Advanced Office 2000 Password Recovery (professional edition)
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(c) 2000 Andy Malyshev & Ivan Golubev, Elcom Ltd.


* System requirements
* Overview
* Registration
* History
* Contact information


System requirements
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- Pentium or higher CPU
- 8 megabytes RAM
- Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT operating system
- less than 2 megabytes of space on hard disk


Overview
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Advanced Office 2000 Password Recovery (or simply AO200PR) has
been designed for recovering the lost passwords for the
documents/files created in the following applications:

- Microsoft Word
  - password to open
  - password to modify
  - document protection password
  - VBA project password
- Microsoft Excel
  - password to open
  - password to modify
  - workbook password
  - shared workbook password
  - sheet passwords
  - VBA project password
- Microsoft Access
  - share-level password
  - database owner info (user name and security ID)
  - user-level passwords (system databases)
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97
  - VBA project password
- Microsoft Project
  - password to open
  - password to modify
  - VBA project password
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Money
- Microsoft Backup (Windows 95/98)
- Microsoft Schedule+
- Microsoft Mail
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3/4/5 (Content Advisor)
- Visio 4/5 (VBA project password)
- VBA "backdoor" feature (works for all MS Office 97
  and Office 2000 applications, as well as other programs
  which have VBA projects)

The program is compatible with all international (non-US)
versions of MS Office.

Please note that "password to open" in Word/Excel 97/2000
is very strong and cannot be decrypted instantly. AO2000PR
uses brute-force and dictionary attacks (plese look at the
help file for details); generally, if this password is long
and well-selected, it cannot be recovered. Other passwords
in MS Office 97/2000 (and all passwords in older versions of
MS Office), however, are weak, and AO2000PR gets them in a
matter of seconds.


Registration
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Unregistered (trial version) has some limitations; fully
registered version costs $150. See "order.txt" for more 
details.


History
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See "whatsnew.txt".


Contact information
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Please send your suggestions and bug reports to
support@elcomsoft.com (don't forget to mention what version
of AO2000R you're using). The most current version of AO2000PR
is always available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/ao2000pr.html

Other password recovery products (for ZIP, ARJ, RAR and ACE
archives; individual Microsoft Office components and other
Microsoft software; Lotus Organizer, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus WordPro,
Lotus Approach; Paradox, Symentec ACT!, Intuit Quicken and
QuickBooks, Adobe Acrobat PDF) are available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html