Latest version of The Grabber 1.4.4b has been released by Team CMS sometime around last week. Sorry I wasn’t able to post this article out earlier as I just got to know about the 1.4.4b version yesterday.
Same thing as The Grabber 1.4.4a, no activation screen and everything looks the same as previous version 1.4.4a.
As you know, it’s not easy to get private release of this latest The Grabber from Team CMS. So download it while you still can!
I believe this version contains only some small fixes such as for the error “UNHANDLED ERROR…REPORT IT TO CMS..” that some of you might be complaining of and perhaps a few tweaks for RapidShare compatibility.
[ Download CMS The Grabber 1.4.4b ]
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Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic security protection, and more.
The information below is taken from IE developer’s blog.
The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility. You may not notice many visible changes from the Beta 3 release; all we did was listen to your feedback, fix bugs that you reported, and make final adjustments to our CSS support. I do want to call attention to two changes in particular.
First, IE7 RC1 setup automatically detects and uninstalls previous IE7 betas before trying to install IE7 so you don’t have to. We’ll post more detail on the install/uninstall process very soon.
Second, IE7 RC1 will automatically detect add-ons with known stability or compatibility problems so that end users can easily get a newer version or temporarily turn the add-on off. The most common cause of the “IE7 installed but won’t run†problem reports we’ve gotten was old versions of some toolbars. We’ve worked closely with toolbar vendors to make this experience better. Again, we’ll post more detail on this topic here very soon.
A release candidate is fundamentally different from a beta. With the exception of a very short list of issues we’re aware of and working on, we think the product is done. We’re looking to enthusiasts, developers, and IT Pros to tell us if this build has any critical, must-fix before we ship issues. The real world is much richer than our test environment and I appreciate the feedback that has helped us make the product better.
The English RC1 release will be followed by localized versions in mid-September. We’ll continue with Arabic, Finnish, German, and Japanese as before but also add French and Spanish versions with this release. Web sites and applications that are compatible with this RC1 build should be compatible with the final version of IE7 when we release it later this year.
Can’t install IE7 RC1 due to failed validation? Here is a way to bypass it’s validation.
1. Download IE7 RC1 from the link below. 2. Download the patched iecustom.dll. 3. Copy the iecustom.dll to the update folder, and click yes when asked to overwrite. 4. Run update.exe ( not iesetup.exe ! ). 5. When the installation is successful, reboot and run xmllitesetup.exe. Note: If you’re a beginner and don’t understand the above steps, please refer to my previous post on IE7 Beta 3.
[ Download Internet Explorer 7 RC1 for Windows XP ]
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NetLimiter is one of the must-have software on my computer. Although the main feature in NetLimiter is to control the Internet traffic, but my favorite feature is actually the traffic monitoring. I can easily see what IP address is a process is connecting to and how much bandwidth it is using. Most of the free network/internet monitoring tools can only tell you the total bandwidth usage, but not for individual process. This is very useful for example, when Steam is updating the software and it takes really long with only progress meter showing the update percentage but not the speed. After waited for a few hours, the update is still running and you have no idea how fast is Steam downloading. With NetLimiter, you can know whether the update is really huge or the server is slow in sending the updates to you. Other than that, you can easily know which process is secretly connecting to the Internet which is a good way to know if you are part of a zombie botnet. Interestingly, I installed a keylogger on my test computer that hides itself using rootkit method which will not show up on Task Manager. When the keylogger software send the logs via email, the hidden process shows up in NetLimiter 3 Monitor.
NetLimiter 3, a major update was released on end of August 2010 and the official website says that the free Monitor version will be available in next few weeks. After waited for nearly 7 months, the NetLimiter 3 Monitor is finally available to download!
Below is a sample screenshot of NetLimiter 3. As you can see, with one look you will know which process is using the Internet and expanding the process shows the destination IP and port that it is connecting to. Unfortunately the Monitor version does not come with the built-in Whois, Traceroute and Ping but you can still perform all those tests externally in DNSTools.com
NetLimiter 3 installation is normal like installing any other third party software except you will be prompted twice to install Locktime Software Network adapters and reboot is required in order to start the device software. NetLimiter 3 will run as Pro version after installation and will expire in 27 days (weirdly it’s not the standard 30 days trial). When the Pro version expires, you can revert it to the Monitor version by registering at the NetLimiter’s website for free. In a few minutes you will receive an email from NetLimiter Support with your registration name and registration code which can be used to register NetLimiter 3 Monitor.
I noticed that there is a bug with the limited features in NetLimiter 3 Monitor. When you check on the DL Limit checkbox to limit the download speed, the following error window prompts:
Feature not supported. product-id: 6 feature-name: Limiter (Check event viewer for more details)
The Limits feature is supposed to be disabled and not usable in the Monitor version of NetLimiter but it still works. I tried downloading Firefox 4 installer and noticed that the download speed stayed around the limited 5KBps but once I uncheck the limit, the download speed immediately increased to 400+Kbps. The same thing also happens on Outgoing Blocker / Connection Blocker. Once checked, the process can no longer connects to the Internet. Only the Chart feature is successfully disabled.
After posting the huge giveaway yesterday, I wanted to take a day or two days off from posting but seems like that is not possible because I have found yet another freebie which you might be interested. This offer is something new and it is to get a free Panda Internet Security 2009 license key valid for 1 year. This is a joint promotion between Panda and Softonic where by two companies will each give 6 months subscription and it adds up to a year. Please don’t misunderstand because it doesn’t involve uninstalling and reinstalling like the Norton OEM trick. Hmm Panda Internet Security 2009, it’s not as famous as Kaspersky, so what’s good about it? As you know every antivirus has their own heuristic technology such as Norton SONAR, Kaspersky proactive, F-Prot Eldorado, BitDefender B-HAVE, F-Secure DeepGuard, Panda Collective Intelligence and etc to detect previously unknown computer viruses, as well as new variants of viruses already in the wild. According to AV-Test, the latest Panda Internet Security 2009 seems to perform really well in this area with its Collective Intelligence technology by scoring the highest (even outscoring Kaspersky). So if you’d like to try out, here’s how to get a free Panda Internet Security 2009 genuine license key worth US $79.95!
Panda Internet Security 2009 is a security suite that lets you use the Internet with complete peace of mind. It protects you from viruses, spyware, rootkits, hackers, online fraud, identity theft and all other Internet threats. The anti-spam engine will keep your inbox free from junk mail while the Parental Control feature ensures your children can use the Web safely. And thanks to the new Collective Intelligence technology, the solution is now much faster than previous versions.
Panda Internet Security 2009 Features:
Anti-Malware Engine
Advanced Proactive Protection
Personal Firewall
Anti-Phishing Filter
Anti-Banking Trojan Engine
Anti-Rootkit Technology
Anti-Spam Filter
Parental Control
Web Filter
Personal Information Filter
Backup & Restore
Follow the few simple steps below to get your free Panda Internet Security 2009 serial number:
2. Enter your email, password, username, firstname, lastname, date of birth, select your gender and click “Mein Konto erstellen” button.
3. You will now need to activate your Softonic account. Check your email and you should receive an email from Softonic (push@softonic.com) with the subject Anmeldung bei Softonic.de bestätigenâ€. Click the link that you see in that email to activate your account.
4. Now go to this page http://www.softonic.de/weihnachten/spiel. Wait until the game finished loading then proceed to the next step. The flash game is 600KB in size and might take a while to load because the server is a little slow. It is up to you to play the game or not…
5. Go to http://www.softonic.de/preis-gewinnspiel/weihnachten and note down the Seriennummer displayed at the webpage.
6. Go to http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/support/register/. Fill up the form and enter the Seriennummer that you got from step 5 into Activation code box. Click Next. If you filled up the form correctly, you should get a thank you page with client number. Note down the client number.
7. Check your email that you entered in step 6. You should receive an email from yourdetails@pandasecurity.com with the subject Welcome to Panda Security. Note down the username & password, Activation Code and Customer Number.
9. Download Panda Internet Security 2009. You MUST login in order to download or else you will get the error Access Denied.
10. Open Panda Internet Security 2009 from the system tray, go to Help > Activate the product. Click Next, enter your Activation code, email address and click Next. Make sure Yes is selected when asked are you a Panda Security client. Enter your client number which is actually your “Customer Number” and select your country from the drop down list. Click Next. You will now see that the license expires information stated in the program is one year ahead.
Yeah I know there’s a lot of step but at least I’ve got all of it written down in order for your convenience. Actually there is another Panda Internet Security 2009 installer (PIS2009esd_MultiIdioma.exe) at step 5 but I am not sure what language or version of Panda Internet Security 2009 is that. I am still downloading and when I’m done, I will update this post if necessary. To be on the safe side, it’s better that we register, activate and download the official Panda Internet Security 2009 installer from the official Panda website.
Panda Internet Security 2009 runs on Windows XP and Vista (32 and 64-bit) with Pentium 300 MHz or faster CPU and 1GB RAM with TruPrevent enabled. At least Panda is honest in letting you know before hand that it requires a lot of memory to run properly. Go ahead and grab your free Panda Internet Security 2009 license key before this offer expires!
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About 2 months ago I’ve written a perfect way to unlimited rapidshare downloading. It can be a very perfect way if you have Cryptload configured correctly and also a router that works with it. I have a Belkin router and there is a strange 5 minutes and 5 seconds wait time which even the programmer of Cryptload doesn’t know what is causing it. Some people even have router that doesn’t even work at all with Crytload!
If you’ve use Cryptload before, you’ll know how RapidShare works. If not, I’ll explain really quick. For normal free users, you’ll need to visit rapidshare link, click the FREE button, wait for download ticket, enter CAPTCHA code and start downloading. When want to download second file from Rapidshare, you’ll need to wait for a while depending on how big is the file that you’ve previously downloaded before you can download the second file. Most people don’t want to wait so they just disconnect and reconnect. This will give you a new IP address and you can download without waiting.
Few days ago I found a new program which is quite similar to how Cryptload works but this time it is going to be flawless. Doesn’t matter what router you have, whether you are using ADSL modem to connect, it will work for you. The only catch is you must be sure that whenever you disconnect and reconnect your Internet, you’ll get a new IP address. So here’s another perfect way to unlimited rapidshare downloading…
The program is called (E)lephant written by Shlomi Kalfa (SK). You’ll find the the name of the author familiar because it’s the same person that created Universal Share Downloader or USDownloader. (E)lephant is a weird name to be used for a download manager which is able to bypass rapidshare’s download limitation. Well, I don’t think the name actually matter so much as long as it works!
This is how (E)lephant looks like. Nothing special, just like a download manager.
Before we can start using (E)lephant to automate unlimited downloading from RapidShare, you’ll need to configure it. Most important configuration is the reconnector. That’s where it will auto reconnect your internet connection to get a new IP address.
1. Once downloaded (E)lephant, extract and run (E)lephant.exe
2. Click on Options at the menu bar and select Settings.
3. Go to the Reconnector tab. I am not going to teach you on how to use the built-in reconnector because it might not work for everyone. I am sure that the external connector method will work for everyone with all types of connections.
4a. For people that is using MODEM to connect to ADSL. Open notepad and type in the code shown below and save it as rasdial.bat
There is 3 lines. First line will disconnect your current connection. You need to change the “streamyx” to your connection name. To know what is the connection name, see the title of the dial up.
The second line will ping localhost 20 times which is good to let your modem rest for 20 seconds before reconnecting again.
The third line will auto dial up to your ISP. Again, change the “streamyx” to your connection name, then “user” to your username and “pass” to your password.
Once you have the rasdial.bat file ready, try running the batch file and see if it will automatically disconnect your internet, wait for 20 seconds and then reconnect. If it works, continue to step 5. If not, check your connection name, username and password.
4b. For people that is using ROUTER to connect to ADSL. You have to use Macro to record your actions in logging in to your router, disconnect and reconnect. I recommend using free macro Do It Again. Download and install Do It Again. Run Do It Again, go to Options and select Associate with .dia files. Now click the Create a New Task button. You will need to manually login to your router using a web browser to manually disconnect and reconnect your connection. Press SCROLL LOCK when you’re done and save the task with a name such as “changeip”. To test whether it works or not, go to the programs folder which is at C:\Program Files\Do It Again\ and run changeip.dia file. It should automatically open up your web browser, log in to your router, disconnect and reconnect your connection.
5. Check Use the external reconnector.
6. If you’re using modem, click the …. button to look for your rasdial.bat file and click Set button. For router users, browse to C:\Program Files\Do It Again\DoItAgain.exe and at the next box, enter changeip.dia (the name that you saved earlier) and click Set.
7. Now go to any sites that has RapidShare links. Use your mouse to highlight the links, right click and select Copy.
8. A small (E)lephant window will popup asking you to add the links. Just click Add button.
9. All links will be added to (E)lephant. The last thing you need to do here is to click the Start button to start downloading. You will notice that it can auto decrypt and enter rapidshare CAPTCHA codes and will reconnect your internet whenever it detects that you’ve have reached the download-limit for free-users.
In my opinion, software like Cryptload, USDownloader and (E)lephant is totally legal because it does not hack or exploit Rapidshare servers. It is only a download manager which has the capability of auto recognizing CAPTCHA code and also ability to run third party tools based on error message detected in Rapidshare. There is nothing they can do other than periodically changing their CAPTCHA images.
NOTE: (E)lephant is VERY new and I believe it has yet to surface on any blogs other than here in Raymond.CC. If you’ve learn about (E)lephant from this page and think this news is useful and you’d like to post it on your blog, be kind to leave credit and linkback to this post. Thanks and happy downloading!
For those of us that are using Windows 7 and have a Professional or higher edition, Microsoft has kindly included a Windows XP Mode to download and install applications that don’t fully work in Windows 7. While I admit, I’ve use the XP Mode for some things, for most things, I haven’t had to touch it, because of the fact that the mass majority of my stuff works in Windows 7 fine, plus the fact that Windows 7′s XP Mode is just a glorified virtual machine with Windows XP pre-installed. But aside from that, it does work very well at what it does. Recently, it was updated to not require hardware virtualization so I downloaded it and tried it out on my laptop, which is running enough RAM to allow for XP mode for be pretty fast… or so I thought.
The default background and setup before I started poking around.
Instead, when I finally got it up and loaded, it was rather slow. And when I say slow, I mean it managed to make Windows Vista look surprisingly fast on this laptop. (For those that are wondering how fast it really was, the average boot for my computer, optimized, was 2 minutes. Windows 7 takes about 45 seconds. Not top of the line, but no slouch either.) So to say the least, I wasn’t too thrilled with it taking it’s own sweet time. Rather then just grin and bear with it, considering it was a freebie from Microsoft, I decided to do some poking around with it, as well as looking up some more advanced tips, and found a major time saving tip for those of us that use the Virtual XP Mode.
The major thing you must know is that the Virtual XP in the articles I’ve been reading, claim, and have been backed up by my testing in that it only uses 512 MB of RAM, no matter how much or how little RAM you have in your computer. Since I’m got 3 Gigs in my computer, I thought it might be wiser to provide about a third of my RAM, or 1 Gig to the Virtual Machine. So to change this, we have to go to:
C:\Users\Hell Noire\Virtual Machines
and right click on the Virtual Machine. Since I am only using the one operating system in a VM, I only had one, but if you’re using more then one, be sure to choose the proper one, which should be named Windows XP Mode.vmcx and select the Settings option. Under that, there should be a Memory tab/setting for you to modify to allow for more RAM to be used.
Now, I’m assuming your username isn’t ‘Hell Noire’, and if that’s the case, change that to suit your username. But once I modified it to run at 1 Gig of RAM, it was actually pretty quick and booted and shut down quicker. The one thing I’d like to add is if you are using Virtual XP Mode, you might want to look into using a free antivirus, like AVG, Avira, Panda Cloud, or Avast for protecting your virtual machine from viruses as well. Overall, I still haven’t had much use or need to use XP Mode, but for those of us that are still wondering how to use MS Office 2003 and Final Fantasy 7 on the new systems, XP Mode’s one of the best ways how.
And now for the winners of the IPHider One Year giveaway! Our winners are:
SHAN
Stok Guru
Jason Wright
Jim
Aasmee Agarwal
I’ve sent IPHider your email addresses you’ve provided and your free license should arrive sometime before the end of the weekend!
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I’m aware that recently I’ve covered a lot of security posts for Windows, so today I’m going to share some advice for the Linux users. Unlike Windows, at this point, there is no need for an antivirus, though there are some solutions that presently exist, such as BitDefender for Unix, Avast for Linux, as well as Norton for Linux/Solaris. But you will not see me recommend them for a long time, for the main reason that Linux was designed to be far more secure out of the box, with use of Sudo or Su, effectively making the computer user a non-root user. And until Vista came along, there was no really safe way of doing this, seeing as most programs would not run as a non-root user, as most games and applications were designed to run as a root user. Even with trying some of the sudo replacements that were designed by open source advocates or by programmers that have experience in Linux and Windows, they seem to be a disappointment. However, firewall wise, for the longest time, Linux has had the disadvantage due to the fact that they were set up all as command-line applications, also known as CLI apps. Ubuntu planned to change all that… and succeeded with Gufw.
Gufw stands for GUI [Graphical User Interface] for Uncomplicated Firewall. Unlike Firestarter, Uncomplicated Firewall, and IPTables, it lives up to the name, it is extremely easy to set up and use. Ever since *buntu 8.04, it has been possible to install this application from the repositories. As the name suggests… it is extremely easy to set up and use.
Screenshot from Ubuntu 10.04
As you can see, all you have to do is check off the Enabled checkbox, and set it up as you see fit. You can allow incoming or outgoing transmissions as you wish, as well as adding custom rules onto it, to allow for custom access to web applications such as Webmin or GNUMP3D. Gufw is actually one of the few things that had kept me with Xubuntu for so long, thanks to it’s power and ease of use, and one of the things I am envious of *buntu users can use, since ever since I switched to Salix, I’ve had to switch to Firestarter. The final and perhaps most important thing about Gufw is the fact that it’s custom commands are so completely configurable that it could be impossible for a power user and advanced user to overlook it, even though that it’s ease of use makes it better suited for a newbie. It is also small as well, no more then 250 kb for the main program itself. And unlike Windows firewalls that need to be installed and loaded on bootup, Gufw’s settings remain enabled and active on boot, as far as I understand.
All you have to go and do to install it is simply click here or look in the Application Store for gufw. It couldn’t be any simpler and remains one of the better firewalls for Linux. If you aren’t using Ubuntu but would like a simpler interface then a command line application, take a look for Firestarter, which should provide you with a powerful interface, but documentation might be a good idea ro look at, before playing with it.
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This blog is powered by WordPress and is using Akismet plugin to detect and block spam comments. I’ve used Spam Karma 2 (SK2) before which is probably outdated by now and it really slows the blog down. Then I switched to a paid plugin called Comment Guard Pro developed by Taragana which is lighter than SK2 but it’s pretty aggressive as well in combating against comment spam. What I didn’t like about it is if the user has entered the wrong CAPTCHA code, the comment that the user typed is all gone. The plugin is encrypted and there is no way I can make any changes other than requesting them for help. I finally ditched Comment Guard Pro and used the good old Akismet.
Akismet is very light and the detection is nearly perfect achieving over 99% of an overall accurate rate. This blog is being hit by an average of 1000 comment spams per day and it manage to block them from being posted in the first place. It misses a few spams and also sometimes wrongly flags a genuine comment as spam but its no big deal since I check the pending and spam comments every day. Recently this blog has been hit by Russian comment spammers and Akismet misses all of them.
I upgraded my Akismet API Key to a commercial one to have higher priority over free ones, service is faster and more reliable and no traffic limits or throttles. Sadly the Russian comment spams are not detected.
The Russian comment spam normally does not have any link on the message and the whole message are in Russian. The URL will be filled with a link to the site where they are trying to spam. I’ve done a reverse IP lookup using DomainTools and found that there are a few thousands of domains and hosted on different servers. So far I’ve recorded a total of 210 and the spams are still coming in. Blocking the URL is not good enough because I have only 210 and I know there are thousands of them which are not blocked.
I noticed that they are always using the .ru email address to post the comment. Instead of installing another anti-spamming plugin, I am trying to keep it simply by using the WordPress core to block the spams. Log in to your Woprdpress Admin, go to Settings > Discussion. At the Comment Blacklist, you can fill in any word and when a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be marked as spam.
If you want to mark all russian emails as spam, simple enter “.ru” without the quotes in the comment blacklist and click Save Changes. I have analyzed their comment spams for a few weeks already and it seemed like they are always using the same email service such as qip, rambler, yandex… If you only want to block the Russian comment spammers, use the list below. That should auto move all the Russian comment spams into the Spam area.
If you don’t mind making your readers typing captcha code, you might want to consider WP-reCAPTCHA plugin because it is hard to crack since the text are randomly distorted and the words are being scanned from old books which cannot be recognized by OCR.
The blocking of Russian domains could be a bit aggressive because some legitimate users that left a comment could be using one of the Russian emails. Make sure you remove the blacklist once you noticed that the spammers have gave up spamming your comment form.
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Many of you are already know about file hosting websites such as RapidShare, Megaupload, MediaFire and etc but here’s another one which you might not aware of. File Savr is unlike any of the file hosting websites because they do not reel the user in and make them wait for annoying countdown timers and do not hide the download link with aggressively placed ads. Their goal is simple, to offer the most basic file hosting and image hosting service so you can share your stuff quickly.
File Savr file hosting service is actually free of charge. You can upload files and share the links to people but if you need a special space to store and manage your file sharing permission, you’ll need a paid account. Their paid plan starts from 99cents per month where you’ll get 5GB space, $5 per month for 50GB (Silver Plan) and finally $10 per month for 250GB (Gold Plan).
Here is how to get the most expensive File Savr Gold Plan that cost $10 per month FREE for 30 years! Get your free File Savr Gold plan NOW because this offer expires in 4 days time!
FileSavr’s goal is to simplify the process of file hosting. They claim to provide the fastest and easiest file hosting service as an alternative to sites like MegaUpload and RapidShare. Unlike the other sites, they do not force users to sign up for paid accounts to download files, they do not show long countdown timers, pop up ads, or any other spam related activities.
We all know how annoying it is to not be able to easily share files to other people, so they are doing this to offer the most basic file hosting service so you can share your stuff quickly. File Savr’s website did mentioned that the uploaded files are kept FOREVER as long as they are being downloaded. I’ve emailed them to ask for a specific expiry date to download before it is expired and will update this page once I have the answer. The best part is it has a whooping 10GB upload size limit! Although I don’t think I’ll ever upload any file that big but it could be useful for corporate companies with really fast internet line.
To get your free FileSavr Gold Plan, visit the link at the end of this article, enter a username, password, email address and click the Create Free Account button. You can immediately login to your File Savr Gold account without any email verification. This File Savr Gold Plan deal is actually offered to bloggers as well as members of Digg, Stumble, Reddit, Mixx, Delicious users as a thank you to the community. If you’re not a blogger, you can be a member of any social bookmarking sites above although it is not a must to get a free FileSavr Gold Plan.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Again I’d like to inform you that this offer expires on September 15th. Accounts created before September 15th will have lifetime membership for free. Although it mentioned lifetime membership, but it shows that the account is paid until Jan 18th, 2038. I don’t really care about that so much because in 30 years time, I think I’ll be too old to upload files 😛
File Savr service is very slow right now due to extreme demand. Maybe after the deal is over, the speed will start to pick up again.
File sharing in Windows XP is really quite easy. All you need to do is just right click on a folder and select Share. The folder will be instantly shared but without requiring any login credentials. Easy but dangerous because most of the time users are careless and forget to unshare the shared folders, leaving anyone on the same internal network to see what you have shared, fine only if everyone on the network is trusted. When it comes to Vista and Windows 7, the default file sharing security has been strengthened somewhat allowing the sharer to select who they want to share the file with.
For an IT security personnel, it is important to periodically scan the network for any open file shares to prevent the users from accidentally leaking out any sensitive company information. I personally have been using either Angry IP Scanner or SoftPerfect Network Scanner to do that. They are free, portable and are really fast in scanning the whole subnet for any open shares. Recently another tool was brought to my attention that does a similar thing and it’s called ShareScan, developed by security company McAfee.
ShareScan is a free and portable tool offered by McAfee. Running the sharescan.exe will automatically detect your internal IP address and add from a range of IP from 1 to 254. You can also manually add a single IP address, a range or from an external text file. Enter the single address or range in the box on the left and press the relevant “->” button to add to the scan list.
The scan options available in ShareScan are:
1. Use credentials Instead of using your current credentials, you can manually specify another username, password and domain.
2. Randomize scan order This option randomizes the order in which IP addresses are chosen from the list when scanning.
3. Ping before checking Pinging the computer first before checking might seem to be a good idea but it’s not fool proof since Ping replies can be blocked to pretend that the computer is offline/turned off. A number of software firewalls will have ping blocking or hiding on by default. This option is disable by default because of a better method at point number 4.
4. Test for open port 445 before checking TCP Port 445 is used among other things for file sharing in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. File sharing would only work if TCP port 445 is open.
5. Show all systems This option will show the all systems regardless of whether they have any open shares or not. Useful to check how many computers are connected to the network.
6. Resolve IP address to names Shows computer and NETBIOS names of the scanned computers.
The scan results can be saved to a nicely format HTML file or other formats such as TXT, CSV, or XML. As useful as this tool is for a network administrator, it can also be used by anyone to scan for any open shares in public network to steal files that are openly shared.
Downloading a file using Internet Explorer and playing an online FPS game such as Counter-Strike: Source simultaneously is not really a good idea. Reason is Internet Explorer will take up all the download bandwidth making the CS:S game nearly unplayable with a huge increased of ping causing it to lag. Moreover a lot of servers implements ping limits and if you go over it, you will be automatically kicked out of the game. The best way is to limit the internet download speed for the Internet Explorer process so that it doesn’t hogs the whole bandwidth. Early last year I’ve written an article on how to restrict or limit internet download and upload transfer speed. I’ve featured both Shunra Nimbus and Traffic Shaper XP because they are free but both of it is pretty outdated by now. Today I stumbled on software called NetBalancer which is in constant development and it has a special internet speed priority feature.
NetBalancer is an internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed for Windows XP/2003/Vista/Win7. You can use NetBalancer to set download or upload transfer rate priority for any applications and monitor their internet traffic.
Most traffic shaping software sets speed limits for applications and processes which can be quite inconvenient. For example, you limit your downloading speed so you can still surf your favorite website. When you are done with surfing, the bandwidth is free, yet your downloading speed is still limited! Dealing with limits implies constant tuning of your traffic shaping program. But with NetBalancer, such problems will never exist because of the priority settings. Applications with a higher network priority will gain more traffic bandwidth than those with a lower one.
After setting all priorities and limits, you can see what is going on with the help of special features supported by NetBalancer. It can show all system processes with their in and out traffic speed; downloaded and uploaded traffic for any process or application since the start of NetBalancer. The free version of NetBalancer is limited to 5 process priorities/limits at a time. If you want to go over that limit, you will need to upgrade it to Pro version at the price of $24.95.
There is a total of 2 process by NetBalancer. When NetBalancer is sitting quietly in notification tray area, the SeriousBit.NetBalancer.Tray.exe process takes up about 6MB. However when you double click on the tray icon to bring up the user interface, the tray icon process goes up to 10MB and another process SeriousBit.NetBalancer.UI.exe which takes up an additional 20MB will run. Closing the UI window will terminate the process and leaving only the tray process running. Good thing is you can clear the tray memory usage by right clicking the tray icon and select “Free unused memory“.
Would you like to learn the basics on how to crack programs? Before cracking softwares, you must learn how to unpack it first. Here’s a very straight to the point tutorial written by +NRC from Team Seek n Destroy(SnD).
This tutorial is very newly written. In fact it was released yesterday. So get it fast and learn something new today!
I’ve just got an email from Citibank and asking me to update my details. Of course I never believed it because I never had a citibank account. Moreover, I always knew that banks wouldn’t email you to update your details and provide your password as well.
The email looks like legitimate email sent by Citibank and there’s a link for you to click so your browser will open up Citibank site which doesn’t belong to Citibank. I clicked on the link and it brings me to the link below.
If you take a closer look at the link, the domain for the long address above is acountnline.com. I did a whois and found that the domain belongs to Jonathan Rickles with the email acountnline_com@fsmail.net.
Come on man… Citibank would never use a person’s name and also a free email account service to register a domain. Anyway, I tried inserting bogus information and click on the “Sign On” button, and it brings me to ACCOUNTONLINE.COM! It doesn’t make sense to update your information on acountnline.com and later brings you back to ACCOUNTONLINE.COM. Take a closer look at both of the domains. The spelling is different.
I believe that the real citibank online banking site is ACCOUNTONLINE.COM. I did a whois on ACCOUNTONLINE.COM and the information looked legitimate. So beware of emails that you get asking you to update your information. BANKS would NEVER do that.
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When Windows 7 was released it came with several enhancements to the desktop interface, and one major areas of change was to the taskbar. Along came features such as the advanced preview window, a progress meter on a taskbar icon and Aero Peek to name a few. Something else to appear was an application’s icon on the taskbar also had the ability to display quick access options like some of the associate programs functions, recent history or favourites.
These options are available by right clicking on the icon on the taskbar or left clicking and dragging the icon upward. And if you didn’t already know, this useful feature is called a Jump list. The Jump list feature has proved to be quite popular because it provides convenient shortcuts to several different functions at the click of a mouse.
While Jump lists are being used to their full extent with a number of applications these days, there is still a lot which don’t take advantage of it effectively or even at all. This is where a handy piece of software called Jumplist Extender could prove to be useful because it can create a custom Jump list for just about any icon that gets pinned to the Windows 7 taskbar.
A standard Chrome Jump List
Jumplist Extender can perform a simple task of just opening a program with a command line argument such as opening a web browser with your favourite website as the argument. The program can also send keystrokes to the application window so you either enter simple commands or keyboard shortcuts to open the program and perform an action. And if that’s not enough, because Jumplist Extender is programmed using the AutoHotkey scripting language, it also supports the creation and running of AutoHotkey scripts, if you know how to use AutoHotkey of course.
Jumplist Extender is open source software so is completely free to use. Although it comes with a setup installer, I was able to extract the Jumplist Extender setup with Universal Extractor and run it via the T7EPreferences.exe. Although I was able to create a jump list successfully, I can’t guarantee it will work perfectly this way, so it’s your choice.
Something to note about this program is when you create a new jump list, any jump list already connected with the icon will be lost, and you can’t add to or edit an existing default jump list. In short, be careful about which icon you’re creating a new list for.
On running the program, the first window to pop up will ask what you want to do. Obviously, if you haven’t already set up or saved any lists you need to start a new jump list. A file requester will then ask you to select an executable or shortcut file which the jump list is going to be created for.
After that another window will ask to run the related application if it isn’t already open. When the program is open click on it and Jumplist Extender will recognise it’s the correct one. The next window is simply to verify the selection is correct, and if not you can try to reselect it. Click OK when you’re sure.
The main window is where the list is created and is split into two, the left for the jump list layout and the right to create the entry. Entries can be added, removed or moved up and down the list using the buttons provided.
To configure an entry, firstly give it a name and choose the icon if you want one. There are four different types of entry that can be created; Task, File/Folder Shortcut, Category and Separator. The File/Folder option will simply allow you to open a folder or execute an external file from the jump list. Category and Separator makes the list more readable if there are to be several entries.
The task option is the most powerful as it offers three actions; Send keystrokes to window, Run command line or program and the Run AutoHotkey script action. The keystroke action is useful for sending things like hotkey combinations or entering text into a text box etc. In the above window I’m sending ‘ipconfig /all’ to the command prompt window which will run ipconfig when I select the entry in the pinned icon’s jump list. There are a number of possibilities here as you could also send blocks of text into a text editor or set it up to ‘Ctrl+V’ and paste clipboard content straight into a program.
Custom Jump List for a Command Prompt pinned icon
The Run command line or program action allows the running of the connected application or a different one with command line options. For example executing a browser with a website as the argument will open the related webpage. Eg; ‘C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe’ Raymond.cc. When you have finished creating the jump list press Ctrl+S or go to File -> ‘Save and apply to Taskbar’ to apply the changes.
One minor gripe I have with the program is after a few hours of testing it popped up a nag asking to donate. Not too much of an issue if it only does it once, but every xx amount of hours would be a major pain in the neck. A workaround is to simply exit the application in the tray, it didn’t appear to affect the jump lists I had created although it might possibly cause problems with using custom scripts or something more advanced. A case of try it and see.
I’ll be honest, in all my time in Linux and Windows, I’ve had a lot of hassles coming from my wireless card. That’s not to say that’s it’s a perfect flop or anything like that, I’ve just had what I feel is more then my fair share of issues with it. For example, when I got my present laptop home, the first thing I tried to do was access the wireless that we had at home, only to find out it couldn’t connect, let alone see any networks. We opened part of the laptop up and found one of the wires that was meant to be connected to the wireless card had come loose, and had effectively killed wireless connectivity for me that night.
At the same time, running a Marvell chip on the wireless card is one of the worst things I’ve had to face, mostly due to the fact that it is rarely supported under Linux. In fact, I’m pretty sure I had it working in Linux for a grand total of a day, thanks to an update to NDISWrapper breaking it the following morning. My grudges aside, though, NDISWrapper is a highly powerful and the essential when you are installing your wireless card or wireless USB stick under Linux. With that being said, it is also very tricky too…
so if your wireless card does not work after I show you how to work with NDISWrapper, I only tried to help, and am showing you exactly what I’ve learned.
The first thing you have to do is install NDISWrapper, under Ubuntu, it is a simple
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper
but under Salix, you must install the front end for NDISWrapper as well. So if you’re in Salix, you have to run
su slapt-get -i ndiswrapper slapt-get -i ndisgtk
Once it has finished installing, if you open it up under your System menu, you should see something like so
This is how the NDISWrapper interface looks like, or at least the GTK version. From here, it’s a little simplistic my instructions, and it shouldn’t be that different for each card. Hit the ‘Install New Driver’ and point it to the Windows XP or 2000′s driver, in .INF format. If you do not have your driver’s .INF file, try installing the software for your wireless driver does give you in Wine, before going into your /home/username/.wine/program_files directory.
The worst part about NDISWrapper is that it’s not assured that it’s going to work with everyone. Check with the forum of the OS you use, the official documentation, Google, or even our forum to see if we can find you a solution. It might not be supported, but I know I’ll certainly try helping out anyone who needs help setting up their wireless.
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