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An accountant is auditing 15 years of tax returns stored in encrypted Excel 2003 files (a weaker RC4 encryption). The standard software chokes on the old format. The Exclusive version, however, has legacy decryption modules that support *.xls (BIFF8) format. It recovers all 15 files over a weekend. Review: LostMyPass MS Excel Password Recovery – Exclusive
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