Keep your friends/family or the NSA/CIA out of your important files, even if someone hacks your administrator password or gets access to your computer they will not be able to crack this encryption, unless someone has a key logger or someone watches you type in your password, check this out, it is a "must have app"
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TrueCrypt is a software system for Windows Vista for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g.., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc).
Files can be copied to and from a mounted TrueCrypt volume just like they are copied to/from any normal disk (for example, by simple drag-and-drop operations). Files are automatically being decrypted on-the-fly (in memory/RAM) while they are being read or copied from an encrypted TrueCrypt volume. Similarly, files that are being written or copied to the TrueCrypt volume are automatically being encrypted on-the-fly (right before they are written to the disk) in RAM. Note that this does not mean that the whole file that is to be encrypted/decrypted must be stored in RAM before it can be encrypted/decrypted. The are no extra memory (RAM) requirements for TrueCrypt. For an illustration of how this is accomplished, see the following paragraph.
Let's suppose that there is an .avi video file stored on a TrueCrypt volume (therefore, the video file is entirely encrypted). The user provides the correct password (and/or keyfile) and mounts (opens) the TrueCrypt volume. When the user double clicks the icon of the video file, the operating system launches the application associated with the file type – typically a media player. The media player then begins loading a small initial portion of the video file from the TrueCrypt-encrypted volume to RAM (memory) in order to play it. While the portion is being loaded, TrueCrypt is automatically decrypting it (in RAM). The decrypted portion of the video (stored in RAM) is then played by the media player. While this portion is being played, the media player begins loading next small portion of the video file from the TrueCrypt-encrypted volume to RAM (memory) and the process repeats. This process is called on-the-fly encryption/decryption and it works for all file types, not only for video files.
Note that TrueCrypt never saves any decrypted data to a disk – it only stores them temporarily in RAM (memory). Even when the volume is mounted, data stored in the volume is still encrypted. When you restart Windows or turn off your computer, the volume will be dismounted and files stored in it will be inaccessible (and encrypted). Even when power supply is suddenly interrupted (without proper system shut down), files stored in the volume are inaccessible (and encrypted). To make them accessible again, you have to mount the volume (and provide the correct password and/or keyfile).
Monday, April 30, 2007
Best Vista Encryption Software *Freeware*
Vista TCP/IP Limit AutoPatch
Updated Version Here
Digg it!
Patch *updated* 5/1/07
As you may have noticed Microsoft still limits your half-open (incomplete/syn packets) connection attempts per second that the system can make. Microsoft Has done this since Windows XP Service Pack 2 to keep your computer from being used by dangerous programs such as Worms that scan the internet to infect more systems and to keep your computer from being a host of a Bot that connects to IRC that accepts commands to launch Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks (DDoS) against other people
and companies they do not like. Unfortunately For us and companies, this limit effects our internet by limiting the capability of P2P (Peer 2 Peer) applications like uTorrent, BitTorrent, BitComet, Azureus, BitSpirit, eMule (eDonkey network), BearShare, Direct Connect, DC++, ApexDC++ , or even P2PTV such as PPLive, PPStream, Sopcast, TVAnts, Peer to Peer, Web server, FTP, and many other applications we love to use but cannot take full advantage of. Basically, you will make uTorrent faster as well as all these other apps you need. So Speed up your Vista downloads, If you dont believe me try it and tell me what you think.
When the limit is hit, You will recieve a Notice in Event Viewer Saying:
EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.
This means Vista Has maxed out our connect attempts.
I have compiled an Auto Patcher to take care of this for you, it patches tcpip.sys for vista 32 and vista 64
Contents of Readme.txt
Unpack the archive and run Patch32.bat (for x86) or Patch64.bat (for x64). Run UndoPatch.bat to uninstall concurrent half-open TCP/IP connection limit patch. Once installed you can have 70,000 half open connections, these connections are temp connections anyways, you can change the limit to any setting you want,
go to run and type in regedit and navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\
Parameters\]
"TcpNumConnections"=dword:00011170
and edit this value to whatever amount of connections you need. Btw these half open connections are called Syn packets
More information on TCP/IP @ wikipedia
If you use uTorrent like I do, go to advanced settings and change your net.max_halfopen setting to a higher number, I have mine set at 200, it connects to torrent hosts fast as hell :)
Any questions or problems feel free to add comments, im here to help :)
Vista Packet Sniffer
Download Here
Make sure you have WinPcap installed download that here
If you would like to see what goes on with your network, or like to sniff packets to see what actually goes on behind the scenes, or you like to troubleshoot problems with your network configuration or would like to see who hacked you and sniff their location and what they are doing check out WireShark, it is an example of Distruptive Technology, A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or status quo product in the market. Disruptive innovations can be broadly classified into lower-end and new-market disruptive innovations. A new-market disruptive innovation is often aimed at non-consumption, whereas a lower-end disruptive innovation is aimed at mainstream customers who were ignored by established companies. Sometimes, a disruptive technology comes to dominate an existing market by either filling a role in a new market that the older technology could not fill (as more expensive, lower capacity but smaller-sized hard disks did for newly developed notebook computers in the 1980s) or by successively moving up-market through performance improvements until finally displacing the market incumbents (as digital photography has begun to replace film photography).
Hack Vista Administrator Password
Locked out of Windows Vista? XP? NT? Overwrite the administrator password or any user password with a boot disk called Trinity Rescue Kit. All you gotta do is download this .iso with your computer, and copy it to a cd or dvd with ImgBurn.
Once done put cd back in, and restart the computer or put this disk in any computer and boot up with it, wait for the linux os to finish booting from cd, you will get a prompt, type "winpass" press enter
it is mounting the drives for windows, you can choose which os if you multiboot..
In most cases all you do is press enter if you only have one os.
Enter "*" for blank administrator password or enter whatever you need, confirm with y then enter.
Password changed :)
This shouldnt take anyone more than 5 minutes to do...
You can also change any username with winpass -u "username"
easy as that.
Enjoy :)
Download ISO to reset administrator password Here
Winpass
By default it will reset the builtin administrator account of a locally installed Windows, but you can specify other accounts as well at the commandline. In fact, you can add any parameter from chntpw which will be parsed to the commandline. So winpass –l will list you all usernames found in the SAM. Should you have troubles that metacharacters are present in the username (like the Ø or something), you can still use the HEX reference to the username listed next to it. Be sure to prepend that with a '0x'. More info on that can be found in the manual of chntpw. Watch out with disabling syskey! Most of the time you don 't need to disable syskey. It removes strong password encryption, so all local passwords become invalid, since the hashes don 't correspond to the encryption algorythm anymore.
Stop hibernation and remove hiberfil.sys from your Vista root directory
When you use hibernate in Vista it creates a file called hiberfil.sys. This file can grow rather large, you may have noticed that hibernation is also enabled by default when you install Windows Vista. If you don't use hibernate, the hibernate file hiberfil.sys is sometimes large enough to impact the amount of drive space you have available, and you're not able to delete it because it's in use, quite the same like in Windows XP. Because Windows keeps this file similar to the system state you can imaging that when you don't use hibernation in Vista it's a waste of system performance and a waste of system resources.
How to disable hibernation in Windows Vista:
1) To be able to get rid of this file you have to shutdown and disable hibernation in Windows Vista. You can do this by opening a command prompt as administrator.
2) press windows key then type in cmd, In the command prompt type "powercfg -h off", it should give you no message back, there is "no errors", it does not echo the results back to us, but the job is done.
After this Windows Vista will automatically shutdown hibernation and removes the hiberfil.sys from your Vista system root directory saving allot of space, sometimes up to 2 gigs!
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Rename Administrator And Guest account with secpol.msc in Vista
By default the administrator and guest account are disabled for security reasons. This makes it harder for hackers to hack into Vista and also it makes Vista run much more secure by default, for instance when surfing the internet with administrator account disabled and UAC enabled: Vista makes Internet Explorer run in user mode, while XP ran instantly in administrator mode. Running Internet Explorer in administrator mode means that sites are able to run bad programs on the fly without your permission, you can probably imagine this makes your PC very vurnerable.
Click start and type secpol.msc
This will open up the Vista Security Policy Editor, now browse to Security Settings, Local Policy, Security Options
At the top double click for both the administrator and guest account, choose enabled. Close all windows and restart Windows Vista.
You are now able to login to Vista as administrator or guest. A good option is to Rename those accounts to make it harder for hackers/friends you dont trust to find your precious login :)
After enabling these accounts you should set a password as well, click start then type in cmd, then type net user administrator "password" without the quotes of course, you can do the same with the guest account or any other accounts, for more info on net user type net user /? or net /?
Disable UAC on Windows Vista Home and Windows Vista Home Premium Registry Patch
Due to the missing of Domain Join and Group Policy support in Windows Home and Windows Home Vista you can't disable User Account Control through the security policy editor (secpol.msc) You can disable UAC in Windows Vista Home and Home Premium easily by downloading my patch
here
To disable the User Account Control Elevation in Windows Vista Home and Windows Vista Home Premium for Administrators run uac_admin_off.reg
To enable the User Account Control Elevation in Windows Vista Home and Windows Vista Home Premium for Administrators run uac_admin_on.reg
To disable the User Account Control Elevation in Windows Vista Home and Windows Vista Home Premium for Standard Users run uac_user_off.reg
To enable the User Account Control Elevation in Windows Vista Home and Windows Vista Home Premium for Standard Users run uac_user_on.reg
btw I have a few more UAC hacks/tweaks here
Enjoy :)
