MessenPass v1.42 - Recover Lost Instant Messenger Passwords

Download MessenPass in zip file (mspass.zip) 

Description

MessenPass is a password recovery tool that reveals the passwords of the following instant messenger applications:

• MSN Messenger
• Windows Messenger (In Windows XP)
• Windows Live Messenger (In Windows XP/Vista/7)
• Yahoo Messenger (Versions 5.x and 6.x)
• Google Talk
• ICQ Lite 4.x/5.x/2003
• AOL Instant Messenger v4.6 or below, AIM 6.x, and AIM Pro.
• Trillian
• Trillian Astra
• Miranda
• GAIM/Pidgin
• MySpace IM
• PaltalkScene
• Digsby

MessenPass can only be used to recover the passwords for the current logged-on user on your local computer, and it only works if you chose the remember your password in one of the above programs. You cannot use this utility for grabbing the passwords of other users.

Known Problems

False Alert Problems: Some Antivirus programs detect MessenPass utility as infected with Trojan/Virus. Click here to read more about false alerts in Antivirus programs If your Antivirus software shows a false alert, you can use the following article that explains how to send a report about a false positive issue to your Antivirus company:

Installing MessenPass

MessenPass can be used without any installation process, simply by running the executable file (mspass.exe) from the zip file.
If you want to install MessenPass with automatic creation of program group icons and uninstall support, download and run the self-install executable file.

Using MessenPass

When you run MessenPass, it automatically detects the Instant Messenger applications installed on your computer, decrypts the passwords they store, and displays all user name/password pairs that it found in the main window of MessenPass. If from some reason, MessenPass fails to locate the installed Instant Messenger application, you can try to manually select the right folder of your IM application by using 'Select Folders' option (from the File menu). On the main window of MessenPass, you can select one or more password items, and then copy them to the clipboard in tab-delimited format (you can paste this format into Excel or Open-Office Spreadsheet), or save them into text/html files.

Command-Line Options

You can also save the passwords of your Instant Messenger applications without displaying any user interface, by using the following command-line options:

/stext <Filename>	Save all instant messenger passwords into a regular text file.
/stab <Filename>	Save all instant messenger passwords into a tab-delimited text file.
/scomma <Filename>	Save all instant messenger passwords into a comma-delimited text file.
/stabular <Filename>	Save all instant messenger passwords into a tabular text file.
/shtml <Filename>	Save all instant messenger passwords into HTML file.
/sverhtml <Filename>	Save all instant messenger passwords into HTML file. (vertical)
/sxml <Filename>	Save all instant messenger passwords into XML file.
/skeepass <Filename>	Save all instant messenger passwords into KeePass csv file.
/sort <column>	This command-line option can be used with other save options for sorting by the desired column. If you don't specify this option, the list is sorted according to the last sort that you made from the user interface. The <column> parameter can specify the column index (0 for the first column, 1 for the second column, and so on) or the name of the column, like "Software" and "Protocol". You can specify the '~' prefix character (e.g: "~User") if you want to sort in descending order. You can put multiple /sort in the command-line if you want to sort by multiple columns. Examples: mspass.exe /shtml "f:\temp\mspass.html" /sort 2 /sort ~1 mspass.exe /shtml "f:\temp\mspass.html" /sort "Protocol" /sort "User"
/nosort	When you specify this command-line option, the list will be saved without any sorting.

Translating MessenPass to other languages

MessenPass allows you to easily translate all menus, dialog-boxes, and other strings to other languages.
In order to do that, follow the instructions below:

1. Run MessenPass with /savelangfile parameter:
   mspass.exe /savelangfile
   A file named mspass_lng.ini will be created in the folder of MessenPass utility.
2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
3. Translate all menus, dialog-boxes, and string entries to the desired language.
4. After you finish the translation, Run MessenPass, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
   If you want to run MessenPass without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.