Windows XP Hidden Applications

Microsoft has kept many useful applications hidden in Windows XP for reasons they know better. Today I will give you a list of such applications. You may know or have used them but there are some you may don’t even know they exists. Depending on the version of Windows XP you are using not all the commands will work, some needs Administrator privileges to run properly. These applications can only be accessed using the Command Prompt or by using the Run dialog box or by double clicking on the .exe file of the application.

Run any of these applications: go to Start > Run and type the executable name

• Account Manager
Command to run: syskey.exe
Use: It encrypts Windows XP account database.
Disclaimer: Use with caution, may cause slow performance if enabled.

• Clipboard Viewer
Command to run: clipbrd.exe
Use: To view or delete clipboard contents.

• Character Map
Command to run: charmap.exe
Use: To view and insert special characters.
You can also access it by clicking on Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map

• Disk Cleanup
Command to run: cleanmgr.exe
Use: To clean downloaded program files, temporary internet files, recycle bin, temporary remote desktop files, setup log files, backup files, offline files and also compresses old files.
You can also access it by clicking on Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup

• Driver Verifier
Command to run: verifier.exe
Use: Verifies drivers and helps create settings, delete settings and display information about currently verified drivers.
Disclaimer: Use with caution.

• Dr. Watson Tool
Command to run: drwtsn32.exe
Use: It is used to configure crash log dump settings

• DirectX Diagnostic Tool
Command to run: dxdiag.exe
Use: Provides DirectX version information and also system information, also used to troubleshoot directx components.

• Group & Policy Manager
Command to run: gpedit.msc
Use: To manage user and computer permissions and privileges.
Disclaimer: Use with caution, if you do not know what a setting does, read its description given there, if you don’t understand leave the setting as it is.

• iExpress Wizard
Command to run: iexpress.exe
Use: It helps to create and open self-extracting installable packages.

• Microsoft Synchronization Manger
Command to run: mobsync.exe
Use: It allows synchronization of offline web pages.

• Microsoft Telnet Client
Command to run: telnet.exe
Use: Used to connect telnet networks.

• Network Shared Folder Wizard
Command to run: shrpubw.exe
Use: Helps create shared folders for a network.

• Object Packager
Command to run: packager.exe
Use: Helps packaging objects for insertion into files.

• ODBC Administrator
Command to run: odbcad32.exe
Use: Helps configuring local and network database options.
Can also be accessed from Control Panel > Administrative Tools.

• Private Character Editor
Command to run: eudcedit.exe
Use: Creates and edits new characters for using into documents.

• Performance Monitor
Command to run: perfmon.exe
Use: Monitors CPU hard disk quota and provides detailed logs and reports.
Can also be accessed from Control Panel > Administrative Tools.

• Registry Editor
Command to run: regedit
Use: Helps to create, view and modify registry values.
Disclaimer: Take caution when modifying the registry, always backup the registry before any modifications.

• File Signature Verification Tool
Command to run: sigverif.exe
Use: Helps to check and verify file signatures.

• System Configuration Editor
Command to run: sysedit.exe
Use: Helps to modify SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT
Disclaimer: Take caution when editing any of these files. If you do anything wrong while editing them you may not be able to start Windows.

• System Configuration Utility
Command to run: msconfig
Use: Helps editing SYSTEM.INI, BOOT.INI, WIN.INI. Also helps to control services and startup programs and configure startup modes.
Disclaimer: Use with caution, if you do not know what a setting does, read its description given there, if you don’t understand leave the setting as it is.

• Windows Media Player 5.1 (Retro)
Command to run: mplay32.exe
Use: It is a very basic and plain version of Windows Media Player. Helps to play basic formats of music.

• Windows Workgroup Chat
Command to run: winchat.exe
Use: Helps to chat with other computers in your workgroup.

I hope that it will help a lot to newbies!!!
If I left any or you know any more hidden utilities, feel free to leave your comment!

Keyboard sniffers to steal data!!!!!

Computer criminals could soon be eavesdropping on what you type by analysing the electromagnetic signals produced by every key press.

The attacks were shown to work at a distance of 20 metres

By analysing the signals produced by keystrokes, Swiss researchers have reproduced what a target typed.

The security researchers have developed four attacks that work on a wide variety of computer keyboards.

The results led the researchers to declare keyboards were “not safe to transmit sensitive information”.

Better attacks

The attacks were dreamed up by doctoral students Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).

The EPFL students tested 11 different keyboard models that connected to a computer via either a USB or a PS/2 socket. The attacks they developed also worked with keyboards embedded in laptops.

Every keyboard tested was vulnerable to at least one of the four attacks the researchers used. One attack was shown to work over a distance of 20 metres.

In their work the researchers used a radio antenna to “fully or partially recover keystrokes” by spotting the electromagnetic radiation emitted when keys were pressed.

In a web posting they added: “no doubt that our attacks can be significantly improved, since we used relatively unexpensive equipments [sic].”

In videos showing their early work the researchers are seen connecting keyboards to a laptop running on battery power. They avoided using a desktop computer or an LCD display to minimise the chance of picking up signals from other sources.

Details of the attacks are scant but the work is expected to be reported in a peer-reviewed journal soon.

The research builds on earlier work done by University of Cambridge computer scientist Markus Kuhn who looked at ways to use electromagnetic emanations to eavesdrop and steal useful information.

I can not open my drive or flash memory, what should I do?

Many viruses create a new autorun.inf file for infected drives to run there executable files from autorun. However, antivirus software can kill the virus but they don’t delete the autorun file because it’s not a virus by itself. This is the way to delete autorun.inf and get rid of the problem.

Autorun.inf is a hidden and protected file by Windows Operating System, so first thing you have to go to Folder Options from Tools menu in My Computer:

After that goto view tab in folder options:

You have to make sure that the “Show hidden files and folder” radio button is selected and remove the checkbox from “hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”.

After you click OK or apply a warning message will appear:

Click on Yes and get back to My Computer.

Now go to the drive that you want to remove autorun.inf from it. Right click on the drive icon from my computer and click on Open. If that didn’t work and it showed you the “Open With” window

then click on Browse button and select “C:\%WindowsFolder%\Explorer.exe” to open the file with and click OK.

The drive should opened with Windows Explorer by now and you will be able to see autorun.inf. Delete the file and restart you computer and your problem is solved.

Simple tip to protect from Autorun.inf viruses

External memory devices are common virus distribution method. Once you open an infected memory device the Autorun.inf will copy the virus to your machine and it will get infected as well.

However, there’s a very simple protection method that doesn’t require any third-party software.

First, you have to enable viewing hidden and protected files. You can do this simply by enabling two options from Folder Options as shown in the following image:

Now, all system files will appear in Windows Explorer including autorun.inf. The thing about autorun.inf that it works only when you open the external device not when you explore it. So, don’t use the open option from the Autorun menu

or the Windows Explorer context menu

Instead use the explore option from the context menu when you open the removable device you can see and delete autorun.inf. Also, you can check if this device is infected by skimming for hidden executable files and delete them.

When I double click on my local drive, I get the open with window!

This is a common problem which is usually associated with autorun.inf. If you have a persistent problem with opening your drive, it’s advisable to have a look to the other articles in the Troubleshooting category. If you don’t please continue reading this article:

The problem usually happen when you double click on your local drive. A message just like the one shown below will appear. Before you try these steps, try to right click on drive and click on the “Explore” option. If that didn’t work for you follow these steps:

Click on “Browse” and you will get this window

Locate you windows folder and choose to open your local drive with “Explorer.exe”. After that click on “Open” and you back to the first window just cick “Ok” and your drive will open.

How To Scare Your Friends

Step 1. Open up notepad
Step 2. Type
lol=msgbox("Whatever you want message to say",20,"Whatever you want the window to be titled")

Ex:
lol=msgbox("Warning your computer has been infected by a virus ",20,"Virus Alert")

Step 3. Save the text as Whateveryouwant.vbs

The number 20 represents the type of window style the message will be in. You can experiment with different styles you want.

How to Make a batch form notpad

How to build a simple .bat virus

Index
1. Tools
2. What makes a virus a virus
3. Making your first batch file
4. Making a batch virus
5. Destructive commands
6. Most common tricks used to make someone open the file
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1. Tools
To make a batch program you will need a text program (ex. Word,notepad,wordpad etc…) A keyboard if you don’t have one you can use the ON-screen keyboard
To get to the on-screen keyboard start>all programs>accessories>accessibility


2. What makes a virus a virus
When people think of a virus they think of a computer virus but the word virus came from a virus that’s in your body. They also think a virus is meant to delete or destroy things. They normally do but a virus is called a virus because, it copies itself. Like a virus in your body it copies it self to other cells cause it can’t live with out a host. Same with a computer virus with out a file or a program a virus can’t be made.
So all a computer virus is: a program that copies it self ,but some people put destructive code in it.

3. Making a Batch file
I’m going to use notepad you can use what ever you want

We are also going to make a “Hello World� Application that is the first program you make in any language

When making a batch file you are always going to use this line first

@echo off

You can turn it on if you like. All that does is telling the program not to tell its location. If you turn it on then the program will tell were it is at on the computer.
You can experiment a little if you want.

Now we are going to make it say Hello World

To do this we need a echo command which looks like this
echo

This tells the program to write something since we want it to say Hello World we are going to type Hello World next to echo to make it look like this

echo Hello World

so at this point you should have

@echo off
echo Hello World

now go to file save and name it test.bat ( you can name it whatever you want as long as it has .bat at the end.)
Save it to the desktop so you can get to it faster.

Then run it



You should of have a black box open and close really fast

To fix this we need a pause command and we will also need a goto command

The goto command is the most importent command

If you dont know the goto command tell it were to go to next.

since we need a pause command we want it to go to pause so we need to write goto pause like this

goto pause

now u should have

@echo off
echo Hello World
goto pause

now we need a subsection name pause

you make a sub section by putting a : by the first word like this

:start

or

:end

,but we said go to pause so we need one name pause like this

ause

then under that we are goin to write pause

ause
pause

this just makes it were it will keep the box open till you press a key

Optionl

At the end you can put a exit at the end of pause were the goto command should go ,but you dont have to.

save at run it now.You should be able to read your text now

4. Making a Batch file into a virus

This is alot easier then some people think.

To make a virus you just need the copy command which looks like this

copy

so lets make a new one by reading section 3 you should know you need the @echo off

@echo off
copy

allright we are going to name this file first

and we are going to make it copy itself to C:\WINDOWS just because no one looks in their

this is what it looks like (i will explain it)

@echo off
copy first C:\WINDOWS

copy-tells it to copy
first-is just the name of the file we want to copy
C:\WINDOWS- is the place you want to copy to

that is a virus

5. Destructive commands

If you get pissed at someone you might want to send him someting to mess with him. Here are some commands to add to the virus.

del -this del files

del file name
del (.txt*)

the (.txt*) would delete all txt files on the computer the * at the end just means all instead of a file called .txt

deltree- this deletes the whole folder

you can remeber it like this

Think of a tree if you type del you are only deleting a part of the tree ,but if you type deltree you are deleting the whole tree

format- this deltes everything

format c:

this delets everything in the c drive

open

this is just fun to use to scare some one but not do damage to something

open name of file

like to open notepad type

open notepad

to open microsoft paint type

open mspaint

just put ta crap load in their

also the next one that can be very usefull is looping

this will make the file repet it self til it is shut off

say your first sub section is called start

you would just make the goto command to go to start like

@echo off
:start
start notepad
goto start

that will open notepad over and over and if they dont close it it can crash their computer

to open the command window you have to use var. like %% (not going to explain var. it would be confusing)

@echo off
:whatever
start %0
goto whatever

this will open the black box over and over

6. Most command tricks

people will put it in a folder with a couple read me doc. and call it a game

people will say check this out it is so cool

people will say check out this hack or cheat i found for this game

to check if the are good do this

tell them to put it in a zip folder and send it

unzip and right click on the program(dont open it)

and press edit

that will show the sorce code and if you see something you dont like then delete it


ok


see u

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