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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828                   Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6321 days Last view: 6321 days |
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A few years ago I made the mistake of buying an HP Pavillion XG843. That computer has since been destroyed, but I still have the system recovery CDs that came with it. They contain, among other things, copies of some old Office programs, and my mom wants to install them on her computer. We bought the system and the bundled software, and it's not installed on anything at the moment, so legally this shouldn't be a problem, but apparently HP didn't think of that scenario (or more likely just didn't care). The programs are all stored in password-protected .zip files (renamed to a.paq, b.paq etc). 
Running the recovery program on her computer isn't an option; it won't run on anything besides the computer it came with. In fact after I was forced to reformat the hard drive it wouldn't even run on that computer anymore.  I have a program doing a brute-force password attack on one of the files; it's gone though all the 1- to 6-letter passwords but it's going to take up to 80 days for the 7-letter ones, which is just plain no good. (It runs in the background, using very little CPU power, but still, that's a bit long to leave my computer on. And that's only the 7-letter passwords.)
So the question is, does anybody know the password for these files, or how to find it? I'm not going to pay HP for the privilege to ask them, since I know they won't tell me anyway.  I already looked through the first 100 results on Google.(edited by HyperMackerel on 05-15-06 03:15 AM) |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos   Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6320 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| Maybe you should look for alternatives? AbiWord, Gnumeric, OpenOffice.org? | |||
MathOnNapkins  1100  In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6320 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| If they are password protected zips are they self extracting? If they are self extracting, then perhaps you could crack them, as they would be standalone programs. It's either that or crack whatever zipping program notices the password protection. | |||
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6321 days Last view: 6321 days |
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No, they're just .zip files. I suppose trying to get the password out of the program itself is the best idea, but I can't even find the program.  There's just some disc-copy tool and a few data files. Probably one of them is a compressed EXE or some crap. |
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oblirator1 Red Goomba  Since: 11-28-05 From: Flint Last post: 6475 days Last view: 6475 days |
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| Did the disc contain a readme file?
Sometimes people like to hide things in there for resons. |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6320 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| Actually, try to do a plain text attack if you can. If it's standard Zip files encrypted, then that'd be simple. | |||
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6321 days Last view: 6321 days |
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That's what I'm doing, I think. Brute force attack using all uppercase/lowercase, digits, other symbols and space. It's doing ~10.5 million a second, but there's like 69 trillion possible 7-character passwords matching that. 
Originally posted by oblirator1 Nope, no documentation at all. |
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Karadur Red Paratroopa Since: 11-22-05 From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada Last post: 6565 days Last view: 6565 days |
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Just out of curiosity, I did a search for the ".paq" file extension on Filext.com, and from the description that's given, "Pandora" is the password you need. Either that, or the same thing with the "p" lowercase  You'll have to give it a try yourself though, as I don't know any place to get those files right now.
Oh, and congratulations on 2000 posts  Just noticed that while writing this, and figured it couldn't hurt to say.
Edit: I hope there's not a problem with me posting that potential password either I know you need it for those files, but it still feels like something that'd be against the rules  (edited by Kuxadarr on 05-17-06 04:16 AM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6321 days Last view: 6321 days |
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Holy crap, it worked. Thanks! I was going to search on Fileext.com too, but then I realized they were just .zip files and figured it wouldn't do any good.  (BTW, it was lowercase.)
And yeah, I noticed that was 2000 a few minutes ago.
Suppose this thread has served its purpose then. *closed* |
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