Blunderboy

I recently installed COMODO Firewall and when I get the chance I will try and open a meterpreter session and see what happens. I will disable the firewall and then bring it up and see if it will allow the already active session to stay active. Again when I get the chance to do this I will return with my results.

Thanks for the link. So far it has worked really well.

I have yet to see or at least find anything associated with a Merterpreter removal tool other then antimeter which is difficult to find. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about how to search and eliminate hidden Merterpreter sessions that may be leaving a computer wide open for attack?

Good luck white hat hacking for anyone unless you put in an ass ton of time in school. These days hacking has been standardized into a degree and that's what people are looking for amongst other things. If your cousin needs help managing his server I would start with a book that runs you through how to secure that type of server, such as a win2003 exchange server. People write trillions of lines online about how to do this or you could take the consolidated route and go to boarders and buy a book on 2003 exchange server and/or get a hardening a win2003 server. M$ puts books on the topics out or you can get a book written by O'reilly, which in my experience are some of the best computer books around. Trying to learn to hack will help a seasoned user with their server but if you have no idea on the workings of the type of server he is using it would be more beneficial to learn about how it works and learn about possible well known security risks and then branch off from there.

Buying a router would be so much easier then dual network cards and some other alternatives. I do see the attraction and the fun to doing that but a router will more then do the job and comes with a hardware firewall rather then having a comp with 2 network cards and a software firewall and other overhead.

Get a router. It will use your static IP address from your school and make it the default gateway and issue out its own IP addresses, giving you all the IP addresses you could need in a dorm. You just need a router and another cat5 or 6 cable. Most new routers come with a cat5 cable in it.

First of all reading about it practical techniques will only help you so much. You need to work with the skills to master them. I would tell you though attack your own stuff. Setting up a Server, breaking into it, then fixing it will show you 3 points to learn from. But 2 books right off the top of my head are "Hacking Exposed 5th Edition" and "Gray Hat Hacking the Ethical Hacker's Handbook" I would at least get a firm basis in at least one programming lang. plus a firm understanding of computers and networking.

If your router supports this: of course change your passwords, disable anonymous ICMP echo requests, enable MAC filtering, once in a while set up a passive scanner or some etherape to monitor connection volume. I also would just flip the power on your wireless router when you know you aren't going to use it for hours if you get really paranoid. Also keep your router's firmware up to date to prevent some vulnerabilities from being exploited.

Just out of personal experience I would only use WinXP firewall if you have a hardware firewall in front of it. The default WinXP firewall is a unidirectional firewall that only monitors inbound traffic. This seems ok unless the client gets compromised.

If you still want to stick with the Ubuntu feel. try Kubuntu. It is a much lighter version and will run on a lot of those really old systems. I have a 7 year old system that is running who the hell knows what running 128mb RAM and it was running well until the video card died. Now it's just sitting there. But anyways, good luck.

Wow your wit is astounding and I can not combat it. Nor do I wish to waist my time.

Are you referring to me or to the assessment of the guy on the video?

This guy is so retarded. He dresses in Chinese classical clothing while displaying his book collection. Then his crazy ass starts sticking his knife into a busted house to hear the interdementional gateways that might suck you in. Then a clean baby sandal is sitting in a very dirty place and he happens to see after he has been "observing" that one spot like 3 times for future venturing. He looks like a medic from WW1 who's pants got a flash forward in time. After that he spends 10 min. talking about a door with a hole and how he doesn't like the hole because the rest of the house is boarded up pretty tightly. Then 15min. later he uses a clean pallet that's just sitting on the ground with nothing in it to clime into this huge hole in the side of the house called a window. This guy is so dumb it's hilarious. His assessments of the religions were so shallow that I think that he is about to confuse himself on his own beliefs. He is about 3 brain cells away from becoming one of those PETA nazi conspiracy nuts who live in the wild and compains that the radio waves are used by the government to manipulate his brain. Anyways thanks for the funny video. :-D

U3 is an auto ran program from an external device and optical disks auto run too. All within winXP of course. All it would really take for windows boxes was an auto running batch script or an auto run command linking to a piece of software on the HDD. Most likely though the AV would find these.

What do you guys think of Fedora? I have been using it for about 3 months now and everything seems to be cool with it. I can't say everything was as flexable as my old Ubuntu box but since I somehow kept crashing the X server. I was like fuckit I'm going to try this out. So far the only 2 problems I've had with it is that 1. The wireless card on my gateway (broadcom) of course wont work unless I do a firmware alteration, which I'm not doing since the box runs dual booted winXP pro and fedora 8. 2. When I did an update from fedora 7 to fedora 8 I could no longer log into my old account I have to log in as root and create another account and log into that and redo all my settings again. But other then that it has been cool. Getting use to yum was pretty easy rather then apt-get. It is kinda rougher then starting Ubuntu though because fedora core 7 is the first fedora core that used the yum command so some of the walkthroughs for fedora are kinda dated. But hell all it takes was a quick obvious change of commands.

It is either that your browser is corrupted or you have another program closing it (ie.Virus,trojan, or even the OS). If you are using IE6 just install IE7 and it will solve any browser problems you may be having and you wont have to go through all the jazz needing to follow the steps to uninstall IE6. If I were you I would go to google and search for Dr. Web. They have a free version of their virus scan on their site. I would run the VS you have on your comp. before you do this. I would run one or both of the virus scans then download and install Registry Mechanic and see if that helps your browser. It could be that you have something that is causing the browser to crash, like an add-on. Restore your browser to default and see if that yields any good results. -Tools -Internet Options - Advanced - Reset... It should be the same if you have IE6 or IE7. If you are using IE7 and IE7 is crapping out then just inunstall it using add&remove progs to uninstall it and then reinstall it. A lot of times viruses or trojans will corrupt the browser or cause the browser not to be able to access the internet even if you are getting an IP address and can ping shit. This prevents you from getting software to remove it. I would always keep firefox portable on a flashdrive just in case your browser craps out and you need it, or you just need it and you are using a public computer. It will help secure your shit better in case their browser has been hijacked. But I would go the virus scan route then if that fails try and repair your software. I would still do the registry mechanic because over time the Windows' registry tends to develop a shitload of dead end or incorrect values. Also after all that shit try a defrag if you need it. So many people, this forum excluded don't realise how much system performance can be lost due to a high HDD fragmentation percentage. Well good luck. 8)

It could be that his motherboard has failed. The CMOS chip or the motherboard battery could have gone bad. Unfortunitly there could be a butt load of problems with your motherboard that could be causing this issue. It could be that the memory BUS is bad. You should look up what the beeps meen. It should tell you. Just google it.

Vista doesn't use the boot.ini. You would have to mess with the Vista boot software.

A USB cable would do fine. The only thing that you would have to do with a crossover cable is map the other drives. It would probably be easier to just get the USB cable would be probably be a better idea.

The US needs to have a 1337 team of the US's best hacking professionals. Not to defend the US's networks because there are thousands of hired guns for that work. This team would be a counter intelligent group.

I like how Darren doesn't have a neck.

If you are going to work on laptops you can also pickup a universal A/C adapter. But if you are working for a company that uses only one type of computer then you wont need it. The VGA to DVI and DVI to VGA converter was a great idea but again of you are only going to working on one type of computer you may not need it. The external 3.5" HDD was a good idea. I would probably go with a Seagate Freeagent. If you are going to go with a 2.5" external HDD then I would look into the WesternDigital passport. Unfortunately with almost every 2.5" external HDD most fail faster then a normal internal 2.5" HDD because people tend to move them a lot more. I say a WD Passport because I have one and I have done one of those drop and fumble tricks where I saw it falling and I thought I could catch it but all I did was slap it around in my hand right before it hit the carpet. (the fall was maybe 2 feet. The only problem with the WD Passport is that I hear that you can only use the USB cord that comes with the HDD. I would also pickup a crossover cable for computer to computer transfers. Also you might want to pickup a Cat5/6 10/100/1000 cable tester with a remote attachment. That is if you are going to working with any networking. Aslo if you are going to work with very long cables there is a pen looking tool that will help you pinpoint where the cable has gone bad if you run the tip along the cable.

Depending on what you plan on repair will help you decide on what tools you will need. If you are going to need to repair primarily desktops then you should probably go to a LOWS hardware store and pickup a Kobalt screwdriver that has 8 heads in the handle. (also it's magnetic) I say LOWS because Kobalt tools are exclusive to them and Kobalt tools are the best set of small hand tools I have every had. Plus if you break any part of them or wear the head out you can take the receipt back and get a new one no questions. (lifetime warranty) But back to the point. A powersupply tester is a good idea. Get one that isn't to cheap but don't spend more then $25. You also would want to get a pair of pliers to pull cables out of things like a HDD or an optical drive. You also might want to get something to pry the side of a case off. Sometimes after the side of the case has been on the box for a couple of years it can be hard to slide off. If this is so use the flat object, such as a flat head screwdriver, to pry the back lip back causing the rest to slide. I would also get a music CD and a DVD movie to test if optical drive problems are hardware or software. To save yourself some time have a paperclip on hand so you don't have to always turn the comp on to get a diagnostic disk out of the drive. If you are going to be primarily repairing laptops then you are going to need some extra tools. Some of the tools from above will work of course. Depending on what kind of laptops you are going to be working on you may not need some of the tools more then the others. One tool I would pickup is a torque screw with 4 shafts in the handle with two heads per shaft. (also magnetic)(and also kobalt) I would also pickup some kobalt hooks. This will in a lot of cases prevent you from making pry marks on the laptop you are working on which is caused by trying to pry up a round object using a rectangular screwdriver. Depending on where you work you might want to pickup both or either an external optical drive and an external floppy drive. The optical drive will be good if the internal optical drive goes bad and you need to boot to a CD. The floppy drive will be good if you need to load some RAID drivers if your Win installation hasn't been slipstreamed. I would also get a USB mouse and keyboard in-case some of the controllers are bad or if the touchpad or keyboard is damaged. If you are going to work on Dell XPSs get an internal USB PCI card because I work on maybe 15 XPSs a week that have failed USB controllers. Since there are no PS2 ports you are SOL if you don't have one. The best tool for any new tech is www.google.com . Oyeah get a cheap small flashlight.

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