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Main Tools

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Tools (& hints, & suggestions)
that new and old ~S~ may find useful

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This page loads more than 50.000 bytes, but as you'll see they are worth loading in gold. My tools page is not only a "swiss blades" repository for newbies that begin to grasp the powerful reversers' and seekers' lore... the tools I have gathered on this page should be useful for anyone that happens to be "lost on an alien computer", miles from home and without his trusted own-made CDs. This happens to me often enough, hence I find myself this page quite useful :-) You'll find here (I hope) all the necessary tools to survive, secure your current box, AND reverse everything in sight. Some of these tools will even allow you to retaliate and strike back, should anyone dare to annoy you! This section will always be "in fieri", but I'll slowly add all sort of useful appz (uncracked and "abandoned", of course). There's no other section of my site that you should peruse as thoroughly as this one...

Another intent of mine, here, is to demonstrate that you DO NOT need (far from it :-) the most recent version of a given software... once you know what you have to do, you may use a dos program as well as the most recent frilly windoze version, with the advantage (if you use older versions) that you'll at least be sure that the program you use are not trojaning your data somewhere everytime you connect to the web!
I need input from my readers on all this... let your suggestions and critics flow!

Main advice of my "Tools" section:

DO NOT UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE...
...unless you know pretty well how to reverse - and modify - it!
As a (simplistic) rule: the older your version, the less likely it is that it will [malbehave] and spy on you...

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CopernicSvr.exe
:54BB5B E814E9F8FF   call 4DA474
:54BB60 E88730F2FF   call 46EBEC	;are we allowed to showe ads into your eyes?
:54BB65 84C0         test al, al	;ax is not zero? Ahah! Eat ads, poor luser!
:54BB67 0F8599000000 jne 54BC06         ;0F84... (je 54BC06 ;-) would sooth your eyeballs
:54BB6D A1B8785700   mov eax, dword ptr [5778B8]
:54BB72 80780C00     cmp byte ptr [eax+0C], 00

But we have [our own bots] as well...

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Check also [mysearch.zip]: ~ 20233 bytes A search bot in Visual Basic by Shoki (see [shokiwcd.htm])

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Browsers
Either you know why you should use these tools, or you search & learn, or just try and understand :-)
"Probieren geht über studieren"

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Opera

[Opera] ~ the ultimate browser for searchers. An incredible tool

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[version 3.0] [version 3.2] [version 3.6]

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The most important thing is that Opera has a very convenient no-images icon that allows you to stop on the fly all images loading from any site you are visiting. Not a minor feat in a Web that, as you will already have realized, is an Ocean of knowledge... about two centimeters deep. Most sites just overload visitors with completely useless graphical frills: having a browser able to stop them "on the fly" is a very useful weapon that you will need again and again. Note also how the development of both the M$IE and the Netscape browsersaurii went to great lengths to AVOID you having the possibility to turn off images (and hence advertisements).
But there's more: Opera has even a sort of 'anti-popup' function BUILT INSIDE IT: have a look at file ~ preferences ~ windows... see the checkbox for 'allow documents to create windows? Well... uncheck it! What are you waiting for? :-)
You think I have finished with the advantages that Opera offers? Nossir...try this other one: file ~ preferences ~ multimedia... see the checkbox 'enable animation GIF images'? Well... uncheck it! Yep, believe or not: you can selectively kill those useless animated gifs that nobody in his right mind would ever 'prefer' to load! :-)
Of course you can download hic et nunc Opera for LINUX as well...

Did I mention that Opera's code is 30 times smaller than M$IE or Netscrape?

:41596D 8B442430           mov eax, dword ptr [esp+30]
:415971 3BF8               cmp edi, eax
:415973 757A               jne 4159EF  ;bad_guy_exit
:415975 85FF               test edi, edi
:415977 7476               je 4159EF   ;bad_guy_exit
:415979 83F801             cmp eax, 1
:41597C 7C71               jl 4159EF   ;bad_guy_exit
:41597E 8D4C2410           lea ecx, dword ptr [esp+10]
:415982 C644242400         mov [esp+24], 0

• http://www.eurekalert.org/resources/visuals.html ~ AAAS (Science Visual)
• http://image.altavista.com/cgi-bin/avncgi ~ AV Photo Finder
• http://www.arribavista.com/ ~ Arriba Vista
• http://artcyclopedia.com/ ~ Artcyclopedia
• http://uswest.gifwizard.com/cgi-bin/nph-gifwiz?task=search ~ GIF Wizard
• http://isurf.interpix.com/ ~ Image Surfer
• http://www.lycos.com/picturethis/ ~ Lycos Image Gallery
• "http://www.scour.net ~ Scour.Net
• http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/ ~ WebSEEk Using these sites you can also directly access images, bypassing text indexing hits, some of these repositories are very limited, though.

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  Sound tools

  
  
  

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  Total recorder [totrec22.zip] : 885 kbytes
  Fundamental tool for sound streams capture, dead easy to crack, see fu_softi.htm

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  Other tools

  
  
  [Credit card generators] [Password busters] [Port listeners, pingers and tracerouters]
  [Checkers, sniffers, whistles] [URL obfuscators] [Email IP address spoofers] [Software customizers]
  [Corporate countermeasures]

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  Credit card generators
  Only to screw commercial porn-sites... Should NEVER be used for something illegal, never! Btw: I have found that Eurocard/Mastercard numbers with expirations 4-5 months ahead of the actual date work best...

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  cmaster4.zip ~ 99792 bytes ccmaker.zip
  [When people want data, we gently give them some data: everybody is happy]
  Most useful tool, must have when somebody on the web asks for a creditcard number in order to "verify" things...

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  ccmaker.zip ~ 7201 bytes ccmaker.zip
  [When people want data, we gently give them some data: everybody is happy]
  Most useful tool, must have when somebody on the web asks for a creditcard number in order to "verify" things...

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  Password busters
  Very important to gain access to data-bases that do not collaborate... As you'll quickly learn, a good entry list speeds things up

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  wwwhack.zip ~ 210391 bytes wwwhack.zip
  [When fred ~ fred doesn't work]
  Most useful tool, must have when somebody dares denying you access somewhere...

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  Port listeners, pingers and tracerouters
  Very important to know who is listening where

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  netmon09.zip ~ 256655 bytes netmon09.zip
  [Let's log all covert activities]
  Netmonitor, version0 .9: useful tool, log everything that listens

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  inzider.zip ~ 210391 bytes inzider.zip
  [Who is listening where?]
  Inzider, version 1.2: useful tool, must have if you fear someone may be listening on your ports á la BO...

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  netlab.zip ~ 228735 bytes netlab.zip
  [Swiss pinging knife]
  Netlab, version 1.35, by Alexander Danileiko (1997): useful tool, must have for pinging, tracerouting and port-listening...

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  Checkers, sniffers, whistles
  Very important to know what's going on inside windoze

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  winsight.zip ~ 165169 bytes winsight.zip
  [Whoa! All those programs are running on my pc?]
  winsight, version 2.05: useful Borland's tool, have a look, lotta windows eh :-) Trace messages, investigate, check what's going on!

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  regrun2.zip ~ 831086 bytes regrun2.zip
  [Clear all misteries for windoze's configuration and all sort of start up wonders]
  Regrun2, version 2.25: an useful tool to explore, check or change your configuration files, have a look. Trace, investigate, check what's going on with this good tool!
  An incredibly simple protection scheme: the serial number routine is calculated from a name / email message combination that accepts one letter names as well (very bad protectetiquette!) and shifts 0xF downwards based on the emailaddress (let's say for instance that "a" at [email protected] is 349120 and "b" at [email protected] is 349104, you'll guess that "c" will be 349088, and so on :-) I believe that the programmers at Greatis should learn [some better tricks] to protect their software.
  
  regcle34.zip ~ 251475 bytes regcle34.zip
  RegCleaner, by Jouni Vuorio, a GREAT tool. Freeware. Does basically the same as those expensive 'automatic' registry cleaners. That is, inter alia automatically removes all kinds of junk from the registry. Corrupted data is also removed from the registry. I say "inter alia" because this tool can have different uses as well, as Vuorio points out:
  "Say you've accidentally destroyed a nice shareware program what has a 30-day trial period. Later on, when you notice that it's been destroyed, you try reinstalling it, only to find out that you can't, because the program thinks that you're just trying to get another 30 days. If you first remove the program's registry entries, however, you may very well be able to reinstall the software and recover your trial period again."

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  URL obfuscators
  If you want (to hope) that your sysads don't know where you are surfing :-)

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  unfrozen3.zip ~ 62543 bytes unfrozen3.zip
  [A pleasure to play with, create synonyms for your preferred URLs]
  Unfrozen3, by Glow Armageddon (glow(at)w3(point)to), beautiful small tool to obfuscate the URLs you are browsing to. "Hostname converter", must have for all those that prefer not to leak too explicit loggings... see PCHelp's essay How to Obscure Any URL for some explanations.

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  Check also [son_33_1.htm]: Javascript obscure conversion by sonofsamiam, part of the [obscure.htm] section

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  Check also [urlcalc.zip]: ~ 43844 bytes Dotted decimal IP conversion to other valid bases & Reverse obfuscation of a URL by Shoki (see [shokiwcd.htm])

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  Email IP address spoofers
  If you wish to maintain a certain degree of anonymity with your friends :-)

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  euthan.zip ~ 176108 bytes euthan.zip
  [The tools of the evil spammers can be of some use for the sons of the light]
  Euthanasia, an old email bomber program that works great for just sending emails: spoofs the IP address as well as the return address and x-mailer (unfortunately it only works with certain smtp relays: some reveal the real address anyway: check it and find a relay that work before using). Thanks malan!

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  Software customizers
  If you wish to kill ads, tweak whatever or re-enable some grayed options

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  customiz.zip ~ 653537 bytes customiz.zip
  [The customizer per anthonomasia, version 1.10]
  You'll find this even more useful than poledit when your system administrator or your software programmer has chosen to 'disable' some options... :-)
  See for instance how you can modify on the fly the webferret bot in this essay. See also another interesting use of the customizer (tweaking EULAs) in this [conference of mine]
  

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  customiz.exe ~ 692224 bytes: this is customiz.zip version 1.10 autoextracting as exe
  very useful when you need to perform some quick tweakings from -say- a web-café ;-)
  
  

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  cust115.zip ~ 272528 bytes: cust115.zip
  [The customizer per anthonomasia, version 1.15]
  A ridicolous time check protection... any kid could set all FOUR occurrences of 000007D1 (if you have installed it in 2001) to -say- 00000BB9 with the result that the program will expire in 3001. (And if that's not enough... set all four to 00000FA1 :-) Maybe the good people at wanga should learn [some better tricks] to protect this most useful appz.

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  Corporate countermeasures
  If you wish to tweak or re-enable some browsing options

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  httport.zip ~ 382426 bytes httport.zip
  [TCP/IP through HTTP tunneling client by Dmitry Dvoinikov]
  You'll find this quite useful if you'r blocked by a proxy... see all necessary instructions here: [httport.htm]  

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  proxo.zip ~ 873971 bytes proxo.zip (PROXONOMITRON! Version Naoko-3)
  [no need to explain how important this is]
  If you never used it, you'll find this so useful that you'll wonder how comes you never used it before :-)

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  Banner Killers

  
  
  I liked Whitmore's answer on Usenet, a couple of days ago, to a commercial zombie that accused users of 'stealing' when browsing with our beloved killerads on, this text has been slightly modified:
  
  "Banner ads are really silly. Lately some bastards advertisers have begonnen to take note and 'penalize' people using junkbuster and other banner killing software. What their defense of this criminal attitude boils down to is that commercial webmasters incur business expenses, and are responsible for finding a business model that at least covers those expenses. Customers don't care if they cover their expenses, they just want (x) and are willing to pay (n) to get it. If you offer (x) for free, it's not stealing if people take it without being forced to read ads -- remember, they're not concerned with advertisers' costs, they just want their own expense to be (n) or less (where (n) is assumed to be positive, thus zero -- free -- is less than (n)). If advertisers don't cover their expenses, that's a problem with their business model, not consumer behavior. If they had content that is worth an "admission" (a very big if in my experience) then go ahead and charge one! If they can't, then they'd better find a better business model. Expecting unusual behavior and giving the lack of that behavior such negative (and illogical and inappropriate) label like "stealing" is not going to serve them in the long run."
  
  Of course the junkbuster and proxomitron methods, that are described elsewhere on my site, are pretty effective per se.
  
  Two Opera's [ plug-ins]!

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  [http://www.intermute.com/] Intermute

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  [http://www.webwasher.com/] Webwasher, fairly easy to set up, and does away with unwanted advertising, and other forms of annoying behavior from webpages.

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  [ao201.zip] Adsoff! 144919 bytes, original location: http://www.intercantech.com, very easy to crack, but you should buy this appz, it deserves it.

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  Languages & useful books

  
  
  
  [http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/] O'Reilly English Language Online Books

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  PERL

  
  [Perl] Sams Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days

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  [ksoze_ps.htm] Ksoze's "Running Perl Scripts"

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  [kso_kps0.htm]: ksoze perl shell v0.0 (a small/simple perl shell, good for testing & learning purposes, obviously fully commented and portable)

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  [Perl to exe] 1.077.535 ytes. Perl2Exe is a command line utility for converting Perl scripts to executable files.
  
  

  REBOL

  
  [rebol031.zip] 129961 bytes     (see the bots section)
  
  

  PHP

  
  [A laboratory for PHP experiments] by Laurent & DQ, (on my Swiss mirror)
  
  

  The Handbook of Applied Cryptography

  
  [The Handbook of Applied Cryptography] by Menezes, van Oorschot & Vanstone
  
  

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  Powerful firewalls for windoze & proxies

  
  
  [consl26.zip] 914258 bytes
  You'll enjoy the power and knowledge!

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  [mproxy05.zip] 145807 bytes
  MultiProxy is a multifunctional personal proxy server you can install to protect your privacy by dynamically connecting to non-transparent anonimizing public proxy servers only. You can also test a list of proxy servers and sort them by connection speed and level of anonimity.
  For a couple of interesting lists see [pxylist1.txt] & [pxylist2.txt]

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  (c) III Millennium: [fravia+], all rights reserved
  

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  Finally, just in order to grasp how insignificant "we and our worries" are, and how important it is to take oneself never too much seriously, and to grasp as well how marginal our "oh-so-huge" personal problems are, which IMO is a pretty important "relativising" approach in life, I have decide to present to my readers a nice "new-millennium" present... take a look at the place our galaxy has in the universe through [this] wondrous program, that every father should show to every kid and every lover should watch together with his/her beloved one in "relativising" awe... funny isn't it? Mortals are at the same time nothing of relevance and yet they have so much...