Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Hacking the hosts file in windows

Many of us would have used a local webserver for designing websites or for previewing. This is where the 'localhost' comes. We always give http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 to tell the browser to take the files from the local webserver instead of going into the internet. How and where to change that name, if u wanted to make the localhost as .com or .net, whatever.
Just edit the file named hosts under the location
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts' (assuming C: is the drive where u installed windows)
A default hosts file will look like this

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

change the last line to whatever name u like.
e.g

127.0.0.1 xyz.com

Use the name xyz.com instead of localhost while using the local webserver.

This file can also be used to block unwanted sites. U can put the sites here that u don't wish to see.
e.g

127.0.0.1 dont-see-this.com

How the above line works?
If you goto a particular url in the browser the OS will check the hosts file whether any specific address has been mapped to that site.If yes it will load that,if not it will fetch it from the web. If you give the above line in the hosts file, whenever u goto the site 'dont-see-this.com' it will point the browser to the address 127.0.0.1 which is your localhost.
(The above technique is used in 'spybot search and destroy' when u give the immunize option)
Happy hacking

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Cracking MD5 hashes using rainbow tables

This tutorial is for beginners on how to crack MD5 hashes using ur own rainbow tables.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

[video] Remove autorun from ur flash drive

The video is about removing the autorun virus, Which many antivirus programs cudn't remove it. U can do it manually after seeing the video. Pls post ur comments.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Disabling the Google new tab page

After installing Google Toolbar, Whenever you press Ctrl+T or go for a new tab, a page will be displayed by it. (see the below picture)

To disable it, there are two ways. I will explain both.
First method
1. click the settings icon in the google toolbar .
2. In the web-browsing uncheck the option "Enable Google new tab page".
3. click save.

Second method (This works only in Firefox)
1. Type "about:config" in the URL
2. A page will appear asking for confirmation to proceed (Sometimes it will not ask, dont worry about that)
3. The configurations will be displayed.
4. Type "newtab" in the filter bar
5. It will show a string named "google.toolbar.newtab"
6. Double click that to set the value to false.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Behind the windows boot screen

What's behind the booting process.
Are u very curious to know what windows is doing behind the boot screen.
There is a way to show it. But it wont show lots and lots of pages like Linux. It will show the things it does.


1. start->run
2. type "msconfig"
3. select "BOOT.INI" tab in the utility
4. check "/SOS" option
5. Click apply and restart.

Enjoy hacking the bootscreen

Friday, March 13, 2009

Disable opera from downloading torrent files automatically

Opera browser is integrated with various features,such as inbuilt IRC chat room, bit torrent client etc.

So if an user wants to download the torrent file thro some other bittorrent client he cannot achieve it directly in opera. He/she cannot click the download torrent directly. They should use "save linked content as."

Inorder to disable the inbuilt bittorrent downloader permanently (U can always revert this) follow the steps,

1. Type "opera:config" in the address bar
2. Click on 'Bittorrent' from the listed options
3. Look for an option named "enable". uncheck it
4. Click save
5. Restart the browser

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Freeze panes in a Excel sheet

At time u may need to check the table's heading. But by default it will not be shown if u scroll down.
For that u need to freeze the panes.

Here I am giving the steps for Office 07.

1. Click on the row below the table heading or a row below the place where u want to freeze.

2. Goto view tab.

3. select freeze panes

4. In that select Freeze Panes.

U can also freeze a particular row or column.


The above is the original Sheet.

Below is the unfreezed one.


At last the use of freezing panes

Monday, March 9, 2009

Remove default header and footer from notepad

While printing any document from notepad, It will automatically include the header as the file name and footer as the page number. At some times it may be annoying. U have to disable it every time while printing.

To disable it permanently u have to do a little trick in registry.
Follow these steps:
1. Start->run->regedit
2. Goto the key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Notepad
3. In the right pane look for a key named "szHeader" and "szTrailer"
4. Double click on it and delete the default value contained in it and press ok.

Thats it, the header and footer will never be displayed while printing from notepad. If u want to restore it put the default value back into those keys.
default values are
szHeader - "&f"
szTrailer - "Page &p"

Happy printing.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Restore Windows' settings after a virus attack

When viruses attacks ur system u'll be face problems in opening some windows programs, some of them are listed below.

Task manager - disabled
Registry editor - disabled
Command prompt - disabled
Run - disabled
Folder Options - disabled
Autorun on all Drives - enabled

To restore all these manually is tough, so we need a tool. U can also remove the virus using an antivirus. But will it restore the settings? not 100%. so we need to restore the settings first.

1.Download the tool given below and install it.
Smart virus removal tool

2.After installing open the tool.
3.It will be shown in the tray.
4.Double click the tray to open the main window.
5.Select "Restore windows Default Settings"
6. A dialog box will appear.
7. Check everthing in that and give "apply".
8.When u do this 3 or 4 times u can get rid of the restrictions imposed by the virus.

post ur comments.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Re enable task manager

SSVICHOSST.EXE virus disables TASKmanager in a system. Some people can't be without task manager. Usually i'll start the taskmanager whenever i logon into my system inorder to close the unwanted processes running. There are many ways to get it back. I'll list out the wasier ways here.

1. If u re not familiar working with command prompt download any of the programs given below,
What is Running

Process monitor

Tune Up utilities

Remove the virus' process runnning in the system.( I can't exactly tell u which is a virus' process, cos there are more than 100 variants of a single virus. so each one will create a different file and it will make it run in the startup)

2. If u re familiar with command prompt read below.

goto command prompt
(start-> run -> cmd)

type "tasklist" (It will list out all the process running in the system)

Thats it. U have re enabled the task manager, but in a different form.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Enable help option in XP

In ur computer, sometimes due to viruses U can’t find the Help option in the start menu.

There are many ways to make it work, But the easiest way is

start->run

type “hcp://” . If this doesn’t work, go to any browser and type this. U’ll get it.

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