New Yahoo! Messenger Virus Attack

New Yahoo! Messenger Virus Attack, how to prevent?

This Yahoo messenger virus attack is one of the most powerful Trojan/virus..released in 10 November 2007. If your computer is infected with this virus; It will sends the nsl-school.org url to all of your friend list in yahoo messenger using your ID . So with in few hours many of your friends will get infected with it.
To solve this problem, Just go through the below steps carefully.
What are those links ?: Nsl-school.org or other (Do not open this url in your browser).
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If you are infected with it what is going to happen ?
1: It sets your default IE page to nsl-school.org, you can't even change it back to other page. If you open IE from your comp some malicious code will automatically executed into your computer.
2: It will disables the Task manager / reg edit. So you can't kill the Trojan process anymore.
3: Files that are gonaa installed by this virus are svhost.exe , svhost32.exe , internat.exe. You can find these files in windows/ & temp/ directories.
4: It will sends the secured & protected information to attacker
How to remove this manually from your computer ?
1: Close the IE browser. Log out messenger / Remove Internet Cable.
2: To enable Regedit Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)
Code: REG add HKCUSoftwareMic*ftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
3: To enable task manager : (To kill the process we need to enable task manager)
Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)
Code: REG add HKCUSoftwareMic*ftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
4: Now we need to change the default page of IE though regedit.
Start>Run>Regedit
From the below locations in Regedit chage your default home page to hackgyan.com or other
Code: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMic*ftInternet ExplorerMain HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMic*ftInternet ExplorerMain HKEY_USERSDefaultSoftwareMic*ftInternet ExplorerMain
Just replace the attacker site with hackgyan.com or set it to blank page.
5: Now we need to kill the process from back end. For this, Press "Ctrl + Alt + Del" Kill the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running.. check properly)
6: Delete svhost32.exe , svhost.exe files from Windows/ & temp/ directories. Or just search for svhost in your comp.. delete those files.
7: Go to regedit search for svhost and delete all the results you get Code: Start>Run>Regedit
8: Restart the computer. That's it now your system is virus free.

redirect a website to another site

A simple text file edit makes sites redirect to anotherwebadress (ur like u can keep any adress). When you type address in address bar in any browser and enter it then it will display another web page, for example:- when you type Google.com you will be redirected to yahoo.com

Instructions to do:

1) Go to this directory [c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc], directory may change according to drive used for os installation
2) then hit enter
3) find a file named "hosts"
4) Right click on it and open with word pad.
5) In the last link of the document type the IP* address of yahoo space www.Google.com (Vice versa for other sites)
6) now save it
7) restart the browser if its already running
8) Now try it, It works perfect

IP*: to find IP address of that website Goto start ->Run > type cmd > enter. Now you have a new window on desktop. On that type this without cotes "ping www. yahoo.com"
replace yahoo.com with your preferred site and then enter it ,Repeat the first four steps and remove the last line that you have inserted and save it and restart browser. Now its back to normal
try this on your frieds pc and public pc and make them blink.

Convert FAT to NTFS file system Easily

To convert a FAT partition to NTFS, perform the following steps.
Click Start>>click Programs>> and then click Command Prompt.
In Windows XP, click Start>> click Run>> type cmd or Command and then click OK.
At the command prompt,

type CONVERT [driveletter]: /FS:NTFS.
Convert.exe will attempt to convert the partition to NTFS.

NOTE: Although the chance of corruption or data loss during the conversion from FAT to NTFS is minimal, it is best to perform a full backup of the data on the drive that it is to be converted prior to executing the convert command. It is also recommended to verify the integrity of the backup before proceeding, as well as to run RDISK and update the emergency repair disk (ERD).

orkut tips and tricks

Show a cool STAR in your scraps: Just write “& # 9 7 3 3″ without spaces and quotes in your orkut scarp writing text for testing directly in your friend’s scrapbook. And now submit your scrap. You will see a cool star icon showing up in your scrap. It is one of the simplest of orkut tricks. Isn’t it?.

Unlimited pictures in orkut album : By default an orkut user can upload only 12 pictures in orkut album. Sometimes, we have a lot of pictures to show in our orkut album but due to this restriction on number of picture uploads we could not show all we want to show in our orkut album. But now you can show unlimited number of pictures and photos using the new rss feed feature in orkut.

Sending a blank or invisible scrap

Open your friend’s scrapbook and the write anyone you wanted from the list given below:

[i], [u], [b], [i][u], [i][b], [u][i], [u][b], [u][i][b], [i][u][b], [i][u][b][i]

Now press ‘postscrap’ tab.

Accessing orkut from the place where it has been banned.

You can use proxies like http://www.proxut.com and http://www.orkutlive.info/ to access orkut.

Adding images to orkut scraps

You can send images to your friend through scrap. But the condition is that urls of those images should have .jpg, .gif, .png or .bmp in their ending.

for example, Copy and paste “http://www.desiclub.com/bollywood/photo_album/photoalbums/aamir_khan/aamir3.jpg” in scrapbook and then press ‘postscrap’. Now you will see the images as a scrap in your scrapbook.

Hiding your visits on the other’s profiles.

1) Go to ‘Setting’.
2) Click on ‘privacy’ tab and select hide profile visit.

See large display pic of your friend in your scrapbook

Copy and paste this code “javascript:document.body.innerHTML=document.body.innerHTML.replace(/small/g,”medium”);void(0)” in the address bar.

Enjoy these cool orkut tips and tricks, will be back with many more.

orkut tips--Writing text in reverse order

Writing text in reverse order

• Type the text in the scrapbook or any text box.
• Type & # 8 2 3 8 without spaces before the message in the text box.
• Example: "&#8238 This is message reverted."
• Press SUBMIT.
• The above message appears as > ‮ TRY THIS COOL TRICK

Connecting to other computers through windows and explanation on what are ports ??

Servers send information. Clients retrieve. Simple.
Windows comes with a built in program to connect to other computers called telnet.
To start Windows telnet Start menu> Run> type Telnet. Click connect> remote system
Ports are doors into computers. Hosts are computer names
(ip number or a name that is translated into the ip automatically)
Different programs open different ports, but they always open the same ports so other computers know which port to connect to. You can get a port list listing all the different ports, but a basic one is:
11 :- Sends info on the computer
21 :- FTP (File transfer program)
23 :- Telnet (Login to the computers command line)
25 :- Smtp (Sends mail)
80 :- Http (Web pages)
There are thousands of different programs using different ports. You can get programs called portscanners which check a computer for all ports up to a certain number, looking for ways in. You can portscan a computer looking for ways-in.
Anyway, back to telnet.
Type www.yahoo.com as the host and port as 80 the click connect.
If nothing happens, you're in. Wow. You are connected to Yahoo's server.
You can now type http commands (you are connected to an http server, so it supports http commands). Ie. on an ftp server you can type open and it will do something. On an http server it will just wonder what the hell you are on about.
Type get / http/1.0 then press enter twice to get the file on the server at / (try /index.html) etc.)

Make your Folders Private-windows trick

•Open My Computer
•Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer).
•If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive.
•Double-click the Documents and Settings folder.
•Double-click your user folder.
•Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click Properties.
•On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box.


Note
•To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
•This option is only available for folders included in your user profile. Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites. If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer.
•When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well. For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private.
•You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS For information about converting your drive to NTFS