ZIP Password Finder v 1 : README ================================= Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation" chapter) before installing

the program to your computer. Contents -------Distribution status Program information Company information Description Using ZPF Copyright and license Technical support =================== Distribution Status =================== ZIP Password Finder is a freeware and you can ; give exact copies of the origina l evaluation ZIP Password Finder to anyone; and distribute ZIP Password Finder i n its unmodified form via electronic means (Internet, BBS's, Shareware distribut ion libraries, CD-ROMs, etc.). You may not charge any fee for the copy or use of ZIP Password Finder itself, but you may charge a distribution fee that is reaso nably related to any cost you incur distributing the evaluation ZIP Password Fin der(e.g. packaging). You must not represent in any way that you are selling the ZIP Password Finder itself. Your distribution of the ZIP Password Finder will no t entitle you to any compensation from Astonsoft. You must distribute a copy of this EULA with any copy of the ZIP Password Finder and anyone to whom you distr ibute the ZIP Password Finder is subject to this EULA. =================== Program information =================== Program Archive Name: zpf.exe Program Name: ZIP Password Finder Program Version: 1, Beta Program Release Date: 08.02.2001 Program Description: Powerful zip password recovery tool. Target OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Software type: Freeware Company information ------------------Company Name: Astonsoft Ltd Contact E-mail Address:

maxim@astonsoft.com Contact WWW URL: http://www.astonsoft.com/ Contact Postal Address: Mahtra 42-21 Tallinn 13812 Estonia =========== Description =========== ZIP password finder is a completely free tool to recover zip archive passwords. A lot of functions/attacks, nice easy to use interface and $0 price make it the best choice for .zip password recovery. ========= Using ZPF ========= 1. Select the file: press "Open file" 2. Select starting password- this is in case you had stopped recovery earlier an d want to prolong it. 3. If you need to recover the password for one particular file in the archive, y ou can select it in the section FileSpec. Not mandatory. 4. Load last saved password. The program creates a file savepassw.txt in the dir ectory of a .zip file, which containes the last tried password. If you had stopp ed the attack, not having found the password and want to prolong the attack - ch oose the .zip file and press "load last saved password". If the file savepassw.t xt exists, the attack will start from the last tried password (i.e. you do not n eed to start it over again) 5. Then, choose the type of attack. You have a number of options, which are pret ty self- explaining. "NonAlphaNumeric" means all symbols like &^$><, etc 6. Press start. Here we go. This is a beta version, please report any bugs to max@astonsoft.com Thank you! ===================== Copyright and license ===================== See "license.txt" file. ================= Technical support ================= Before you contact us, please do the following: - Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make mistakes sometimes... Be attentive. - Visit PDG home page in the Internet at http://www.astonsoft.com/. It's a good chance that you'll find the newer version of PDG there. If the serious bug has been found in the program, but the new version is not ready yet, we make the hot fix for it. But if you still have a problem with PDG and nothing else helps, please contact technical support at:

support@astonsoft.com If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases, please don't hesitate to post them to us.