Cain And Abel: Windows Password Recovery Utility

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As far as password recovery utilities go, Cain & Abel is by far one of the best out there. It’s designed to run on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista but has methods to recover passwords for other systems. It is able to find passwords in the local cache, decode scrambled passwords, find wireless network keys or use brute-force and dictionary attacks. For recovering passwords on other systems Cain & Abel has the ability to sniff the local network for passwords transmitted via HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, IMAP, SMTP and much more. We think it is quite possibly one of the best utilities to have as a system administrator, and definitely a must have for your toolbox.

72 thoughts on “Cain And Abel: Windows Password Recovery Utility

  1. About that antivirus thing…
    of course antivirus will go mad- firstly it have abel inside- trojan, working for you…
    but it is still troyan…
    antivirus wont wait until trojan gonna start his job… scan code and alert…

    and no, you dont need to turn off antivirus (except when installing).
    simply add to exception list.

  2. There are a lot of tools and utilities that can be downloaded and used to recover, reset, retrieve or reveal existing password. These windows password recovery utilities, free or paid, are usually a Linux boot disk or CD that able to comes with NT file system (NTFS) drivers and software that will read the registry and rewrite the password hashes, or can brute force crack the password for any user account including the Administrators. The advantage is that there is no fear of leaking your password to outsiders, while the process requires physical access to the console and a floppy or CD drive, depending on which tool you choose. And it’s not easy, although it always work!
    Below is the most famous recovery tool I found:
    Windows Password Recovery Tool 3.0 – it is the most popular Windows password cracker . It is a very efficient implementation of windows any versions. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.

    Password Recovery Bundle –This is a utility to reset the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your windows system. You do not need to know the old password to set a new one. It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD. It’ll detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts. It is also an almost fully functional registry editor.

    Windows Password Key 8.0 -It is considered as the best tool to reset local administrator and user passwords on any Windows system. It creates a password recovery CD/DVD, USB Flash Drive for home, business and enterprise. And most of all, it’s the most popular and safe solution for removing your Windows password until now.

  3. Here are the methods I know.

    The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account “Administrator” and sets its password to blank. So if

    you have forget Your user account password then try this:
    Start system and when you See Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys Twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in

    Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.
    Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts”.
    Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.

    Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to recover forgotten Password by using “Reset Disk”. If you created a Password Reset Disk in Past, you can use that

    disk to reset the password. To know more about It, please visit http://www.passwordreset.biz/

  4. SMARTKEY Password Recovery Bundle is a must-have toolkit to recover/remove/reset passwords for Windows, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Outlook Express, PDF, RAR/WinRAR, ZIP/WinZIP, MSN, AOL, Google Talk, Paltalk, Trillian, Miranda, Opera, Firefox and IE Browser, etc. Over 21 types of passwords can be Recovered instantly. Until now, these password recovery tools are the fastest on the market, the easiest to use and the least expensive..
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  5. another wonderful password recovery tool called SmartKey windows password recovery is highly recommended because of its features, to find your passwords is a child’s play.

  6. Downloaded. The antivirus went alert.
    Installed and the antivirus went totally nuts.

    I disabled the antivirus and it didn’t take many seconds until Internet Explorer started to behave strange with random crashes. A few other windows applications also started to behave strange with random closes every now and then.

    Soon I had an EXTREMELY sluggish computer that constantly ran out of memory, even when not doing anything.

    Once I reactivated the antivirus… well oh boy I was in for a surprise.
    The computers harddrive is going nuts. The antivirus is going nuts. the I/O-operations are spiking through the roof and the computer is barely responding.
    I was lucky it was an experimental machine.

    I strongly recommend everyone to stay away from this piece of #¤%$%

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