CAIN & ABEL
Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It can recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks.
What's Unique about CAIN & ABEL
Added support for Windows 2008 Terminal Server in APR-RDP sniffer filter.
Added Abel64.exe and Abel64.dll to support hashes extraction on x64 operating systems.
Added x64 operating systems support in NTLM hashes Dumper, MS-CACHE hashes Dumper, LSA Secrets Dumper, Wireless Password Decoder, Credential Manager Password Decoder, DialUp Password Decoder.
Added Windows Live Mail (Windows 7) Password Decoder for POP3, IMAP, NNTP, SMTP and LDAP accounts.
Fixed a bug of RSA SecurID Calculator within XML import function.
Fixed a bug in all APR-SSL based sniffer filters to avoid 100% CPU utilization while forwarding data.
Executables rebuilt with Visual Studio 2008.
Added Windows Firewall status detection on startup.
Added UAC compatibility in Windows Vista/Seven.
Winpcap library upgrade to version 4.1.1.
More about CAIN & ABEL
Some virus scanners, detect Cain and Abel as 'malware' "Win32:Cain-B [Tool]". It's classified in Avast! as "Other potentially dangerous program". The author, and owner of oxid.it states that his programs are not Malware. Even if Cain's install directory, as well as the word "Cain", are added to Avast's exclude list, the real-time scanner will stop Cain from functioning.
