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February 20th, 2007, 05:35 AM
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A password cracker/remover for Office 2003's Word document?
Hello,
I am helping my father's issue with his Word 2003 document that is password protected. He basically forgot the password for it. What's the best and free program to crack/remove the password? I assume they exist now since Office 2003 has been out for a few years. It can be run in Linux/Debian or Windows (2000 or XP). Thank you in advance. -- "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb." --Sir Francis Bacon in Historia Vitę et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100. /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. 
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February 20th, 2007, 07:19 AM
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A password cracker/remover for Office 2003's Word document?
Try torturing him: that should stimulate his memory!
Otherwise, search Google where there are plenty of hits. But remember that you will be parting your credit card or cashpoint card details to someone who makes a living breaking passwords: do you feel safe? -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Ant" wrote in message ... Hello, I am helping my father's issue with his Word 2003 document that is password protected. He basically forgot the password for it. What's the best and free program to crack/remove the password? I assume they exist now since Office 2003 has been out for a few years. It can be run in Linux/Debian or Windows (2000 or XP). Thank you in advance. -- "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb." --Sir Francis Bacon in Historia Vitę et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100. /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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February 20th, 2007, 08:08 AM
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A password cracker/remover for Office 2003's Word document?
There's no 'best' and as far as I know no 'free' password cracker for Word.
Encrypted documents are not easy to open- if they were there would be no point in having such protection. Crackers work on the principles of testing every possible combination and use various ruses to shortcut the process, but the fact remains that a strong password is going to take a lot of processing time to crack - and as Terry suggests, who are these people you are giving your credit card details to? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Hello, I am helping my father's issue with his Word 2003 document that is password protected. He basically forgot the password for it. What's the best and free program to crack/remove the password? I assume they exist now since Office 2003 has been out for a few years. It can be run in Linux/Debian or Windows (2000 or XP). Thank you in advance.
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February 20th, 2007, 08:29 AM
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A password cracker/remover for Office 2003's Word document?
On 2/20/2007 12:08 AM PT, Graham Mayor wrote:
There's no 'best' and as far as I know no 'free' password cracker for Word. Encrypted documents are not easy to open- if they were there would be no point in having such protection. Crackers work on the principles of testing every possible combination and use various ruses to shortcut the process, but the fact remains that a strong password is going to take a lot of processing time to crack - and as Terry suggests, who are these people you are giving your credit card details to? Wow, password protection has improved? I remember back in the older versions like 97(?), the password protections were weak. I also don't trust those credit card details to others. I was hoping it was a free download to run on local machine. Hmm, it looks like he is stuck.  I will send him this newsgroup reply to him.-- "Thanks for giving me the courage to eat all those ants." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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#5
February 20th, 2007, 02:28 PM
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A password cracker/remover for Office 2003's Word document?
Darn! You're a hard core believer in Word, aren't you?
(Thanks for the morning chuckle.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Try torturing him: that should stimulate his memory! Otherwise, search Google where there are plenty of hits. But remember that you will be parting your credit card or cashpoint card details to someone who makes a living breaking passwords: do you feel safe? -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Ant" wrote in message ... Hello, I am helping my father's issue with his Word 2003 document that is password protected. He basically forgot the password for it. What's the best and free program to crack/remove the password? I assume they exist now since Office 2003 has been out for a few years. It can be run in Linux/Debian or Windows (2000 or XP). Thank you in advance. -- "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb." --Sir Francis Bacon in Historia Vitę et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100. /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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#6
February 20th, 2007, 03:37 PM
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A password cracker/remover for Office 2003's Word document?
Hypnotism has often been suggested and very likely would work.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ant" wrote in message ... On 2/20/2007 12:08 AM PT, Graham Mayor wrote: There's no 'best' and as far as I know no 'free' password cracker for Word. Encrypted documents are not easy to open- if they were there would be no point in having such protection. Crackers work on the principles of testing every possible combination and use various ruses to shortcut the process, but the fact remains that a strong password is going to take a lot of processing time to crack - and as Terry suggests, who are these people you are giving your credit card details to? Wow, password protection has improved? I remember back in the older versions like 97(?), the password protections were weak. I also don't trust those credit card details to others. I was hoping it was a free download to run on local machine. Hmm, it looks like he is stuck. I will send him this newsgroup reply to him.-- "Thanks for giving me the courage to eat all those ants." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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#7
February 20th, 2007, 04:12 PM
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A password cracker/remover for Office 2003's Word document?
On 2/20/2007 7:37 AM PT, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Hypnotism has often been suggested and very likely would work. Heh, funny. He's that type of doctor with mentalness.  -- "We may have no malevolent intentions toward an ant heap, but if we want to build a house on the same site..." --Rendezvous With Rama /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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#8
February 22nd, 2007, 06:13 AM
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A password cracker/remover for Office 2003's Word document?
Ant,
I ran into that problem some years ago and purchased a password breaker. I had an excel sheet with all my passwords and logins for websites and totally blanked on the password. I've only used it once but if you want I can break it for you...except obviously how do you trust me if it's sensative information Let me know... But honestly, I'd buy one of those password breakers online, not too expensive... -- "I should have paid attention in computer class..." "Ant" wrote: On 2/20/2007 7:37 AM PT, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Hypnotism has often been suggested and very likely would work. Heh, funny. He's that type of doctor with mentalness. -- "We may have no malevolent intentions toward an ant heap, but if we want to build a house on the same site..." --Rendezvous With Rama /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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