KeePass Password Safe

Looking for a free password manager? In this age of technology, you need a password to do just about anything on your own computer. You have your Windows passwords, a few e-mail passwords, three or four IM accounts with passwords, and that’s just to start your day. Who can keep track of all those different usernames and passwords? KeePass, that’s who.

KeePass Password Safe software is the latest and greatest password manager available for download today. KeePass is an user friendly, open source program that keeps all of your passwords safe and sound, in one place and with maximum encryption. If you have any interest at all in online security – and you should be very interested –you need to download KeePass today.

What would happen if someone got a hold of that one password you use over and over again for all of your online accounts? You probably don’t want to even think about it. Download KeePass and you’ll never have to!

KeePass allows you to stop using the same password, because KeePass comes with a super powerful password generator that creates your passwords for you every time you need one. And your KeePass passwords are safer than anything you could make up yourself.

With KeePass, you only have to remember one master password to access your entire collection of passwords. Or you can have KeePass automatically generate random data to create a “master key” or key file that you could insert for access to your passwords. Your master password and key file are both protected by AES and Twofish, the two best encryption algorithms available. This encryption doesn’t just protect your passwords either. It safeguards your usernames and other files as well.

KeePass is portable. You can install it on your USB drive, and carry your password safe with you at all times.

KeePass has an import and export feature, with which you can easily import data from old password managers like Password Keeper or Password Agent, and KeePass has plugins to support other file formats. KeePass has other efficient features like auto-type and global hot keys, and for additional ease of use, KeePass has a drag and drop feature that lets you move all fields, including the username, password, URL and notes, into other windows.

KeePass securely uses Windows clipboard. A simple double-click on the desired field in your password list will quickly transfer the data to your clipboard. For added security, KeePass automatically clears the clipboard after pasting and only allows the paste feature to be used once.

KeePass is a safe for your passwords – all of them. Usernames and URLs too.

Download Password Safe here

There are too many passwords to remember these days – system login passwords, email account passwords, bank accounts password, social bookmarking passwords and more. If you understand the risks, writing all those passwords in a piece of paper is not a very brilliant decision to solve this.

The other problem is that we tend to use the same passwords for multiple different accounts, making it simpler for us to retrieve it when the need arise. But wait, just imagine the damage it will cause if somebody knows the single, same, insecure password of yours.

To overcome all these problems, I suggest that you try “Password Safe“, a freeware that helps to remember and store all your passwords locally, in secure databases encrypted with the TwoFish algorithm.

Password Safe lets you create one or multiple encrypted password database to save all your passwords. To access these databases, first you need to choose a master password. This is the single most important step of Password Safe. Make sure you key-in a hard to guess master password that you can remember easily!

Think of this as the front door key to your house – you don’t want to install a cheap lock for your front door, do you? Once this is done, you can enter all your usernames and associated passwords with ease from Password Safe’s interface.

Password Safe Features

Password Safe is the brain child of Bruce Schenier, one the leading gurus in thecomputer security industry. This leads to these wonderful features built in:

• Password groups/categories – I use this to differentiate my email password entries from my social bookmarking entries etc.

• Multiple encrypted database – Create different database for each group of passwords for higher security.
• Password Generator – If you don’t want to remember some mind boggling password combination, Password Safe takes all the hard work by generating and remembering it altogether.

• Autotype – Supply URL’s used for each password and you can login to your accounts without the need to type a password. This feature is also available from the system tray menu that can be activated with a right click. (Cool!)
• Double click entry for username/password copy – If AutoType fails, you can double click an entry to have its password copied to the clipboard.
• USB drive support – Install Password Safe inside a thumb drive to bring your passwords anywhere for maximum portability. Do choose the “Green” installation type for this to work.
• Password Policy – To have Password Safe generate the most secure password possible, define your password policy from the Manage -> Options menu.
• Password backup support – Essential feature for those who are afraid to lose their password’s databases.

So here you are now with three quick options – one is to remember your passwords inside a sometimes forgetful mind, two is to write them on a piece of paper and risk losing it, OR three, use Password Safe to generate, encrypt, store and retrieve all of your passwords locally in multiple, portable databases. Clearly, Password Safe is the best choice, and I believe you will agree with me. Try it today!

Actually, there is one other option also and that’s to use an online third party service to store all of your passwords so that you can retrieve them anytime from any computer. I wrote about the best online password manager a while back called PassPack. Storing your passwords online allows more flexibility, but some people feel their passwords are not as safe since they are stored on the Internet.

Download Password Safe here.

Download:Billeo

Having to remember multiple passwords for different websites is too much of a chore. Although Windows based computers have a way of remembering passwords for you, sometimes you require a little extra. Most internet users desire password managers, automatic form fillers, and a bill payment service. Instead of paying for each one of these components separately, it would be better to find anapplication that incorporates all of these features totally free.

Billeo is one of the best applications I have used in a long time. Not only does it give me access to three important features, but it is completely free of charge. ThePassword Assistant automatically saves your passwords for internet sites and will fill in the information each time you visit the site. You won’t have to kick yourself because you forgot your password or username. As soon as you visit the web page, the information will pop into the needed fields. This sensitive information will be securely stored on your computer. You will be able to easily update changes without going through a complicated process.

The Shopping Assistant comes in handy when you need to fill out online forms. Instead of having to type your personal information into each blank field, it will quickly input it for you. Shopping online will become a quick and enjoyable experience with this feature. After making your desired purchases, you will be able to conveniently save the transaction confirmation like a receipt. Saving your purchase information is an easy task with the Shopping Assistant. Organizing your financial records won’t be a problem with this useful function.

The Bill Pay Assistant is the perfect way to keep all of your monthly bills paid on time. Instead of having to write a check and then mailing a payment, you can quickly send it from this online bill payment system. Setting up your accounts for online bill payments will keep you from incurring late payments and fees. Not only can you make payments, but you can also set up easy bill reminders.

Billeo is the perfect tool for internet users that need to organize their passwords,finances, and online purchases. It is a free tool with major benefits to anyone that uses it. Just download the application and it appears in the toolbar for InternetExplorer or Mozilla Firefox. After just a few uses, you will wonder how you ever survived without using it. Instead of cluttering your computer with multiple applications, use this all in one application to fulfill your needs. Enjoy!

Secure Data Organizer is a free, professional grade password management program to securely organize and store your sensitive information.

With Secure Data Organizer you can: * Securely store and organize and your usernames, passwords and other personal data * Create website associations so your personal data appears when a specified website is detected in your web browser * Drag and drop personal data (such as a login or password) to a web browser field, eliminating the need to type in or remember your information * Measure your password strength using the password strength meter * Generate strong passwords using the built-in password generator * Instantly search all of your encrypted data * Export your Secure Data Records to a mobile device or PDA so you can access them on-the-go * Export/Import your Secure Data Records so that you can access them at a separate location, for example, at the office. Download Now! Secure Data Organizer v2.1.133 for Windows XP / Vista Alternate Download Links: Download from Download.com Download from Tucows Download from Windows Marketplace Download from Softpedia

Additional features of Secure Data Organizer are:
* Integration with Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Firefox.
* Open, published, and community-accepted encryption techniques
* Mobile version to access Secure Data Records on the go (Pocket PC and Smartphone)
* Import/Export to another location (e.g., the office)
* Advanced search capability, including search in encrypted data
* Open file format (XML)
* Highly polished and customizable User Interface
* Supports multiple users under one Windows XP login (e.g., for family use)
* Built-in customizable password generator
* Runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista, as well as on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
* Currently in testing at Microsoft for �Works on Windows Vista� compliance
* Of course, no ads, no spyware, or anything along those lines
* FREE


Pocket Secure Data Organizer is the Pocket PC / Windows Mobile version of Secure Data Organizer. You can use it to view your sensitive information on-the-go.

With Pocket Secure Data Organizer you can: * View your Secure Data Records on-the-go on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone * Rest easy knowing that your Secure Data Records are encrypted with maximum strength encryption algorithms, so that if your device is ever lost or stolen, your sensitive information will be safe * Supports Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, and Windows Mobile 2005. A version for smartphone is coming soon! * To install, copy the .CAB file (See download links below) onto your mobile device, browse to it using File Explorer, and then tap it. Pocket Secure Data Organizer will be automatically installed. * If you are using Pocket PC 2002, the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework v1.0 is required and can be downloaded here. Download Now! Pocket Secure Data Organizer v2.1.271 for Pocket PC 2002 Pocket Secure Data Organizer v2.1.271 for Windows Mobile 2003 and 2005 Alternate Download Links: Download from Handango Download from Softpedia

Download Excel password remover
How many times has happened that you set a password on an Excel spreadsheet or workbook and then you forget about it? or worst, the person that setup the password on the spreadsheet no longer works with you, and you have a spreadsheet that can’t modify. what do you do? easy, use Excel Password Remover.


This program does not remove password set to open a spreadsheet i.e. if you are unable to open the file because it asks you for a password, this program won’t help you. this program is to remove the password to be able to modify an existing password protected workbook or spreadsheet, with that in mind let’s proceed on how to use it.
Download Excel password remover from this link http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html the downloaded file should look like this:

Then open your password protected sheet, or workbook. after the password protected sheet is open, click to open the password.xla add-in. you should get a warning like this:

If you get a different message, probably you need to lower your security settings on yourexcel. If your current settings are high, set them to medium.
After you click on Enable Macros, you will get a pop-up saying the macro is loaded:

After you get the pop-up, on Excel go to Tools, and click on Unprotect workbook andUnprotect sheet.
You should get a pop-up window when your spreadsheet has been unprotected:

That’s it, your Excel workbook or spreadsheet should be now unprotected.

Download:Empathy

So why would you ever want to password protect a program?

Well, for lots of reasons! For example, maybe you have TurboTax installed on your computer, which does not have any built-in security, and you have other people who might use that computer. You certainly don’t want someone to be able to open TurboTax and see all of your financial information right!?

Currently, the only way to prevent someone from accessing that program would be to create another user account and secure your account with a password. However, there are always times when you just happen to forget to log off your account and someone comes along and sits down to use the computer.

Empathy is a cool program that allows you to password protect Windows programs and EXE files. It can modify any EXE file so that it will require the user to enter a password before it can be run. This is fabulous for someone like me.

Now I can password protect my FTP program, my financial programs, my chatapplications, etc to add additional security on top of passwords and prevent other people from accessing my data and sensitive software.

The other cool thing about the program is that if you copy or move the EXE file to another location or even to another computer, the password will still be required, even if the operating system is different! Now that’s pretty cool!

This is also a great utility for portable apps that you might have on your USB drive. Sometimes you end up having to let someone borrow your USB stick, which means your data could be accessed, even if you have passwords setup. Using Empathy, you can password protect your portable apss also in case you have to lend out or you end up losing your USB stick.

The protected files can be run on Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows Vista.

The only strange thing about the program is that when you download the program from his website, the unregistered version only allows you to use one letter to password protect a file.

Download:AsteriskLogger

I just got a new computer and was re-installing all of my apps like FileZilla and WinSCP, etc, which are used to connect via FTP to some of my web sites. However, I could not remember my FTP passwords for the life of me and I didn’t have to because they were all nicely saved in the the FTP programs!

Unfortunately, the passwords were all hidden by asterisks and there was no way for me to transfer the passwords to the new computer. Then I found out that there is a way to reveal passwords that hidden by asterisks easily using a program from NirSoft.

These guys are great because they have already written several cool programs that I have written about before like ProduKey, which can be used to view the product keys for Office, etc, and Mail PassView, which can be used to recover passwords for Outlook, Eudora and Thunderbird, and MessenPass, which can be used to recoverr passwords for IM programs like MSN Messenger, Google Talk and AIM.

AsteriskLogger is another fabulous program from them that will reveal any password from a program that uses asterisks automatically.

This program has some nice features that make it better than any other password revealer:

• No need to press a button to reveal a password. Simply open the program or window that has the asterisks and the password will be revealed inside the password box itself!
• In the main window, Asterisk Logger will display more information about the revealed password such as the date and time the password was revealed, the name of the application, and the executable file .
• You can save the passwords to an HTML file or to a text file also.

It works on Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. It even works on Windows NT, but you have to download some file called psapi.dll and put it in your System32 directory. Even without the file, you can still reveal passwords, it just won’t show additional info.

There are some places where you will not be able to see passwords because they don’t store the passwords behind the asterisks for extra security, including Netscape 6.X, dialup and network passwords in Windows, and Windows usermanagement tools. It will also not work for passwords stored in Internet Explorer.

Overall, it worked wonderfully for me since my FTP programs stored the passwords behind the asterisks and I was able to recover all of my FTP passwords. It’s also useful if you have VNC programs and for some email programs like Outlook Express and IncrediMail. Enjoy!

Instant messenger password recovery tools are really necessary for someone like me who has to use 5 different instant messenger applications to talk to family, friends, co-workers, etc. However, with all of those messengers, I end up forgetting my password on a few of them some times. Of course, you could have the same password for each one, but I’m in IT and and I’ll about multiple passwords for security reasons.

Either way, you can use a nifty little program from NirSoft called MessenPass that you can use to recovery Instant Messenger passwords. Another program I had written about earlier from NirSoft helped those who needed to recover passwords for email clients such as Outlook or Gmail called Mail PassView.

MessenPass works in the same way as Mail PassView by revealing your password and username. It supports many Instant Messenger applications, including

• MSN Messenger
• Windows Live Messenger
• Yahoo Messenger
• Google Talk
• ICQ Lite
• AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
• Trillian
• Miranda
• GAIM/Pidgin

The program can only be use to recover the passwords for the current logged in user on the local computer. Also, it only works if you have chosen to remember the password in any of the above mentioned programs. It can’t reveal the passwords if you do not have it saved.

Another program that you can use to recover MSN Messenger, Windows Live and Windows Messenger passwords is MSN Password Recovery. Again, however, this program requires that the password already be saved where you can you log on automatically.

Another good program for recovering instant messenger passwords is Advanced Instant Messengers Password Recovery. It will try to decrypt any passwords that might be stored on your computer.

Download:PSTPassword

There are a few tools out there that you can use to try and retrieve a lost PST password, one of which I have written about before called Mail Pass View, a free utility to recover lost email passwords.

If Mail Pass View does not work for you, another free program you can try isPSTPassword. You can use this program to recover PST passwords for Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, and 2007!
The cool thing is that you don’t even need Office in order to recovery the PST password, only the PST file itself. Just choose your PST file and it will give you several passwords that you can use to open it!

That’s what is really cool about this program, you don’t even need the original password to open a PST file. The way the that Microsoft Outlook stores the password is what makes it easier to hack.
Basically, instead of storing the original password in an encrypted form, which would be harder to break, Outlook stores a 32-bit hash value that represents the original password.
However, this hash value can be generated using many different combinations of letters and numbers. For example, if you set a password to “1234”, the file can be opened using these passwords also: “hkNkwC” and “YUWqKD”. Go ahead and give it a shot if you think this is fake.
Note that the program will automatically find any PST files stored in the current user profile under

Document and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

If you want a different PST file, just drag it into the window or press F7 to browse for the file.
This is the only program out there that I know that is free! All other PST password crackers are commercial software packages. If neither of these two programs work, you might have to end up buying something, but hopefully not! Enjoy!