Posts by alc6379

Have you tried to do any of this yourself?

I'm going to let this one stay, only because you're saying you're doing this for your personal enrichment, and not some homework assignment. If you really want someone to help you out, why not get a start on the program, and then post some code that you've written?

Spamming the board doesn't count, right? ;)

Yeah, freeshell.org is completely legal.

You can pay for a shell account there, if you'd like. People tend to think that freeshell is for "MAD H4><0rz" or something, when all they offer is a shell account. In fact, if they caught you doing anything illegal with your account, you'd be out their digital door.

...I really don't see why, thought.

I mean, email *is* email, after all. Whether I'm someguy@gmail.com or someguy@emailserv.domain.co.uk , I'm still just someguy.

Maybe it's one of those "Me Too!" type of deals...

I have a friend who infects his test computer ,I will check with him, he may have a few nasties I could get him to email them to you perhaps .

Edit : I PM'ed him an will let you know when he responds to the PM.

Awesome!

I've stuffed the install with the usual things, like Gator and such. Now I'm looking for real baddies, like the sp.html hijack and others. But, the more the merrier!

I'm thinking of setting up a dummy email account too, while I'm at it, so I might be able to get a load of viruses, too...

Maybe I'm missing something here but why not just allocate a separate directory on your webserver and have the the logs upload there and link directly to the text file if folks want to read it? I think those logs are pretty annoying anyways.

Slightly off the subject but relative to the log files...what about an FAQ about spyware encouraging users to empower themselves and take a little responsibility for their computing? Maybe the techies here could compile a comprehensive guide for dealing with spyware; how to identify suspect processes and how to use Google to search for specific strings and just start pointing folks in that direction instead of doing all this work for them and dealing with these enormous log files that I, for one, really don't want to read. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what processes are running and go look them up on Google, they're half way there if they can figure out how to get into the Task Manager. Maybe that is how it should be approached...request that folks go find out what processes are running and research them first; just follow the FAQ...then ask questions if they get stuck. No logs...no lazy lima beans. I don't say this to be harsh; I think that if folks are required to take some responsibility for this stuff they'll be more interested in preventing it from happening in the first place as well as developing their knowledge about computing thus empowering themselves! How …

I've got a system set up that I'm going to use to test spyware removal on. My only problem is that since I've done such a job keeping spyware off of my box, I have no idea as to how I can get it on the machine.

I'm doing some of the easy ones, like bonzi buddy, and I'm downloading every toolbar that I can think of. For starters, I'm also downloading every P2P program that I can think of, as well. My problem comes in is that I want to try and get homepage hijackers on there, and I want to get as many popups on this system as possible.

I'm starting out with an unpatched Windows ME installation, and then I'm going to move on with an unpatched Windows XP Home install. Do you guys know of any other places that I can hit up to actually infest my testbed boxen with spyware? Where have some of you guys been to? Note, though, that adult websites will not be considered. I would prefer not to spend my time hitting up those sites, no matter how much spyware I could get from them.

Also, if you have any suggestions for programs to test out, let me know. I'm starting out with Spybot, Adaware, and Pest Patrol, but I'd be interested in using others, no matter how good are bad. I just want to get an idea of which one really does the best, and how much …

yup, they've stopped. He didn't say much else, though...

Hi there,

I split your forum out of the one that you replied to. In general, proper forum etiquette would dicate that if you have a seperate issue, even though it's the same as the original poster's, you should want to create a new thread, so your specific issue gets the attention it needs, as your situation may be different from the original poster's.

Do you get any error messages or anything when this happens?

I'd almost be willing to bet that it is a virus. I know that there was a virus or spyware something or other that actually named its payload notepad.exe. If you ever had this virus, that could be contributing.

Do you have a virus scanner?

Hi there,

I split your forum out of the one that you replied to. In general, proper forum etiquette would dicate that if you have a seperate issue, even though it's the same as the original poster's, you should want to create a new thread, so your specific issue gets the attention it needs, as your situation may be different from the original poster's.

You're neglecting consideration of a couple of very important factors there.

The first of those is the advertising. From infancy, people get bombarded with the message! It's flashy, it's attractive, it's completely innaccurate, and it's matched only by that other great bane of the world - Coke! How the hell else can that pair of disgusting abominations of product for human consumption get to be the most widely consumed that there is if it's not for the fact that there are forces at bear which act to take rational choice away from the individual?

I'll tell you what force took rational choice away from the individual: people are sheep these days. I'll admit that I do lean more conservative than anything (probably conservo-moderate for lack of a better term), but I hate more than most people the fact that the public in general can be whipped into a frenzy over "Terrism" and "Terrists"(sic) to the point that the term has almost become clichéd that we really end up losing sight of things. Same as with a natural disaster, computer virus, a meteor smacking Earth, Y2K, anything: people almost seem like they want somebody to get them worked up over something.

I personally attribute this to lazyness. Again, I feel that there's enough information out there to allow anyone to conclude that McDonalds is unhealthy. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that there's more nutritional information out there that would cement this fact such that the only people who'd …

What's the exact DNS error message you're getting?

A lot of times, DNS errors just happen because you cannot contact a DNS server, while it may be related to spyware, it's often not.

Are you having any other issues?

That's a good question... I know a guy that works for Google. If I can pin him down, I'll try and ask him about it.

If McDonalds has really fallen goodriddence, artificial fast fat is the last thing our overweight and often obeese nation needs, lets hope the rest of the franchises go too XD

But see, that's your opinion. You're entitled to feel that way, though, thankfully.

I'm not so sure I'd say good riddance because they're contributing to getting America fat. Like Toba discussed, there should be far more responsibility on the consumer than on the peddler to choose whether or not to eat that food. One of the biggest problems in American society (and probably others, I'll assume) is the lack of accountability we hold the "average joe" to. (I would say good riddance because their food's not that good IMO, but I digress.)

...Let's take this a little further. If the average joe doesn't know something upfront about a computer, then these days, it's considered the company's fault because they didn't tell the customer. Previously, this could be chalked up as the customer's fault, as they did not exercise due dilligence before purchasing the machine.

Or, take anything these days. The average joe wants to be spoon-fed everything-- it's a "gimmegimmegimme" time to live in, and we expect everything from our food, information, and entertainment to be handed to us, with no or little effort on our part. Face it-- we're lazy. Capitalism hasn't changed, it's always been supply and demand, and companies are just supplying the slovenly lifestyle that the status quo demands.

I'll be the …

yes, not exctly at the same time, however, it is usualy only one of a kind with out an external manager, for example you can run one copy of windows 9X (95 98 ME) one copy of NT (2k 2k3 XP ) and probally multiple copys of Linux

windows should always be installed before linux because linux will isntall a boot manger

Actually, there is even a way to run multiple OSes at once-- I have a copies of VMware and VirtualPC; both products can run a "guest OS" in a window inside of your currently running operating system. Virtual PC only works in Windows, but I've run VMware in Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. There's also a free program called Bochs, but it's way too slow for anything but DOS, or a text-based Linux installation.

I really like VMware-- you can run the OS inside of another, and use the host OS's network adapters to communicate with other systems on your network. You can even run more than one virtual machine at once, given you have enough memory-- instead of having multiple test machines, I currently have one machine that has two VMware instances running; since I'm testing a domain setup, I have a copy of Windows Server 2003 running in one machine as a domain controller, and I have a Windows XP Pro install in the other instance that I can use to log into the domain from.

We absolutely do not tolerate piracy on this forum. Any further discussion or hints or downloading pirated copies of Windows will result in closing or deletion of this thread.

But, few people know there is a legal way to download Windows isos-- get an MSDN subscription. Sure, it costs about $1200 for one, but you get developer copy access to just about every piece of software Microsoft produces. But, it's legal, and it answers your question about how to download Windows isos.

What is Python? Python is great. ;)

It's an object oriented, open-source, multiplatform scripting language. Its target is similar Perl's: you can do anything from System adminstration, quick application prototyping, CGI web scripting, text processing, math, to whatever else with it. There are even toolkits like Tkinter and wxPython that allow you to do GUI application development, but I've never really used them before.

The syntax of Python is nice-- it basically makes you write readable code. Unlike C, C++, Java, any other language, really, the indentation of the code isn't optional-- it's actually part of the syntax, and if a nested statement isn't properly indented, the interpreter will actually bark back at you, stating that what you just wrote is "wrong" because it's not indented correctly.

I'm just starting to get my feet wet with Python, but I love it already-- it's fun to program with it, and the documentation is EXCELLENT-- there are some great O'Reilly books that have helped me out with it, and on top of that, being open source, the Python website, has just about everything you'd need to know to get started, too.

Dani,

For what it's worth, my most sincere condolences go out to you. Just like when you were sick, and when you were in the hospital, don't worry at all about us here in the forums-- you have way more important things to worry about than this.

I wish you and your family the best through such a tough time. My grandmother died a few months back as a result of alleged nursing home mistreatment, and I'm still regretting that I did not tell my then employer to shove off and let me go to her funeral. Take care of you and your family out there, and your family here will manage as well.

Man, those Vipers are HOT! 500 Horsepower to the wheels I'm told!

I, too, am glad to see muscle coming back in vogue. Back in the early 90's we saw a resurgance of it with all of the Japanese sports cars. They had power, but had more finesse than anything. But, now we've got Chrysler with the Prowler, Viper, and Crossfire, GM with the 05 Corvette, the GTO, and the Monte Carlo SS, and Ford with the GT and the 05 Mustang, I think cars are finally going to get interesting again.

Has anyone seen the commercials for the new Corvette yet? Those things almost look like Ferarris!

I just noticed yesterday that my Windows XP Firewall is no longer enabled. It always has been so I don't know when, or how, it got disabled. When I go to Network Connections -- Properties -- Advanced, the Internet Connection Firewall is unchecked; when I try to check it, I get an error message as soon as I click OK:

"An error occurred while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled. The dependancy service or group failed to start."

I tried using the Wizard, which set it to be enabled, but then it's not.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

The dependancy service failed to start, eh? That means that a service ICS depends on isn't starting.

What you need to do is click on Start -> Run, and type in services.msc. There's a list of services set up on your computer. Double click on Internet Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing, and then click the Dependancies tab. You'll basically have to go through and figure opt which dependancy isn't starting up, and why it isn't.

Linux/BSD running sendmail or postfix work great.

If the box isn't going to see much action, you could install that on a very low-end box, and be in pretty good shape.

The only way you could "password protect" a file is to put it into a zip/RAR type archive, and add a password to it. But, that's not very useful if you want to use the files all of the time.

A better solution would be to look at implementing file permissions. That way, each user on the computer would have their own user names, and you can grant read/write/execute/modify type permissions on a per-user basis.

I stinks for me here.

NBC is doing a terrible job of covering the olympics. I'm going to be missing all of my favorite sports, like Tae Kwon Do, Judo, Shooting, and some others, presumably because NBC doesn't deem them popular enough to air live.

C'mon NBC... you've got a bazillion cable channels-- use them for everyone to enjoy!

industry2m: Hey! nice avatar!

I would agree with you... you just end up eXPeriencing a new, sometimes confusing interface, and you do come up with a lot of insecurities, as well.

What's going to be great is the number of people complaining about SP2 breaking P2P programs as Windows blocks more than 5 incomplete TCP connections... In one accord, they'll shout, "WHERE'S MY KAZAA!?!?!", as all of their connections keep getting broken.

For one thing, your link appears to be bogged down, or just plain down.

Secondly, we give homework help for those who show effort. Why not post the assignment here, post what you've done, and what you're stuck on. That's the only way you'll get help from us here.

yes
i mean that how to find out the time??? plz

Did you see my above post? That tool should do it for you.

The person doesn't want to change the password just crack it so that no ones knowes he was in past where he's /she is allowed to go .
I think i can speak for the Admin and Mods of this fourm on this one .
This is not what this fourm if about ,we do not offer that kind of help here .

Yes, caperjack is right on this one--

Any posts that actually discuss cracking an Admin password will be deleted, without warning. Even if your motives are pure, the risks of that information being misused far outway someone's innocent need for such instruction.

Ahah! Found the HOWTO I wrote over there:

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40934

That's got some information about running dual headed monitors. If I'm not mistaken, others added to it by posting config files specific to ATI Radeon and NVIDIA cards.

Wow! Registered in August, and you've got 17 posts already. Got the makings of another regular, I'd say!

Welcome aboard!

Just because you're running Windows XP doesn't mean you can't be on FAT32. FAT32 would go a long way explaining what you're experiencing.

Ages ago, was it on this system?

Did you check the BRIDGE.DLL thread that was posted at the top of this page?

Have you tried some of the suggestions in our sticky threads at the top of this forum?

Before doing anything else, that's what I'd do. You will probably be able to fix it yourself while waiting for someone to sift through your log.

I couldn't see anything, maybe except for these two:
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant = http://mysearchnow.com/searchbar.html
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {249A7517-8A86-9272-9884-347A9D825506} - (no file)

I'm not really sure about either of those, but I don't see what it would hurt to disable them.

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i have an idea for an rpg that i want up but i dont know rpging, if anyone would like to help please email me.

but here is the idea.
u register, login, and the train ur member. in the training screen, u get skill points and xp points. after certain xp, u raise up lvs. then u can redeem skill points in attack and defense. stuff like that.

if anyone wants to help me with this idea please email me at dragonkingamn@yahoo.com
i really appreciate it

Sounds a lot like MUDing to me. There are lots of text-based sites that do that still.

Is that what you're kind of talking about? Also, PHP is a web programming language, it's not actually talking about something related to RPGs. ;)

I had the same problem on an out of the box Dell 4600c. I googled the error (primary drive 0 not found), and many people thought that the motherboard was fried. Unfortunately, almost all the posts were concerning Dells ;) . I thought that maybe the CMOS battery was dead so i pulled it out. On the board, a little plus sign was staring up at me and i looked at the battery. A little plus sign was staring at me there as well. So I flipped over the battery so the plus signs matched up (i cant believe dell installed a battery upside down!). It worked fine after that.

Well, that's interesting that the battery would be installed upside down.

You know what? Not trying to make excuses for anyone, but it is pretty easy to get those battery sides confused...

can someone just tell me if im going in the right direction

i would need to create a class called Aircraft which has attributes:int fuel accoutn and int flight number?? and methods getFlightNumbe(), getFuelAccount,changeFuelAccount...am i in the rigth direction? i just dotn kno what other classes to use..and which i should make abstract....

See, this is something you should have posted in your initial post. Even if you don't have any code yet, you at least have direction that you're thinking you need to go.

BTW, I'm not that much of a coder, so I can't really help you. I'm just trying to help you get the best results for your question

Thsi isn't some type of homework assignment, is it? It reeks of homework to me.

Are you needing some help on this, or are you just posting this for people to check out?

If it's an assignment you're working on, please post some code that you've written yourself, and we'll help you figure it out. We don't write people's code for them.

Have you run any programs to check for spyware or viruses? Those two are the most common causes of unknown CPU usage spikes...

Most likely, heat probably is not the issue.

I could make a snide comment that Windows ME is the issue, but I won't ;)

Most systems, even ones old enough to be running ME, usually have a thermal protection feature that shuts the system down in the event of overheating. If your system was running too hot, then it would not have frozen-- it would have either shutdown, or you'd see smoke eminating from your PC! :o

I'd try starting in Safe Mode, and seeing if you can even get in from there. When the computer is booting, just before Windows loads, you either hold down the Ctrl key or the F8 key, and you'll be presented with a menu to enter into safe mode with.

Have you run a spyware or an antivirus scan lately? I'd suspect that, more than anything... Also, did you get any error messages, other than the bluescreens?

Trust me, reformatting should be enough. There haven't been any bootsector-type viruses for a number of years now.

What symptoms is your PC exhibiting? If you have a problem that's persisting, even after reloading Windows, then I'd start suspecting some type of hardware problem. You might want to explore that avenue instead of trying to figure out how to zero-out a hard drive.

Have you written any code yourself towards reaching this goal?

Your question is a little vague. Please post more information, and some code, and I'm sure someone here can help you out.

Perhaps you missed the announcement at the top of the page.

Yes, indeed. We don't do your homework for you. Post some code that you've written, and we'll help you help yourself.

What do people expect to get from having others answer their questions for them, anyways? I'm not trying to flame here, but in doing so, you're just setting yourself up for a swift kick in the pants once you enter the job world, when you realize that you didn't really learn how to code...

If you have a particular question, post it here, along with the code you've written to try and figure this out.

If someone else does the work for you, then you didn't learn anything, and you don't deserve the grade you get. No offense, but lord knows there's enough poor programmers already out in the field...

Normally I would agree with you Alex, but get this- the size of HP's recovery partition can be on the order of GigaBytes these days. I know that a lot of vendors have found that to be a cheap and easy way of giving customers some sort of a recovery solution without the vendor having to manufacture and ship a separate set of recovery CDs, but:

I realize that-- Dell's recovery partition is 3GB, for instance, and its diagnostic partition is about 32 MB.

A) A set of recovery CDs may still be obtainable if you contact the vendor., and they may come at no cost if you request them within a certain time-frame after purchasing the computer. This is a more robust solution IMHO anyway- what if your whole drive gets seriously whacked? Having your recovery data on the same drive as the operating system isn't going to help in a case like that. I can attest to that scenario, because I've had to deal with it personally.

B) Those "diagnostic" or "recovery" partitions can play holy hell with many partitioning/formatting utilities, especially when it comes to setting up multi-boot systems. You've probably run across over at JL; I know I have.

Oh, I agree with you completely. If the drive fubars, then your restore image fubars. Which is why I don't really like the idea of "just" a restore partition. I'm all for companies that provide not only a restore partition, but the original OS media, a practice …

I agree completely with cosi on this one. You could try and crack the password, or guess it, or anything like that, but you really will be better in the long run simply copying off the files you want/need, and then reformatting the system.

The advantage to such an approach is that you've just cleaned off all of the personal data that might have been on there. Not only that, but you'll also remove software from the system that the new owner of the system may not have been licensed to use.

You've pretty much got it right there. After doing that, configure your system to boot from CD, and it should start from the XP disc, and allow you to walk through the Windows XP installation.

are you sure ipconfig works in 98?

If not, try winipcfg /all from the command prompt.

Try a search for dual-monitors over at www.justlinux.com/forum .

I'm not trying to spam this forum with an ad for another forum, but I wrote a HOWTO over there about doing something like this over there, and I just can't access it because of my job's web proxy filter. If I recall correctly, I think someone posted some information about running that card under Linux.