Cipher

I am sure that your memory can some times overflow and you suddenly forget your windows password or your Dial-Up connection password. There is a solution for this problem but you need to gain some knowledge in order to recover it. Windows although is a sophisticated system created by many programmers who most of the time are college students who attempt to program in C or C++ for their first time ;-) , is not very secure. Your passwords are stored inside your Windows directory and their extension called PWL. You can find it now , go to your Windows directory and press F3 , type in the search term -> *.pwl and you will see a list of files coming up. Your will realize that this files or file is having as filename your username or your computer’s name. “That was it.. ” you found where your passwords stored.

PWL files use RC4 encryption with 128bit key , although RC4 is good encryption, it is not very difficult to decrypt the hidden info. RC4 is been used by SSL in order to have FASTER tunneling for your important info , but why Windows need to have fast encryption ? .. No reason ! .

As you see your password is encrypted but not ! safe enough.

Next step is to find a recovery tool which can brute force your PWL file and give you the forgotten password. Plenty of them are out there free for you to use , CAIN is one (Search google for that) . Download your recovery tool and add PWL file.

Notice that you need a Username in order to start the attack , if you remember your username add it , if you don’t ! no worries , just add as user name the filename , so for example if your PWL file is called : cipher.pwl , put as username “cipher” .

That’s it , start your attack and after some time (dependes on how difficult your password was) your will have your password back.

I hope this tutorial can put you out of trouble.