Allen works as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator. A project has been assigned to him to investigate a computer, which is used by the suspect to sexually harass the victim using…

Mail Pass View is designed to recover passwords stored in email clients such as Outlook and Thunderbird, not instant messenger applications.

MessenPass is a dedicated password recovery tool included in the Helix forensic toolkit that targets instant messaging applications such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and AIM. Because the suspect used an instant messenger program to commit harassment, MessenPass is the correct tool to extract the stored credentials as admissible digital evidence. Its specific focus on instant messaging protocols makes it directly applicable to this investigation scenario.

Asterisk Logger reveals and logs passwords hidden behind asterisk characters in active password fields, and does not recover credentials stored by instant messenger programs.

Access PassView recovers passwords from Microsoft Access database files and has no capability to retrieve instant messenger credentials.