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Have you ever had a Microsoft Office document that was locked and you really needed to unlock it? A friend had this problem a while ago and I might have been able to help had I known about Accent Office Password Recovery (AOPR) published by Accentsoft.
The software mounts one of three types of attacks to "crack" the protection. These attacks are brute force, mask-based and dictionarybased attacks. A dictionary-based attack tests possible passwords based on a list of possible passwords, and can be very successful when a naive (or lazy) user has chosen a predictable password.
With AOPR you can use any number of dictionaries and a large number of specialized dictionaries can be downloaded. You can also create your own dictionary; these are just plain text files with one word per line.
AOPR can be configured to try each word along with any or all of the following options: working through all combinations of lower and upper case, interchanging adjacent characters, skipping characters, and appending numeric characters to...