Hy.
I need some help whith a file. I zipped a file whith password with Winzip and I don't remember the password. What can I do?
I know that maybe it's not a apropriate question but I need help becouse it's an important file.
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Hy.
I need some help whith a file. I zipped a file whith password with Winzip and I don't remember the password. What can I do?
I know that maybe it's not a apropriate question but I need help becouse it's an important file.
call the the winzip gods and tell them that you need to find the magick words
1. This is cosmos, probably the least sensible place to put your post.
2. There is about a 95% chance that you are trying to open a zip file that isn't yours/you shouldn't be looking in
3. Before you ask, search for it at www.google.com
yes your right you do need help
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=life
there now go to that link and see i you can get one :D
v_Ln
go to the website u download your file and look around for the password. Lemme guess, u donwloaded some warez and they were password protected. LOL....ok try that, and make sure u click on their vote button, and look around their site for the password ;)
Get passware http://www.lostpassword.com/
Will do the trick
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Hey man i did that by accident because I saw the link on the bottom of the page. I saw the date only after had posted. There is no need to be an ass about it. I was just trying to help.
ok that .... but u also gave a wrong answer ...he asked for a password to open his ZIP file not the file he downloaded .....Quote:
Hey man i did that by accident because I saw the link on the bottom of the page. I saw the date only after had posted. There is no need to be an ass about it. I was just trying to help.
I think what phoenix was trying to say is that whatever file he downloaded, is zipped..and to unzipp it, it requires a password, and that the password is located somewhere in the website where he downloaded the file. Warez sites do that and its very annoying lol. Anyways...could u give us some more information?
http://www.webattack.com/get/zippwfinder.shtmlQuote:
I zipped a file whith password
http://www.softwareworld.org/utiliti...d_recovery.asp
http://www.computer-software-solutio..._processor.asp
OKAY this is the way I see it: anyone who would download "Warez" must be smart enough to find a zip file password cracker? Google or some such search engine would find one. I even have one myself, supplied on the cover CD of a UK computer magazine.
Where I am, we believe in "innocent until proven guilty" (I guess there is something in the US Constitution along those lines?); so I am assuming the question is innocent. I believe that the "answer" has already been provided by other members more precise than that to which I have alluded in my first paragraph?
The lesson is: don't try to outsmart yourself. I protect files with passwords, but only to stop hackers getting to them or their being modified by malware. Why not use the same general security password for all such files?...somthing simple like your mother's unmarried name spelt
backwards plus your date of birth? I doubt if you would forget that, and it would take a hacker longer than they have patience for to crack it.
Write it down!!!....hey, they aren't going to burgularise your appartment and hack your PC at the same time are they?
Malware will have no chance, as it cannot afford the extra baggage of password cracking algorithms. "Password" or blank is about the best shot you might expect.
Good luck
Better advice is to use something such as PGP/GnuPG/etc to encrypt all of your passwords with a single, next-to-impossible-to-break passphrase (ie. use a complete mocked up sentence). Yes, you forget that passphrase and you are screwed, blued and tatooed (just where did that phrase ever come from, anyway? and more importantly, why did it suddenly come out of my mouth... hehe).Quote:
Originally posted here by nihil
Write it down!!!....hey, they aren't going to burgularise your appartment and hack your PC at the same time are they?
But yes... I keep all of my passwords encrypted and signed to me, with my own public key, "for your eyes only," in one of the many encypted files on one of my machines... you can also use something like Secret! for your Palm, if you're in to the PDA thing...
use google to find a password cracker for zip archives