Hacking Protected Websites

There are many ways to defeat java-script protected web
sites. S ome are very simplistic, such as hitting ctl-alt-del
when the password box is displayed, to simply turning off
java capability, which will dump you into t he default page.



You can try manually searching for other directories, by
typing the directory name into the url address box of your
browser, ie: you w ant access to www.target.com . Try typing
www.target.com/images .(almost ever y web site has an images
directory) This will put you into the images directory,
and give you a text list of all the images located there.


Often, the title of an image will give you a clue to the
name of another directory. ie: in www.target.com/images,
there is a .gif named gamestitle.gif . There is a good
chance then, that there is a 'games' directory on the site,
so you would then type in www.target.com/games, and if it is
a valid directory, you aga in get a text listing of all the files available there.
For a more automated approach, use a program like WEB SNAKE
from anawave, or Web Wacker . These programs will create a
mirror image of an entire web site, showing all director ies,
or even mirror a complete server. They are indispensable for
locating hidden files and directories.


What do you do if you can't get past an opening "Password
Required" box? First do an WHOIS Lookup for the site.


In our
example, www.target.com . We find it's hosted by www.host.com
at 100.100.100. 1. We then go to 100.100.100.1, and then launch \
Web Snake, and mirror the e ntire server. Set Web Snake to NOT
download anything over about 20K. (not ma ny HTML pages are
bigger than this) This speeds things up some, and keeps yo u
from getting a lot of files and images you don't care about.
This can take a long time, so consider running it right before bed time.
Once you have an image of the entire server, you look through
the directories listed, and find /target.
When we open that directory, we find its contents, and all of i ts sub-directories listed.

Let's say we find /target/games/zip/zipindex.html . This would be the index
page that would be displayed had you gone through the
password procedure, and allowed it to redirect you here.

By simply typing in the url
www.target.com/games/zip/zipindex.html you will be on
the index page and ready to follow the links for downloading.

Disable The Send Error Report To Microsoft

To disable the stupid feature in WinXP which tries to send a report to microsoft every time a program crashes you will have to do this:

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Open Control Panel
Click on Preformance and Maintenance.
Click on System.
Then click on the Advanced tab
Click on the error reporting button on the bottom of the windows.
Select Disable error reporting.
Click OK
Click OK

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How to Move the cursor with your head

This is probably one of the coolest things I’ve posted here so far. With any cheap webcam and a free piece of software from IBM, you can move your cursor, click, type text with an on-screen keyboard and much more - just by moving your head.

What you need:
1. a head (duh)
2. a webcam
3. Head tracking pointer by IBM

The download is easy, just fill out the form to create an IBM id and press download. You also need to extract the zip folder to any comfortable location.

How to use:
The program itself is very smart and will discover any webcams connected.
To start, connect your webcam and open the head tracker.

It needs quite a lot of light to work well, but not too much, or it won’t tell your nose apart from the rest of your over-lighted face.

Tilt your head left and right 3 times and look straight at the center of the screen to let it find your nose position, which it will use to determine where you’re looking at. You can repeat this at any time, if it starts tracking incorrectly. The pointer should automatically move to the screen center when it finds your nose shadows.

To move the pointer, gently move your head to look at the place you want it to go.
To click, stare at the same spot for approx. 3 seconds. Turn clicking on first from the Main menu to allow clicking. The menu also has buttons for double-clicking, right-clicking and for dragging and dropping.

You can also open the on-screen keyboard:
Start > All Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > On-screen keyboard

Although it will take some time to get used to, this hands-free alternative can be quite fun if you want a change.