Downloaded, installed, noticed that it says it's just the trial version. I thought it was a full version?? If you open the program, click on the Help tab, and it will say something about "How do I get the full version?" It's supposed to already BE a full version. Come on, guys, the software vendor's not playing by the rules. I didn't want shareware or an evaluation trial - can you get them to make it right?

Nooope, not even downloading this one.

No got Word (OK, aside from word 6 for win3.1 on the old '486 laptop), nobody sends me word docs (aside from my sister with her powerpoint jokes), and if there's a password, I'm not gonna look for it.

Viva La Openoffice!

Just cracked a password protected word file taken from my work server.
Password was 9 upper and lower case letters with one number at end.
Not bad for 19 min.
This password was not a test doc set up for cracking.It was my bosses business plan for next year.
I didnt like what was inside.
Now I feel sick

The pasword you would ever recover with is your own testing password LOL

#32 is the same ~Swan who blamed GOTD for showing personal information that she posted herself in the forums. The same ~Swan who subjected us to countless tirades against Glarysoft after her inability to understand their software caused her to trash her computer. The same ~Swan who recently resorted to thread-jacking in a desperate attempt to find someone who could tell her how Sandboxie works. The same ~Swan who now calls herself a "professional software reviewer" and "website developer". (I will admit that her "site", while little more than an exercise in ego-stroking, is good for a few unintentional chuckles, if nothing else.) Now she's back to talk about laws she knows nothing about and to plug her God-awful website.
Instead of trying to make people as confused as yourself, Bernice, why don't you do something useful, like bake a pie or plant some nice bulbs?

What a lot of experts here...LOL.
This is great software and has been working all day long for me.
Will the fools who like to "review" things before they even know what it is please refrain.
You are tossers, high on your own self worth...which is not much.
They line up here with no idea. They know who they are...there here all the time. 2 bit experts.
Check out the SOFTWARE REVIEWER SWAN.
This software has cracked 8 very strong passwords in 65 mins.
It does not send data anywhere.
It works on your own pc.
It is a fully functional program.
What is it with the poor folk here who know very little about computers and software, and then pretend to be an expert.
Very little to do in life I guess.
Love this program after 3 hrs of testing

I have no problem with only ME having this program. I just don't want anyone else to have it, since I do (or used to, now), occasionally, protect MSWord documents, believing that to be safe. I want to be able to hack into the documents I receive, but I don't want anyone else to hack into the documents I create.

Still, the fact that the software can perform this function points out the weakness of the MSOffice encryption algorithm, and I'll no longer be using this function. One could say it was the fault of the software for making this ability available in a mainstream software package, but if the vulnerability was there, I'd rather know about it via their self-promotion.



A tangential comment re #32:

In my opinion, charging for 3 separate password-cracking programs - all Micro$oft products - is taking advantage of people who actually want to install this software, so that the company can simply make more money.

I'm assuming that you are alleging that the software endorses Microsoft applications over other lesser marketable products, simply because it doesn't attack them. First, be happy that your software isn't on the list. Second, the fact that the software was created only for "Micro$oft" is only acknowledging that it documents created are in the most popular and ubiquitous format. If Linux or Apple had the market share that Microsoft did, you'd see just as many security flaws.

Anyway, the existence of this software should shatter any sense of security users of Microsoft Apps had with the built-in encryption. Get a digital ID from Thawte or Verisign for sending docs, and something like TrueCrypt to protect your documents on your local hard drive.

Kevin P.

Word Password Recovery
Hummmm, Kinda Narrow, don`t you think.
I got this downloaded early & installed about 3:30 am. I do not Have Word to produce a Password protected document to try it on. This evening
after reading the comments I almost deleted it,but since Zonealarm has not ask for permission for anything to phone home all day I have decided to keep it. A protected file may be needed opened for someone else.
I will put this on my archive drive just in case.
I do enjoy trying these beta programs, but the best part of the site is all the comments.
This old bird would not send out an passworded document to someone that I don`t know, NOWAY.

The Grouser

So, in your opinion, ~ Swan, If you only needed to retrieve MS Word passwords, you ought to have to pay $100 for the entire Office suite instead of $40 for just the MS Word functionality? Or, while you are comparison shopping for software, you wouldn't pass on this developer's $100 product just because he didn't offer the $40 product you needed whereas someone else did offer it? Real smart developer, huh--taking advantage of people that way.

If you would have actually tried the software rather than basing your comments on the (mostly) inaccurate postings of others here, you would have discovered that Microsoft itself is aware of such programs and doesn't discourage their existence.

If you're worried about sending your documents to some not-well-known company in Russia, just don't send them. According to the help file, this is a feature for those exceptionally difficult to find passwords which someone like you would probably never have any need for anyway. (I don't.)

I hope the reviews on your own site are not this shallow. (Which, by the way, I see you so graciously left us a link for.) I wonder if such blatant self-promotion isn't a little out of order here, since you also put the link in its proper place with your name. Sorry, I'd just feel a little uncomfortable going to your site unless you were prepared to sign a non-disclosure, protecting my sensitive computer from your barrage of ads there.

Have a nice day. :)

Send documents to an outside source to be opened and read by someone. You have got to be kidding. No one could possibly be naive enough for this, Could they?

I'm amazed by the comments, which are not only unfair, but mainly false.

1\ Where the hell do some people see that this is a limited key, which has a credit of... 0 ?
I checked everywhere I thought, and found such an assertion nowhere within the program.

2\ Worse : some here assert that the soft send the file over the net to be decyphered. How wrong and dishonest. Not only my firewall (trend-micro) never caught a connection attempt, nor did the program stop to work when I turned off all my network connections.

Like Belgian Dude, I'm quite embarassed that the company is quite allusive over its own identity.
But I'm more embarassed by those kind of comments which are commited by deep newbees or by strongly dishonest persons.

Unlike Belgian Dude, I wouldn't rely too much on google hits. After the today offer on GOTD, this software will get much more hits. It's, after all, the goal of developers giving away their products.

Regarding the software itself, it is really user frindly and quite well-thought. If you have any clue, the soft can use them to work quicker. While the attack is running, you can still try your own propositions.

This software works flawlessly, even with word 07 docx files. (the description is not up to date, but the program is!)

The existence of such softwares is quite frightening regarding security of datas that should be kept private.
But this soft can sometimes be useful, and as far as I know, there is nothing wrong with it.

I appreciate the comments. Once again I have not downloaded a program based on others negative reviews.

As to this offering, I agree with many of the posts, who uses passwords in Word? Since Word came about, and we started using it in 1988, I can count on one half of one hand the number of times we have applied a password to a Word file. And that's after creating 82GB of Word files. [That's now the size of our Word backup files.]

Given the limited uses for this type of program, does not seem like a very good offering for GAOTD. If so few want it for free, who would pay for it. Would be like offering plain old pong on Game GAOTD.

And like one Member posted, what is up with these time limited or limited programs. I have seen other posted supposed giveaways that said the software was being offered as a free "time-limited" download.

"Time-limited" means the program is only trial or demo software. This is not free, unlimited use software. And it is 110% contrary to what this Site is supposed to be about.

In the "About" page, GAOTD says about the giveaway aspect of the featured software: "That means - not a trial, not a limited version -but a registered and legal version of the software will be free for our visitors."

Based on many programs being offered for time-limited use and the someone off beat, non-mainstream nature of the GAOTD offerings, seems to me that GAOTD is having trouble finding software to offer each day.

I have found very few programs that I liked and find useful. To be fair, I have used computers since 1986 and software similar to that being offered on GAOTD [utilities, security, internet, video, audio, photo.]

So given the unattractive nature of recent offerings [what I would call "third world software"] and that many of the programs are not unrestricted, unlimited, nor "totally free, not demo, nor trial software, I have resorted to looking at the comments before even considering downloading the offered programs.

So what am I doing here, you ask. Well, I liked the concept of letting us be the beta testers, if you will, of great, innovative software. I liked getting a first crack at programs and being able to comment on them and spread the word. I was willing to do this in exchange for getting a program totally free, without restrictions on personal use [meaning I get to use all features and the time does not expire on use.]

I dunno, maybe getting one useful program out of 15 to 20 offerings is a reasonable expectation. I did like and still use that "Cleanup" program offered. It works just as well as my Crap Cleaner [now C Cleaner.] What was that, about 30 offerings ago?

I can't believe the comments people make here!

I tried this program, and it worked perfectly -- at least at recovering passwords meant to prevent people from editing your documents. That's all I've tried so far since that's really all I need it for. It didn't do anything funny in the background like dial home or place/get any secret stuff on my computer (and I tracked it). It was fully functional, and worked instantly. The help file says that it DOES work with Office 2007, BTW, but I couldn't check that out since I don't have that.

As far as I'm concerned this is a definite keeper for me. And I think that it ought to be at least worth checking out by anyone else who has any need for it at all.

Thumbs up, Password Solutions and Giveaway of the Day!

@30:

Running a CPU intensive program "in the background" means that it will use all CPU cycles that higher priority programs don't need. This means that your CPU usage SHOULD be 100% while it is running. The question is not whether CPU usage pegs at 100%, but whether other programs are significantly slower -- if the priority is set and honored properly, the slowdown for other programs should be minimal, especially if there is enough RAM on the system.

In other words, think of low priority background programs as using up the extra cpu cycles that would have shown as "unused" otherwise.

I have no knowledge of whether this program does this well, I am just pointing out that background processes really should use all available cpu cycles.

“Applicable Law
These Terms of Use and any disputed relating hereto shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation. “. So that's okay then. The law, in Russia, does not respect copyright on music so any documents you send them will be theirs to do with as they wish. However the program does work as stated on MS WORD 2003. Yes I use encryption on email letters to my girlfriend so no one else can read them if she leaves them on the machine she downloaded them to. And for a password that is 13 characters long it worked. However it does just use brute force attack, so if you have no idea of the password it will take a long long time.

the most stupid thing you cane make is a password , remenber if you have a password for start up your pc and you fergot how do you start the machine ?? tell me

I nominate this for the Sotware Darwin Awards.

I set up a Word doc with the password "abc123", and ran the application on it.
After nearly 6½ hours of brute force and dictionary attacks, it failed the test.

http://www.password-solutions.com/legal.html

"Applicable Law
These Terms of Use and any disputed relating hereto shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation. "

Humbug!

Good morning everyone!

I'd feel extremely uncomfortable using this software, unless the publishers were prepared to sign a non-disclosure, protecting my sensitive documents from:

* appearing elsewhere;
* being transferred to someone else;
* or basically just being used in any way, other than the reason I'd intended;

In my opinion, charging for 3 separate password-cracking programs - all Micro$oft products - is taking advantage of people who actually want to install this software, so that the company can simply make more money.

Micro$oft almost certainly uses the same encryption algorithm to encrypt all their documents, whether it be Word, Excel or PowerPoint. The only differences would be the file formats, which wouldn't take that much work for the developers to take into consideration.

I wonder too, if such software isn't a violation of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which might prohibit the creation of such tools. I'm not too sure about that one though.
~ Swan
Premier Software Reviews

this is the badest Program EVER made. what in the world do you neet is for? this program suckes!

After downloading and trying this program on a fairly simple password of 8 letters and 1 digit I found:

Pro:
1. This is "JIC" (just-in-case) software you may be willing to pay $9.95 for and not $39.95.
2. I may eventually get the job done.

Con:

1. They seem too interested in getting you to register the software and they don't make this easy.
2. Instructions on use are based on explaining the meanings of the term encryption and about Microsoft's reasons for providing encryption and covering themselves as a "3rd party" in case you spend a great deal of time decrypting a single password and the program fails.
3. The program hogs system resources even set to run in background. Running 1 browser, Outlook express and the program it kept my CPU usage at 100% for the duration.
4. Very slow....and they cover themselves on this too instead of giving better instructions.
5. After 3 hours and 4 minutes the program failed to get the password.

Sorry but this is a complete "Thumbs Down" and on second thought it isn't a JIC, it's history. Glad I didn't spend $40.00.

Something really interesting is while decoding the "Speed" indicates it is searching near 200,000 passwords per second in just 1 of the steps the program uses. In 3 hours thats over 2 Trillion checks. It seems there should be a faster way to decode a 9 character password like maybe searching your system first to find possibilities of combinations. After all we are creatures of habit and not many people I know that would use this product will use elaborate, random password assigning software.

Who uses Word passwords anymore?
Sorry, but useless giveaway.

It works but NIRSOFT is free.

Wow, just what I need. Software that only works on obsolete versions of Word!

I'm sorry GOTD, but there is NO WAY this program falls under your "no demos or shareware... full, free software" remit.
The full functionality is just not present - when trying to access some features, like the instant decryption, for instance, you are informed that your license had expired and you must buy a new one to get it to work.
I always find it a little churlish to see people complaining about free software but this, I'm afraid, just isn't free. This is shareware in disguise.
GoTD, it appears that either you have been duped or you just didn't check this software fully before including it.
Either way it doesn't look very good from the end user's point of view.

Not really feeling the urge to download this software.
but still thanks GAOTD.

Just installed the program, created a .doc file with the password 123.
After I started the process i was informed that my key to decrypt have no more uses and had to buy another key to try the decryptation.
This is a free program or not?

it is strange.
There is about 100 votes and none comments about this program, i will give it a try.
It is always handy have a password recovery for microsoft office documents.

$39.95 seems a bit steep for just one program. I could see if it was for all the office programs. Not sure how this will not compromise and make word vulnerable to spy wares and viruses. If the program checks out-would rather see them offer the whole office suite *being-if we have word-we probably have excel-powerpoint-etc.)

Well, guess what? It actually works, this is a goodie that will find a nice place on my disk.

What would Scruge say???

Downloaded and tested.

Unfortunately the application got a named License key with a number of credits and each time you use the service the number of credits is decreased by one. It seems that the initial number of credit of the set-up iz ZERO and I get the message "the decryption key is exhausted" and I am invited ( the exactly command is:"you must order a new one") to take full advantage of this recovery solutions by purchasing the unlimited version

Might not be good for many but I like those kind of programs. Thanks GAOTD

Free License Expires: Mon Feb 18 08:12:26 2008

The "Featured Titles" thing is a joke for today's giveaway. Why not just consolidate all of them into one program, and charge and extra ten bucks or something?

Otherwise, useful program. As long as you're not using Office / Word 2007.

Didn't work for me.

I set up a protected word document with a password that uses a subset of the the full ASC2 set.

When I ran Word Password Recovery the software sent my document via the 'net to an outside service.

However, I got a string of messages culminating in "Server is Busy - Please Try Later".

So, despite trying it several times it just didn't work on my test file.

But, more importantly, is the proposition "Please sent your password protected documents to us so that we can see if we can break the password" meant seriously?

Are you REALLY prepared
(a) to draw attention to your sensitive documents
(b) send those sensitive documents to some outside agency for them to remove the password.

Could you REALLY be that stupid?

Decryption requires online access and use of their "service". The Decrypt key allows only has a limited number of free uses before requiring the user to buy more. Brute force attempts are unlimited and free, but very slow.

Hello all KeriverImage users,

You can now upgrade your old version 1.1 to version 2.0 /only in case you keep your GAOTD registration code of course/. I tried to upgrade with no problems and it works great.

Pretty good giveaway, but sadly doesnt support Office 2007. GAOTD can you try and give the PDF and/or WinZip/WinRAR password recovery?? That'd be more useful. Thanks guys, you're doing a great job.

it is work with ms.word 2007 ???
I think no.
Office key can recover any your office document.

Weird!

I have advanced office password recovery. much better

This is way too specific.

And useless for people running OpenOffice.org.

Any software like this can either be used as either a recovery tool or as a means to crack a document that you weren't supposed to have access to.

1.
There are lots of programs like this out there.
My personal favourite, it's freeware, and can 'recovery' any password that is 8 characters or less long.
http://www.freewordexcelpassword.com/index.php?id=download
using brute force as well as dictionary attacks

2.
Compare the about page of this company
http://www.password-solutions.com/aboutus.html

with, for instance, the about page of a competitor
http://lastbit.com/about.asp

Here's another, to pay for, service that can help you with lost password situations for Office documents
http://www.decryptum.com/contact.html

Yes, the competitora are more expensive but at least there you have a better idea who they are and what their qualifications are. So ask yourself if you are really that comfortable with installing software by someone that wants to remain anonymous and isn't even up to date with the latest widely spread version of Office, namely Office 2007?

Do a search in Google for 'password Word Excel' and just look how many hits you get.

My suggestion is that if you run into the situation that you need something like this that you would try the freeware one. It works, I know out of experience.

By the way:
For Excel there's also this
http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html
which doesn't recovery the password, it just removes the passwords of worksheets and workbooks.

really... really lame... no one uses passwords for documents. the only people who do are in big businesses, and you cant use GOTD stuff corporately anyway, can you?

This Cannot get password from websites like friendster and all the others can it???

This would be really cool if it could install and run from a jump drive.

Raise your hands if you still use passwords with MS Word.