Crack Password Protected Vba Project Unviewable Vba

Tools -> VBA Project Properties Also pops the same 'Project Locked' 'Project is unviewable' msgbox.:(If there is a password I can guess it but I'm never prompted for one. Nor do any settings hint it's protected.

I recently needed to unlock an Access VBA Project for which my client had lost the password. I was surprised to find that there was an incredibly simple hack that can unlock any Access password protected VBA project and I figured I’d share in case it could help others.

Make a copy of the database in question and only work with the copy. Never work with the original database file just in case anything goes wrong.

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Open the database file in any HEX Editor of your choosing. Find any and all occurrences of the term DPB= and change the B to another value (many tutorials suggest x, but it doesn’t seem to truly make any difference) Once you have replaced all the occurrences, perform a Save As to save these modification under a new file. Open the newly saved file in Access (like you would normally) and then go into the VBA editor. You will receive several error messages, simply dismiss them all (and yes, there can be quite a few!). Open the Database Properties which will now have no password specified. Enter a new password and confirm it to resecure the VBA Project with a known password.

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Save the VBA Project Close the database That’s it, everything should now be in order. Use your database as you normally do. With regards to Access in particular, being unlike any of the other Office applications, this illustrates the critical importance of always distributing your front-end as an mde/accde (by converting the db to mde/accde the VBA is completely inaccessible, hack or no hack) to your end-users where security is even mildly a concern (which is pretty much everywhere nowadays!). So take the extra 5-10 second, compile your databases and distribute the compiled version instead of the master mdb/accdb. This entire experience has drastically changed my opinion on overall Office/Access security and securing VBA projects as it appears to be completely futile! I’m surprised that with the importance of security in 2018 that Microsoft leaves it so very simple to hack this password.

You can unlock an Access VBA project in about 30 seconds with freely available tools. I’m also hoping that by shedding some light on this issue perhaps Microsoft will make the necessary changes to start protecting people’s information properly. This is completely unacceptable in 2018 IMHO. Cross I usually set up Front End databases as.accdr. My suggestion for what should be a very hard to break option would be to save your DB as.accde, and then rename to.accdr.

When the DB opens run VBA code to make sure it is still an accdr. If not then exit the DB. If a ‘savvy’ user tries to rename the.accdr to.accdb they will be out of luck, and if the base file is.accde format they have no way of modifying the VBA code to keep the DB open.

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I Finally Found It! I literally searched for years to find a reliable program that could protect VBA projects from all the readily available methods to bypass the built-in Microsoft VBA protection methods. The built-in VBA password protection Microsoft provides is extremely unreliable — I even sell an add-in called that can unlock the VBA projects you forgot your password to. But my years and years of searching came to an end when a developer friend of mine told me he wanted to build some software that could protect VBA code from the lion's share of methods to bypass current VBA protection. The Unviewable+ project was born and was placed on the fundraising website Indiegogo to attempt to provide support for the project. The project ended up surpassing the target goal by 180%! Since this application is brand new and may be hard to find through Google, I wanted to create a dedicated page so you can find out what this protection software is all about and if it might be the right choice for you to purchase.

Here is a behind-the-scenes video of how I use this program to protect the products on this website. How It Works Unviewable+ has an extremely simple interface and gets you protecting your Excel, PowerPoint, or Word VBA projects fast! First, you will want to make a backup copy (or two) of your file because once it gets put through Unviewable+, that code is going to be out of your grasp.