Proactive Windows Security Explorer 1.0 -
A password security test tool that's designed to
allow Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP-
based systems administrators to identify and close
security holes in their networks. Proactive
Windows Security Explorer helps secure networks
by executing an audit of account passwords, and
exposing insecure account passwords. If it is
possible to recover the password within a reasonable
time, the password is considered insecure. 
The software supports a few different methods of
obtaining password hashes for further attack/audit:
from dump files (generated by 3rd party tools like
pwdump/pwdump2/pwdump3), Registry of local computer,
binary Registry files (SAM and SYSTEM), memory of
local computer, and memory of remote computers
(Domain Controllers), including ones running Active
Directory. It can use brute-force and dictionary
attacks on LM and NTLM password hashes, effectively
optimized for speed. 
