Thursday, July 9, 2009

Remove VBA Password and the Competitors

How does our Remove VBA Password compare to the competitors. What makes it the most downloaded VBA password recovery tool on Download.com?

Our software removes the VBA password in a secure way. The password is always removed and it never damages the file. We think that this are the most important benefits of choosing it over the competitors.

It supports MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, FrontPage and Project files with exception of the MDB, ACCDB and MPD file formats (coming soon). MS Office 2007 is fully supported. Many users need this.

It is the only tool on the market that can unlock a locked (not password protected) VBA project.

Also the Pro edition of the software is the only one with command-line support, enabling you to include the VBA password removal functionality in your companies internal processes. We offer discounts for companies that need to purchase several licenses.

Currently Remove VBA Password doesn't support the VBA Backdoor, but we will add universal support for all VBA project hosts in another way.
Also the software doesn't calculate a replacement password for old VBA 5.0 files, but it can unprotect them without any problems. Does anybody use MS Excel 95 today?

Are there any new features that you would like us to implement? Please comment.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

How and Why is it Possible to Unlock Access MDE Files

MS Access MDE applications keep the forms and reports in the same format as the source files (MDB, ADP and ACCDB files). The MDE/ADE/ACCDE formats are almost the same as the MDB/ADP/ACCDB file formats.

However, the ability to make design changes and to add new forms/reports is locked in all MDE applications.

Our Unlock Access MDE Design software can remove this lock and allow users to make design changes to MDE applications.

Please don't forget to re-lock the MDE applications after editing.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Access MDE Applications

MS Access MDE applications are compiled Access applications. They behave somewhat differently then source (MDB, ACCDB and ADP) applications.

Let me explain some of the differences:

The VBA source code is removed by Access when an MDE application is created from the source file. The code is not hidden, it is simply not there. All that is left is VBA p-code, a sort of byte code used to run the VBA code logic.

The VBA source can be reverse-engineered from the VBA p-code and the identifier names (Sub, Function, Property, Const, Types and variables) can be recovered from a part of the file that is used by VBA in Access source files and other VBA host applications).
We do not offer an MDE decompilation service at the present time.

The design view of forms and reports is locked, but the forms and reports still exist in the source file's format.
Our Unlock Access MDE Design software can unlock them for changes.
Access tables, queries and macros can be edited without unlocking of the MDE application.

The VBA project, including the project references is locked.
Unlocking the project is useless, since the code is gone, this would only increase the probability of damages to the application.
The VBA password of the original VBA project is also gone.

Access MDE applications are, based on our experience, more stabile and robust then the source files and offer reasonably good security for the VBA code.

Monday, June 29, 2009

VBA Password Removal

How is it possible that a long and complex VBA password can be removed from a VBA project in seconds?

When a VBA password is provided to protect the VBA project, it causes a protection signature to be written to the file.
A locked VBA project uses a different, but similar signature.
The protection signature depends on the password, but the VBA code is not encrypted with the password. However, the protection is a part of the VBA project.

Our Remove VBA Password, removes this protection from the file, securely and instantly.

Trying to remove the protection without a good knowledge of the VBA protection scheme may result in damages to the VBA project and to other parts of the file.
However, nothing prevents a good VBA password recovery tool from removing the password in a blink of an eye.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

VBA Password

What is the VBA Password?

VBA password is NOT the password that protects the file from opening or modifying. It is not the MS Excel Workbook or Sheet Protection password either.

The password used to protect the VBA macros or entire applications written in VBA code, hosted inside MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access and many other applications files, is called the VBA password.The password can protect the code from altering and from viewing.

Our Remove VBA Password software can remove it, in case you forgotten or misplaced it.The software removes this, and only this password, in most file formats.It is one of the world leading software applications for doing that.

In next posts we will explain how VBA password removal is possible, compare features of Remove VBA Password to competing software features, write about the possibility of recovering the VBA password, locking the VBA code and breaking that lock, as well as using a VBA remover tool in custom software inside your company and about the exciting future of our VBA password remover.

Protect VBA Code Support

The bad economy is forcing the companies all over the world to reduce their production costs and Dombaj Soft is no exception to this rule.

In order to keep our Protect VBA Code software alive, we have no other choice except to charge for the Premium Support service.We think that the fairest option is to charge $19.95 per incident, keeping the product price low and the basic support free of charge.

The free support will exclude: simulating the problem environment (MS Windows and MS Office configuration) and other problem factors, debugging and fixing of the customers VBA code, and creating workarounds for issues related to the applied VBA protection.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Unlock Access MDE Design 2.0

We have released the 2.0 version of our Unlock Access MDE Design 2.0 software.

Now, any ADE application is unlocked instantly, without a need to repeat the unlocking process.
It works for ADE applications with 100 forms and reports as well as with one-form applications.