In this lecture, we are going to see how we can remove passwords from very old word files from word
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This lecture is for forensic investigators who happen to find very old files or you have very old word
documents that you want to crack the password.
This method can be used, but this lesson we are going to use a tool called go over what word is an
old utility to remove passwords from very old Microsoft Word documents?
It does not run on Windows ten or 11, so we will be running it on Windows XP Virtual Machine.
First of all, go to offshore, go our website and download the tool.
Don't expect it.
And copy the folder to Windows XP Virtual Machine.
Open the command terminal and use the following command to remove encryption.
Just give the name of the tool and the file name.
The tool will automatically remove the password from file.
Was the password is removed.
You can copy the file back to the machine and you can see the password has been removed.
Let's move to the demonstration.
So I have Windows XP virtual machine installed on VMware.
You can get an XP ISO from Internet Archive dot org and install it on your be aware.
Go to the official website.
Download the free version of Google Work.
So once downloaded, extract the folder.
And here we have desktop, which is already encrypted.
Look.
Copy the holder to Windows XP machine.
Click on Start run then type CMD.
You'll never get to go over Florida.
And use the command to remove the password.
Once it asks whether you want to decrypt this file, you need to type.
Yes.
And you can see that it has given the notification that the password has been removed.
Close it and copy the file back the Windows ten or 11 machine.
Open the document and you can see that password has been removed.