Proactive Password Auditor 1.60
(c) 2003-2006 ElcomSoft Co.Ltd.


= Contents =

  System requirements
  Overview
  Registration
  Contact information


= System requirements =

- Windows NT 4.0 SP4+, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
- about 4 megabytes of free space on hard disk

For additional requirements, see PPA manual.


= Overview =

Proactive Password Auditor (PPA) is a password security test tool that's designed to allow Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003-based systems administrators to identify and close security holes in their networks. Proactive Password Auditor helps secure networks by executing an audit of account passwords, and exposing insecure account passwords. If it is possible to recover the password within a reasonable time, the password is considered insecure. The software supports a few different methods of obtaining password hashes for further attack/audit: from dump files (generated by 3rd party tools like pwdump/pwdump2/pwdump3), Registry of local computer, binary Registry files (SAM and SYSTEM), memory of local computer, and memory of remote computers (Domain Controllers), including ones running Active Directory. The product features brute-force and dictionary attacks on LM and NTLM password hashes, effectively optimized for speed, plus "rainbow" attack, that uses pre-computed hash tables that allow to find most passwords in minutes instead of days or weeks.


= Registration =

Unregistered (trial) version of PPA expires in 60 days after first use, and has some limitations (see help file for more information). After you register (look at "order.txt" for details), we will send you your personal registration code. To enter it into the program, just select [Help] | [Enter registration code] menu item.


= Contact information =

Please send your suggestions and bug reports to support@elcomsoft.com; don't forget to mention what version of PPA you're using, what is your operating system (incuding Service Packs), and as much details on the problem as possible. The most current version of PPA is always available at:

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

Other password recovery products (for ZIP, RAR, ACE and ARJ archives, Microsoft Access 2/95/97/2000/XP databases (including user-level passwords and owner information), Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Backup, Microsoft Project, Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Symantec ACT!, instant messengers (ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL IM etc), email clients (TheBat!, Eudora, Pegasus etc), Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3, Approach and Organizer, Corel WordPerfect, Paradox and QuattroPro, Windows PWL/RAS/dial-up/VPN/shares/asterisked passwords, Windows 2000/XP/2003 Encrypting File System on NTFS) are available from our web site at:

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