We have just installed the latest beta of AIM (6.5.3.12) to test whether the passwords saved by this beta can be recovered using our AIM Password Recovery tool.
I am very happy to confirm that the latest beta is also supported by AIM Password Recovery and the passwords can indeed be recovered.
Let us know if it does not work for you.
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After analysing what our website visitors look for when they come to our site we have come up with a series of new pages/articles that offer solutions to the questions the visitors were trying to solve.
So, How to change Gmail password?
We have written a specific page on change Gmail password procedure.
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Today we wanted to see if we can add support for LAIM (AIM Lite) to our new AIM Password Recovery tool but stumbled upon the same issue as we did with AIM 4.8-5.x passwords. Currently, the recovery for LAIM is not possible because password hashes are stored on the local system. As I have explained earlier about password encryption in Skype hashes are non-reversible.
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LAIM\screen_name.txt has the following string:
aimcc.connect.host.passwordHash=hashed-aim-password
This is the exact location where the hashed AIM password is stored.
Things might change in the future and we constantly monitor AOL resources to get the fresh info asap but for now the LAIM password recovery is not possible.
Just checking today what algorithm was used in the recently released Windows Live Messenger 8.5. We’ve tested our Windows Live Password Recovery tool and are happy to say that it can recover saved passwords from Windows Live Messenger 8.5. The encryption method is the same as in versions 8.0 and 8.1.
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Contact: Maria Fletcher, press at reactive-software.com
Instantly Recover Windows Live Messenger Passwords
Oxford, England - September 2007 - Reactive Software has released Windows Live Password Recovery, a utility that instantly locates and decrypts the Windows Live Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Windows Messenger passwords stored on your computer. The program works when the “Remember My Password” checkbox is ticked in Windows Live Messenger, and you’re able to log in automatically, without having to type your password. Many people rely upon the computer to store their password, and realize later that knowing their password is critical to their business. Windows Live Password Recovery rescues you from these crises.
Many desktop owners let their computers remember their Windows Live Messenger password. When they purchase a laptop, and want to use the same password on their new computer, they can’t find their password. Windows Live Password Recovery can locate and decrypt their password instantly. Even if Windows Live Messenger has been uninstalled from the original computer, there is still a good chance that the password is saved and recoverable.
Similar crises occur when family members go away to college, get married, or relocate for other reasons. Windows Live Password Recovery can recover passwords from multiple accounts on a single computer. The program supports all versions of Windows Live Messenger, including Messenger Beta, MSN Messenger, and Windows Messenger.
Windows Live Password Recovery can help people who use Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail on their home computer. Often, they wish to access Hotmail from another computer, but don’t remember their password. The program can instantly recover their password, and allow them to access their Hotmail from an Internet cafe, a vacation hotel room, or a client’s office.
Windows Live Password Recovery is a valuable tool for business managers who need to access employees’ password-protected accounts. Whether the employee accidentally or deliberately lost track of their password, the business manager can quickly unlock the information, and gain access to the account. Similarly, Windows Live Password Recovery will help law enforcement and forensics professionals gain access to password-protected accounts.
There is a simple way to determine if Windows Live Password Recovery will work on a particular computer. Simply download, install, and run the free trial version. The program will tell you whether or not it was able to recover your lost password. If the program was successful, you can buy a software license for $15(US), and the program will show you the password that it recovered.
Windows Live Password Recovery runs under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, costs $15(US) for a single-user license, and may be purchased securely online from http://www.windows-live-password-recovery.com/. You can download a free trial version from the same web address. For more information on the full line of password recovery software from Reactive Software, visit http://www.reactive-software.com/.
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We are very proud to announce the new tool called AIM Password Recovery.
As you might have guessed from the name this program finds, decrypts and recovers passwords stored by AIM (AOL Instant Messenger).
Version 6 and above are supported at the moment. Our tool is possibly the first one to support the password recovery from the latest version (other tools offer recovery for AIM versions up to 4).
We could have done a release much earlier for the previous versions but the previous version (5) stored only password hashes locally. Password hashes can’t be easily reversed into decrypted passwords (only bruteforce or lookup, which are useless for any password longer than 7 characters).
New version (6) stores the passwords locally (although encrypted). To find out more about the encryption method - go to the AIM Password Recovery homepage.
Number of other Instant Messengers also store password hashes instead of decryptable strings on the local system e.g. ICQ (owned also by AOL), Skype and others. According to Wikipedia AIM article,
along with the release of AIM 6.0, AOL opened AIM to developers which allowed anyone to create a plug-in, or custom AIM client for Windows, Macintosh or Linux.“
I think that this must be the primary reason why AIM team had to switch back to storing the decryptable version of password locally.
Although it is possible to recover passwords from AIM versions below 4.8, we have not implemented this decryption in the tool since it is highly unlikely that you are still using any of these old versions. Give us a post in the comments if you need to recover AIM password from version below 4.8. We might consider adding it if we get enough requests.
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Back in the old days when we only just started up we had no direction on where we should be going and what we should do. We had no analysis tools to find out what recovery tools are in demand and we had no research info on what recovery was possible.
Over a year ago we bought a skype password domain in the hope that we would develop and upload Skype Password Recovery tool to the site. This was a very careless move. Little did we know that… (more…)
We regularly get posts like this:
Hello.
I don’t see a use for this software. If you don’t remember your (eugene: Google Talk) password, you can click on “I forgot my password” and reset it (by answering a question or receiving a link at your secondary address).
It feels nice to know that our software is useless. So what if:
…how do you recover your password in this case?
Other scenario:
I am a father of a young daughter and suspect she’s chatting to some unappropriate people about some unappropriate things. I have the right to know if that’s true (at least until she’s 18!). I want my daughter to be safe.
So what do I do then? Use the “secret question” feature? Yeah, right, I wish I knew the answer.
Our software is made for cases like that.
After discovering that Google Account information (login and password) are stored by Picasa2 (current version), we have decided to update the Google Password Recovery to version 1.07.07.07. The new upgraded version supports recovery of passwords stored by Picasa2.
We keep our promise - our recovery tools are probably the most sophisticated on the net - Google Talk Password Recovery is a good example of that. If any Google Account password is stored on your PC, Google Password Recovery will find & recover it!
Some details about the encryption method used by Picasa2 (as our systems programmer tells us): The password is encrypted/decrypted using a unique key through the RC1 encryption algorithm. The unique key is produced by making SHA1 hash of the Picasa Web Albums username.
One thing, which we thought was not the best practice from Google though - Picasa version information is not stored in the registry. Instead, it’s directly embedded into the executable.
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