Trick To Fix the Bom Sabado Orkut bug

What is this bug all about??

Social Networking website has been flooded with a pop up message Bom Sabado.
The regular user of Orkut has been facing the problem of bug Sabado. It is an auto generated message which is filing your scrapebooks.
However, it is not clear yet that the Bom Sabado is a virus or not.

A word of advice

But the Orkut user who have faced this problem are advised to change your password and security question. Log out immediately and clear the cookies and history.
Users are also advised not to open such scraps. The bug is hitting your cookies and automatically sending messages to your friend list.
Earlier, popular microblogging website Twitter was also hijacked by a hacker to raise question over the security of the website.


How can it be fixed?

The worm injects a hidden iframe containing a malicious javascript http://tptools.org/worm.js [do not click this], which steals the user cookie which contains the password in an encoded form. So the attacker do not get to know your plaintext password but can login using your credentials by impersonating using the cookie to fool the identification system. So a trivial solution is to diable javascript, another solution is to disable iframes or u can take an advanced measure by blocking the domain http://tptools.org/ by editing your hosts file and redirecting it to a safe address, say 127.0.0.1

go to C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
There is a file named 'hosts'. By default it is read-only. Go to it properties and uncheck the tickmark beside read-only
edit it with you favourite editor.

add this line at the end of it


127.0.0.1 tptools.org

save it. and then restart your network interface. ( in simple words, just reconnect your interner connection ) and bingo! the worm'll be useless.

Setting up a home network using BSNL router (modem)

first cancel all the adhoc networks.. now connect ur pc to the modem only.

now log on to the router (type http://192.168.1.1 in ur browser and hit enter. when asked for the username- password type admin as both username and password)

then open WAN then edit PPPoE protocol (first one).
set parameters as below:
port =0
VPI=0
VCI=35
SERVICE CATAGORY= UBR WITHOUT PCR
THEN CLIK NEXT
SELECT SECOND OPTION PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) AND Encapsulation Mode SHOULD BE LLC/SNAP-BRIDGING.
CLICK NEXT
PPP USER NAME IS YOUR BSNL USER NAME AND PASSWORD
AND Enable Fullcone NAT & LAST OPTION Bridge PPPoE Frames Between WAN and Local Ports (Default Enabled) SHOULD BE CHECKED.

first cancel all the adhoc networks.. now connect ur pc to the modem only.

now log on to the router (type http://192.168.1.1 in ur browser and hit enter. when asked for the username- password type admin as both username and password)

then open WAN then edit PPPoE protocol (first one).
set parameters as below:
port =0
VPI=0
VCI=35
SERVICE CATAGORY= UBR WITHOUT PCR
THEN CLIK NEXT
SELECT SECOND OPTION PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) AND Encapsulation Mode SHOULD BE LLC/SNAP-BRIDGING.
CLICK NEXT
PPP USER NAME IS YOUR BSNL USER NAME AND PASSWORD
AND Enable Fullcone NAT & LAST OPTION Bridge PPPoE Frames Between WAN and Local Ports (Default Enabled) SHOULD BE CHECKED.

now save it and restart ur modem.
now u dont need to dial-up broadband anymore.. it will be connected itself.

next u need to protect ur wifi...

again login into ur router..
After login, you will get the router configuration. Here, click on the Wireless Tab.
In Wireless section, give some name in the SSID , this SSID is also know as wireless network name.
Then click on the Security tab below the Wireless Tab. The name given for SSID will appear here.
Select wep in Network Authentication and give the wep Key.
This Key is the Password for Secured wireless network,Which we need to give in the laptop to authenticate and connect to the secured network.

After completing the above, Click SAVE/APPLY button. Your wirless configuration is saved now.
Now Reboot your modem, Go to Management tab, and click Save/Reboot
Wait till your modem restarts, Now your wirless network is ready for use.
Connecting to Wireless Network after configuring the WIFI.

Connect your laptop to the wireless network and you will be asked for the password. This is the one which you gave for wep key
Once you give the password correctly, you will be connected to the Secured Wireless network

Trick to block websites in Mozilla Firefox,Opera and IE

You can easily and effectivily block access to a website by adding it to your Windows HOSTS file.(Yes, Hosts is capitalised for some strange reason). Without any software. Doesn't matter what browser that you use.

1.Go to your HOSTS file which is located at:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for windows Vista and XP
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for Windows 2k
C:\WINDOWS for Windows 98 and ME

2. Open HOSTS with Notepad.

(but before this, make its backup in some other drive)

The default Windows HOSTS looks like this:
______________________

# Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a "#" symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
_____________________________

3. Directly under the line that says 127.0.0.1 Localhost, you will want to type:

127.0.0.1 name of the URL you want to block

For example to block the MySpace.com homepage (highly recommended!), simply type:

127.0.0.1 myspace.com
127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com

Other parts of MySpace could be blocked in a similar way:

127.0.0.1 search.myspace.com
127.0.0.1 profile.myspace.com
etc etc etc...

You may need to add sites with both with and without the "www.". Test after blocking to make sure you got it right.

You can add as many sites as you wish to block in this fashion. I, myself, have over 12000 undesireable and dangerous sites in my personal HOSTS file!

4. Close Notepad and answer "Yes" when prompted.

5. Reboot your computer and attempt to access your now blocked website. You should see a Cannot find server or DNS Error saying: "The page cannot be displayed".

CD Rom Icon Is Missing From My Computer

Your Cd Rom icon is missing when u just restarted d computer neednt worry just remove all d wires switch off d power button and after 1 minute again restart it if u dont see d icon again follow these steps make sure to create d back up of registry


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1) Go to "Start" then select "Run"

a) Type "regedit" and click "OK"

2) optional step
Backup you registry by:

a) Highlight "My Computer" by clicking on it once.

b) At the top of the page you should see "File"(Win XP) or "Registry" (Win 2000), click on this and then select "Export Registry File"

c) The following screen will allow you to select where you would like to save this backup and what file name you would like to save it as.

d) Please note at the bottom of the screen where it says export range "All"; this should be selected to ensure your entire registry is backed up completely.

e) Give the File a name and Click on the "SAVE" button (this will bring you back to the registry editor)

3) Remove the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values by:

a) Expand the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" key (looks like a folder) by double clicking it.

b) Expand the "SYSTEM" Key

c) Expand the "CurrentControlSet" Key

d) Expand the "Control" Key

e) Expand the "Class" Key

f) Please look for a key containing the following string of letter and numbers:

{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
g) High light this key by left clicking once on it

h) On the right hand side you are looking for "Upperfilters" and "Lowerfilters", once you find these please delete them by high lighting (left clicking on them once) and then right clicking on them and choosing "delete"

4) Restart your computer.

5) Your CD-ROM should be back.