Developer(s) Massimiliano Montoro Type password cracking Website www.oxid.it/cain.html | Operating system License Freeware | |
Stable release 4.9.56 / April 7, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-04-07) | ||
Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It can recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. Cryptanalysis attacks are done via rainbow tables which can be generated with the winrtgen.exe program provided with Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel is maintained by Massimiliano Montoro and Sean Babcock.
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Status with virus scanners
Some virus scanners (and browsers, e.g. Chrome 20.0.1132.47) detect Cain and Abel as malware.
Avast! detects it as "Win32:Cain-B [Tool]" and classifies it as "Other potentially dangerous program", while Microsoft Security Essentials detects it as "Win32/Cain!4_9_14" and classifies it as "Tool: This program has potentially unwanted behavior." Even if Cain's install directory, as well as the word "Cain", are added to Avast's exclude list, the real-time scanner has been known to stop Cain from functioning. However, the latest version of Avast no longer blocks Cain.
downloaded this and win. defender had this to say.... HACKTOOL:win32/vigorf.A (medium alert level) and HACKTOOL:win32/cain (also medium alert level)so not sure if this is a problem of just win.Defender freakin out.