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  1. Nethack, from portableapps.com is a free app that isn't exactly save-file portable, but once you start playing you'll not mind. Once you die you die in this 1985 game, with updated "tile" based combat for *windows*, (can't remember if Linux is supported, but it does have a text-tile version out there somewhere, but it's worse graphics). What isn't exciting is the graphics of the game. However, it truly is amazing in it's depth. Each time you play the game things change. You might be sucked into it super hard, constantly looking at the Nethack-wiki if your like me. I've been playing this game for a week or more now, and it truly is a masterpiece. You'll need guides and "spoilers" to do well most likely, but it is truly amazing to me, with many classes of characters to choose from, which may often vary in their starting items a little each time, and the entire world over usually changes as far as items and most monsters.
  2. Certainly so. I never intended my flash drive to be secure from all persons, just non-technologists.
  3. Tried it on another computer immediately. And I guess your right, the decryption software for this may be more popular and available than I think.
  4. I don't understand why people say "harm", "cause damage", etc when referring to DDoS attacks. 1. Since when does the network equipment itself get harmed? 2. Since when is a computer on the network "frying"? 3. "Taking down a website" is no more complicated than getting a bunch of friends together to call a senator and fill up his phone lines with calls. There are no differences in between the two, except there's a double standard about DDoS because "all hackers are evil because we don't understand anything". If it's not causing physical damage, saying this is illegal is a violation of Freedom of Speech on the internet, and the 1st Amendment needs Amending to protect us all from the scourge of imbeciles...
  5. CCleaner's "wipe free space" would do it just as well as anything else I would think. Can anyone verify this? Or would file tables be in non-free space, which means the government has been talking with file format developers...
  6. I am really, really sorry that it even got to this point. I don't often forget my passwords, especially when I make them out of existing/old passwords. I however forgot my password and my password hint did not even help, for my U3, 8GB SanCruzer flash drive. The information on this flash drive is the culmination of years of memories. I can certainly attempt to use a data recovery program, but if there are known ways to crack this baby, or even give me more attempts to guess the password, "I'm all ears" (in this case eyes.) Again, I am sorry for this triffling, pitiful request. I am have the CompTIA A+ passed, so I'm not a dunce at GUI, but not an expert at CMD/CLI. I have XP 32 bit/Vista 32 bit OS's I can work with. Any help would be much appreciated. (For those who don't know, the U3 acts like a GUI over a GUI. A program on a flash drive, and traditionally is has been hackable in the past, but not sure it's been hacked to remove the crack in a user-friendly way. It has a "CD-ROM" partition, if you will, that loads the "gui" and such, and presumably is also protecting the rest of the flash drive from being read/modified/ able to be seen by data recovery programs.) (PS; I don't care about the U3, we can remove it, all I want is the files on the disk.)
  7. Well unfortunately all the corporations in the world today seem to pretty much hate hackers, and Big Brother isn't helping with it's wonderful laws, so hacking facebook could be bad. Really bad. Try social engineering instead.
  8. Is this an amazing article or is it me? I thought I found a diamond in the cowcrap. It felt like... like a mini-novel or something for some reason, almost like a mystery or action book, but then I usually never read those. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/26/secret-agent-crippled-irans-nuclear-ambitions/
  9. Is it me or is this rather illogical due to the uneconomicality of this project? Speakers would be cheaper surely? Water-proof speakers, now that makes more sense to me. "Bang got the biggest shock on earth. My hands went all numb and burning, the shock went through my hands and all way to my right foot and by the way it wasn't 110 volts it was 240 volts." You sir, "should" be dead. Perhaps God has you here for a reason. :) (Or chance, if you wish to go with that.)
  10. Sounds like fun. I always thought an actually authentic sniper game would be extremely fun for patient players. Some idiots think standing in the middle of blood gulch, moving back and forth, and getting the first head shot is sniping.However sniping is distance and elevation calculation, wind measuring, trajectory measuring, camouflage and retreat skill, and possibly taking hours to move feet for the right shot on a vital target. (Major John Plaster has/did have great sniper training videos on youtube. Surprisingly soothing and interesting if your into a patient, lethal strike on enemies.)
  11. Small businesses cannot afford programmers, whether it be real-estate, insurance, et cetera. Anyhow, I hate IE 8. It crashed on me immediately after it's "no reboot required" installation... Furthermore IE7 was not broken... just slow.
  12. Strategy- Starcraft: Brood War (Haven't made a decision about SC2 yet.) Action- Halo Reach Sim- Age of Empires 2?... Closest I can get... I mean really, I don't play sims. Though I have done some Google Earth flying. MMOPG-Eve Online... They have it perfect... Except maybe the price and overbalancing. (But everyone is overbalancing games these days.) All time-Halo CE Why? Because it was so darned easy to get a hold of for new gamers, the auto-aim may have been annoying for "pros", but since when can you play a video game with your pathetic not-so-geek brother, and get killed?! I'm not sure they ever quite got the game mix back to the near-perfection of CE, until Reach.
  13. First, some files of the operating system or other thing such as this stealth virus are hidden, so obviously you should make sure your folder settings have "View hidden folders" or what have you enabled. Then, well finding that type of virus can be a pain... Several times I have found suspected viruses with weird names that no one else has encountered or reported on much online. Artemis########## (those are numbers I can't remember) for instance. Obviously however, if a virus is stupid enough to start chipping away at your computer the very day you got it, the chances are if some hacker programmed it to only use the default date creation/modification date, that may be a major clue. If it is in Temporary files, or System32, you can only imagine the nightmare finding the virus would still be... unless you know how to program your own AV of sorts. Basically it is crazy hard and trial and error to get rid of such viruses for me , assuming there are no guides to the virus I have, or there are too many types of the same "Artemis" or what-have-you. OR atleast that was the me of the past. [Oh, and by the way, I am always using Ccleaner to kill old cookies, (clean registries and save registries quickly also, in the same place :) , and spyware and other such things may have a habit of hiding in such locations. There are also free anti-virus programs, and things like Windows Defender, Windows Malicious Software Remover, and other things which probably won't work, but sometimes it's worth it.] Assuming something is hiding from your task manager, I would eventually if possible get an advanced or improved task manager, possibly by flash drive if I must. Also something that gives a better description of services (perhaps a part of the improved task manager)... and perhaps where they are originating from..., and the same thing with processes. This would at least allow me to chip away at the virus, and once I find it I may have to CLI it to keep it from preventing the delete command. The problem with 3rd part service and process monitors/file path location devices ( and surely file path location devices DO exist...), is that they may not find a viruses other locations, and so you may only be getting the... violent part of the virus, rather than the reproducing, blithering virus... Spewing out it's data everywhere. So unless you wish to run in safe mode all the time (which imo, OS programmers should have invented a "gamer" version of safe mode eons ago...), your going to have to go further than that, and I can't think immediately of how to do that now.
  14. I knew that. If an AV program would spot said stealth virus path/directory, almost anyone with CLI skills would do it. Otherwise it would be more tricky. Although I have done the process of elimination OR googling "******** is a virus" sort of thing, it is generally inadequate for viruses/wroms, as they are usually in more than one place, or hiding amongst your system32 or temp files, et cetera.
  15. While I slowly decided to learn how to hack, (other than the obvious "hacking" of unprotected WiFi routers which still have default passwords...), I was wondering perhaps if anti-virus skill was in any way directly related to "hacker skill" OR "speed of learning". (Yes, that was a Google search reference.) My best accomplishment to date has not been finding and deleting viruses in the CLI, but in the GUI... (Which was surprising.) I had happened for months to suspect that a virus, if crappily made, will show up in your processes in the Task Manager... Now to the average user, they cannot read it and try and remember or discern which ones are what. However, I have (brain) memory that does well when I attempt to visualize such information, and so I in general remember which ones I've seen before problems, or whether they seem to have abbreviated versions of a name of antivirus programs (Mc for McAffee for instance). Anyhow, one day I was in a classroom full of persons whom had warned me constantly of a new virus that infected Malwarebytes. Even better, the man that teaches the class was a 2000 (or was it 98...) Beta Tester, and a Chief Petty Officer, he used to hack but was getting older. (50's.) So while he still brings out his hex editor on occasion, he hasn't done much more than crack a game to run without a CD, or modify a W2k printer driver to work on Vista... (Which was astonishingly creep and amazing at the same time...) I had been told that getting rid of the virus, according to the teacher took several steps including Safe Mode, CLI, and quite a few reboots. You know one of those "crazy hard to kill" viruses. The virus would also act like Malwarebytes and do false "scans" amounting to hundreds of viruses it was "scanning and killing", but was obviously not the good ole Malwarebytes. I however offered to solve the problem, and solved it within seconds. Without crashing windows or explorer.exe, et cetera, by the second try I killed the virus process, I found it out by opening Malwarebytes, and this time it wasn't a weirder GUI than normal. I know what your probably thinking. "Well when you reboot it, it will be back genius." Well yes... but who said I HAD to reboot it yet? So I ran MWbytes, updated it (why would the company NOT want to update or enable their scanners to kill viruses that infect their own designed AV-scanner, I thought), and set it to scan and confidently walked away. I by tommorow, after it scanned for some hours, was pleased to learn that not only was the problem solved, but I beat a former hacker and former naval officer at getting rid of a virus. (Not to be arrogant, but considering how much I looked up to him it was a nice part of my life.) While it took him maybe an hour or two or more to solve the problem on his wife's computer (same virus), it took me probably less than 5 minutes of actual labor to get this done. I just told the computer to do the rest. So what was YOUR best moment in anti-virus? (with your AV for some reason failing other than not using what they call the UPDATE feature....) And how good of a hacker would you say you are in comparison to that skill. (Or simply state your belief on the correlation between hacking and antivirus. And yes I know hackers may write viruses, worms, trojans, phishing websites, et cetera.)
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