Top 15 Kon-Boot Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Kon-Boot is an prototype piece of software which allows to change contents of a linux kernel (and now Windows kernel also!!!) on the fly (while booting). In the current compilation state it allows to log into a linux system as 'root' user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to root. For Windows systems it allows to enter any password protected profile without any knowledge of the password.
Entire Kon-Boot was written in pure x86 assembly , using old grandpa-geezer TASM 4.0. ...

1. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Windows stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible. But thanks to a German(?) named B.D, I've now made a program......

2. recALL

recALL recALL is free and portable multifunctional password recovery and auditing solution for Windows - instantly finds and recovers passwords from more than 200 popular applications (FTP, E-mail clients, Instant Messengers, Browsers) and recovering licenses from over 2800 programs.......

3. cRARk

cRARk Free and fast utility to crack RAR/WinRAR and 7-zip passwords on CPU and GPU......

4. Cain & Abel

Cain & Abel Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords......

5. WinRar Remover

WinRar Remover With all the commotion going on around the internet about data protection and privacy, you may find yourself inconvenienced. No, I’m not talking about annoying protesters and activists. I’m speaking of the crowd of users that now like to password protect all of there public releases, stopping you from enjoying......

6. LiveDump

LiveDump LiveDump is a simple memory dumper which will either dump a region of memory once to a file or constantly dump it every X many milliseconds.......

7. SterJo Wireless Passwords

SterJo Wireless Passwords SterJo Wireless Password is FREE utility for recovering your lost wireless passwords of your network. As the number of devices using wireless network increases same as the need for more security, it often may happen your password containing letters, numbers and special characters to be forgotten in time. So instead......

8. John the Ripper

John the Ripper John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM......

9. OperaPassView

OperaPassView OperaPassView is a small password recovery tool that decrypts the content of the Opera Web browser password file (wand.dat) and displays the list of all Web site passwords stored in this file. You can easily select one or more passwords in the OperaPassView window, and then copy the passwords list......

10. Stellar Phoenix Server Password Recovery

Stellar Phoenix Server Password Recovery Stellar Phoenix Server Password Recovery uses ingenious methods to effortlessly reset the password of any Windows Server based system, which is configured to be the domain controller. Resets passwords meeting the norms of Windows server password policy Easy to use interface to facilitate smooth Windows server password recovery Available as......

11. mSecure

mSecure mSecure keeps your data safe because it uses the ultra-secure 256bit blowfish encryption to protect personal information such as account numbers, usernames, passwords and more. mSecure is more than a password manager in that it provides 17 popular personal information templates with the ability to create custom templates to make......

12. iAidsoft Windows Password Recovery

iAidsoft Windows Password Recovery Forgot windows password and cannot log in windows system? Don't panic. iAidsoft windows password recovery can help you reset windows password instantly, it supports CD/DVD or USB Drive to reset windows password.......

13. L0phtCrack

L0phtCrack L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called L0phtCrack 6) originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid attacks, and rainbow tables. It was one of the crackers'......

14. Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other......

15. ophcrack

ophcrack Ophcrack is a Windows Password cracker based on Rainbow Tables.Features Cracks LM and NTLM Windows hashes Free tables available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 Brute-force module for simple passwords Audit mode and CSV export Real-time graphs to analyze the passwords LiveCD available to simplify the cracking Loads hashes from......