Quicken 3.0 Back Door

Defeating the Quicken Password... 

Quicken stores the data in *.QDT files. The default is QDATA.QDT. You can password protect
either the File or the Transaction. The password protected transaction prevents you from changing
or deleting any transactions prior to a certain date. This generally does not affect our analysis, but
the file password prevents us from accessing the file through Quicken. 

The simple fix is using a copy of the *.QDT file (NEVER TRY IT ON THE ORIGINAL). Use
your favorite editor (mine is Norton's Disk Editor) and zero out the offsets 445, 446, 447 (Change
whatever hex value is there to "00 00 00" ). If you don't know what the hex is, refer to your notes
from Roland Lascola's Presentations on hexadecimal numbers. Otherwise, check any good text on
DOS for a refresher in hex math. Now go back to your copy of Quicken and the password should
be gone. 

If you need the back door changes for version 5.0 please e-mail me at amber@accessdata.com for
5.0 Quicken backdoor. 

This back door is provided as a courtesy of AccessData Corporation. If you have interest in
password recovery for any other applications please feel free to give us a call or e-mail us. Our
phone numbers are 800-489-5199 or 801-224-6970. E-mail amber@accessdata.com.