Uz tri odlicna postojeca besplatna online anti-virus scannera (Jotti, VirusTotal, VirScan), pojavio se i komercijalni online virus analyzer - virtest.com. Jest da nekome analiza vrijedi tih novaca, ali ja ne spadam u skupinu onih koji bi bili spremni dati neke pare za analizu smeca za koje sumnjam da bi moglo napraviti sranje na masini.
Odlican tool, online sanbox environemnt i analyzer, posebno pogodan za s neta skinute stvari, kad postoji bojazan da bi se pokretanjem mogao startati kakav dropper… Ne samo da analizira ponasanje softwarea, vec ga provlaci kroz antivirus scannere. Doduse, za report treba pricekati ponesto minuta, ali kazu da je sustav skalabilan…
ThreatExpert is an advanced automated threat analysis system designed to analyze and report the behavior of computer viruses, worms, trojans, adware, spyware, and other security-related risks in a fully automated mode.
In only a few minutes ThreatExpert can process a sample and generate a highly detailed threat report with the level of technical detail that matches or exceeds antivirus industry standards such as those normally found in online virus encyclopedias.
ThreatExpert takes a threat file, places it in a self-contained simulated virtual environment, deliberately executes the threat in this environment and then monitors its behavior. A combination of file, Windows Registry and memory snapshots are recorded, in addition to a series of specific ‘hooks’ that intercept communication routes typically exploited by threat infections. These hooks ‘deceive’ the threat into communicating across a simulated network, whereas the threat’s communication actions are actually being recorded in detail by ThreatExpert. Using this invaluable recorded data, a detailed report is generated, consisting of file and Windows Registry changes, memory dump analyses, and other important system activities caused by the threat.
Obicno su mi pokrenuti i FFox i Chrome [FFox ima neki memory leak negdje (GoogleGears u kombinaciji s nekim pluginom, vjerojatno), pa se memory bloata i nakon par dana uspori i raspadne, stoga zbog tog usporenja sve zahtjevnije JS/Ajax dumine vrtim u Chromeu - Gmail prije svega].
I tako, malo nesto surfenisao u Chromeu i naletio na neki torrent. Klik i nudi mi se file-save dialog… ok, kontam, Chrome mozda nije skuzio da taj file-type treba automatski downloadati i proslijediti uTorrentu. Pogledam malo opcije, kad ono - nema! Chrome nema mogucnost automatskog opena, nakon sto se file skine u tmp dir. Protrljam oci jednom, dvaput, procesem i dupe… Nista! N-e-m-a! Kontam si - nemoguce, tja. to je Google, sigurno to handle-a na neki svoj, N-puta bolji nacin nego sto je uobicajeno… Jos malo cackanja - i dalje kita!
Hmmm, prvo si pomislih - ovo nije dobro, opcija mora negdje postojati, ocito im je flow za postavke radio netko tko se bas ne kuzi u GUI i userXP…
Google ne podrzava otvaranje filea bez biranja download lokacije! - postoji opcija Always open files of this type, ali tek nakon to se u file-save dialog boxu kaze gdje ce ga skinuti. Lame, lame, lame…
Takav bahati stav uz 3-4% trzista… tja, pa tamo se ne ponasa ni ljigavi Apple. Oni se bar prave da im je stalo do korisnika [ovaca]…
USB autorun je ovih dana glavni vektor za spol… ovaj, racunalno prenosive bolesti Najrizicnija skupina - naravno - studentice i studenti! Il’ si medjusobno kopiraju, il’ nose svoje stickove po kojekakvim kopi-prcvarnicama s najpromiskuitetnijim racunalima u ovoj dimenziji. Vecina tih racunala nema ni osnovnu zastitu zvanu - iskljucen USB autorun. To onda znaci samo jedno, a to su dvije stvari - USB stickovi, virusi, epidemija!
Evo par savjeta kako iskljuciti jedan od najbeskorisnijih i najdebilnijih Win featurea - autoplay/autorun, vjerojatno izvorno skovan na Macu [samo na tom racunalu se takve pizdarije mogu nazvati i hvaliti kao feature].
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 2 minutes
Here’s How:
The easiest and most effective means to truly disable autorun can be done via this simple autorun registry hack:
Save the file as something.reg. (You have to be sure to change the “Save File as Type” to “All Files” before saving, or Windows will try to save it as a .txt even if you typed in .reg.
Locate the file you just saved and double-click the file to run it. You will receive a prompt asking if you want to add the data to the registry. Click yes to allow the modification.
The above method nulls any request for autorun.inf and works on XP Home or Pro, as well as Windows Vista. Credit for this tip goes to Nick Brown.
If you opt to disable autorun using any other method, you will first need to install an autorun patch from Microsoft that allegedly resolves issues that cause autorun to run even after it’s been disabled (using methods other than the above recommended method).
XP Pro users who have installed the appropriate Microsoft patch for your system and wish to disable autorun using a method other than described above, follow steps 3 through 8 only. XP Home users begin at step 9.
Windows XP Pro users: Click Start and then click Run. Type gpedit.msc and click OK. The Group Policy window will open. In the left pane, double-click Administrative Templates
In the right pane, double-click System, scroll down the list and double-click Turn Off Autoplay
In the Turn Off Autoplay Properties window, select Enabled. From the dropdown next to Turn Off Autoplay on, select All drives and then click OK. Exit Group Policy by selecting File, then choosing Exit from the menu.
XP Home users will need to make the changes by editing the registry directly. To begin, click Start and then click Run
Type regedit and click OK. The Registry Editor window will open.
In the left pane, navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Policies
Explorer.
With Explorer highlighted, in the right-pane right click the value NoDriveTypeAutoRun and select Modify from the drop down menu. The base value will be set to Hexadecimal. If not, select Hexadecimal.
Type 95 and click OK.
Note that this will stop Autorun on removable/USB drives, but still allow it on CD ROM drives. If you want to disable autorun on both, substitute b5 for the 95. (Thanks to Ian L. of Manitoba for the tip).
Exit Registry Editor by selecting File, then choosing Exit from the menu.
You will now need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.
Trazite drivere?! Nema nista gore od sluzbenog sitea proizvodjaca na kojem link na drivere ili ne postoji, ili je skriven, ili je support za proizvod discontinued.
Kako bilo, od pomoci moze biti nesto ovako…
http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/
Windows XP dolazi s hrpom raznih servisa, od kojih se neki automatski pokrecu, iako ih krajnji korisnik nece koristiti. Neki od tih servisa su otvorena vrata i glavni vektori napada trojana, crva i ostale gamadi.
Iako na Netu postoje hrpe stranica s opisima tih servisa, malo je mjesta na kojima je podrobno opisan svaki od Windows XP defaultnih servisa, cemu sluzi, moze li se deaktivirati bez bojazni i sto se gubi njegovom deaktivacijom. Deaktivacijom svih suvisnih sevisa se znatno dizu performanse i sigurnost sustava.
“Freeware Mission Mega Pack“. You can download it from here, 446 MB of outstanding freeware!
(The file host is a Romanian website, - just wait for 5 seconds and then
click on “DESCARCA FISIERUL!")
1. AMP Font Viewer
- Font manager, view, install, uninstall, organize your fonts. an
interesting feature is that you can “test” fonts before deciding to
install them.
2. Ant Movie Catalog
- A very important program for me, as I have more than 2500 movies in
my collection. Although it has no official support anymore it still is
the best movie collection manager, even if it doesn’t look as good as
most competitors. It’s an open source program, maybe someone will take the source code and make it better.bsp;
3. Any Audio Converter
- The name says everything, it converts audio files, WMV, MP4, WAV,
WMA, OGG, AAC, MP3, M4A, MP2, etc. The interesting feature is that it
can extract the audio track from video files such as AVI, MPEG, MP4,
WMV, ASF.
4. Audacity - Open source audio editing and recording program, the best free on you can get. It is very easy to use and works on Mac OSX and Linux too.bsp;
5. Avast!
- The home edition is a free antivirus solution, provides resident real
time protection, basic antispyware protection and doesn’t take to much
memory while running in the background (a lot less than BitDefender,
that’s for sure).
6. CamStudio - Free screen session recorder, can record audio too, records to avi or swf files.
8. CCleaner - Great freeware program, a registry cleaner, disk cleaner and software uninstaller. Can also manage your startup programs.
9. CodecInstaller
- Analyzes your video or audio files, tell you which codecs are needed,
finds codecs, installs or unistalls codecs from your system.
10. Crystal DiskInfo - Real time hard disk monitoring utility, provides awesome in depth information about your hard disk drives.
11. Digsby
- Although it is still in beta it’s a very interesting instant
messenger client. Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber,
and Facebook Chat Accounts. But the great feature is that it supports
multiple e-mail accounts, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail,
IMAP, and POP. It is also a great tool for social networking, it
supports Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace accounts so far, with more of
them coming up.
12. DriveImage XML - Great freeware program, you can backup your hard disk data and then restore the image if needed.
13. DVD Shrink - This one is a classic, everybody knows it, some people even sell copies of it. A great tool for backing up your video DVDs.
14. DVD Styler
- Free DVD authoring tool, supports PAL and NTSC. Very easy to use,
just drag and drop an mpeg file and make your video DVD. You can also
make decent menus with it, even with audio. It also has a Linux version.
15. Exact Audio Copy - Great audio CD ripper, extracts your audio tracks from all kinds of CD and DVD drives
are supported (including USB, Firewire, SATA and SCSI drives). Supports
many output file formats, including flac through external encoders.
16. FeedDemon
- It wasn’t free, now it is! Looks nice, works well and has a bunch of
nice features that will make your RSS feeds reading better.
17. FontNetInstaller
- This one can help you search for fonts over the internet as it has
the best websites indexed and lets you search through them within the
program. Doesn’t require installation, just unpack and run.
18. Format Factory - Universal transcoder, converts almost any video, audio and graphic file formats. Can also extract DVD Video to avi.
19. GIMP - The best freeware alternative to Adobe Photoshop. It’s an open source image editor, very powerful and quite stable. bsp;
20. GOM Player - The best video player in my opinion, supports almost any video file format and subtitles, solid and nice looking.
21. Gparted (Gnome Partition Editor) - Open source partition editor, very powerful, can be used on a bootable CD, USB stick, PXE server and Hard Disk.bsp;
22. IrfanView
- The best free image viewer, already a classic piece of software. Can
open various file formats and also has some basic editing capabilities.
23. JKDefrag GUI
- Awesome disk defragmenter, fast and reliable. Can run scheduled
defragmentation sessions or run as a screensaver, only defragmenting
when your system is idle.
24. MeGUI - Powerful video encoder, supports the best formats and encoders, great tutorials available.
25. MemTest - Tiny freeware program that allows you to test your memory from Windows.
26. Memtest86+ - Open source advanced memory diagnostic tool, runs at boot-time from a bootable CD or other media.bsp;
27. MozBackup
- Great freeware tool, backs up your Firefox ot Thunderbird settings,
bookmarks, etc. If something goes wrong you can restore your precious
settings in only a few seconds.
28. Mozilla Firefox
- The latest release, Firefox 3, comes with nice improvements, although
it seems to use more memory while running. Hopefully that problem will
be fixed soon.
29. Notepad++ - Powerful open source text editor written in C++, supports a wide range of programming languages, great multi-document and multi-view features. bsp;
30. OpenOffice.org - This open source package replaces my ut name="IL_MARKER” type="hidden">Microsoft Office
installation. Is it as good? I think it’s better! You won’t have any
problems with adjusting to it, the basic features are similar to those
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31. Orbit Downloader - Great download manager with the unique feature that allows you to grab video and audio files from websites such as YouTube.
32. PCInspector File Recovery - Very good data recovery tool, supports all file systems (FAT and NTFS), finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged.
33. PDF XChange Viewer
- Very good PDF reader, a lot faster than Adobe Reader. And there’s
even more: you can convert your PDF files to various file formats,
including BMP, JPG, PNG or TIFF. It can be integrated with Firefox or
Internet Explorer.
34. PDFCreator - Very good freeware PDF writer, can create PDF files out of any printable document. It can be installed as standalone or as a server application - install on a single computer and have it available on all the machines in your network.
35. Quintessential Player (QCD) - Great audio player, my favorite, highly customizable with the various plugins that are available.
36. RadarSync
- Finds driver updates for your hardware, downloads and installs them.
Although it’s not flawless it’s still a very useful tool.
37. ReNamer - Very easy to use drag and drop file renamer, it offers all the standard
renaming procedures: prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as
well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences,
changing file extensions.
38. Resize My Pictures - Tiny standalone application that allows you to resize pictures very quickly.
39. Screenshot Captor
- Great screenshot capture program, lots of capture modes - Multimon
(multiple monitors), Desktop, Active Window, Region, Windows Object.
Supports multi-monitor and includes editing features for the
screenshots.
40. SIW (System Information for Windows)
- Great free system information tool, provides info about the
components and software environment in your computer. Also has some
interesting extra features like network bandwidth monitoring and password manager.
41. StarBurn
- I’ve been using Nero before. I don’t need it anymore, StarBurn is
free and pretty good. I’ve burned several DVDs with it (including DVD
video) and it never failed. Supports CD, DVD, HD-DVD and Blu Ray discs.
42. SUMo (Software Update Monitoring)
- Identifies the software that you have installed in your system and
checks the internet for updates. The latest version seems to have
corrected most errors, works pretty fine.
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- The best antispyware solution that you can get for free. It doesn’t
provide resident protection, but if you just scan your computer with it
once a week or so you should be fine.
44. SweepRAM
- Outstanding tiny freeware memory optimizer with an unique approach.
What you should do is, after you’ve turned your computer on, and
started all applications that will be running all day long (antivirus,
etc) run SweepRAM. That way, all running applications
will reduce their memory use to the required amount, giving you as much
RAM available for your work as possible.
45. SysTrayMeter
- Tiny resource meter that sows you the CPU and memory usage. You can
easily close it by double clicking on the icon in the system tray.
46. TUGZip - Very good free compression utility, works fine with almost any archive file format, fast and reliable.
47. TweakUI
- Free from Microsoft? Well, it’s for real A must have for any
Windows XP user, allows you to tweak the setting you wouldn’t have
access to normally.
48. uTorrent - Best BitTorrent client, lightweight and reliable. The new version brings better functionality and some new features.
49. VirtualDub - Legendary open source editing tool, great for cutting and transcoding your video files for best quality avi output.
50. WordWeb
- Great free dictionary and thesaurus, I’m already in love with it. It
can be used to look up words from almost any program, showing
definitions, synonyms and related words. It includes pronunciations and
usage examples, has spelling and sounds-like links.
51. GigaTribe
- I use this one for sharing files with my fiends and colleagues. It is
easy to configure and perfect for connecting a small group of people.
It includes a chat feature, so you can talk to your friends while they
download your shared files.
Probao ga… hm, ima par zgodnih rjesenja, posebno mi se svidja sve ono under-the-hood, bolji memory i process management. Ali, daleko je to od proizvoda koji bi me natjerao da se preko noci odreknem komocije Firefoxa. No, jos je rano. Chome je tek propupao, ovo vise slici alpha verziji, tako da treba pustiti vremenu da kaze svoje.
Zanima me kako ce se Chrome nositi u integraciji s postojecim Google aplikacijama, a vjerujem da bi tu mogao puno toga napraviti - time mozda i pridobiti moju paznju. Chrome cu za sada koristiti kao skladiste tabova “za citanje” (odlican memory i process management ce tu jako dobro doci) i tako si rasteretiti Firefox koji uvijek grca u 80+ otvorenih tabova.
Nakon nekog vremena koristenja, YouTube filmici u Firefoxu se znaju smrzavati nakon prvih par odgledanih sekundi, bez obzira koristio se native Mozilla rendering engine, ili onaj IE-tab. Dakle, problem ocito nije u rendering enginu, nego negdje u ljusturi… kako god, problem je dosadan kao ush i random se javlja kod svih kombinacija Flash playera v 9.0.115.0 (na nizim verzijama se problem ne javlja) i Firefoxa (od verzije 2, do 3.04b - za koju kazu da rjesava problem).
Firefox: 2, 3 < 3.0b4
Flash: 9.0.115.0
Flash have admitted there is a bug which causes this and reverting to a previous version will fix it, while the bug will be resolved in the next flash update.
1. Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\ u s e r n a m e \Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\GVP00001
2. Delete all the files and folders in this folder
3. Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\ … \Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player \ macromedia.com \ support \ flashplayer \ sys
4. Delete all the files and folders in the directory
5. Restart Firefox
Svidja vam se neka mjuza na necijoj MySpace stranici, ali ne postoji opcija za download pjesmice? Umjesto tuge, jada, cemera i kuknjave predlazem jedan od ova dva nacina…
1. Posjetite: http://file2hd.com/
- upisete URL stranice i pri dnu imate spremne MP3ice za download i to u 96kbps i original_bitrate verzijama
2. Pronadjite na torrentima programcic MySpace mp3 Gopher. Ili klinite na link ispod [ova verzija radi na dan 2008 07 20]: http://www.torrentz.com/f2d3b81d414c16e05368f567f6857f262e07de5e
Youtube has slowly started to create better quality versions of many videos, adding links that say, “Watch this video in higher quality.” See this High Quality example and compare it to Youtube’s Normal Quality.
Comparison of Normal Youtube vs Youtube High Quality
-
Normal Youtube
High Quality Youtube
Screen Res.
320 x 240
480 x 360
Bitrate
≅ 200 kbps
≅ 900 kbps
Audio
22KHz 64 kbps Mono ABR
44.1KHz 96 kbps Mono CBR
Frame Rate
30
30
Video Codec
Flash Sorenson
Flash Sorenson
Audio Codec
Mp3
Mp3
Getting iPod compatible mp4s!
Adding &fmt=6 to the end of any youtube video’s url will give you Youtube’s new high quality setting. Changing the number from 6 to something else yields different formats though it’s not obvious which numbers work. Format 18 generates an mp4 using h264 with AAC stereo, which is compatible with video iPods. This is way better than using a service like vixy.net, which transcodes the crappy quality youtube vid into an mp4. Using fmt=18, you get a video transcoded from the original clip the user uploaded. The bitrate is lower on the mp4 version, but since the resolution is smaller it compensates. The h.264 codec has better looking videos at lower bitrates anyway. We finally see stereo on youtube with the mp4 version! It has a widescreen 16/9 aspect ratio rather than 4/3.
Correction:
Previously I thought the mp4 screen resolution was 480 x 270, but it’s also 480x360. It could be that both formats have the possibility to be 480x270 if their aspect ratio is close to 16/9 width/height. The mp4 version may add an additional small audio gain and a small sharpening effect.
Video downloaders like keepvid still work. Enter the url, click download, now grab the link and add &fmt=6 or &fmt=18 (for mp4) to the end. The good people at lifehacker created an easy to use firefox extension that will put a download link under each vid. You can also get the download url if you follow my wireshark tutorial but the process is pretty tedious.
You can do it manually too, but it’s annoying. Go to any video on youtube, right click then click view source. Click ctrl+F, which will open a searchbox and type &t=. Next copy the value after the t= but before any “&” characters. Grab that and the video_id and your set. The vid id is the v=something part of the url. Just copy the variables into the url below.
www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=&t=&fmt=18
Example Vid URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVYp2sgA9M0 Output: right click - save as
You may want to pass it to a download manager like wget. If you load it in the browser it will display a bunch of gibberish while it loads the entire video’s ASCII representation into your browser.
Howto Get Videos to Play HQ by Default
This option has not been implemented on many accounts but the howto is already present in the youtube help pages. You need a youtube account to be able to do this.
Go to your Account page.
Under “Manage My Videos” click the “HQ Video Playback Setting” link.
Select the playback setting that makes sense for you.
Click the “Save” button.
Criteria for a Video to Become HQ
The exact settings aren’t know yet for the video to become high quality. We could assume that the exact minimum settings are the same as encoded format listed above, however youtube has changed their “best format to upload high quality” help page to set the video resolution to 640 x 480. Maybe high quality will support different formats and aspect ratios in the future. It’s best to upload as high quality as possible. The new multi video uploader makes it easy on a unreliable connection. Even if your upload times out or you get disconnected it will restart the uploading process exactly where it left off.
Embed High Quality Youtube Clips
Update
This code works fine to embed the mp4 version. The magic query string var is “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ specifying format 18. Just replace (VIDEO EMBED URL) with the video ID. Note that there’s a huge disadvantage in that there is no seeking. The fmt=6 embed version is less reliable.
Currently there is no official way to embed the High Quality videos on your website / myspace / blogs. It’s possible, but a big hassle, and it’s impossible to turn off autoplay. Here’s an example you can embed if you want to see it for yourself.
It only works with youtube’s in-site player, player2.swf, rather than the player youtube has for embeds. The problem is youtube’s in-site player does not have a variable to turn autoplay on or off and if you try embedding it to your site flash issues a warning that the script is trying to contact a remote server (youtube.com). Player2.swf seems to have an internal “ap” variable hidden in the actionscript but it seems to just break the vid no matter what options I set. The key flashvar for high quality is “fmt_map=6/0/7/0/0″ and “fmt_map=18/512000/9/0/115″ for mp4s. When enabled, the flv file comes from cache.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?itag=6, without the fmt_map var it comes from cache.googlevideo.com/get_video, with normal quality.
To embed a high quality video you need to go to the video’s page on youtube, view source, and grab the flashvar data. The most important vars are video_id, t, and sk. Just use the above embed code as a template and replace those values. As for the rest: L defines how long the video is in seconds, hl is the home language, plid tries to find any associated playlists, playnext plays the next item on the playlist if there is one.
Making your youtube videos High Quality
Youtube will be automatically creating high quality versions of many videos for those that meet the guidelines. The video quality is bad on youtube, partly because youtube encodes to such a small screen resolution with a low bitrate, but mainly because people post really low quality videos.
The crappy resolution youtube is actually what got it so popular. Google video had originally allowed 640 x 480 with a great bitrate, but they failed miserably to compete against youtube (so they later bought em out). It made online video making / viewing possible even on crappy connections. Take the time to resize your vid and sharpen it a bit before uploading. A little noise reduction and color correction can’t hurt either. Use virtualdub and avisynth. They’re free. Use xvid or x264 and lame acm for the audio. Divx is fine if you can get the pro version. See doom9 for tons of guides on video creation / editing / improvement.
Youtube High Quality Hack
There is also a hack using total video converter where if you make an flv with certain settings you can upload a video of super high quality and have youtube keep the screen resolution and bitrate.
Youtube High Quality Hack Settings Howto
Select what you want to encode into an flv in total video converter with these settings.
Sample Rate: 44100 Hz audio bit rate: 320.000 kbit/s Audio codec: mp3 Custom video bit rate: any Resolution: any
Cons
It messes up the time on the video. A 30 second video can read as 9 minutes. The way it tells how long the video is seems very random but it constantly says the video is much longer than it really is. Having the resolution or bitrate too high causes it to not stream well and get stuck.
Sav se unezvijerim kad mi neka web stranica resizea svoj prozor, sto za posljedicu ima resizeanje kompletnog Firefoxa sa svim tabovima. Ugh %#$%#$@!
Dogadja se to dovoljno rijetko (ali i pogadja dovoljno intenzivno) da u tom trenutku uopce ne razmisljam o tome kako bi takvo ponasanje FFoxa trebalo eliminirati… eto, danas sam bio prisebniji i napokon iskljucio taj debilni defaultni annoyance…
1. Mac/Linux users: Click Edit > Preferences. Windows users: Tools > Options
2. Go to the Content Tab
3. To the right of “Enable Javascript,” hit “Advanced…”
4. Uncheck “Move or resize existing windows”
Velika pomoc za one koji ce zeljeti koristiti Google Appse za svoju domenu:
http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/1062
bind9 google apps zone template (See related posts)
Change 1.2.3.4 for your accelerator’s ip and mydomain.net for your domain name
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@ IN SOA ns1.mydomain.net. hostmaster.mydomain.net. (
2007052701 ; serial
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum
IN NS ns1.mydomain.net.
IN NS ns1.everydns.net.
IN NS ns2.everydns.net.
IN NS ns3.everydns.net.
IN NS ns4.everydns.net.
@ IN TXT “v=spf1 ip4:1.2.3.4 include:gmail.com~all include:mydomain.joyent.net~all ~all”
@ IN MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
@ IN MX 3 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
@ IN MX 3 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
@ IN MX 5 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
@ IN MX 5 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
@ IN MX 5 aspmx4.googlemail.com.
@ IN MX 5 aspmx5.googlemail.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
@ IN A 1.2.3.4
www IN CNAME @
mail IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
start IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
calendar IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
It wasn’t really my intent to go back and revisit all these security post lists. That’s just how it seems to have turned out. That’s OK. Software gets developed and updated. Lists grow. New and better versions get released….
To summarize: “…a rootkit is executable code that attempts to evade detection of running processes, files or system data. There are many ways it can do this, but the end result is that they are very hard to find and can make an infected system look clean and safe even to traditional anti-virus and anti-malware software.” More here: Wikipedia : Rootkit
At the time of my original post, there were just a handful of anti-rootkit tools available to the public. I just offered five.
Now most all major anti-virus/security software vendors have issued anti-rootkit solutions, though some are still in a beta release form.
The Threat
How seriously concerned should the average user be? Well…if you are practicing “safe-surfing” by staying away from “risky” websites, keeping your operating system patched, scanning all files downloaded and sent in email with an up-to-date anti-virus program, you should be mostly ok. I say mostly because it is still possible for a system to become compromised with a rootkit, even if you are playing by the rules.
Certain individuals would like nothing else than to get a home-broadband user’s system infected with a rootkit. Not so much to steal your personal information–though that’s always a potential target–but to install trojan services that would allow them to leverage the system for attacks on other larger systems, spam-mail-bot rental services, or even hosting of their hidden/illegal files on the system. Any of these events could seriously make a home or corporate user’s system a great big pile of steaming cow-dung for the user and those impacted by those services. Bummer!
SANS-ISC recent reported that Europe has been pounded lately by emails which include variants of a virus/trojan loader file: European Storm Video E-Mail. While bad, it doesn’t sound too serious…but!
heiseSecurity in Germany expands the story with more details, much more disconcerting: “Storm worm” sloshes through the internet. What the trojan seems to be doing is download additional files from the internet, and “…according to GDATA, one action it takes is to install the rootkit Win32.agent.dh.” Depending on the anti-virus company, different names may be used.
Rootkit writers aren’t happy about the attention. Just this week, they have worked to get the GMER anti-rootkit mirrors shut down under a massive DDOS attack. As soon as new mirrors for the files went up, they also were attacked. More information: GMER Anti Rootkit & People Power, and Martijnc’s blog post: DDoS attack
The battle for pc security rages on.
The Response
There are a number of ways to look for a rootkit on your system.
The first is to download and run several of these rootkit detection tools on your live system. These rootkit detection tools are specially programmed to check for hidden files and masked running or injected processes. It’s a cat and mouse game, and some tools and methods are more effective than others. Just as hard as the security programmers work to prevent and detect these rootkits, the developers on the other side are working to make them more difficult to be detected.
A second technique is to download and run several of these rootkit detection tools onto a USB drive. Then using a bootable “LiveCD” like BartPE or Linux, run the appropriate rootkit detection tools on the “dead” system’s drive(s). This may be a much more effective approach. Since the infected system isn’t being booted, the drives just contain “static” data files that shouldn’t be executed. They could be, but that’s the point…to not run or launch any files on the potentially compromised system. That way they can be detected and removed while “dormant". Using a Linux “LiveCD” to scan a Windows system disk is even more safe as the likelihood of cross-contamination is almost non-existent.
If a rootkit is found you have two options: 1) Use one of the detection/removal tools to–hopefully!–remove it. Or, 2) recover your critical data files to another drive/media location, then do a full wipe of the infected system, and reinstall it fresh.
Speaking as a half-way competent computer geek, I personally would feel more comfortable going with option two, because otherwise I would always have a shadow of doubt of the system’s integrity. Nor would I have have the patience to pick through a manual removal process if the tools failed to remove it.
Rootkit Detector Tool List
InformationWeek posted an excellent article recently titled Review: Six Rootkit Detectors Protect Your System. I was familiar with some of them, and had come across a few more on my own that didn’t make the author’s cut. But that got me observing the increase in the number to tools now at our disposal. With some more careful searching, I’ve ended up collecting quite a list. Almost all are offered as freeware or trialware.
I have only used a handful of these tools and only keep a few with me on my USB system administrator’s stick. So far, I haven’t found a rootkit on my systems (here or at work) so I can’t speak of their effectiveness in removal. Also, because of the nature of how these tools work and where they look, it is quite possible that removal of a real rootkit or a listed file in error (that wasn’t actually malicious) can cause your Windows system to fail, not boot, or BSOD to the point you will be recovering files off the dead OS drive and then reinstalling your system.
You’ve been warned!.
F-Secure BlackLight - Restrictive wizard interface, but easy to use for the uninitiated.
IceSword 1.20 - Developed in China but nicely translated into English. Busy interface but updated often. Has some advanced tools like the ability to “reboot and monitor” during the boot process.
RKDetector 2.0 - Two tools in one; 1) scans for hidden files on drives, 2) scans for hidden processes and hooks. Takes a bit of work to run the scans, and can’t do a global system scan with both.
Trend Micro RootkitBuster 1.6 - Runs scans in five system areas and exports a nice log file. You can then opt to remove the detected items.
RootkitRevealer 1.71 - From the Sysinternal’s team. Easy to use, but does often turn up documented false-positives. Just identifies suspicious processes…you are on your own to delete them with other methods and applications. Better for system checking and monitoring, rather than protection and removal in-of-itself.
Rootkit Unhooker 3.0A - Russian software team project. Does a self-test to make sure it hasn’t been compromised; that’s a good feature. Provides lots of details and the ability to do focused scans or a global element scan. Also provides multiple methods to address/remove the located processes and files.
McAfee Rootkit Detective Beta - “McAfee Rootkit Detective Beta is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system.” Nice interface.
Sophos Anti-Rootkit - “Sophos Anti-Rootkit provides an extra layer of detection, by safely and reliably detecting and removing any rootkit that might already have secreted itself onto your system.” Note: Registration required for download from the vendor’s site. The utility itself is free.
Gmer - The tool that’s got everyone in a fuss! Scans for hidden processes, services, files, registry keys, drivers, and hooks. Also allows some system function monitoring. Highly regarded by the antirootkit professionals. More screenshots (while the site is up).
Advanced Rootkit Detector for Windows (rkdetector) - This command-line based scanner was one of the very first rootkit detectors I became familiar with. I don’t think it has been updated since it’s original release (back in 2004). The website is in Spanish, but the application worked just fine for me. I can’t say it now can handle the newest rootkit methods of attacks, but just for posterity I’m offering it here.
More follow as discovered on Antirootkit.com’s incredible website. They’ve done a bang-up job of finding and detailing all these. Please check out their site for more information as well as some screenshots, reviews and evaluation ratings. These guys (and gals?) are doing great work and deserve full credit for locating these wide selections of tools.
Note: Some products here are beta products and may not be available or will work past a certain date. Others are trialware/crippleware. In these cases I have chosen to still include them so you can keep an eye on possible future development or releases.
Archon Scanner - More of a process, injection, hooking scanner. But has other specialties as well. - current version was beta and has expired…developer’s promise new one sometime.
AVG AntiRootkit - Beta product. Doesn’t seem to be offered anywhere but from Antirootkit.com.
DarkSpy - Chinese developed tool. Supports process, kernel mode, file, registry scan (disabled in test version) and hidden port detection. Screenshot via Antirootkit.com.
Helios - Alpha level program right now. Behavior-based, not signature based detection. Interesting interface and approach. Worth looking at, but remember it is alpha/beta level… Developers offer videos as well of their tool in action.
HiddenFinder - trialware - Shows hidden processes and drivers on a system and then allows for killing of the desired process.
HookExplorer - Tiny little application. Displays import address table (IAT) hijacks and “detour style hooks.” Lots of information in the tiny display!
OS X Rootkit Hunter - Mac OS X 10.4 product. I don’t support Apple systems, but there you are. Screenshot page by developer. (I didn’t think Mac’s got sick like this!)
Panda Anti-Rootkit - beta software. Looks at hidden drivers, processes, modules, files, registry items, hooks. Not a lot of user options…scan, clean, and view results.
RootKitShark - trialware - Command-line scanner. Unmasks located files and prevents from boot-execution. Then can be manually removed by user or using other security tools.
WinShark - trialware - GUI based version that incorporates RootKitShark (above) among other features. Allows process and user monitoring of systems. (Intrusion Detection System). Detection enabled in trial version, but rootkit elimination feature only in the fully-licensed version.
RootKit Uncover - beta - Appears to be a hidden process and file scanner. See Antirootkit.com’s page for overview. Bitdefender doesn’t have any information on their site for it.
SEEM - Multi-purpose system reporting tool that has an interesting interface. Includes a rootkit scanner as part of it’s features. Website (translated from French) has quite a bit of good information on rootkits and as they apply to their program. Download page (kinda hard to find in French). Get the English version unless you know French.
System Virginity Verifier - Tool developed by Joanna Rutkowska to validate system integrity by checking important Windows System components targeted by hidden malware. She also provides links to some related PowerPoint presentations.
Unhackme - trialware - limited to 10 runs until license purchased and entered - In standard, “Roaming” and “Professional” editions. University of Minnesota’s Safe Computing page documents rootkit removal tutorial with Unhackme.
InvisibleThings.org - Website of security guru and brilliant mind Joanna Rutkowska. Presented “Blue Pill” concept. Lots of neat tools and detailed rootkit related information on her website.
Episode #9 of Security Now - Rootkit discussion between Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson. Good foundational information.
Iako nije bas po mojim mjerilima (koliko vidim, nema fine tuninga filtera za portove, sourceve i destinatione paketa), cini se kao idealan security addon nekom antivirusu na kompu leg(ic)e koji zna nazvati u 8 navecer, moleci da mu/joj se preinstaliraju Windowsi jer su mu/joj “spori i sve se vuce", a Pero 1337 Hax0r (susjed leg(ic)e) je telepatski dijagnosticirao “zarazu trojanom i virusima” kojeg je “vjerojatno negdje pokupio/la".
Em Windowse i sebi reinstaliram jednom u 5 godina (draze mi je ljudima objasniti da postoji slipstreamani ETH0 release), em nikada nisam volio drugima uvaljivati bloatirane verzije kojekakvih all-in-one Internet securitya, zbog kojih bi im sljedecih tjedan dana morao objasnjavati sto sve trebaju ukljuciti/iskljuciti da bi mogli normalno surfati. Stoga radje urucim CD/DVD s potrebnim softwarom, popijem kavu i objasnim kako treba klikati na “next, next, next".
NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line option, you can write and delete values and keys in the Registry, write values into INI file, dial to your internet account or connect to a VPN network, restart windows or shut down the computer, create shortcut to a file, change the created/modified date of a file, change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more…
Executing NirCmd commands on remote computers
Starting from version 1.40, you can execute all NirCmd commands in remote computers. However, you should be aware of the following restrictions and problems:
* This option is only available for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. You cannot use it on Windows 9x machines.
* You must log on to the remote machine as administrator.
* The Schedule service in the remote machine must be started. (By default, the Schedule service is automatically started in all NT/2000/XP machines, so you don’t have to worry too much about this)
* Due to some limitations of the Schedule service, you have to wait up to 60 seconds until the command is actually executed in the remote machine.
* The command in the remote machine is executed under ‘SYSTEM’ account, and thus some commands may not work in the same way as you execute them locally.
There are 2 commands for executing NirCmd in remote machines:
* remote - for executing command on a single remote computer.
* multiremote - for executing command on multiple remote computers.
Kad smo vec kod fontova, postoji jedan mali, mali nifty tool za on demand loadanje fontova koji nam u tom trenutku trebaju, bez restartanja racunala, instalacija, deinstalacija i ostalog nepotrebnog navlacenja tipografske kozice. Dakle, nije bloated gomila sranja s 5 milijardi funkacija koje nikom ne trebaju… vec programcic koji loada fontove on demand. Fontovi mogu biti poslozeni u direktorijima i on to konta kao kategorije/grupe. Phucking tocno ono sto svakom covjeku treba! Tocka kraj. Zakon!
FontLoader… firma koja ga je napravila ga je discontinuala, ali… pametni ljudi cuvaju dobre programcice…
Uglavnom, procesljavajuci malo informacije na Netu, dodjoh do zakljucka…
General Purpose Settings - up to 6 minutes
A simple way to ensure that the quality is there is to export to MPEG-4 with:
* H.264 video at 2000Kbits/sec (2Mbits/sec or 250KBytes/sec)
* 320x240 video size (deinterlaced or simply use one field)
* Mono audio with AAC at 64 Kbit/sec (or 128 Kbit/sec for stereo)
* Recommended Sample Rate and
* Best Encoding Quality.
* In the Video Options Main Profile should be checked on and Best Quality (Multi-pass) is advised for best quality.
Blip.tv je zaista odlican… jedina mana pred YT-om je daleko manji community, a u nekim situacijama to zna biti presudno (u korist YT-a). Ako vam treba samo kvalitetan hosting video uradaka i ne oslanjate se na slucajne konzumente iz redova community-a, onda Blip.tv sigurno pobjeduje. Hrpa korisnih alata, statistika, daaaleko bolja kvaliteta videa (cak i u Flash formatu), vise formati, direktni downloadi, vise metoda uploada (cak i FTP), instant approval, automatski syndication po kojekakvim servisima… gotovi RSS i Miro kanali… i jos hrpa toga… mljac, mljac…
Evo i jedan clanak iz PCworlda, na tom tragu…
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136089/article.html
- Other / System tools :
Manage processes, Opened files, Windows Handles, Events for processes/events/files changes, bandwidth tester (based on iperf), manage windows devices, VBS script editor, WMI browser, Create maps with Graphviz, manage ACL’s.
NetworkView is an ultra compact network discovery and management tool for Windows
Main Features
* Discover TCP/IP nodes and routes using DNS, SNMP, Ports, NetBIOS and WMI
* Get MAC addresses and NIC Manufacturer Names
* Monitor nodes and receive Alerts
* Document with printed Maps and Reports.
* Control and Secure your network with the SNMP MIB Browser, the WMI browser and the Port Scanner.
Iako se dosta alata temelji na Googlevim online aplikacijama, gOS je skracenica od good OS, ne Google OS
Kako bilo, radi se o jednoj od zanimljivijih distribucija Linuxa (temeljenoj na Ubuntu), prilagodjenoj newbie userima i slabijim strojevima. Idealno za ozivljavanje starih masina koje skupljaju prasinu, a mogle bi posluziti kao nekakav network station, ili kao poklon siromasnoj obitelji iz susjedstva. Doduse, ako se nekome zeli pomoci bolje bi bilo pokloniti novi cutting-edge stroj, ali poneka to nije moguce i u tom slucaju je bolje pokloniti ovakav stroj, nego nista.
Miranda, odlican Instant Messaging komad softa. Koliko je dobar, mozda najbolje opisuje podatak da mojih 700+ kontakata (ok, dobar dio mrtvih, lijen sam za ciscenje ) s 5 IM protokola i 20MB history-a vrti s memory footprintom od 12-15MB. Brzo, maleno, u novijim verzijama i poprilicno vizualno gledljivo i dopadljivo.
Kako god, naidjoh na stranicu na kojoj se nalazi popis svih mogucih pluginova (ima stvarno korisnih). Miranda mozda iziskuje podosta drkanja i postelavanja (svaka moguca picaboca se moze konfigurirati), ali zato je jako zahvalna pri handleanju. Tko bi rekao da je zenskog roda?!
Jos od vremena Norton Commandera i DOS Navigatora (origin), navikao sam na efikasnost takvog tipa file managera. Dolaskom Win platforme i ubiganjem DOS-a, uginuo je i DOS Navigator. Njegovo mjesto zauzeo je Total Commander (prvotno zvan Windows Commander). 100tinjak puta ucinkovitije sredstvo za rad s fileovima od Windows Explorera… doduse, postoje ljudi koji se s tim ne bi slozili, ali to su isti oni koji ne zele raditi usporedne testove ucinkovitosti (ideja je da se napravi spisak od 50-100 uobicajenih radnji i jedan to rjesava u WinExp, a drugi u TC-u ).
Total Commander je odlican komad softwarea. Jednostavno prikazane funkcionalnosti koje mnogi smatraju nuznima u svakodnevnom radu i hrpetina pluginova.
Naletih i na svojevrsni megapack, cini mi se pomalo bloated, ali svejedno ga vrijedi pogledati -> Total Commander Ultima Prime.
Simptom koji se meni pojavio je nemogucnost koristenja domenskih ovlasti, odnosno u EventLog su se pojavili errori koji su upucivali na to da moj stroj nije mogao s domenskog servera dohvatiti prava za bilo sto. Dakle, iako sam kao user bop prijavljen na domenu i mogao sam normalno pingati sve zivo na mrezi, ipak mi je sve gdje se koriste bilo kakva domenska prava bilo uskraceno…
Jedan od simptoma koji je vodio ka rjesenju je poruka “Windows could not finish repairing the problem because following action cannot be completed: Clearing NetBT“, koja se pojavljivala pri pokusaju repaira network connectiona (WinXP).
Rjesenje je za ovaj problem je resetiranje WinXP TCP/IP stacka (nakon toga ce se ponovo trebati konfigurirati mrezne postavke za taj connection).
Rjesenje/Solution/Fix:
Start -> Run -> CMD to open a command prompt.
Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog
Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults: netsh int ip reset c:/resettcp.log
Reboot the machine.
(Make sure “TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper” service is running and that the Startup Type is Automatic [Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services].)
Skidajuci raznorazne programcice s eMule-a, zna se dogoditi da se skinu i kojekakvi cobanoidni trojani, backdoorovi i sl. Dakle, izgledom i ponasanjem se cini da je sve ok sa skinutim softom, ali je trojan/backdoor obicno bindan u izvorni soft i po pokretanju se dropa i dalje obavlja svoje.
Zacudilo me koliko se cesto pojavljuje jedan od njih, najcesce dobro zapakiran EXE, kojeg ni antivir soft cesto ne kuzi kako bi trebao… setcfg.exe i syscfg.exe su najcesca imena izvrsnih fileova…
Pri pokretanju zarazenog filea (najcesce nekakav programcic koji se normalno izvrsi), u pozadini se dropa ovaj trojan, pokrece proces i stavlja u:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
s nazivom keya “Service host” i putanjom do .exe file-a.
setcfg.exe IS trojan.backdoor, test the file (located in c:/windows/system32/ , with hidden, read only and system attributes - remote them first) at very nice online virus testing site virusscan.jotti.org.
For the last 6 months I had nightmares with computer freezes, reboots, etc. I suspected many applications, (network) drivers, hardware etc. but couldn’t find the right piece of shit to put the blame on. Well, the search is over. The worst possible application and complete and utter bullshit is named: BWMeter (from DeskSoft). This piece of utter bullshit, installed network driver that intercepted all network traffic, which would be fine if that piece of crap had been written by humans. Humans with more than a dozen of braincells.
It took me six months, many suspects, many applications deinstalled as collateral damage… spare yourself time and nerves, and remove that crapy pile of shit… try NetMeter instead… It doesn’t have as much features as BWMeter, but at least it won’t freeze/reboot your computer and won’t kill your nerves nor time…
On the client Side:
- Picasa
- Windows XP Web Publishing Wizzard
On the server side:
- Apache + MySQL + ImageMagick + PHP + Coppermine Photo Gallery
Process:
Let’s assume you have a running Coppermine Gallery on your server under http://www.yourdomainname.com (see coppermine installation instructions). Go to http://www.yourdomainname.com/xp_publish.php. In the middle of the page there’s a link to download a .reg file to install on your Windows XP system. Download it and install it. From now you can publish files from Window Explorer to your gallery in a few clicks. So let’s work on the pictures.
1- Copy your pictures from the camera to a folder on your computer (let’s call it “foo”).
2- Open Picasa, make sure folder “foo” is being watched for changes so that the pictures you just added can be seen from Picasa. You can specify which folders are watched in “Tools>Picture Manager”.
3- in Picasa, browse your pictures, rotate them, get rid of those red eyes… when you find a picture you want to put on your online gallery, just “Hold” it in the Picture Tray.
4- When you’re done browsing/editing your pictures, all the pictures you want to put online should be in the picture tray. Now Press the “Export” button on the right. This will pop up a small window where you can specify the way you want your pictures to be resized. I usually set it to 800*600. When the export is done, Picasa automatically launches Windows Explorer window contaning all the pictures you just exported.
5- In the left pane of the Windows Explorer Window, select “Publish Folder to the Web”. You should be able to select your Coppermine Photo Gallery in the Publishing Wizzard, and Select all the pictures you want to upload. Also the Wizzard lets you pick an existing name for the target album or create a new one in the category of your choice. Since Picasa did a smart resizing of your pictures (taking protrait/landscape into account), you do not need to resize them in the wizzard. When the publishing is done your pictures will be uploaded to your gallery and you can enjoy sharing them.
To stop this service, open [Command Prompt] (Start>Run>cmd>Enter) and type the following command sc stop wuauserv. This will not prevent Automatic Updates from starting at the next boot. So don’t worry, you’ll keep getting Windows updates. Just don’t forget to restart eventually.
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Now, to get rid of it:
Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations
The SceneThe scene aka the warez scene is the pretty unknown worldwide network where people trade pirated goods, like dvd’s, movies, games, applications etc. Warez refers primarily to copyrighted material traded in violation of its copyright license. It does not refer to commercial for-profit software counterfeiting. First warez is released by releasegroups, groups which are specialized in publishing warez. They copy a dvd or break the security of game, and will make it available for other people, as a so-called release. When these releasegroups finish a release it will be uploaded to sites. These sites are very fast private ftp-servers, and the first stadium in the distribution of a release. Eventually, at the end of the distribution, the releases are available for everyone on p2p-software. About The Scene… nastavak
Lik je nabavio nekoliko 32MB USB stickova i odlucio im dati nekakav smisao. Napravio je natjecaj za popunjavanje 32MB USB sticka s korisnim softom…Soft je podijelio i organizirao u odredjene kategorije…
Recently, I ordered four 32 MB USB drives. It was one of those impulse buys because they were so cheap. Once they arrived, I then thought, “OK. Now what?” So, I thought I would give these drives away in a contest!
The purpose of this contest is to come up with the four best, unique ideas for a small 32 MB USB drive. The four best ideas will have their ideas created by me on one of the USB drives and mailed out to them! The USB drive system will also be named after the creator. Here are the rules:
1. Everything that you want to use for the USB drive must fit into the 32 MB drive.
2. The drive can be used in conjunction with software installed on the computer as long as the software either comes with a default installation of the OS or can be installed from the USB drive.
3. Any software used on the drive must be available as either freeware, open source, or something that I could cook up quickly with AutoIt.
4. You may enter as often as you wish but each time must be with a unique idea.
5. All components required for the USB drive must be described in detail.
6. Only entries submitted in the comments at http://www.dailycupoftech.com/32-mb-usb-drive-contest/ between the dates of December 4 and 8, 2006 will be eligible.
7. Winners will be selected by votes collected between the dates of December 11 to 15, 2006.
8. Winners will be contained via e-mail for the mailing address so that they can receive their prize.
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox it will obviously increase the memory usage. However, it does not seem to go back up to the insane amount that it was at before minimizing it. For example, Firefox was at 180MB of memory usage and then I minimized it and after a few seconds I maximized it. After maximizing it and continuing on my routine business it appeared to only have gone up to 60MB. This seems to be a good solution for me right now since I frequently maximize and minimize Firefox anyways.
MozLab - get into Firefox - dobar dodatak za Firefox… ugh… jos samo da je vremena za poigrati se svim ovim igrackama… ugh, ugh…
MozLab is a suite of tools and libraries that help make your life easier and your time more productive as a developer of AJAX and Mozilla applications. It’s packaged as a Firefox/Thunderbird extension and released as open source. Have a look at the videos for some of the cool things you can do with it…
Hmmmm… koliko god netko misli da ce mu to srezati troskove i kako je to divna stvar, treba znati da je malo rjesenja dovoljno fleksibilno za brze prilagodbe kretanjima trzista ili potrebama optimizacije poslovnih procesa… jako je lose kad top manageri odluke donose ne razmatrajuci sve parametre… jos je losije kad se takve odluke pravdaju losim softwareom - istim onim kojeg su sami izabrali…;-)
Kako god, arhitektima i developerima bi to trebao biti pokazatelj kako razvijati rjesenja, odnosno kako kasnije imati manje glavobolja kad svi prsti i sva krivica budu bili upuceni na njih…;-)
Large companies appear to be jumping en masse onto the software-as-a-service bandwagon, according to a new survey of CIOs by management consultants McKinsey & Company. The survey found that 61% of North American companies with sales over $1 billion plan to adopt one or more SaaS applications over the next year, a dramatic increase from the 38% who were planning to install SaaS apps in 2005.
Gliffy.com - zgodan online flowcharter…. skoro kao Visio… ok, ok… zato i stoji ono “skoro"…
Gliffy is easy, free, and fun!
Diagramming in your web browser without downloading additional software
Desktop application feel in a web-based diagramming solution
Add collaborators to your work and watch it grow
Link to published Gliffy drawings from your blog or wiki
Create many types of diagrams such as Flowcharts, UI wireframes, Floor plans, Network diagrams, UML diagrams, or any other simple drawing or diagram
Upload, Manage and Share documents online
Epiware enables organizations to easily share information and effectively collaborate on documents in a browser-based environment.
Bring together people, content, and process
Epiware enables the creation of virtual teams by providing an online workspace for users to collaborate and exchange information in a secure, protected setting. It is intuitive and easy to use, which allows users to concentrate on what they do best rather than on trying to master an application.
With Epiware, costs can be lowered, projects can be expedited, decisions can be made in a more efficient and timely manner, changes can be executed more quickly, and errors due to miscommunications can be reduced or eliminated.
LanSpy is network security scanner, which allows getting different information about computer: Domain and NetBios names, MAC address, Server information, Domain and Domain controller information, Remote control, Time, Discs, Transports, Users, Global and local users groups, Policy settings, Shared resources, Sessions, Open files, Services, Registry and Event log information.
LanCalculator — makes possible not only to easily calculate the subnet addresses range and subnet masks but also broadcast address, net address, net prefix and net mask inversion which is used in the access control lists (ACL) of Cisco network equipment. One key press is enough to calculate all parameters after net address and mask were entered. To complete the picture additional display is given in binary, decimal and hexadecimal notation
LanWhoIs — this program helps you find out who, where and when registered the domain or site you are interested in, and the information about those who serves it now. LanWhoIs will answer all your questions about domain (site) holder or IP address!
tcping.exe is a small console application that operates similarly to ‘ping’, however it works over a tcp port. Not a terribly interesting concept, but I had trouble finding a windows utility to do this that I was happy with.
in your address bar type in: about:config
Then navigate to this setting: browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers
it defaults to -1 which uses the max cache, change that to 0 to disable the feature and you’ll be sucking down less ram in no time. Restart the browser and you should be good to go.
ShrinkTo5 is the new, powerful and fast DVD copying engine. ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source.
ShrinkTo5 can copy movies with an undeniably superior picture quality. No matter if you wish to copy just the main movie or the whole movie DVD, ShrinkTo5 always produces a superb picture quality, since the ShrinkTo5 engine always concentrates on the main movie. No tedious configuration is needed like with other copying tools, ShrinkTo5 will always find the perfect balance automatically.
Osoba koja je po defaultu ukljucila loadanje ogromnog Adobeovog PDF Readera u Firefoxu zasluzuje batinjanje mocugom s eksterima, tucanje glave o zid, vucu po asfaltu zavezanih nogu za eurokuku. Paliti bradavice brenerom, topiti plastiku na glavu…
Ne postoji nista gore od laga pri ucitavanja te gomile izlucevina necije shizofrenije. Ne, kretenoidi, ne zelim da mi se PDF doklument automatski otvara u web browseru… zapravo, postoji - lag ucitvanja PDF dokumenta u Internet Exploreru… zelim snimiti PDF dokument na disk i onda ga otvoriti kad ja to zelim, ili ga pregledati Adobe Readerom koji se u normalnim uvjetima loada s daleko manjim lagom, a ako se koristi Adobe Reader speedup - s prihvatljivo malim lagom s obzirom o kakvom se bloatwareu radi.
Lijek za Firefox:
Tools -> Option -> Downloads -> pronaci sve moguce verzije PDF govnarija i poiskljucivati ih redom
Nakon ove akcije se pojavljuje normalni “Save” box…
Nisam bio neki zaljubljenik u clipboard managere, jer su obicno imali zilijun funkcija vise nego mi je trebalo, zauzimali previse memorije, smetali, aktivirali se kad treba i kad ne treba.
Ali evo jedan prezgodan cipboard manager od 96Kb, ima tocno ono sto treba (pamti zadnjih nekoliko (max 64) kopiranja u clipboard). Definira se hotkey za pozivanje, tako da se prilikom kopiranja teksta u clipboard kopira kao i obicno, a paste-a se preko hotkeya koji otvara dropdown listu iz koje se izabire zeljeni tekst za paste. Jednostavno, malo i zakon!
Have you ever wanted to remove some Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger…
How about not even to install them with Windows ?
nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install doesn’t include, or even contain on cd, unwanted components.
* - Textmode (CD Boot) and normal PnP
** - only new type 1 hotfixes (for example XP post SP2)
***- supports generic SFC, Uxtheme, TcpIp and Usb Polling patching.
So far it supports Windows 2000, XP x86/x64 and 2003 x86/x64 all languages. Longhorn will be supported when it reaches RTM.
You need .NET Framework 1.1 in order to run it… Check if you have it already in Add/Remove programs, or on your CDs before downloading it.
There, i hope you like it and have in mind it’s still in beta phase so report on the forum any bugs or annoyances found.
Internet Explorer Restrictions (All Windows)These settings and restrictions allow you to selectively control a range of features available in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and 6.
Restrict ActiveX Applets in Internet Explorer (All Windows)
This tweak allows you to stop specific ActiveX controls from running in Internet Explorer. When the “kill bit” is set the specified ActiveX control will never be called or shown by Internet Explorer.
Restrict Web Sites from Installing Software (All Windows)
These restrictions allow you to block unwanted web sites from downloading software onto your system. This can be useful in disabling the installation of some common “cursor” programs.
Dakle, VNC-alike, odnosno RAdmin-alike aplikacija ali ovaj put komp-mobitel. Dakle, upravljate svojim kompom preko mobitela (mora biti stalno spojen na Net)… ovo je jedan jako lijepi proof of concept, vjerujem da ce se poceti pojavljivati sve veci broj ovakvih ili slicnih aplikacija… jos kad bi gradjevinari po defaultu razvlacili UTP po novim gajbama… heh…
The Remote Desktop for Mobiles is a software designed for GSM mobile phones which support GPRS services and can be executing a Java (J2ME) applications. This software provides access to desktop of remote Windows-based computer from mobile phones and allowing to control the mouse and keyboard of remote computer.
Remote Desktop for Mobiles it is easy-to-use, reliable and secure remote control software which will allow you to work on the remote home or office computer from your mobile phone.
You will see the screen of the remote computer on your mobile phone and also you can operate mouse and keyboard of the remote computer.
Additional features of Remote Desktop for Mobiles allow you to execute any console commands on the remote computer and receive result to mobile phone. In addition has a set of commands for getting a system information and perform management of system.
The Remote Desktop for Mobiles software will consist of two part:
The Server which should be installed on the remote computer.
The Client which should be installed on mobile phone.
Server
The Server provides connection of the Client for control of a remote computer, sending a desktop screenshot to the Client and operate to the mouse and keyboard by commands from the Client.
The Server uses a TCP/IP connection to the Internet for receiving the Client connections.
There are no special system requirements to a hardware platform. The Server will works on any PC with minimal requirements to hardware resources. The Server will works under Microsoft Windows 98 / NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP / 2003.
Client
The Client is running on mobile phone and showing a desktop of the remote computer. Also, the Client transfer a mouse and keyboard control directly to the Server.
The Client has an “Address book” for saving addresses of controlled computers, executed commands history for reuse a commands, and many other useful features.
The Client is applying on mobiles with supporting Java (J2ME) Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 1.0 (MIDP 2.0 is more acceptable) and should have not less than 2 Mb of memory. The recommended screen size not less than 132x170 at 65536 colors. The mobile phone should be supporting connection to GPRS network. The operator of mobile network to which your mobile phone are registered should to give GPRS service.
CARNet je u sklopu CERT.hr objavio odlican prirucnik za racunalnu sigurnost za korisnike Interneta. Prirucnik je potpuno besplatan i online verzija se moze pronaci [OVDJE], a “Priru?nik za ra?unalnu sigurnost korisnika Interneta ” u PDF formatu (1986kB) [OVDJE].
Prurucnik se bavi problematikom vatrozida, antivirusnog softvera, sigurnosnih zakrpa, virusima i crvima, trojanskim konjima, dialerima, spyware-om i adware-om, spam-om, prijevarama i sl…
O CERTu:
CARNet je +CERT.hr osnovao 1996. godine s ciljem posredovanja u rješavanju ra?unalno sigurnosnih incidenata u kojima je barem jedna uklju?ena strana iz Hrvatske, prikupljanja i distribucije sigurnosnih savjeta, preporuka i alata, edukacija i informiranje korisnika i javnosti o zna?aju i poboljšanju sigurnosti ra?unalnih sustava
Update 29.01.2005.
T-com je izdao antidialer zastitu - besplatan download softa:
T-Com Antidialer je program koji presreće pokušaje spajanja ra?unala putem telefonske (dial-up) veze te daje korisniku mogućnost kontrole nad spajanjima i mogućnost spre?avanja neželjenih spajanja. Prilikom svakog pokušaja spajanja program će privremeno zaustaviti spajanje, korisnika obavijestiti o pokušaju, prikazati mu ime programa i broj telefona na koji se program pokušava spojiti te korisniku ponuditi dvije mogućnosti: da dozvoli vezu na taj broj ili da ju zabrani.
Wired opet donosi odlican clanak… Ovaj put se radi o interviewu s autorom BitTorrenta (IMHO, najkvalitetniji postojeci p2p, filesharing program). Autor clanka je moj omiljeni blogger Clive Thompson.
Update 24.01.2005 :
I autoritet za pitanja urbanih legendi, Snopes.com potvrdjuje da se zaista radi o Billu Gatesu.
Origins: Many readers have asked us about these pictures of Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates since they were posted on a blog with a caption identifying them as photos taken for a ‘Teen Beat Photospread’ (i.e., a layout in a magazine featuring stories and pictures of ‘teen idol’-type celebrities, marketed primarily to prepubescent girls).
These images are actually publicity photos taken of the then 30-year-old Bill Gates coincident with the initial release of Microsoft Windows in 1985. The Corbis photo archive identifies their depiction thusly: “Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA.”
A tutorial on how to bypass Internet Censorship using Proxies, Shells, JAP e.t.c. Different ways to beat the filtering in schools, countries or companies (blocked ports e.t.c). This is the original and so newer than the translations because I’m still working on it.
In the last 10 years the Internet grew very, very fast. It is a bunch of thousands of little networks put together. Billion computers are connected and it is basically not controlled or even owned by a government or company. There are no laws, everybody can put his webpages online which can be accessed by everybody on the world who is sitting in front of a computer with Internet access. I believe that this can and will change the world as we know it today.
But there are several governments who think that this unlimited access to information is dangerous for their citizens. These are for example China, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Cuba, Jordan, Tunisia, Burma, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Kuwait, Vietnam, Syria, Iran, United Arab Emirates and parts of Africa. and even in countries like Australia, Switzerland and in some parts of Germany they censor websites. This ranks from a very easy to circumvent DNS blocking of only 2 Nazi sites in parts of Germany to a government office with 30.000 employees only working in blocking thousands of websites, services and ports in China.
Though the blocking methods are different there are also different ways to bypass them. I will try to show you how to access the website of Amnesty International, BBC, Google and other blocked sites in your country. I made this website in very basic HTML, so that you can even view it with a very old computer. Please share this information, link the site, copy it, mirror it, print it (I didn’t “hide” any links, so that no link is lost when you print it) and teach your friends and relatives
They start with a single stolen file and pump out bootleg games and movies by the millions. Inside the pirate networks that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
Just over a year ago, a hacker penetrated the corporate servers at Valve, the game company behind the popular first-person shooter Half-Life. He came away with a beta version of Half-Life 2. “We heard about it,” says 23-year-old Frank, a well-connected media pirate. “Everyone thought it would get bootlegged in Europe.” Instead, the hacker gave the source code to Frank - it turned out that he was a friend of a friend - so that Frank could give Half-Life 2 to the world. “I was like, ‘Let’s do this thing, yo!’” he says. “I put it on Anathema. After that, it was all over.”
Anathema is a so-called topsite, one of 30 or so underground, highly secretive servers where nearly all of the unlicensed music, movies, and videogames available on the Internet originate. Outside of a pirate elite and the Feds who track them, few know that topsites exist. Even fewer can log in.
Odlican mali freeware utility koji prilikom svakog updatea Windowsa preko Interneta snima downloadane patcheve na disk. Na taj nacin program omogucuje naknadno apliciranje patcheve i updatea i na druge strojeve, ili na isti stroj nakon reinstalacije Windowsa. Ustedite si skidanje desetke megabyta svaki put kada trebate instalirati nove patcheve za Windows2K ili WindowsXP.
Our program is a good addition to system utility Windows Update. Microsoft Corporation doesn’t allow user to save updates on local drive - they are immediately removed after installation. This is not convenient. You will have to download update pack again to patch system with the same version on other partition or computer! But Windows update is required because of things like MSBlast attack and other reasons.
WUtooL will solve a problem. Launch program and click menu File >> Windows Update. WUtooL controls download and will save the patches to the special folder on your hard drive. Update operating with this program becomes very handy and simple.
Svi smo se barem jednom sreli s nekakvim spywareom, trojanom ili slicnom gamadi koje se htjela nakotiti na nas stroj i koristiti njegovu procesorsku snagu i mrezne potencijale za udahivanje zivota u vlastito bitje, a sve zbog potrebe za virtualnom prokreacijom.
Gamad nam se najcesce pokusava useliti e-mailom (takvi pokusaju se lako osujete jer ljudi s vremenom znaju prepoznavati ispravne attachmente) ili posjetom nekim web stranicama. Doduse, postoje jos mnoge tehnike, od pravih trojanskih napada (virus nosi payload u obliku nekog programa) do namjernog instaliranja nezeljnih programe od ruke trece osobe (pacijent).
Gadan kao virus, zao kao hemoroid!
Kako koristim MyIE2 (najbolja ljuska za surfanje - besplatna) koji koristi engine od Internet Explorera, podlozan sam svim ranjivostima tog Microsoftovog proizvoda.
Nasilne web stranice, pop-upe, dosadne bannere i one razne ActiveX toolbare sto mi se pokusavaju instalirati obicno eliminiram definirajuci content filter [vidi opis] u MyIE2. Ta zgodna mogucnost omogucava blokiranja ucitavanja bilo koje web stranice, ili dijela web stranice (slike, flasha, zvuka i sl.) bilo po nazivu domene, dijela naziva domene (npr. definira se wildcard *xxxtoolbar*)
Na taj nacin sam se rijesio vecine pop-up dosadnih prozora, gomile nepotrebnih bannera i sto je najvaznije, kad jednom vidim da mi se neko activeX govno pokusa instalirati (iskoci onaj prozor koji pita zelite li dozvoliti instalaciju toga_i_toga) dodjem misem na naziv programa pa mi se u tooltipu pojavi naziv site, odnosno tocni URL od tog smeca. Zapamtim cijeli url ili samo bitan dio i dodam ga u content filter. Filtrirano govno se vise nikada ne pokaze. Velika vecina korisnika grijesi u postavkama Internet Explorera, pa dozvole da im se ta gamad instalira bez pitanja. Za pravilno podesavanje postavki Internet Explorera i sigurno surfanje u MyIE2 (ili Internet Exploreru) definitivno preporucam citanje sljedeceg clanka: Prevent Browser Hijacking.
Ok, prevencija sredjena. Uz dobre mjere prevencije prilicno je smanjena mogucnost naseljavanja stetocina, medjutim novi exploiti i nove rupe u Windowsima ili Internet Exploreru omogucavaju stvaranje novih generacija gamadi koji te propuste iskoristavaju.
Kada je vec kasno i kada sumnjamo da nam se gamad naselila, na red stupaju cistaci gamadi.
Jos poneki software i kvalitetni tekstovi se mogu naci na: SpywareInfo
Vazna napomena!
To sto ste instalirali cistace spywarea i nakon sto su oni preskenirali i pocistili vas stroj, ne znaci da ste sada potpuno sigurni i da se mozete samozadovoljno zavaliti u fotelju i frkati brkove. Jedino istinsko zadovoljstvo u sigurnosti je moguce svakodnevnim odricanjem i skidanjem update-a liste novostvorene gamadi. Oba navedena programa podrzavaju automatski update i neka vam to postane ritual jednak jutrokleku, checkiranju maila, sexu/masturbaciji, …)