*** Notepad Tricks - Part 4 ***

Trick 4

NOTEPAD "World Trade Centre Trick".. ::

Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit WTC ...on
9/11 was Q33N ....Open your Notepad in ur computer and type the flight
number i.e Q33N... Increase the Font Size to 72, Change the Font to
Wingdings. U will be amazed by the findings.

*** Notepad Trick-part 3 ***

Trick 3

• Open a note pad
• Type " Bush hid the facts " .
  
• Save that file,
• Close it
• Again open and see...

*** Notepad Trick-part 2 ***

Trick 2

• Open Notepad
• Enter four words separated by spaces, wherein the first word has 4 letters, the next two have three letters, and the last word has five letters
• DON'T hit enter at the end of the line.
• Save the file.
• Close Notepad.
• Reopen Notepad.
• Open the file you just saved.

*** Notepad Tricks - Part 1 ***

These are some really amazing notepad tricks which you can see in the windows notepad. Check them out right away.

Trick 1

• Open Notepad
• Write following line in the notepad.
  " this app can break " without the quotes.
  
• Save this file as xxx.txt
• Close the notepad.
• Open the file again.

Viola!!

*** How to Guarantee a Hacker ***

Okay..You have heard of them,everybody have heard of them..Hackers are there. With so much coverage media gives to them,you probably have the idea what they can do. Lemme clear it up for you first, Hackers are not bad. Crackers are bad. Hackers are information seekers not malicious destroyers,Crackers are the evil cyber wizards and Hackers are often misunderstood under this whole dilemma. To be a Hacker is a matter of pride,of being skillful enough to counter attack and foil the attacks of network attackers.
Ever wanted to have the knowledge they possess ? Yep,You can be a Hacker,that too LEGALLY.The basic methodology goes as if you want to stop crackers or cyber bandits from invading your network, first you've got to invade their minds.Organizations like ECCOUNCIL and various other universities provide courses and training in ethical hacking. Once you complete the course and pass the exam,you will be an Ethical Hacker. An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system legally on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit.Ethical hackers are in great demand nowadays,According to the EC-Council, there is a high demand for certified hackers in the corporate sector, particularly in the banking, telecommunications, petrochemical, fast moving consumer goods and manufacturing industries, and also in government agencies like utilities and transportation.
Here is how you can be an Ethical Hacker -
You must have basic knowledge of computers and networks and must have exposure to common programming languages like C/C++/Visual Basic etc.
Then you can seek certifications like CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) by ECCOUNCIL, CISE (Certified Information Security Expert) or CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security

Professional) offered at prestigious institutes at your country. Also, these certifications are legalized by government and the individual are expected to provide identity proofs.
You can begin your training in these course (usually last from 2 months to 6 months) and then you have to pass an online exam conducted by respective certification authorities. If you get passed,you will be awarded your certification and You will be a certified Ethical Hacker.
You can start and shape up your career as a Computer Security

Expert or just go on securing your own networks and gain knowledge.

I m currently pursuing Btech in Computer Science and Engineering and I will be doing CISE from Delhi and the CEH to be on my way of being a Computer Security Expert. Its my calling,Go for yours..

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*** Basics of cracking FTP abd Telnet accounts ***

Most of us crave for direct download links so that we can download at the highest possible speed. More intelligent of us sniff out forums and DDL / WAREZ sites for direct links and to get unethical stuff. But as the saying goes,”Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”, after a flurry of emails about on how to crack ftp/pop3/telnet accounts,I decided to post an article on the above stated topic. One of the easy of hacking is brute forcing.You can quickly hack accounts if you have a decent sized password dictionary. I personally use one of about 3.16GB in size, but for this tutorial I'm only going to use a small password list, just so you get the feel of it.
Here is how to do that
The First step is to download hydra either from it's homepage (www.thc.org/thc-hydra/). Choose the windows version and hit download.Download the zip file, extract it, and make sure you see the files below:

If you do, that's good. Go to Start > Run > cmd to open the command prompt. Then change to your hydra folder using the “cd” command. For example my hydra folder was on the desktop, so I did this:

Now that you've done this, it's time to execute Hydra for the first time! Sorry Windows fans, but there is only a GUI for Hydra for Linux systems, you you're gonna have to do it the old fashioned way. Just type “hydra.exe” without quotes, and watch the result:

Now we have to find some IP’s to attack and we will do it by ip scanning using Nmap. You can download it from here – make sure to download the windows installer.after installing it,find out your IP address, so that you know a possible IP range. In the command prompt sessions, type “ipconfig” and watch the results:

In my case, the range is at least 10.1.1.1-4, but I'll go from 1 to 10 just to be safe. Fire up Nmap and do a ping scan “nmap -sP 10.1.1.1-10” to see what hosts are alive, and wait for the results:

Pick a host to port scan – I picked 10.1.1.1 because it is a router, and for most people the password is generally pretty simple, if not default. Port scan it using something like “nmap -sS -sV -P 0 -T5 -O 10.1.1.1” and see if it's running any services (click on the “Ports/Hosts” tab at the end for a simpler view of the services running and their ports). If you dont understand on how to use NMAP,read the basics here

Now we will be attacking the Telnet port because I know that it works, because I know you guys think Telnet is the be-all and end-all of hacking, and because the Windows version of THC-Hydra isn't compiled with LIBSSH support (unless you did it yourself), and as such I can't attack SSH – otherwise I'd be doing that instead. It's so much better. Head back to your command session, and review the output from Hydra before; it tells you the services it can crack. After looking through it, and realising that Telnet definitely is there, we can now proceed to attack it with the command

“hydra -l admin -P passlist.txt 10.1.1.1 telnet”

as is demonstrated here:

An explanation of the command: -l admin was used because I assumed that the router would have the login of “admin”. You can use username lists as well if you wish. -P passlist.txt specified a password dictionary named “passlist.txt” - make sure to have the -P include the capital P, otherwise you'll be specifying a password to try.
10.1.1.1 is the routers IP address, and telnet is the protocol we want to attack. Now obviously we could tell it to attack that protocol on a different port, but we won't bother with that right now unless anyone else wants to see how. My dictionary only included 4 words for the purpose of this tutorial. You can see the cracked password circled at the end (which by the way, isn't my password for the router, for those of you who know how to get my IP and wanna try and break in :P). And that's how to do a basic hydra service crack on Windows.

Happy Cracking.

*** Dualboot Vista with XP--Install XP over Vista ***

he question I am asked most often is "How do I install a dual-boot with Windows XP on my new Windows Vista computer?" The answer is that it's not that difficult, it's just very time consuming, and you need to own a copy of Windows XP.

Note that you should not attempt this if you aren't ready to troubleshoot any problems that might occur.

The first issue we encounter is that computers with pre-installed operating systems take up the entire drive. Luckily Microsoft included the Shrink volume feature in Vista, so we can easily shrink the Vista partition down to make room for XP.

Open the Computer

Management panel, which you can find under Administrative tools or by right-clicking the Computer item in the start menu and choosing Manage. Find the Disk Management item in the list and select that.

Now we'll shrink our volume down by right-clicking on the main hard drive and choosing Shrink Volume. Now you can choose the size that you want to shrink, which really means you are choosing the size that you want your XP partition to be. Whatever you do, don't just use the default. I chose roughly 10gb by entering 10000 into the amount.

The next step might be confusing, because we need to change the cd-rom drive that's invariably taking up D: at the moment, because we want to use D: for the Windows XP partition, but it's already taken by the cd-rom drive. If you skip this step than XP will install onto the E: drive, which isn't the end of the world, but it's not quite as tidy.

Right-click on the cd-rom drive in the list and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths from the menu.

Now we'll change the CD drive to use E: by selecting that in the drop-down.

Now we can create a new partition for XP to live on and make sure that the drive letter is set the way we want. If you do not create a partition now the XP install will do so automatically, but it's easier and cleaner to do it this way.

Right-click on the Unallocated free space area and then select New Simple Volume from the menu.

Follow through the wizard and select whatever options you'd like, making sure to use D: as the drive letter.

Now you will need to close out of disk management and reboot your computer. This is because we can't do the next step until we reboot. (you can try, but it won't work)

So we've come back from rebooting… open up Computer from the start menu and then right-click on the D: drive and select properties. Give your partition a meaningful name like "XP". It would be wise to name the C: drive to "Vista" at this point as well.

Now you'll want to pop your XP cd into the drive and boot off it. You may have to configure your BIOS to enable booting off the CD drive, or if your computer says something like "Hit Esc for boot menu" you might want to use that.

Once you come to the screen where you can choose the partition to install on, then choose either the unpartitioned space or the new partition you created. Whatever you do, don't try and install onto your Vista partition! See how much cleaner it is now that we've labeled each partition distinctly?

We'll assume XP is completely installed at this point, and you will have lost your ability to boot into Windows Vista, so we'll need to use the VistaBootPro utility to restore the Vista boot loader.

Download and install VistaBootPro

During the install you'll be forced to install the .NET 2.0 framework. Open up VistaBootPRO and then click on the System Bootloader tab. Check the "Windows Vista Bootloader" and then "All Drives" radio buttons, and then click on the Install Bootloader button.

At this point, the Windows Vista bootloader is installed and you'll only be able to boot into Vista, but we'll fix that. Instead of manually doing the work, we'll just click the Diagnostics menu item and then choose Run Diagnostics from the menu.

This will scan your computer and then automatically fill in the XP version.. click on the "Manage OS Entries" tab and then click in the textbox for Rename OS Entry, and name it something useful like "Windows XP" or "The Windows That Works"

Click the Apply Updates button and then reboot your computer… you should see your shiny new boot manager with both operating systems in the list!

If you get an error saying "unable to find ntldr" when trying to boot XP, you'll need to do the following:

• Find the hidden files ntldr and ntdetect.com in the root of your Vista drive and copy them to the root of your XP drive.
• If you can't find the files there, you can find them in the \i386\ folder on your XP install cd

This is a critical piece of information: Windows XP will be installed on the D: drive, even in Windows XP… so you'll need to keep that in mind when tweaking your system.

You can share information between the drives, but I wouldn't recommend messing with the other operating system's partition too much… it might get angry and bite you. Or screw up your files. What I do recommend is that you store most of your files on a third drive shared between the operating systems… you could call that partition "Data".