Password Crack

Does anyone know of any software that can crack a password protected .xls
file for free? I found this one... http://www.elcomsoft.com/aopr.html I
don't think it's worth it for one document though.

Thanks

Eric

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Maybe you can ask the person that set the password. That will be free

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And since the file was protected in the first place, maybe you shouldn't be
trying to break into it.

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Maybe you can ask the person that set the password. That will be free

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"Eric Fehlhaber" wrote in message
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Does anyone know of any software that can crack a password protected .xls
file for free? I found this one... http://www.elcomsoft.com/aopr.html I
don't think it's worth it for one document though.

Thanks

Eric

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] wrote...
And since the file was protected in the first place, maybe you shouldn't be
trying to break into it.
....

Then again if the file was created by person A at work, legally the
file would belong to A's employer. If A quit or was fired and is unable
or unwilling to give the password, and if the OP works for A's former
employer, the OP would have the legal right to crack the password.

That's the most common scenario claimed by people asking how to open
password-protected Excel workbooks, at least in the Excel newsgroups.
If it weren't legal to crack some files, it's hard to imagine why the
people providing the service for a fee aren't all in prison by now.

You mean that's what they *say* is the situation. I'm a skeptic. If it was
that situation, I'd think there'd have been some mention of the situation.
But when I read "What do you think of this password crack?" or "Where can I
find a free crack?", I don't immediately think, "Gee, some poor employer is
getting done over by a disgruntled former employee!"

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MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
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JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] wrote...
And since the file was protected in the first place, maybe you shouldn't
be
trying to break into it.
...

Then again if the file was created by person A at work, legally the
file would belong to A's employer. If A quit or was fired and is unable
or unwilling to give the password, and if the OP works for A's former
employer, the OP would have the legal right to crack the password.

That's the most common scenario claimed by people asking how to open
password-protected Excel workbooks, at least in the Excel newsgroups.
If it weren't legal to crack some files, it's hard to imagine why the
people providing the service for a fee aren't all in prison by now.

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:51:46 +0100, JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] wrote
(in article ):

You mean that's what they *say* is the situation. I'm a skeptic. If it was
that situation, I'd think there'd have been some mention of the situation.
But when I read "What do you think of this password crack?" or "Where can I
find a free crack?", I don't immediately think, "Gee, some poor employer is
getting done over by a disgruntled former employee!"



I'm with Jo on this one - I wouldn't assist anyone in cracking a passworded
document even if they say their intentions are honourable - I don't want to
be party to any nefarious dealings. I believe it was Beth who said that she
was once asked to crack a file and it turned out to be someone's personal
journal.

Take a look at

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/fileandvbapwords.html

for a link to a less expensive solution.

In article ,
"Eric Fehlhaber" wrote:

Does anyone know of any software that can crack a password protected .xls
file for free? I found this one... http://www.elcomsoft.com/aopr.html I
don't think it's worth it for one document though.

Thanks

Eric

FWIW, I think JoAnn was rather out of line on this one. Assuming that
someone (who, BTW, posted under a real name and email address and who
has been a relatively frequent poster to many groups) is "nefarious" is
pretty harsh, not to mention horribly paternalistic.

Just based on my experience, it's far more likely that the OP has
forgotten the password on his own important file than that he was trying
to do something illegal - there was nothing in the original post to
indicate one way or the other, though the circumstantial evidence seems
heavily weighted toward legitimacy. (I don't know where JoAnn's "You
mean that's what they *say* is the situation" comes from, since the OP
*didn't* say.)

Unfortunately, XL's password protection is a sham. It ill-serves users
to withhold commonly available tools - it may even lead them to think
that XL's password protections are reliable, when they most definitely
are not.

I assist people on these groups because I like to, not because of what
they might do with it. I'm not going to withhold commonly available
information about passwords from a user just because they might be
dishonest, any more than I worry about whether someone uses that nifty
SUMPRODUCT() formula that I gave them to further their embezzlement.

I've posted a method of bypassing internal password controls to my site
as a convenience - the macro was being posted several times a week to
the newsgroups anyway, so anyone with the sense to Google could find
them.

Likewise, if the OP had chosen to Google for a password crack, he'd have
found hundreds of posts recommending cheap commercial solutions for file
passwords (I don't know of any free ones that are worth anything for
reasonably long passwords).


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Sarah Balfour wrote:

I'm with Jo on this one - I wouldn't assist anyone in cracking a passworded
document even if they say their intentions are honourable - I don't want to
be party to any nefarious dealings. I believe it was Beth who said that she
was once asked to crack a file and it turned out to be someone's personal
journal.

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] wrote...
You mean that's what they *say* is the situation. I'm a skeptic. If it was
that situation, I'd think there'd have been some mention of the situation.
But when I read "What do you think of this password crack?" or "Where can I
find a free crack?", I don't immediately think, "Gee, some poor employer is
getting done over by a disgruntled former employee!"
....

Some requests are obviously illegal, e.g., "where can I download Office
for free?" When I feel like replying to those requests, I point out
they're illegal. Password cracking isn't necessarily illegal. Why
assume OPs have illegal intent?