recovery windows passwords using cain and abel

cain and abel:
Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol's standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some non standard utilities for Microsoft Windows users.

It allows easy recovery of several kinds of passwords by sniffing the network. APR (ARP Poison Routing) is a main feature of the program. It enables sniffing on switched networks and the hijacking of IP traffic between hosts. The name and ;ARP Poison Routing and derives from the two steps needed to perform such unusual network sniffing: an ARP Poison Attack and routing packets to the correct destination