ZIP Cracker offers a clean if uninspired interface. We especially like the user-friendly password discovery wizard, which works with secured ZIP, Word, and Excel files. The program requires minimal user interaction. Point to the password-protected file, and Ultimate ZIP Cracker will cycle through seven discovery methods, including brute force and date search. If you remember part of the password, the program offers options to quicken discovery. That's all fine and well, but in some of our testing with an Excel file, the program failed to uncover a simple password, even when we used multiple discovery methods. Also, the trial version won't recover passwords larger than five characters, which certainly isn't ideal. We can see how Ultimate ZIP Cracker could be handy to forgetful office workers, but we recommend you proceed with caution.Publisher's Description
From VDGSoftware:
Ultimate ZIP Cracker is designed for recovering lost passwords from many popular file types: MS Word documents, Excel documents, ZIP archives created by PKZIP, WinZip or by any compatible software, ARJ archives created by ARJ, WinArj, or by any compatible software. It features brute force attack will test all possible passwords, smart search will test all pronounceable passwords, dictionary search can use a built-in or external dictionary, and date search will apply more than 5,000 date formats to a given date range.
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Version: Ultimate ZIP Cracker 8.0.2.10
Pros
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Cons
Everything
Summary
First of all, there is no way this program can crack a 5 character password with letters, numbers, and characters in a few seconds. I used a zip file with a simple password of 5 letters (all lower case) and numbers only. This program ran for 12 hours and was still going until I canceled it. All 'reviews' claiming this program cracked a password in seconds is absolutely false. Unless of course their password was 'password'.
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