How to Use ZIP Password Geeker

Asunsoft ZIP Password Geeker is a program especially designed to help get forgotten or lost ZIP archives password back quickly. It offers four professional attack methods to choose from with their own advantages. And this article instructs you how to use it to recover your ZIP password step by step.

I. Download and install ZIP Password Geeker

Download ZIP Password Geeker from Asunsoft official website and then install it ready for beginning recovery.

II. Import the target encrypted ZIP document

Run the installed ZIP Password Geeker, and then click Open button on the top left corner or click File menu and then select Open File sub-item.

ZIP Password Geeker

In the Open File dialog, browse and select the target password protected ZIP document.

Then click Open button in the Open File window to import the target file to the program. Open zip file

III. Select attack type and make attack settings

Click the pull-down list under Type of attack, and you can see four types provided: Brute-force, Mask, and Dictionary and Smart. You select one of the attack types.

Select attack type following the tips:
Brute-Force Attack will try all possible password combinations to find back lost password.
Mask Attack can largely reduce password recovery time if you still remember the lost/forgotten password partially.
Dictionary Attack can quickly find your password back if you use regular words or phrases for password which come in the range of built-in dictionary.
Smart Attack can automatically and smartly try all possible characters combinations including all printable characters like numbers, letters and marks.

Make attack settings corresponding to the attack types you chose roughly like the following instructions:

Brute-force attack: Range setting and Length setting narrow down the password range to make it more specific to recover.
Mask attack: Range setting and define a mask. To define a mask means to tell the program what you are still remembering of your passwords. If you are sure that your password makes up of 6 characters and starts with letter A, then you can define it as: A*****.
Dictionary attack: Click Dictionary tab next to Length and select the target dictionary, which can be the AsunsoftDictionary or a dictionary created by you yourself.
Smart attack: Smart attack recovers automatically and smartly and thus needs no attack setting.

IV. Start recovery and copy the recovered password to open the password-protected ZIP file

Click Start button or click Attack menu and then select Start sub-item to start recovering your forgotten or lost ZIP password.

Click Copy button to copy the recovered password first and then click Open button to open the previously password locked ZIP file when you are in the following interface.

Recover password

With the above instructions, you can use it to get your forgotten or lost ZIP password back smoothly without any difficulties.