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scapenz

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  1. Whoa Google video still exists? And lol at hacksaw.
  2. Lol sounds good. Points taken Mat. Realistically though i'm after something simple and passive to protect and lock the computer for maybe a few minutes at a time. If I was after something more solid, to protect it indefinitely then you're right, use truecrypt. But the point was to make something that could be run, on the fly, straight off the USB. You could say I wasn't wanting to protect the data to any great degree, but moreover protect my spot on the computer to stop people from stealing it. Anyway,still working on it, hit a small bump with the crl+alt+del blocking, but at the moment I have it locking up the mouse and keyboard input indefinitely while the usb is removed, which is good. :P Btw that usb linux boot sounds cool, I saw an article about it on portableapps.
  3. That boot.ini method works, but it involves more setting up than stillfallins. If the computer is actually yours its probably better to do that since it stops them dead in their tracks, whereas the other method still allows them to log in and its that much more loose because it only stops them there rather than before windows even starts. Ie with no boot.ini safe mode wont work either. Has anyone confirmed on whether stillfallins method works in safe mode?
  4. Yea i've sent you my email to, wouldn't mind taking a look myself. If this script is as good as you say it is then it could be used for the boot half of locking up the system quite successfully.
  5. Um that sounds kinda like what i'm after. But this script would only work on startup, to stop it being booted without the usb. The focus of this idea however was more on securing the computer at boot up and while logged on, rather than just one or the other. Thanks for the offer though. @X3N Sure, windows+l could work, but Id prefer something that froze both the mouse and keyboard and yet kept the screen intact. From an ease-of-use perspective its a lot easier just to pull out the usb and walk off than it is to remember to lock windows first and then take the usb out. And unlocking it would be a breeze, rather than having to sit there typing out the password - just plugging the sucker in and carrying on as you were. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep looking. Some of the freeware I have come across does exactly the job i'm after (eg Computer Lock Up) but there's no way in telling how exactly they did it and whether it would work straight off of a usb. Damn exe's. Edit: I found a piece of VBS that disables the keyboard and mouse cleanly for 10 seconds. This is what i'm after. Private Declare Function BlockInput Lib "user32" (ByVal fBlock As Long) As Long Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) Private Sub Form_Activate() DoEvents BlockInput True Sleep 10000 BlockInput False End Sub Noted it doesn't stop ctrl+alt+del but it does have an effect on alt+f4 as I wasn't able to close the window down once it was running.
  6. But wouldn't you need admin rights on the target computer in order to run truecrypt? Since truecrypt needs to install drivers in order to mount the encrypted volume as a drive. Or are you thinking of using it in some other way? ;) Cant seem to find anything through google that would work but im a poor little nooblet so i guess i'll just have to keep looking. Most of the programs that do lock up computers well arn't freeware jobs and have some sort of evaluation popup so that spoils the fun.
  7. Hi guys, kinda new around here. Been really interested by all of the USB stuff that you have on this site. I never realised that USBs were so open ended and that you could do so much with them. Pretty cool huh. Anyway, im still pretty new to batch/vbs programming but I have an idea for a new USB hack that I don't think has been considered up until now. From what i've noticed all of the current hacks available seem to specialise in stealing information and from this view they really go towards only one purpose. My idea is something like a USB passkey. A USB that once plugged in modifies something on the computer that means the computer can only be used from then on by that USB key. Now I understand that the idea of a "USB key" isn't exactly new. It's quite feasible to lock the computer down by doing something like this to the boot order on the host system: http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-loc...sing-usb-stick/. What i'm thinking is something that does it on the fly, that once plugged in immediately makes that computer dependent on that USB and that USB alone. Is this feasible? Editing the bios from windows is an obvious no, but surely there is a way to remove/replace the boot.ini file on the hardrive and something critical to letting the user move around that's then copied back to the host system by the USB when it is plugged in? This isn't necessarily for any specific purpose, although it could be used for security purposes on foriegn computers that you might be using from time to time. I'm just curious to see whether such a vulnerability exists within windows and whether it could be done? Thanks, tell me what you think.
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