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Merry Christmas to you all!

Just wanted to say thanks to these guys who have announced the new version of Google Talk Password Recovery in their blogs:

• imessengr.com
• customizetalk.com
• messenger.es (Spanish)
• genbeta.com (Spanish)
• amigomensajero.com (Spanish)
• downloadblog.it (Italian)

There has been a substantial amount of downloads from these sites. Thanks a lot chaps!

Original GTalk Password Recovery description:
Google Talk Password Recovery is a utility for finding and decrypting Google Talk, GMail and Picasa passwords that are stored on your computer with a click of a button! This password decoder works when “Remember Password” checkbox is ticked in GTalk instant messenger. Passwords from multiple profiles can be recovered, all versions of Google Talk are supported. This password decoder will also find a saved password from Gmail Notifier & Picasa. Google services passwords from Firefox and Internet Explorer are recovered too. This is possibly the best password decrypter for Google passwords that you can find on the internet!

Links:

• Download the new version of Google Talk Password Recovery
• Google Talk Password Recovery homepage

We’ve gotten our hands onto the leaked version of Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta today. It was nice to know that the algorithm for storing Windows Live passwords is the same as in the latest official version (Windows Live Messenger 8.5) hence we can confirm that our Windows Live Password Recovery tool can decode passwords stored by Windows Live Messenger Version 2009 (9.0.1407.1107).

Links:

• Download Windows Live Password Recovery
• Visit Windows Live Password Recovery homepage

AIM is by far the most popular IM on the market with 53 million active users. Many people tend to keep their password saved on the AIM so that they don’t have to type it in every time they switch on their PC. Once they enter it, they never have to use it again until they want to move their AIM account to another PC. Just at this time they realise that they have forgotten what their AIM password is.

You could reset your forgotten password through the official AOL password reset page unless of course you don’t have access anymore to your email you used to register your AIM screenname or the date of birth you entered was wrong.
There is still a chance if that “unless” scenario is true:

Previous versions of AIM stored passwords in the hash form (not possible to decrypt). The latest generation of AIM (version 6) stores passwords in the decryptable form.
A tool that recovers forgotten AOL Instant Messenger Passwords is called AIM Password Recovery

This is likely to be the first tool to be able to recover passwords from the latest AIM since version 4.8.

Links:

• Download AIM Password Recovery
• AIM Password Recovery homepage

AOL released the new version of the most popular instant messenger in the world - AIM 6.5.4.16. The password encryption algorithms embedded in the version 6.5.4.16 are the same as in the previous versions.

AIM Password Recovery is confirmed to work with the latest version 6.5.4.16.

Links:

• AIM Password Recovery homepage
• Download AIM Password Recovery

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.

Links:

• AIM Password Recovery homepage
• Download AIM Password Recovery

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.

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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.

For Immediate Release

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/.

Evaluation Copy Available on Request

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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.

Links:

1. AIM Password Recovery homepage
2. Download AIM Password Recovery

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…)