When you lose your password for a QuickBooks file and have to decrypt it, QuickBooks Password is the tool of choice. QuickBooks Password recovers forgotten passwords to password-protected QuickBooks files (*.qbw, *.qba). There is no way to extract the password, so brute force attack or dictionary search is required to restore the original password. This may take a lot of time if the password is long and complex. QuickBooks Password resets the password to a known one and restores access to your password-protected file instantly. However the original password will remain unknown. The password recovery methods used by QuickBooks Password are Brute Force Attack , Dictionary Attack Smart Force Attack (TM), Password Variation , Reset password.