System and Data Recovery Programs > Proactive Password Auditor > How to work with the program

When the attack is running or once it is completed, you can view and save some reports that can be accessed via Reports... button or by selecting Project | Reports... menu item. The following reports are available:

Users passwords

This report is produced as a CSV file (Comma-Separated Values), where every line includes user name, LM password (two halves merged together; if one half of LM password has not been found, it is shown as question marks) and NT password (if available). Such report can be imported into any program that supports CSV format (such as Microsoft Excel) for further analysis or charting.

Press Options to set up the fields to include: User name, User ID, Computer etc (see Memory of remote computer in Obtaining password hashes chapter for the full list of available fields).

Passwords by time (running total)

This is a graphical report that shows the current number of password recovered; it can be also copied to Clipboard or saved as .BMP file.

You can also save the report as an XML file. In the Options, set the fields you want to print into the output file; you can also ask whether to save all accounts, or only those the passwords have been found for. For every account, PPA writes the following data:

•Password Strength: Weak (recovery is possible in less than one day), Strong (from one day to one week) or Very Strong (more than one week)

•Password Charset: Alpha, Numeric etc

•Password Audit Method: Preliminary attack, Bruteforce attack, Dictionary attack or Rainbow attack

•Password Length Distribution