gHacks technology news » password finder http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Scan Computer for password protected files http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/scan-computer-for-password-protected-files/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/scan-computer-for-password-protected-files/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:27:51 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/scan-computer-for-password-protected-files/ Did you ever loose track of all the password protected files on your system ? This happened to me just a few days ago when I was looking for a zip file that a friend send me which was password protected. I could not remember the name and location where I saved it to and since I tend to clear the history at each reboot I was not able to take a look at the software protocol of the transfer anymore.

I could ask my friend and admit that I did not look into it yet and make myself look a little bit lost or try to find the file by myself. I naturally decided to try to find it on my own first and use my friend as a last resort.

The application that helped me find it was the Passware Encryption Analyzer, the free version of it to be precise. This tool scans the computer or selected folders / drives for encrypted or passworded files. It lists everything that is found in a table with information such as name, location, file type and date modified.

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The software detects lots of different file types including archives, Microsoft Office documents that have been password protected but also other file types like pdf documents or Bestcrypt files.

The free version has the limitation that it is not able to recover the passwords but that should not be necessary most of the time.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/scan-computer-for-password-protected-files/feed/ 2 Add Search to Firefox Password Manager http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/add-search-to-firefox-password-manager/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/add-search-to-firefox-password-manager/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:37:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/add-search-to-firefox-password-manager/ If you save your usernames and passwords in Firefox you accumulate a huge list after time. That’s the case for me and I sometimes have to lookup a password because I can’t remember it correctly. The default Firefox Password Manager however offers such a rudimentary interface that it takes ages to find the website that I’m looking for.

There is no search and domains are sorted alphabetically starting with IP addresses and ending with https urls. If I want to find a password I first have to look for the urls with http which gives me several options, the site could be listed with its IP address, without www or with www. Then I have to do the same for https urls.

Password Finder is a Firefox add-on that adds a search box to the Password Manager of Firefox. Simply start typing numbers or letters and all matching results (sites that is) will be displayed while all others are hidden.

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It seems that the add-on is not developed anymore but it works flawlessly with the latest version of Firefox 2.

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