Proactive Password Auditor 1.70 Build 2805

3.8 out of 5 stars 3.8 (8 votes)

(April 6, 2007)

Windows 2000/2003/XP / Shareware; $299.00 / 5,349 downloads

Proactive Password Auditor is a password security test tool that's designed to allow Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and 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.

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    azimov

    Reviewing 1.51 (Jul 31, 2005)

    it refused to work on my AMD64 based system. Kept saying that I needed to disable DEP. Obviously, this can't be done on an AMD64 ....
    I tried to add it to the disable list... still no joy. So, to protect ones security ... Get an AMD64?

  2. 4 out of 5 stars
    scodan

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 1 Build 1110 (Nov 25, 2003)

    I am told by the author that it is intentional for brute-force attempts to be limited to 14 characters (because of the infeasibility of brute-force attacks on relatively long passwords). But it still shouldn't pop up and tell you that it accepts lengths up to 255. :)

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    olorinpc

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 1 Build 1110 (Nov 23, 2003)

    The program so far seems to be working fine and as stated it would. Though I fail to see how someone could take points off for it not cracking a password quick enough.

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    admiraljustin

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 1 Build 1110 (Nov 19, 2003)

    Can't give it a 5, since it's been a half hour and it's still going, though according to the parameters needed to find my password, it could take up to a couple of days or more.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    DigitalSin

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 1 (Nov 5, 2003)

    Very nice. Cracked my german (with additional chars suffixed) XP account pw in about 20 mins.

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  1. Oct 25, 2009 - 7:48 AM
    charmingirl

    i give it a 4 for beta its good i use it regulary can hang inbetween changing skins if change them in a role the advanced sexy costumessexy Lingeriefetures dont do anything though suspose to stop popup windows but doesnt atleast on my sytem but makes explorer look much better so thumbs up on this one unlike windowblinds that is very bugy

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