Hello vla1,
Thank you for your question.
Indeed, there are not only utilities but services to recover winzip
and other passwords.
Password Bully offers both:
http://www.passwordbully.com/index.htm
At Password Bully we specialize in recovering lost or forgotten
passwords. Choose software or service for your recovery needs. With
service, you leave the hard work to us. If we fail to recover your
document, you don't pay.
Lost Password
http://www.lostpassword.com/
For WinZip in particular:
http://www.lostpassword.com/zip.htm
Zip Key is a program to recover passwords for ZIP archives created
with WinZip, PKZip or any other ZIP-compatible software.
Features
New Zip Key decrypts most of WinZip archives in less than an hour with
our new SureZip™ Recovery
All versions of WinZip and PKZip are supported
Fast password recovery engine - up to 3,500,000 passwords checked per
second on an average P-II system
Brute-Force, Xieve™, SureZip™, Known Plaintext or Dictionary attacks
are used to recover the password
Additional user dictionaries support, case changes, multiple mistypes
and other modifications for each dictionary word
Program automatically saves password search state and can resume after
a stop or a crash
Patterns can be used to minimize search time if any part of the
password is known
Non-English characters in passwords are supported
Self-Extracting Zip Files (SFX) are supported
Full install/uninstall support
This product is $45
ElcomSoft
http://www.crackpassword.com/advanced_archive_password_recovery.html
Advanced Archive Password Recovery (ARCHPR) can be used to recover
lost or forgotten passwords to ZIP (PKZip, WinZip), ARJ/WinARJ,
RAR/WinRAR and ACE/WinACE (1.x) archives. At the moment, there is no
known method to extract the password from such compressed files, so
the only available methods are "brute force" and dictionary attacks
(for ARJ and ZIP formats, known-plaintext attack is also available).
In fact, Advanced Archive Password Recovery accumulates all the
features of Advanced ZIP Password Recovery and Advanced RAR Password
Recovery, can also break password-protected ACE 1.x and ARJ archives,
and supports Guaranteed WinZip attack, not available in Advanced ZIP
Password Recovery.
Download FREE trial version of Advanced Archive Password Recovery from
our web site! Trial version can be used during 30 days after
installation and has some limitations.
You can order the fully licensed version of Advanced Archive Password
Recovery over the Internet with any major credit card. Full version
costs $60 (Personal license) or $120 (Business license). With the
Personal License, you can use the program for non-commercial purposes
in non-business, non commercial environment. To use the program in a
corporate, government or business environment, you should purchase a
Business License.
LastBit Software
http://lastbit.com/zippsw/default.asp
Zip Password:
Fastest password recovery tool for Zip/WinZip/pkzip archives
Zip Password features fantastic search speed: up to 1,000,000,000
passwords per minute! Make no mistake, one billion passwords per
minute (over 10,000,000 passwords per second).
Known plain-text attack is implemented. For you, this means that if
you have a plain unencrypted copy of any file from the archive, you
can decrypt the entire archive within 24 hours regardless of the
password length.
Easy to use. All you have to do is just to select the archive from
within a program.
Zip Password is able to handle archives containing only one encrypted
file.
ZIP files created by various software packages in all compression
modes are supported.
Self-extracting archives are supported.
The program is highly customizable: you can control and tune recovery
process.
Dictionary attack and hybrid dictionary attack are available.
You can interrupt the program at any time and resume the recovery
process later.
Smart Force Attack technology is implemented.
This program sells for $35
And, ZipUnlock
http://www.zipunlock.com/
This site provides WinZip and Zip password recovery software. We've
put together the information and tools you need to recover your file.
You can download and try out WinZip password recovery tools that we
have tested and reviewed or view a detailed FREE guide to recovering
your WinZip / Zip file.
Might be a good place to start.
There are many more like this. In my experience, some work better than
others and you might try a free trial or two to see if you get
results. If you want to view more programs like this, repeat my
search:
winzip +password +lost OR forgotten OR crack OR break
://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=winzip+%2Bpassword+%2Blost+OR+forgotten+OR+crack+OR+break&btnG=Google+Search
I trust my research has put you on the road to recovering your files.
If a link above should fail to work or anything require further
explanation or research, please do post a Request for Clarification
prior to rating the answer and closing the question and I will be
pleased to assist further.
Regards,
-=clouseau=- |
