Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery (EDPR) offers administrators a comprehensive solution for recovering passwords to Microsoft Office documents when employees forget their passwords, or when they deliberately add passwords to documents in an effort to sabotage their companies. It lets you coordinate all of the unused computing power of every computer on your LAN or WAN, and use distributed processing to restore the lost password. The program installs "agents" onto as many computers on the network as the user desires; each of these agents uses brute force to try to recover the lost password. The agents work in the background without harming other programs -- that is, they use the CPU only when it is in its idle state.