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Cain and Abel

 
Wikipedia: Cain and Abel (software)
Cain and Abel
Logocain.png
Developer(s) Massimiliano Montoro
Stable release 4.9.35 / 2009-10-25; 51 days ago
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Type password cracking
License Freeware
Website http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) 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. Cryptanalysis attacks are done via rainbow tables which can be generated with the winrtgen.exe program provided with Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel is maintained by Massimiliano Montoro.

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Status with virus scanners

Some virus scanners, notably Avast! 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.

The latest version of Avast no longer blocks Cain.[citation needed]

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