GonZor

I'm valued at $5915, anybody want to put a bid on my dead body?

[me=GonZor]is confused[/me] I've thought about this idea a lot before and only recently decided to start doing something about it. I haven't actually written any code for my idea but reading your post's I am left confused as to what you are trying to accomplish. Why would you need to check if a file exists on a web server? Isn't that over complicating things?

I'm sorry but your just starting to piss me off, it may be the lack of sleep but the way I see it really you are impatient and want everything answered for you. As easy as it is to hit that little new topic button you should really look, and look HARD to find your answer. You have very little knowledge about USB "hacks", I would suggest you read every sticky in the "USB Hacks" sub forum, I am aware that there are a lot of pages to go through (~37) because I have read them all myself but it will benefit you greatly. Not only will you have a greater understanding of USB "hacks" but you will also learn to become self dependent, meaning you will learn that the answers are generally in front of you if you just look. Almost everyone on this forum will be happy to help you if you ask a question that is un-answered / difficult to explain, but when asking questions that you would know the answers to if you were to just read then you begin to irritate people. Also I'd like for you to think to yourself why do you want to use the payload? If you could truthfully answer you want to learn, then people would be much more likely to answer your questions. Unfortunately for you it's quite obvious you don't want to learn else you would have already read all the sticky's and you would have attempted to make this payload yourself.

I am running smoothwall v3.0 with pop3 filtering enabled. Every time I get an email notifying me of a reply to a thread my smoothwall detects a virus within the email and replaces the email with the following... As you can see it cant identify a virus but it becomes annoying when my emails get replaced. I have not received an email for a PM so I am not sure if it will react the same but I'd like to know if anyone else is having this issue or if this is just some weird setting on my smoothwall. P.S. - I didn't post this in forum support because I believe (know) its an issue with my smoothwall not the forums, else its a strange coincidence that it started the exact time I started running smoothwall 3.0.

I think the USB switchblade is what you are looking for, and yes it has a wiki article too -- http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/USB_Switchblade (some of the sections are out of date, but it is still worth a read)

Yes the standard HakSaw antidote works with my payload but it is not perfect, In future versions I will be supplying a better antidote and also an antidote for VNC. rpk5000 is part of the dev team for the payload, he is aware of what is coming in future versions and by saying "it doesnt support it yet" actually meant I haven't released my antidote which will be included as a button in SBConfig. I'll appologise now for slow development of the payload, I am currently working 50+ hours a week and am struggling to find time, but we have a new dev team and several components in the works which are quite different to the normal switchblade. we are also building a new site to host the payload which we hope to have finished soon. I am also looking into the no disk error issue, I have fixed the original error but some of the tools used are causing another no disk error. these tools are network passwords dump and messenger passwords dump. The dev team will be looking at fixes/alternatives but until we have found a solution disabling these should remove all no disk errors. Maybe just a little less hostile, but I do agree about the reading. To get a full understanding of the payload it is worth while reading all the posts, a lot of the longer post's are mainly code and it doesn't take long to read a few lines per post. Of course once the new site is up we will create a better FAQ and make it easier so you can find the answer quicker but there is still a lot of useful information in this thread.

I think you should read the wiki, it will help you understand what the hacksaw is all about -- http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki//USB_Hacksaw

Sorry but this just reminds me of a stupid little skiddie idea, in answer to your question though SHUTDOWN -r -t 01 would work, Although I don't advise messing with anyones machine. The people that have tried to mess with my machine have learned a valuable lesson, a punch in the face hurts a lot more than a batch file in startup.

Heres a simple solution for you, If you want to hack your school network go talk to your system administrator. Most likely he will either want someone to test his network so he can secure it, or he will be so sure his network is secure from anything you can do that he will tell you to try your best. In either situation after you have PERMISSION start looking around on the computer to find something useful. How will you learn anything if you got told how to exploit a system? You will learn much more if you bothered to look at the system yourself. I also stress that going to your system administrator and saying I want to learn more about computers will actually benefit you. Secondly when has this site ever been called a hacking website? If you look around the forums a bit more you will notice that this is not a hacking website this is an educational website. Thirdly a lot of people here are system administrators or work in a position where they are trying to prevent people exploiting their network, If they were to tell you how to exploit a system they would be going against what they strand for but could also be liable if you did something stupid with the information they provide. Therefore quit thinking about yourself and how cool it would be to "hack" your school network and consider others.

I actually sit on a chair, not my computer screen...

Maybe its overkill but I use DBAN, then format with gparted. Probably redundant but I've never had any problems doing it this way :P

Do you want this software to run/install everytime the USB is inserted? how do you determine whether it is you using the USB or not?

That seems like the most likely option For those of you interested in the reasons I have been absent from the forums for a while, my main computer recently died and I have been working a lot more lately, I'm still in the process of fixing my computer and my hours at work are increasing. Hopefully within the next week my computer will be back up to normal and I can continue to annoy everyone on the forums :-P

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And soon our new IP updater will be done (yeah I know, Its taken ages to get finished. I have been really busy and my main computer has died, I'm still in the process of fixing it.)

Hmm I guess I should learn to read properly... :-(

Could you not just use %systemdrive% ? Thats only if you want to make it simple... or to simplify it further just use %systemroot% :-P

I will agree that the U3 menu system is crap, PStart is much better in my opinion. This is for three main reasons, Firstly I have over 30 applications I run from my USB and the U3 menu gives me no way to organise these where as PStart does. Secondly PStart uses less than half the system resources that the U3 menu does. Finally I can add programs to the PStart menu without turning them into a .u3p first which for me is almost all of my applications. This is just my opinion and this is what works for me, which may not be what works for you.

First of all no matter what location you are at, %systemdrive% will always be the drive windows is located on. To explain what I was on about with %cd:~0,2%, the variable cd expands to the current working directory and the ":~0,2" following manipulates the string to the first two characters, therefore if you were to use your example: This would try and copy to the c: drive because that is the current working directory. If you were to change it to this: ::Set variable to flash drive letter SET flash=%cd:~0,2% ::Change to c: CD /d c: ::Copy files COPY secretstuff.txt %flash%secretstuff.txt /y I hope that explains in more detail what I am try to say.

assuming the working directory will be on the drive letter you wish to write to you could simply go: %cd:~0,2% If the working directory is on the f drive that code will expand to F:

Probably not, but the /BACKUP switch isn't listed as a switch when you type FORMAT /? and still requires the user to press enter. Using the /BACKUP switch automates the process.

Ok I'd like to hear others opinions on my idea, After trying to make the U3 launchpad play nice and work the way I want it to work I have found the complete lack of ability to organise my apps (my many apps) really irritating and have turned to PStart. It has many advantages over the U3 Menu system like organisation and it has a much smaller memory footprint (about 1/3). Should I in future payloads use PStart instead of the current U3 menu ? I can see several benefits for the swap: [li]Better organisation for those of us with many portable apps[/li] [li]Smaller memory footprint[/li] [li]Reduce the size of the payload by 4MB[/li] [li]Apps available increase without having to make your own u3p[/li] The only downfall I can see of this would be if you are targeting an educated user and they expect the standard U3 menu to pop up it wont. Although is this really a big issue?

It may have something to do with the lack of sleep but your post didn't quite make sense to me... If your asking will the "fake" files still be there on reboot, yes I think someone stated earlier in this thread that windows only checks for the files existence not the integrity of the file.

Here you go mate, This will quick format the drive to FAT with the volume label NUKED. FORMAT %1 /BACKUP /FS:FAT /V:NUKED /Q /X Obviously replace %1 with your drive letter variable. The FORMAT wasn't working for the obvious reason, it required user input :P Although it seems simpler, It takes much longer. Neither option will securely delete your data but a quick format is much faster. Hope that answers everyone, and merry Christmas!

Thats what I wanted to hear about the no disk error, for those of you interested I re wrote the drive search function in vbs because vbs is "smarter" and can detect what drives it needs to search where as with batch it was forcing a search even though the drive didn't exist. I will look into the PWDump problem, I haven't had an issue but it sounds like a problem with PWDump running on your system. Could you try running PWDump manually and see if it will run properly. Who exactly are you referring to ? If you are referring to me, please elaborate or If you are referring to the people who are reporting bugs and such, simply go away I have asked them to. No one here claims to be a "1337 h4x0r", call me a noob if you like but your opinion means as much to me as a punch in the face (don't need it, don't want it). EDIT - DLSS, before you start calling us noobs take a look at this. Not only do they consider themselves "1337" but "santa" also originally claimed my payload as his. I must be doing something right if people wish to take ownership of it.