RE: Simple crack of Word protected files: RTF

Subject: RE: Simple crack of Word protected files: RTF
From: Alan Bucher <bucherino -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:47:43 -0800 (PST)


I don't get it. If the document is password-protected, how do you
open it to re-save it? And if you can open it, then where is the
password protection?


Steve Schwarzman wrote:
>We got some Word files from a customer that were
>password-protected
>...
>The archives have recommendations on how to unprotect a protected
>Word doc when you don't have the password. These included using
>shareware or PDF, but I experimented and found that RTF also
>works. Saving as RTF, closing, then opening allowed me to
>unprotect the document without the password.

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