Password Recovery

KaHn · 6 Nov 2013 at 13:24

Gents,

I've been asked to help a friend de-crypt a couple of files for his sister after her husband passed away (excel/word files) which show some of his company details.

Is there any reputable sites/software to do this?

Cheers,

KaHn

Craig321 · 6 Nov 2013 at 13:53

Can you give us more information? Like what the files were encrypted with? Some people around here might be able to point you in a cheap or free direction.

KaHn · 6 Nov 2013 at 14:18

Its just a standard windows/excel password, nothing special, I've been looking at something like guaword or something similar?

KaHn

lord filbuster · 6 Nov 2013 at 15:22

If it is an older .doc or .xls then guaword or this should do it, but if it is the newer docx, I don't know of any freeware, plus you'd have to brute force the password, which probably won't work if it was a decent one.

Craig321 · 25 Nov 2013 at 19:09

Forgot about this thread. Did you manage to sort something out?

If it's Excel 2010 then there are ways to crack it by opening it in 7-zip and replacing some files. The above probably does something similar.