Posted on August 5th, 2008 |
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GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2008 |
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Basic Terms:
Vulnerability: Drawback of a system through which hackers intrude in a network and get space to try attacks on administrators. Vulnerability is also known as Security Hole.
Exploit: By taking advantage of the vulnerabilities when the attack is performed is called as exploit of the vulnerability. There can be different exploit for the same vulnerability.
Scenarios [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2008 |
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Many BIOS manufacturers have provided backdoor passwords that can be used to access the BIOS setup in the event you have lost your password. These passwords are case sensitive, so you may wish to try a variety of combinations. Keep in mind that the key associated to “_” in the US keyboard corresponds to “?” [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2008 |
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Understanding the concept of proxies first need little introduction about IP Address structure.
IP Address: It is assigned when you connect to internet and gives idea about where your locality can be. Means if you perform some attack on private network your geographical location can be traced quickly with the help of your IP.
Proxy: As [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2008 |
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When you use internet, you are connected to millions of PC’s out there. And each PC have its own unique address known as Static IP Address. This gives your identification by locality.
Without a firewall, on a typical computer, even if well maintained, a remote person will still be able to know that the communication effort [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2008 |
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Follow The steps to block Pop up banners by changing settings in Internet Explorer.
1) Go to TOOLS and then INTERNET OPTIONS.
2) Click the SECURITY tab, move the slider up to HIGH and click APPLY.
This applies the highest security settings to IE, which blocks EVERYTHING, including JavaScript, Applets, and so on that pop-ups are based upon.
The [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2008 |
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Open a dos prompt and type the command
convert d: /fs:NTFS
This command would convert your d: drive to NTFS
If the system cannot lock the drive, you will be prompted to convert it during next reboot.
Normally you should select yes.
Conversion from fat/fat32 to NTFS is non-destructive, your data on the drive will NOT be lost.
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Posted on July 26th, 2008 |
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1. Click on “Start” in the bottom left hand corner of screen
2. Click on “Run”
3. Type in “command” and hit ok
You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.
4. Type “ipconfig /release” just like that, and hit “enter”
5. Type “exit” and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on “Network Places” or “My Network Places” on your desktop.
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Posted on July 26th, 2008 |
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1. Open notepad.exe, type “del c:windowsprefetch tosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes) & save as “ntosboot.bat” in c:
2. From the Start menu, select “Run…” & type “gpedit.msc”.
3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “Computer Configuration” and double click again on “Shutdown” in the right window.
4. In the new window, click “add”, “Browse”, locate your “ntosboot.bat” file & [...]