Recommend a utility for breaking passworded ZIP files

[Jered]

How do you pay someone less than "free?"

[308Mike]

How do you pay someone less than "free?"

Or perhaps to NOT take a beating?

[Kommander]

How do you pay someone less than "free?"

I am assuming that the time of the companies employees is worth something.

[Rich Jordan]

How do you pay someone less than "free?"

I am assuming that the time of the companies employees is worth something.

But the time of contracted support folks is worth considerably less unless is is separately billable; at this point we're not spending any more time on it. I'm not certain the customer is going to attempt the cracking, or ask us to. Just collecting info at this point.

Any interaction between the co. and its former employee is their deal, not ours.

[308Mike]

Do you have access to any of the ZIP files? They probably all contain the same password (if you're lucky), so cracking the smallest one might give you an idea how much time and work might be involved. Are any of them less than 1 MB, so you can drop it into an email?

[Aesop]

I'm assuming just scrubbing his hard drive and learning to live with disappointment would make too much sense?

Dollars to donuts it's either porn, or his manifesto about how, if he gets fired, he's going to kill you all because he's still a virgin.
Or a collection of computer viruses he hopes you'll open.
Or his great-aunt's 132 goulash recipes.
Or the hidden cameras shots from the women's restroom at work.
Who gives a F? Hit "flush", and move on.

[Rich Jordan]

Option 1 chosen. We wiped and rebuilt the system for them per their direction. The user didn't store anything in the redirected shares so the local copies were the only copies; no backups.

[308Mike]

Option 1 chosen. We wiped and rebuilt the system for them per their direction. The user didn't store anything in the redirected shares so the local copies were the only copies; no backups.

Too bad, I would have liked the chance to break one of his encrypted ZIP files.

[BobbyK]

Mike,

If you're that bored, I will provide you with something to do/crack.