Found a backdoor tip on how to register Live.com passport account. Get it quick while your easy-to-remember username might still be available! Just tested and registered my own @live.com account! Yea!


1. Go to http://get.live.com/getlive/overview

2. Press the sign-up button and you will be presented a form to sign up for a hotmail account.

3.Copy the following javascript injection code:

4. Paste the code in your address bar (where you usually type in the URL).

5. Hit enter, if all went well it should show a message box telling you “Success – additional domains added!“.

6.Now you can select a multitude of domains, fill out the form and you are ready to go!

Thanks to mess for this valuable tip!

Yesterday I talked about how to retrieve serial numbers or CD keys from your computer using KeyFinder Thing.
Today, I will show you on how to recover PASSWORD that’s saved in your computer.

Multi Password Recovery (MPR) – multifunctional password decryption solution for Win95/98/W2K/XP/2K3. MPR instantly finds and recovers passwords from more than 60 popular applications (FTP, E-mail clients, IM, Browsers and so on). It also shows passwords hidden under asterisks, copies SAM file, can generate new passwords. Under W2K/XP/2K3 MPR is able to process blocked for reading files.



Multi Password Recovery can recovery saved password from:

FTP clients
==========================================
Windows/Total Commander 4.x, 6.x
FAR Manager 1.6x, 1.7x
WS_FTP 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Home/Pro
CuteFTP v. 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.0, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8, 4.0, 4.2, 1.0 pro, 2.0 pro, 3.0 pro, 6.0, 7 home/pro
FlashFXP 1.x-3.x
FileZilla 2.x
FTP Commander Pro/Deluxe (mostly all versions)
FTP Navigator (mostly all versions)
BulletProof FTP Client 1.x, 2.x
SmartFTP 1.x, 2.x

E-mail clients
==========================================
Outlook Express 6.0
Outlook 2000 (MSO 2000), 2002 (MSO XP), 2003 (MSO .NET)
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0
The Bat! v. 1.x, 2.x, 3.x
Becky 2.x
Eudora/Eudora Light (mostly all versions)
Gmail Notifier (mostly all versions)
Mail.Ru Agent 4.x
Opera Email Client
IncrediMail (mostly all versions)
Group Mail Free (mostly all versions)
Vypress Auvis 2.x
PocoMail 3.x, 4.x
Forte Agent 3.x

Browsers
==========================================
Opera 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x
Mozilla Browser 1.7.x
Internet Explorer 4, 5, 6, 7
Mozilla Firefox (mostly all versions)

Dialers
==========================================
Windows Remote Access Service (RAS), VPN and Dial-up passwords
EType Dialer 1.x
MuxaSoft Dialer 3.0, 4.0, 4.1
FlexibleSoft Dialer 2.x-4.x
Advanced Dialer 2.x
Dialer Queen 1.x
VDialer 3

Download managers
==========================================
Download Master 4, 5
GetRight 5
FlashGet (JetCar) 1.6, 1.71
Internet Download Accelerator 5

Instant messengers
==========================================
QIP 2005a
Miranda IM 0.2.x, 0.3.x, 0.4.x
ICQ 99b-2003b, Lite 4, Lite 5
MSN Messenger 1.x-7.x
Windows Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger 3.x-6.x
&RQ 0.9
R&Q 10xx
Trillian 0.x, 2, 3
AOL Instant Messenger (older versions)
GAIM 1.x
Odigo 4
IM2 (Messenger 2) 1.5.x
SIM 0.9
Google Talk (mostly all versions)
PSI (mostly all versions)
Faim 0.1
Windows Live Messenger

Other
==========================================
Registration key from Win2k & XP
ClubTimer 2.2-2.7
Punto Switcher 2.5-2.9
WinVNC 3.x
Screen Saver password in Win9x
ASP.NET Account
Remote Desktop Connection

This software is as useful as KeyFinder Thing as it is able to recover password from MULTIPLE software in just seconds. No bruteforce needed. Just simply decryption. Only 1 drawback about this software and that is it is NOT free to use.

Multi Password Recovery is a try-before-you-buy program, without registration key MPR will show you just the first character of the decrypted password. Registered users get access to the extended features of MPR (saving reports, copying SAM files, password generator, etc), a possibility to completely recover passwords and the right for the user support. Registration key price is USD 30.00 and it’s valid for a period of 18 months, the key is valid for all future versions.

I don’t understand why the registration key is only valid for 18 months. Anyway, cracking this piece of software is fairly easy. I will show you the offsets to patch to make this software registered.

THIS INFO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY and it’s being tested on previous version! Please BUY this software if you really need to use it.
1. Download Multi Password Recovery v0.2.6

2. Use any Hex Editor such as WinHex.

2. Locate the offset 000CE480
– It should display A0 30 86 53 00

– Change the offset to B0 01 90 90 90

3. Save it, run MPR. If you click on Help -> Registration, it will show you that it’s Registered.

The above cracking method is only for version 0.2.6. The latest version of MPR 0.2.7 is not vulnerable to the cracking method above. The author of this software has a 5 digit ICQ UIN. It’s impossible to register a 5 digit ICQ UIN as it started with 6 digit many years ago. I believe that the author named Demchenko Alex might be an elite hacker 🙂

[ Download Latest MPR 0.2.7 | MPR Official Website ]

Do you still use Speedbit Video Accelerator to help you stream youtube and many other video sites faster and smoother? I written that article two years ago and that time they only had one version which is free. Then they came up with a “Premium” paid version of their software which cost $49.90 for a year subscription that allows you to download movies and TV shows faster from iTunes. The free version still allows you to accelerates embedded videos from YouTube and over 150 supported video sites though.

Basically Speedbit Video Accelerator uses multiple connections to download the same video, hence it loads up faster than normal. Speedbit is also the developer of Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) which is known to install spyware during installation. If you don’t have confidence in Speedbit, here’s another alternative called Bywifi to stream online videos with multiple streams.


Bywifi (Video Streaming Downloader) is a free program for downloading, transcoding and accelerating video streaming. It supports downloading, transcoding and P2P accelerating videos from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, Justin.tv, etc. Lots of advanced network technologies like P2SP (peer-to-server-and-peer), multiple tasks, web sensitive, intelligence caching are used in the software. The bitrate of video streaming is 3-5 times faster with bywifi than without it. Moreover, it can transcode videos into mobile formats for mobile phones and PDA.

All you need to do is just install Bywifi, restart your web browser and it’ll automatically speed up the video streaming whenever you view an online video. If you want to download the video, just move your mouse cursor to the video and a small bywifi toolbar will appear on the screen.

The first button is speedup. You only need to use this button if you’ve turned off automatic speed up. Second button is download where you can manually download the video and save on your hard drive. The third button is for you to transcode. Meaning you can convert the FLV video format to 3GP, MP4, AVI, ASF, MP3 and etc.

I tried timing the amount of time required to fully load a video file from YouTube. When streaming without Bywifi, it took 85 seconds, but with bywifi, it only took 35 seconds! The amount of time required to fully download the video file has been cut down by half. So if you have a crappy ISP that is very unstable and cause you to wait because of buffering, bywifi is your solution. Tested working on my Firefox 3.1 beta 3, Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome. Don’t work on Opera.

[ Download Bywifi ]

Windows Live Messenger is one of the most popular instant messenger today. Ever since the latest Windows Live Messenger 2009 is out, there has always been problems such as the webcam not working, unable to sign in and even small annoying problems such as the Remember me and Remember my password option not working. If you have personal laptop that is only used by you, surely you would like to have the convenience of just clicking a button to automatically sign in to Messenger instead of manually typing the password every time you want to sign in.

When you enter your Windows Live ID and password, then checked both Remember Me and Remember My Password option, it will continue working but once you restart your computer and launch Windows Live Messenger, you will see that your ID and password is not saved! Thanks to Jonathan Kay, he found out that Windows Live Messenger not able to remember a user’s Live ID is caused of Yahoo! Toolbar installer which messes up your Windows user profile registry. Unfortunately uninstalling the Yahoo! Toolbar will not fix the problem.


Again thanks to Jonathan, he created a simple tool called Make Messenger Remember to solve Messenger forgetting your username and password problem. All you need to do is download, run it and click the Fix button. Make Messenger Remember will automatically restart Windows after completing its work, so be sure to close and save any data prior to beginning the process. After restart, run Windows Live Messenger and see if your Live ID and hotmail is saved. If not, simply enter again and save it. The next time you restart your computer the login information should be there.

If you get the error “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application.” when running Make Messenger Remember, that means you don’t have .NET Framework 2.0 installed on your computer. Go here to download and install .NET Framework.

[ Download Make Messenger Remember ]

Our Malaysian ISP is always having problems with international websites and they are good at blaming circuit faults. Why is only Malaysia affected? Why is only TM Net affected? Few weeks ago I can hardly even access my own blog site to do updates but now, at least I can access but downloading any files from server that is hosted out of Malaysia is terribly slow. Luckily I got a cheap hosting in Malaysia with a lot of bandwidth and I installed RapidLeech to download files for me.

Downloading email is another big headache. My wife has her own email account with own personal domain name and the email server is hosted in US. Whenever she sync or hit the Send and Receive button in Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express, she’ll definitely get the popup window that says “Your POP3 server has not responded in 60 seconds. Would you like to wait another 60 seconds for the server to respond?”

Usually I’ll just ask her to click the Wait button but she’ll end up clicking the wait button many times. If she’s lucky, the download of email starts but if not, she’ll continue clicking it. Unfortunately this happens ALL THE TIME and I had to figure out a solution for her.


This email timeout problem usually happens if you have a very unstable or slow internet connection and is trying to download an email attachment that is very large in size.

First, you can configure your email client such as Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail to have longer period of server timeouts instead of the default 1 minute.

1. Click Tools from the menu bar and select Accounts.
2. Select the email account that is having the timeout problems in the list and click Properties.
3. Go to Advanced tab and drag the slider for Serer Timeouts. The highest is 5 minutes.

4. Click OK and Close.

Now if your email client is still unable to start downloading after 5 minutes, you should check your email from webmail. You should consult your company administrator if they have a webmail access, if not, you can use Mail2Web. Before that, you will need to know your email account server’s information such as your login name, password and pop3 server. The easiest way to get all that information is by using Nirsoft’s Mail PassView. It is able to extract all email information that is saved in your email client that is installed on your computer. Do take note that an antivirus might flag Mail PassView as a threat. This is normal because this is a password recovery tool and I assure you that it is absolutely safe if you downloaded it from Nirsoft’s website.

After download, extract and run mailpv.exe. Note down the Server, Type, User and Password displayed in the list. Now go to http://www.mail2web.com and click Advanced Login once the page has finished loading. Enter the email information that you’ve noted just now and click Check Mail.

Now you should see all your emails. Go ahead and download the large attachments, then delete the email from mail2web so that it won’t timeout the next time when you sync your email using Windows Live Mail. To prevent this problem from happening in future, I’ve transferred my wife’s domain name to a Malaysia server.

Here’s another computer problem that abhiram was experiencing in his Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browser. When trying to view a video in YouTube, the video wouldn’t play properly. It’d either have no sound or completely stop after playing for a few seconds. It could only be 2 possibility and that is his unstable internet connection or flash player since YouTube uses flash player to stream videos. He confirmed that the problem on appears in Chrome and Firefox but worked perfectly in Internet Explorer browser.

Immediately this tells us that his flash player is either corrupted or he is using an outdated version of flash which doesn’t support YouTube or not compatible with Chrome/Firefox. The solution to fix this problem is to uninstall the currently installed flash player, download the latest version and then install it.


Instead of uninstalling flash player from Control Panel, I’d suggest you to use the official uninstaller provided by Adobe. There are four versions of Adobe Flash Player uninstaller, each designed for the appropriate operating system. Before running the uninstaller, make sure you’ve closed all your web browsers and also instant messengers such as Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger because the uninstaller cannot remove files currently in use. Click Yes when asked to confirm if you want to uninstall Adobe Flash Player and click Close.

Windows: uninstall_flash_player.exe

Mac OS X, version 10.3 and above: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg

Mac OS X, version 10.2 and below: uninstall_flash_player_osx_10.2.dmg

Mac OS 8.x, 9.x: uninstall_flash_player.hqx

Once you’ve finished uninstalling Adobe Flash Player, now download the latest version of Flash Player from the link below.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
This page will automatically detect what operating system are you on and what browser are you trying to install the latest Flash Player. When the download has completed, again close any web browser and instant messenger that is running, then only run the installer.

Now you should have no problems in viewing videos that requires Flash Player. If it still didn’t work, just restart your computer after the flash update.

There are many programs that can provide you with some information about your CPU.
However, not all of them can identify a duly wide range of CPUs, discover all of their capabilities.
Meanwhile, such information could be extremely necessary and useful.
Today I decided to have a closer look at the program, which I consider one of the best in its class!


It called CPU-Z. And it will give you comprehensive information on your CPU, as well as chipset, memory, and AGP!
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.

CPU
-Name and number.
-Core stepping and process.
-Package.
-Core voltage.
-Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
-Supported instructions sets.
-All cache levels (location, size, speed, technology).

Mainboard
-Vendor, model and revision.
-BIOS model and date.
-Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
-Graphic interface.

Memory
-Frequency and timings.
-Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.

System
-Windows and DirectX version.

3 Pros for this piece of software:
1. Broad range of information provided
2. Quite comfortable interface.
3. Small size.

[ Download CPU-Z ]

Yesterday I written an article about “How To Recover Deleted Digital Photo from Digital Camera’s Memory Card“. It works most of the time if you followed the instructions carefully. However, there are chances that the recovered photo might be not viewable after recovering. That’s what happened to me. I was recovering some photos from my memory card and I saved all of the images that can be recovered. Some photos displayed perfectly and some gave the message “No preview available” in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

Another way that can corrupt an image file is hard drive Bad Sectors. If so happen that the image file is on the bad sector, the image will not be viewable. Even if you fix it with Scandisk, it will not save your image.

Please take note that recovering photos from memory card is different from recovering images from damaged/corrupted images. In this case, you already have the image file but it won’t display. Here’s what you can do when you have an image file that you can’t view.


After much searching, it didn’t seem like there were many tools or tips and tricks to repair a corrupted image file. There’s only one software I found called PixRecovery which is data recovery program for damaged images. It supports GIF, TIFF and JPEG formats. It is sort of like a picture repair utility.

It’s very easy use. Just run PixRecovery, click on the “Recover” button to browse for the image file that you want to repair. It will then automatically detect the picture type, tries to recover the picture and prompt you where you’d like to saved the recovered damaged image file.

The only drawback is it’s not free. PixRecovery cost a whopping US$149.00 for a single user license. I think it’s expensive because it’s the only software that is able to recover and repair corrupted image files. Like I said in previous article, photos are precious which can last a lifetime, that’s why programmers know that people would pay for a software that can help them recover their corrupted photos. I couldn’t find any retail versions, cracked versions or keygenerators for PixRecovery. But I managed to find OfficeRecovery.Enterprise.v2007.Incl.Keymaker-AGAiN. OfficeRecovery Enterprise is a suite of recovery programs that includes PixRecovery.

You can try the free demo version of PixRecovery which recovers a limited amount of corrupted data. The remaining recoverable data will be labeled as “demo” in the demo-recovered file. Full version of PixRecovery will recover the demo-limited data as well.

[ Download PixRecovery Demo ]

I wanted to buy a special microfiber cloth from the Internet. It measures 40 x 35cm and I don’t have any idea how big is 40 x 35cm. I know it’s small, but how small is it? I can’t be really sure until I’ve got the measurement from a ruler or measuring tape. I tried looking for a measuring tape or even a ruler but I couldn’t find one. In fact, I can’t even remember when was the last time I used a ruler or measuring tape to measure something!

Desperate to know, I thought I might find something on the Internet that can teach me how to measure without using a ruler or measuring tape. Wonderful, I found a solution and now I don’t even need a ruler or measuring tape anymore to measure length, width and height!

JS Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters.

Right clicking on the ruler gives you the ability to flip the ruler from horizontal to vertical, mark the exact center of the ruler with a vertical slash, move the ruler to the far left of your desktop screen and also setting the different measuring system to either pixels, inches, picas or centimeters(cm).

JS Screen Ruler is FREE but it also has a shareware version which offers more features such as rotate the ruler, set transparent background, capture active window size and customize color. I personally think that using the FREE version is good enough. Actually I found quite a lot of free on screen ruler but they all have nearly the same features.

[ Download JR Screen Ruler ]

Here’s something I want to share with all of you. If I am not wrong, about 4-5 years ago, I’ve got a friend telling me how much fun he had by scanning the whole college network for shared folders. He was able to discover so many important files and also did many bad things by deleting important files from My Documents and also destroying Windows by deleting Windows system files. I was totally against that because who knows that the poor guy/girl spent many weeks to complete an assignment and was about to hand over to the lecturer but found out that it’s GONE!

For people who don’t know nuts about repairing own laptops, they’d have to fork out extra money just to get their Windows fixed or reinstalled. My friend could have been the good guy in placing a note in the shared folder to warn them about the danger of sharing but he had an evil sick and twisted mind instead.

So I am here to warn you about the danger of sharing folders on the network and I am going to show you how easy it is to scan the whole network, or even the whole Internet for shared folders.


If you didn’t know, sharing a folder on the Network is VERY easy. Just right click any folder or even your drive, select “Sharing and Security” and all it takes to share is by checking the “Share this folder on the network” checkbox. That leaves the folder open for everyone to access. Checking another box “Allow network users to change my files” lets anyone on the network to create and delete files in the shared folder.

Most common mistake that a lot of people make after sharing the folder to the network is forgotten to unshare it. Unchecking the checkboxes will unshare the folder. If you want to know what folders are being shared by you, use Computer Management to show you all your shared folders. Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management and expand System Tools -> Shared Folders -> Shares.

The ADMIN$, C$, and IPC$ is shared by default. You do not need to worry about that.

Here are a few steps you can take to protect yourself from intruders in getting in your shared folders.
1. Unshare the shared folder after you’re done sharing the file to another person.
2. Use a money dollar sign $ at the end of the Share name to hide shared folders from being displayed publicly.

3. Use NetShareMonitor to notify you when someone is accessing your shared folders.
4. Use a “router” instead of direct connect to the Internet as it gives you a layer of protection against intruders. Works only at Home.
5. Do not use Simple File Sharing. Go to Control Panel -> Folder Options -> click the View tab, and uncheck “Use simple file sharing”.

6. Finally, a decent firewall can protect you from intruder.

Now I’ll show you how easy and fast it is for an intruder to scan for open shared folders in network or Internet. There are many types of security scanners but I am going to use a simple, small and fast tool called “Angry IP Scanner” to scan hundreds and thousands of computers for shared folders.

I downloaded the latest Angry IP Scanner and also the Windows Shares plugin. I ran a test scan on a range of IP addresses and found a few victims that has some folders being shared.

I simply use the Windows method of access another computer \\IP or \\HOSTNAME. In this case, I enter \\218.208.224.16 in Windows RUN and hit the OK button.

Within seconds, a window box appears displaying the shared folders. I can now access the victim shared My Documents folder and “maybe” even have the rights to change, add or delete files.

See how easy it is for an intruder to access your shared folders? Stop being a victim and start protecting yourself.

[ Download Angry IP Scanner ]

One of the new feature in Windows XP is the login screen. When it first came out, it dazzled everyone!

But after a few years, some might get bored of the Windows XP default login screen. How would you like to change your boring default Windows login screen to a flash based one?


FrontMotion Login is the next generation logon interface for Windows NT, 2000 and Windows XP. It goes beyond the normal Microsoft Windows logon and offers more interactivity and functionality through the use of Macromedia Flash and custom logon implementation (gina). No DLL hacking is needed and no system files are replaced.

It’s FREE for personal use and easy to install. Just download, install and the configuration is at your Control Panel. You can change the FrontMotion Login interface theme from Control Panel -> FrontMotion Login.

FrontMotion Login does not use up any memory or CPU resources. Flash files are dynamically loaded when they are displayed and unloaded when they are not shown. If FrontMotion Login is not working for you, it crashes and etc.. You can bypass it by pressing and holding the SHIFT key about the time the Windows startup screen disappears and around the time the mouse is revealed on the screen. It will give you the normal Windows login screen.

Instead of using the themes provided, you can also create your own login screen theme. Refer to this page for instruction on how to create your own FrontMotion Login theme.

If you want to temporarily disable FrontMotion Login but don’t want to uninstall it, you can simply uncheck “Use FMLogin (requires reboot) from the Advanced tab.

[ Download FrontMotion Login ]

As I previously mentioned that I’ve finally managed to integrate link exchange manager LinkMan into my WordPress.
I’ve also seen some post on forums asking for help on how to integrate the link exchange manager LinkMan php code into WordPress in order to automatically update the links added at their WordPress Pages whenever someone submit their links.
After weeks of trying and asking for help, I’ve finally did it and I will now show you exactly how I did it.


1. Download link exchange manager LinkMan and install it according to instructions provided.
( I installed LinkMan at http://www.raymond.cc/linkman/ )
2. Download and install runPHP, a plugin for WordPress.
3. Create/Write a Page from your WordPress.
( I created a WordPress Page at https://raymond.cc/links/ to display the links exchanged from LinkMan )
4. The links.php file from your LinkMan folder contains the necessary php code to call out the links exchanged from linkinfo.txt
Just copy and paste the PHP code below into your Page that you created in step 3.
[code]
require ‘../linkman/settings.php’;
$lines = array ();
$lines=file(‘../linkman/linkinfo.txt’);
echo ‘

‘;
foreach ($lines as $thisline)
{
$thisline=trim($thisline);
if (!empty($thisline)) {
list($name,$email,$title,$url,$recurl,$description)=explode($settings[‘delimiter’],$thisline);
if ($settings[‘clean’] != 1) {$url=’../linkman/go.php?url=’.$url;}
echo ‘‘.$title.’ – ‘.$description.’
‘;
}
}
echo ‘

Powered by Link manager LinkMan ‘.$settings[‘verzija’].’ from PHPJunkYard – free php scripts

[/code]
If you’re using WordPress v1.5.x, select the “eval() Content” checkbox to enable PHP code in the Page.
If you’re using WordPress v2.0, select the “run PHP code?” checkbox to enable PHP code in the Page.

That’s it. Login to your LinkMan and manually add some links to test it out.
If it doesn’t work, try adding or removing ../ in paths on the PHP code.

Another alternate and simpler way you can integrate link exchange manager LinkMan into your WordPress blog is to insert only 1 line code to your WordPress Page.
[code]

[/code]
Don’t forget to select the “eval() Content” checkbox if you’re using WordPress v1.5.x or “run PHP code?” if you’re using WordPress v2.0 to enable PHP code in the Page.

Once you’ve successfully integrated link exchange manager LinkMan on your website, don’t forget to exchange links with raymond.cc!

Emsisoft, the maker of Anti-Malware 5.0 has released a new free tool called Emergency Kit. It is well known that Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.0 can make your computer slow compared to other major antivirus brand but its detection rate has been topping the ranks. There is a freeware version of Emsisoft Anti-Malware which allows you to scan and remove malwares but without the real time protection which needs to be installed on your computer.

As for Emergency Kit, it is portable and you can run it directly from your USB flash drive or from your computer’s hard drive without installation. This gives you the convenience of using one of the best detection engine that is able to detect more than 4 million known dangers but without installing extra files and registry to your computer. Basically the features of the freeware version of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.0 and the Emergency Kit are the same except that the freeware requires installation and auto loads a2service.exe process in background that takes up 1.5MB of memory.


Installing Emsisoft Emergency Kit to a USB flash drive is easy. Just download and extract the zip file EmsisoftEmergencyKit.zip to the root of your USB flash drive. It has an autorun.inf file which launches the start.exe, a nice interface with options to run the Emergency Kit Scanner, Commandline Scanner, HiJackFree or BlitzBlank.

The Emergency Kit Scanner is the graphical disk scanner to check and clean infected computers. As for Commandline Scanner, it has the same functionality as Emergency Kit Scanner but with no graphical user interface. You have to specify the scan parameters or you can simply double click on the CommandlineScanner.bat batch file to run a smart scan and auto quarantine detected files. The HijackFree is an advanced system analysis tool for manual Malware removal. BlitzBlank is also another tool for experienced users. When you know which file/registry cannot be deleted or removed, you can use BlitzBlank to perform the actions before all other programs are loaded via its special low-level technology.

Emsisoft Emergency Kit takes up merely 100MB space and I can finally use Emsisoft dual engine to scan computers without actually installing it. There are times when a computer is infected by malware or spyware so badly, it is nearly impossible to install any software or antivirus. Remember, Emsisoft Emergency Kit does not provide real time protection. It is most useful when you need a second opinion when you already have an existing antivirus on your computer or for technicians to scan their customer’s computer.

[ Download Emsisoft Emergency Kit ]

Previously I’ve shared with all of you on how to obtain free BitDefender Antivirus 2009 license key for free that is valid 1 year (some of you even got up to 3 years!). The promotional site has been updated with Chinese CAPTCHA and I’ve also updated my steps on how to solve the Chinese CAPTCHA even if you can’t read or write Chinese characters. BitDefender Antivirus 2009 is a very basic antivirus software to protect your computer against virus. If you’re looking for something that gives you extra protection against hackers such as Firewall, Parental Control and etc, you can consider BitDefender Total Security 2009.

BitDefender Total Security 2009 provides comprehensive proactive protection against all Internet security threats, along with system maintenance and backup, without slowing down your PCs. The normal price for BitDefender Total Security 2009 is $69.95 for one year per PC. You can download the trial version of BitDefender Total Security 2009 but it only last for 30 days. Once the trial version expired, you can extend the subscription period another 180 days for free, by following the below steps:

BitDefender Total Security 2009 Features:

Scans all web, e-mail and instant messaging traffic for viruses and spyware, in real-time

Proactively protects against new virus outbreaks using advanced heuristics

Blocks attempted identity theft (phishing)

Prevents personal information from leaking via e-mail, web or instant messaging

Instant Messaging Encryption

File Vault securely stores personal information or sensitive files

Backs up files and folders locally

Provides secure on-line storage

Automatically modifies firewall protection settings to suit location

Wi-Fi monitor helps prevent unauthorized access to your Wi-Fi network

Blocks access to inappropriate websites and e-mail

Schedules and limits kids’ access to Internet and to applications

Reduces the system load and avoids requesting user interaction during games

Uses few system resources

Laptop mode prolongs battery life

Removes unnecessary duplicates of files and registry entries

Irrecoverably erases unwanted files and “traces” of files

You can directly go to the promotional page if you’re in Germany. If not, you will automatically being redirected to BitDefender’s main page. So the simple solution is to use a Germany open proxy or Germany web proxy. Using web proxy is much easier but if you want to use open proxy, here are 2 Germany proxy that is currently working (85.93.26.3:3128 or hbpoprox.hbpogroup.com:8080)

1. Go to http://www.proxy-service.de

2. Enter either promotional link below to the URL at Proxy-Service website and click GO.
http://www.bitdefender.de/site/Promotions/pcgots2009
http://www.bitdefender.de/site/Promotions/pcmag2009
Note: Both promotional site generates the same 20 digit license key. So use either one will do.

3. Fill in the form by entering your first and last name, email address and click the red colored registrieren button.

4. Now check your email that you entered in step 3. You should receive an email from BitDefender ([email protected]) with the subject BitDefender Total Security 180 -Tage Testversion‏. Note down the 20 digit license key in bold.

5. Download BitDefender Total Security 2009 (or here if you’re using 64bit Windows operating system) and install.

6. Restart your computer when prompted to. When Windows is booted up, BitDefender Registration Wizard should appear. Select “I want to register the product with a new key”, enter the 20 digit license key and click Next.

Complete the registration steps and voila! You should now see that BitDefender Total Security 2009 expires in 180 days.

To get 210 days, simply download and install the trial version of BitDefender Total Security 2009. Use it until the 30 days trial expires, then only enter the 180 days license key. Do take note that the 30 day trial allows you to use the 2GB online backup while the 180 days don’t. So make sure you either download all your backup before activating it with the 180 days license key or don’t use the online backup feature at all.

BitDefender products are well known for it’s lightness in system resource usage. BitDefender Total Security 2009 averagely only takes up approximately 17MB and it constantly cleans up the memory usage like what the Norton 2009 products are doing.

Earlier this year I’ve shared with you 10 free data recovery software that you can use to recover accidentally deleted files from your computer. All of 10 free data recovery software can only recover data on local computer. Today I discovered a very cool network data recovery software called Smart Data Recovery Enterprise where you can remotely scan, search and recover deleted files on a remote computer.

Network data recovery is handy when it comes to big offices, large corporations or even at home networks. The demand is there, causing outrageous prices for remote data recovery solutions. Don’t be fooled by the word “enterprise” in the software title where it usually means expensive shareware. Surprisingly this tool is absolutely free and there are no terms saying that this can only be used at home!


Smart Data Recovery Enterprise offers system administrators a free and reliable way to secure corporate networks against data loss that occurs when the users accidentally delete files. The remote recovery allows network administrators to locate and recover deleted files remotely over the network without leaving your chair.

Smart Data Recovery Enterprise is easy for you and for your users. The powerful technologies used to locate and recover the deleted documents are coupled with a convenient and easy user interface that requires absolutely no prior experience with disks, partitions or file systems.

Smart Data Recovery Enterprise is divided into two parts: the Administrator and the Agent. The Administrator controls the process of scanning, previewing, and restoring of deleted files on remote computers, while the Agent performs the actual job of scanning, previewing, and restoring of deleted files. You should run agentsetup.exe on the computer where you want to scan for deleted files and adminsetup.exe on the computer where you’ll be running the scanning from. At the agent, you’ll need to configure the administrator’s hostname or IP address to connect to. The default port being used is 999 and can be changed. Make sure that Automatically connect to admin is checked.

As for the admin, all you need to do is to click the “Activate” button to start accepting connection from agent. If you’ve set the IP address correctly at the agent and port 999 is not blocked by firewall, you should see an agent appearing on the left hand sidebar. Simply click on the computer, select the drive that you want to scan and click the Find button. Within a few seconds, Smart Data Recovery will show you the files that can be recovered.

Everything is great about Smart Data Recovery Enterprise except that the agent has to be running in order for the admin to connect to the computer to remotely search for deleted files. There’s no password protect feature or an option to stealth the agent program. The user can just close the program and the admin won’t be able to connect to the remote computer. To solve this problem, you can use third party software such as OuttaSight and HyperHide to stealh or hide the agent program from appearing at system tray area. Smart Data Recovery Enterprise supports Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

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