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Description of Advanced NT Security Explorer program from Softdepia.com:
XP system administrators for finding holes in system security. It analyses user password hashes, and tries to recover plain-text passwords. If it's possible to recover the password in a reasonable time, the password should be considered to be insecure. Some users like simple and easy to remember passwords, unfortunately. This program is very actual for NT/2000/XP workstations, where users can access a hard drive from other computer in the network and copy a SAM registry key, where password hashes are stored. Also, users can sniff a network and recover password hash from sniffer results. ANTExp will help you in your way to complete system security. In addition, ANTExp could be used for recovering lost passwords of particular users. Here is a brief list of ANTExp advanages: The program has convenient user interface. Works on all 32-bit systems from Microsoft: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP You can interrupt the program at any time and resume its execution later from the same point. The program is customizable: you can set the password length (or length range) and the character set to be used to generate the passwords. The program can dump password hashes from Registry and from memory (even if SYSKEY is installed), or load them from file. Very effective dictionary-based attack is available. No special virtual memory requirements. The program can run in the background mode. The program is very fast: about 900,000 passwords per second (on Pentium-III/450 CPU)
Advanced NT Security Explorer is a "Free to try" program. You can download and try it for an evaluation period.
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