4.9.56 / AprilĀ 7, 2014; 4 years ago ( 2014-04-07) Website Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) is a password recovery tool for. 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. Cryptanalysis attacks are done via which can be generated with the winrtgen.exe program provided with Cain and Abel.
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( January 2016) Some virus scanners (and browsers, e.g. Chrome 20.0.1132.47) detect Cain and Abel as. Detects it as 'Win32:Cain-B Tool' and classifies it as 'Other potentially dangerous program', while detects it as 'Win32/Cain!4914' and classifies it as 'Tool: This program has potentially unwanted behavior.' Even if Cain's install directory, as well as the word 'Cain', are added to Avast's exclude list, the real-time scanner has been known to stop Cain from functioning. However, the latest version of Avast no longer blocks Cain.
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Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. Protected storage passwords; ARP spoofing IP to MAC Address resolver; Network Password Sniffer LSA secret dumper; Ability to crack.