Find hidden password protected file and recover password

Find password protected file

Show Hidden Files allows to search and find password protected file. You or security admin in your company needs this tool to find password protected files, prevent information leakage (when one can stole sensitive file) and force security policy (make people keep sensitive files protected by password).

Use Show Hidden Files to

• Find password protected file. In case if your employee lost some business-critical information, that was in password protected documents, for instance, MS-Word file.

• Prevent information leakage. With Show Hidden Files you can prevent information leakage, if one spiteful person would try to stole sensitive password protected file; 

• Force security policy. You will be able to let people know about file security, you will be able to make sure if people keep sensitive information in right place.

Recover password

There are some typical cases when you need to recover/crack password to password protected file:

• You might need to have access to some password-protected files

• Some former employee of your company left without un-protecting his files? 

• The passwords was occasionally lost

Recover password to password protected file

There are several approaches to password recovering. The password recover finds all possible combinations of characters ("bruteforce" method), or using passwords from lists ("wordlist" or "dictionary" method). 

• Dictionary Attack — password recovery program uses a dictionary of common words, phrases, names and quotes to guess the password.  

• Brute-Force Attack — finds a password by searching all possible character combinations. This method takes considerable time and is not useful when long password was used. 

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