QuickBooks Forensics Portable

If you have landed a job in a small or medium-sized business, the chances are that you have become acquainted with QuickBooks company files, and implicitly with the QBW file format.

In this case, a software utility helping you handle, review, and export your QuickBook files could come in handy, especially if said tool could prove useful in scenarios involving password recovery tasks, as is the case of QuickBooks Forensics Portable.

Before anything else, it should be pointed out that the application is portable, which equals to no need to install it in order to have it up and running. You simply have to double-click its executable to open it, with the mention that transferring it to any other device via a USB stick is possible.

As for the program’s applicability, it need be said that it offers you full access to the data stored in your QuickBooks databases, with no external libraries or database engines being required in the process.

You just need to navigate to the “File” menu and open your QuickBooks company file in order to have all the database tables listed for incipient analysis. Searching for specific records should raise no difficulty, regardless of whether they are encrypted.

A Hex viewer is integrated so that you can access attached binary as well as large text blocks, with an SQL code viewer boasting syntax highlighting being included as well. Aside from that, a transaction log viewer is available.

The data the program is capable of displaying is comprehensive, ranging from active and disabled accounts to update history and last active users.

Exporting tables to XML with XSD schema should ensure you can subsequently handle them in MS Access, Excel, and other third-party software.

Regarding the app’s password recovery capabilities, it is worth pointing out that various methods are available for you to try out, depending on how many hints you can offer as to the character set. To be more specific, the software utility can carry out brute-force, dictionary, and mixed attacks.

QuickBooks Forensics Portable is a reliable software utility boasting a rich feature set any professional trying to handle QBW company files could benefit from. Considering that the array of tasks it allows you to perform is quite wide and includes password recovery operations, and that its overall performance has proved flawless during our tests, the app is definitely worth a shot.