April 4th, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Vitas Ramanchauskas, vitas@lastbit.com
LastBit Software
1133 Broadway, Suite 706
New York, NY 10010
Phone/fax (877)684-2996
Email: vitas@lastbit.com
URL: www.lastbit.com


Software Developer Guarantees Password Recovery 

L I City, New York – April, 2001 – In this age of job transfers and high
employee turnover, it is not uncommon for companies to get locked out of
their own unfinished projects because former employees took with them
passwords to sensitive, password-protected documents and other computer
files. In answer to this growing dilemma, LastBit Software announced this
month the release of Office Password 2000 : unique guaranteed password
recovery application.
 
Office Password 2000 is able to recover lost or forgotten passwords
from documents and files created in these applications: MS Word, Excel,
Access, Outlook, MS Money, Quicken, MS Project, Symantec Act, Schedule+,
Lotus Organizer and more. 

LastBit Software fully backs its product, guaranteeing password recovery
from files created in all versions of MS Word and Excel. It may happen so
that Office Password 2000 is unable to crack a password soon enough.
Password protection in Word and Excel documents may not be bypassed;
therefore traditional password recovery methods must be used. A so-called
brute-force attack may take years of computation time on newest machines.
Records at LastBit show that approximately 20% of all passwords cannot be
recovered within a reasonable time limit. Therefore, approximately one out
of every five customers remains unsatisfied, his time and money effectively
wasted. This is where unique Guaranteed Recovery feature steps in to crack
the stubborn virtual lock within 2-3 days, regardless of password length.
It is easy to use, as the only required user’s input is selection of a
document to be recovered. OfficePassword becomes a product which guarantees
a 100% result.

Password recovery tools can be purchased online for $45. For more information
or to download a demo version, visit the LastBit Web site at www.lastbit.com.

Other available services include unique online password recovery service - 
a perfect no-hassle scheme, with no downloading, installing or fine-tuning
involved. It is a cost-effective solution for users who need to recover
locked data only once. Online password recovery service is available at
www.PasswordNow.com. 

If it comes to this measure – and usually it does not – LastBit is ultimately
concerned with customer privacy. Online recovery service is built in such way
that contents of a sensitive document are never actually transferred via
Internet. This way even the technical staff at LastBit cannot access the
contents of processed documents. This maintains document security, preserving
the concept of safe data handling.

Vitas Ramanchauskas (founder of LastBit Software) is a software developer and
cryptography expert with over twelve years of experience. He began as a
computer programmer in 1988 and developed his first shareware program in 1998.