Cool Tricks and Tools, Hacks, Operating Systems

Find your lost user login passwords on Windows XP and Windows7

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The Ophcrack Windows password cracker is the best free Windows password recovery tool available. Ophcrack is fast and easy enough for a first time password cracker with basic Windows skills.

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Description

  • Opchrack can crack passwords for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.
  • Ophcrack can recover 99.9% of passwords from Windows XP, usually in a matter of seconds. Any 14-character or smaller password that uses any combination of numbers, small letters, and capital letters should be crackable.
  • Ophcrack can recover 99% of passwords from Windows 7 or Windows Vista. A dictionary attack is used in Windows 7 and Vista.
  • The Ophcrack LiveCD option allows for completely automatic password recovery.
  • LiveCD method requires no installation in Windows, making it a safe alternative to many other password recovery tools.
  • No Windows passwords need to be known to use the Ophcrack LiveCD to crack your Windows passwords.

Pros

  • Software is freely available for download online
  • Passwords are recovered automatically using the LiveCD method
  • No software installation is necessary to recover passwords
  • No knowledge of any existing passwords is necessary
  • Ophcrack works with Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Cons

  • Some antivirus programs mistakenly identify Ophcrack as a Trojan or virus (see Guide Review below)
  • 506 MB (7/Vista) / 425 MB (XP) LiveCD ISO image must be downloaded
  • LiveCD ISO image must be burned to a disc before being used
  • Passwords greater than 14 characters can not be cracked

 

Thanks to About.Com for this info

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Cool Tricks and Tools, Database, Web Design & Wordpress

Great tool to convert WordPress databases

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If you are changing the fully qualified domain name of your WordPress website and are looking for a quick and easy tool to update your MySQL database file, you need to check out this cool tool located at:

http://dev.theblsgroup.net/

This was done by a guy I know from the Ukraine, Thomas Howe, he is an awesome PHP developer.  If you need a good developer to hire for contract, P/T or F/T work, you can find him under his screen name (thomashowe) on oDesk.com

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Virus and Malware

Removing a rootkit virus

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The removal process may not be straight forward, since there may be other malware involved. In some cases the only remedy is drastic – reformatting the disk and a complete reinstallation of all your programs. I hope that won’t be necessary.

First, let’s try the McAfee solution. RootkitRemover might fix it, so run that first.

Then run Stinger.

If that doesn’t work there are two other tools which should help…….

If the above doesn’t work, download and run RKill

 

RKill is a program that was developed at BleepingComputer.com that attempts to terminate known malware processes so that your normal security software can then run and clean your computer of infections. When RKill runs it will kill malware processes and then import a Registry file that removes incorrect file associations and fixes policies that stop us from using certain tools. When finished it will display a log file that shows the processes that were terminated while the program was running …

Then download and tun TDSSKiller

 

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Cool Tricks and Tools

Script to convert FQDN to IP Address

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Create a file in Notepad called “LookupFQDN.cmd” and put the following contents inside:

@del Results.txt
@for /f %%I in (Hostnames.txt) do ping -n 1 %%I >> Results.txt
@find “Pinging” Results.txt > Output.txt
@del Results.txt
@for /f “eol=- tokens=2,3 delims= ” %%I in (Output.txt) do echo %%J >> Results.txt
@del Output.txt

Put the file “Hostnames.txt” in the same directory where this CMD file is located, and run the LookupFQDN script.  It should process each line in the “Hostnames.txt” file and spit out a file “Results.txt” that will contain the IP addresses for all of the entered FQDN names.

You might have to remove the brackets [] in front of and behind the IP addresses.

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Cool Tricks and Tools, Virtualization

vSphere OVF tool

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Firstly, for those wondering what the OVF tool is then you can go here.

If you’re wondering what OVF is, well here is a good introduction.   The short summary is the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) describes an open, secure, portable, efficient, and flexible format for the packaging and distribution of one or more virtual machines.

So how do you create an OVF file from a VM.   It’s simple.

Select the VM you want to export in your vSphere client.  Then using the File menu, select Export

Then it’s just a case of following your nose and saving the OVF export to somewhere with sufficient disk space.

At the end of the process you get this :

and the OVF export is complete.  The exported contents look like this : ~/ovf$ ls winxp-sp3-disk1.vmdk  winxp-sp3.mf  winxp-sp3.ovf

The mf file is a set of SHA1 hashes for the OVF and any of the VMDK files. The ovf file is an xml file that attempts to describe the virtual machine in an independent/open format which is in theory importable into virtualisation products that fully support OVF files – I must try that :-)

To display the OVF file you can run the ovftool in probe mode. ~/ovf$ ovftool winxp-sp3.ovf Opening OVF source: winxp-sp3.ovf OVF version:   1.0 Name:          winxp-sp3

Download Size:    20.35 GB

Deployment Sizes:   Flat disks:     37.27 GB   Sparse disks:   Unknown Networks:   Name:        VM Network   Description: The VM Network network

Virtual Hardware:   Family:       vmx-07   Disk Types:   SCSI-buslogic

Completed successfully

 

To import the OVF you use a command like (the syntax for the vSphere locator is a bit odd – I highly suggest you read the OVF Tool Guide) $ ovftool --powerOn --datastore=NFS1 winxp-sp3.ovf   vi://10.100.0.100/HomeLab/Host?ip=10.100.0.3 Opening OVF source: winxp-sp3.ovf Please enter login information for target vi://10.100.0.100/ Username: geoff Password: ******** Opening VI target: vi://geoff@10.100.0.100/HomeLab/Host Deploying to VI: vi://geoff@10.100.0.100/HomeLab/Host Disk progress: 1% and on the VC you’ll see

Eventually you’ll get

Powering on VM: winxp-sp3 Completed successfully

 

Sure you can deploy from templates, but what if you have multiple environments in a variety  of network locations and you’d like to have a common set of templates – enter the OVF.  With a repository full of OVF’s accessible via http you can centrally store and distribute standard images out into all of your virtual environments.

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