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"Very interesting! (adding both of your posts to my Evernote for later detailed reading/analysis)." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20, @11:39AM (#40385939)

Thank you, & I hope you find it useful...

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"Any plans to offer the "APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++" at "normal" looking website, with FAQs, screenshots etc." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20, @11:39AM (#40385939)

Yes, eventually, Mr. Burn of hpHosts/malwarebytes + Henry Hobbitt of hostfile.org asked me the same... right now, I am building in filtration for the NEW "gTLD's" that are coming out... it's important, for the future.

The version you can get now doesn't account for them (tld's like these -> http://newgtlds-cloudfront.icann.org/sites/default/files/reveal/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en.csv )

It will, soon... about a week, tops.

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"(OTOH, I can understand privacy/safety concerns of any individual challenging the multi-billion dollar scamming/advertisement industry)?." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20, @11:39AM (#40385939)

I'm not "Bruce (ad) Banner's" (lol) enemy...

OR

That of the security industry (be that antivirus/antispyware or even the DNS system itself with all of its faults I noted) either - I'm actually MORE THEIR FRIEND...

Simply by pointing out they have issues that needed supplementing via this tool or one like it!

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"It does everything (and more?) HostsMan does for me: automatic updates from multiple sources, 127.0.0.1->0.0.0.0 conversion, comments and duplicates removal... ." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20, @11:39AM (#40385939)

A bit more, but all of what it can do, afaik... & it imports from as many, if not MORE, sources for valid hosts file data (all sources are known & reputable). It even checks or can check, sites you MAY wish to remove (but should be checked vs. known databases of malicious sites first, prior to removal, for safety).

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"Moving "DataBasePath" to RAM - how much does it speed the process up?." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20, @11:39AM (#40385939)

It does so (here) by my moving the hosts file to a TRUE SSD (Gigabyte IRAM 4gb DDR2 based ramdrive board), & that's for FASTER SEEK/ACCESS (since they're known for that vs. std. HDD's), & then, the diskcaching subsystem in the OS does the rest (caching hosts file data to RAM), since the hosts file is just a file, like any other...

That, & SuperFetch in Windows does the rest (better, since it keeps frequently accessed data better & doesn't 'flush' as easily as caches do, so as long as you're surfing & thus, using the hosts file for fav. sites especially hardcoded into it (going to be GOOD on July 9th 2012, when the DNSChanger trojan starts getting 'flushed' worldwide)).

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"Just in case you did not see this, here is the link to the page of Fravia (who had unfortunately deceased in 2009 :-( ) on blocking malicious IP ranges (is there such a functionality in APK?):
http://www.searchlores.org/antiadve.htm#rout" - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20, @11:39AM (#40385939)

NO, I do IP addresses in firewalls (since hosts files can't stop those) via PowerShell scripts for "enmasse import"... but, the GREAT MAJORITY of what malware makers use? Hosts-Domain names!

Why? First - they pay for them, & they do, because they're "recyclable"/reuseable... the RBN (Russian Business Network), a known gang of criminals online in the past, was notorious for it.

(Makes sense - because once IP Addresses are known bad? Th

Very interesting! (adding both of your posts to my Evernote for later detailed reading/analysis).

Any plans to offer the "APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++" at "normal" looking website, with FAQs, screenshots etc (OTOH, I can understand privacy/safety concerns of any individual challenging the multi-billion dollar scamming/advertisement industry)? It does everything (and more?) HostsMan does for me: automatic updates from multiple sources, 127.0.0.1->0.0.0.0 conversion, comments and duplicates removal... Moving "DataBasePath" to RAM - how much does it speed the process up?

Just in case you did not see this, here is the link to the page of Fravia (who had unfortunately deceased in 2009 :-( ) on blocking malicious IP ranges (is there such a functionality in APK?):
http://www.searchlores.org/antiadve.htm#rout

Fravia+ (R.I.P.) developed a methodology of "deep web" search, here are his writings on scientific journals search:

http://www.searchlores.org/journals.htm
http://www.searchlores.org/deepweb_searching.htm

Fravia+ (R.I.P.) developed a methodology of "deep web" search, here are his writings on scientific journals search:

http://www.searchlores.org/journals.htm
http://www.searchlores.org/deepweb_searching.htm

Dig around here:

http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm

It is definitely a science like you say but it doesn't mean you cannot learn the science yourself. It's called 'reality cracking' and it's absolutely fascinating:

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/realicra.htm

The idea behind reality cracking is that if you can begin to understand how the adverts work, you can become more aware and wise to how supermarkets, adverts abuse and play on you.

If I do not see the adverts, I am more unlikely to buy them. I do not see adverts on TV because I don't watch it, I don't see them online either. I also read to become aware of the tricks. It saves me more time this way.

I don't have an iPhone. I don't have a Mac, I try buy products that advertise less (like unheard of brands). I am a simpleton.

Fravia's Research:

http://www.searchlores.org/

http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm

He was a great guy - it's his "fan club" I couldn't stand.
Watch yourself on the links to some of the "discussion boards".

There's some really good knowledge in what he left us.

Fravia's Research:

http://www.searchlores.org/

http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm

He was a great guy - it's his "fan club" I couldn't stand.
Watch yourself on the links to some of the "discussion boards".

There's some really good knowledge in what he left us.

... I came across to this nice article regarding deep web. It has some techniques on how to search, access and exploit deep web. It is worth to look also the other articles of this site...

This is of little value without the scoring criteria, but you're on the Internet -- you can find any information you like! I'm not going to post directions, but the full test is available online to anyone with good searching skills. Read http://searchlores.org/ if your skills are too weak.

Maybe something called "trolling for information"? ;-)

Was it "The Subliminal Man?"
http://www.searchlores.org/opr0207B.htm

These aliases are truly, and only, thinly veiled disguises. Unless you use aliases like a one time pad.
The proof is all through my post, at this point I must stop this charade.
I shall at some time be found out for who and what I truly am.
A very well trained Great Pyrenees. [I work for a Shepherd]
Fravia says it best [fabulous site]:

http://www.searchlores.org/noanon.htm

http://www.searchlores.org/fobegano.htm

BONUS !

http://www.searchlores.org/trolls.htm

I really like the idea of OpenID

http://openid.net/

I think it would further a type of "vetting" or track record for such discourse that requires it / be enhanced by reputations. A HOSTS file of sorts like the academics of ARPANET lore. [I was but a pup]
So, tell me whose advice would you trust concerning sheep herding? Hmmmmm? I chase them for a living, hence, you could trust my advice.

Otherwise:

http://digg.com/

For those of you that think me just another lap dog, I say, ... If only!

http://www.gailgiles.com/Jack.jpg

[I like CATS (Broadway version), long walks in the meadow, old shoes, Slashdot, ...]

These aliases are truly, and only, thinly veiled disguises. Unless you use aliases like a one time pad.
The proof is all through my post, at this point I must stop this charade.
I shall at some time be found out for who and what I truly am.
A very well trained Great Pyrenees. [I work for a Shepherd]
Fravia says it best [fabulous site]:

http://www.searchlores.org/noanon.htm

http://www.searchlores.org/fobegano.htm

BONUS !

http://www.searchlores.org/trolls.htm

I really like the idea of OpenID

http://openid.net/

I think it would further a type of "vetting" or track record for such discourse that requires it / be enhanced by reputations. A HOSTS file of sorts like the academics of ARPANET lore. [I was but a pup]
So, tell me whose advice would you trust concerning sheep herding? Hmmmmm? I chase them for a living, hence, you could trust my advice.

Otherwise:

http://digg.com/

For those of you that think me just another lap dog, I say, ... If only!

http://www.gailgiles.com/Jack.jpg

[I like CATS (Broadway version), long walks in the meadow, old shoes, Slashdot, ...]

These aliases are truly, and only, thinly veiled disguises. Unless you use aliases like a one time pad.
The proof is all through my post, at this point I must stop this charade.
I shall at some time be found out for who and what I truly am.
A very well trained Great Pyrenees. [I work for a Shepherd]
Fravia says it best [fabulous site]:

http://www.searchlores.org/noanon.htm

http://www.searchlores.org/fobegano.htm

BONUS !

http://www.searchlores.org/trolls.htm

I really like the idea of OpenID

http://openid.net/

I think it would further a type of "vetting" or track record for such discourse that requires it / be enhanced by reputations. A HOSTS file of sorts like the academics of ARPANET lore. [I was but a pup]
So, tell me whose advice would you trust concerning sheep herding? Hmmmmm? I chase them for a living, hence, you could trust my advice.

Otherwise:

http://digg.com/

For those of you that think me just another lap dog, I say, ... If only!

http://www.gailgiles.com/Jack.jpg

[I like CATS (Broadway version), long walks in the meadow, old shoes, Slashdot, ...]

Tutti all' Opera! - Fravia
(Die M$explorer, die!)

Or ... the ultimate reference.

http://www.searchlores.org/tuttiope.htm

* :-]

that ever made sense to me.

"The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part."

painlessly dip into the Windows world
Ha! Nice one.

what Windows software amazes you?
Pretty much all of it. I'm amazed that it runs at all.

I want to build a list of unique, elegant, can't-do-without apps
Well, if you must know, http://searchlores.org/tools.htm

great innovation happening over on the Windows platform
WTF? Are you serious?

It'll probably deteriorate into a flame war
Oh, so you are trolling...

Would those interested please chime in with their list of favorites?
I tried, I really did; but I just can't think of any software worth installing windows for that you couldn't also get for OSX.
Some accounting software perhaps?
Maybe a development environment for an embedded system?
These aren't really quality softwares that one would volunteer to use, however.

I'm neither a mozilla adept nor evangelical, and I cannot address your concerns about lusers the whole world over, but there are ways to keep your own box reasonably secure.

An xpi file is only a zipped archive. Rename one to zip and try it, if your zip program doesn't recognize the extension.

What is inside the compressed xpi archive will differ from extension to extension, but many of the files are 'human readable'. (rdf, js, manifest, xul, etc...)

Where you may need another program to read the xpi archive's files are the *.jar files, which are sometimes a part of an extension's archive, but they are also archives, which most compression program can handle, and they too are usually archives of 'human readable' files.

It takes a bit of work, but hey, it is after all, your box, not mine.

Also, for the security conscious:

• only download XPIs from the secure firefox estension site
• be wary of extensions which are in conjuction with a specific internet site, unless you trust the site before loading up the extension
• use a program which monitors and lists your net connections now and then

In a bit of opposition to the second recommendation above, I use and have been happy with a few of MR Tech's Mozilla Extensions, especially the local install extension.

The Mr Tech website also has a public board for mozilla-based extensions.

Also, check out available bookmarklets for functionality you are looking for, and avoid extensions if a bookmarklet does the trick. A few possible places for applicable bookmarklets are, one, two, three and four.

Of course, they can use that word. This is a Press Release after all. All Web Ecomony Bullshit keywords are allowed.

"The key to understanding the market for techincal books is to realize that not everyone's time is equally valuable. You are quite correct in your assertion that all of the raw information in the book can be found on the Web for free with a few search sessions and some digging through the trash..." Try Fravia searchlores: http://www.searchlores.org/ "and the web is full of bad advice and just plain wrong information, especially when it comes to web design and development where many people have conflicting opinions which they recite as factual information." That's not to say someone can't test it out. I mean, HTML and CSS is used even in MYSPACE, where you can correct/check/and teach/experiment with the information you're given. You're thinking a bit too much like my teachers; not all information is wrong, and there's more than hundreds of ways to find it. I learned CSS and HTML on my own, not by tutorials, but by fooling around and testing things out and observing the code. Don't forget; is money the issue here? We can both agree on the same thing. Someone can just sit down and READ the book IN the store (without spending $$), or actually take it out. I've seen people (like me) in the tech/sci section of borders jotting things down. If money is the issue; I say dont get it. If it's for the actual KNOWLEDGE you get from reading the book, I encourage information. Books are just as good as computers. But money's what the main article's all about. "....that and the main point which was how much is your time worth?" It's up to the buyers of what they want to do. They can either spend $30 on a book, search google, or copy + paste random code on Myspace. It's up to the readers to decide who they are and what they're gonna do. Niether one takes more/less time than the other. And if they haven't got the time, what are they doing? Writing scripts doesn't happen in a night! But you have a good argument :)

Here is the famous +ORC's essay about supermaket enslavement:

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/slaves.htm

Great stuff.
My god, has been around since 1997!

Excellent. It seems that this particular situation is so convoluted and widespread that whoever has the best lawyers will eventually win. Further:

The domain "Gmail.co.uk" is "is the private mail service reserved exclusively for the customers of the Contensis Content Management System" and is linked to Contensis, a web content management application developer. Although I was unable to discover who actually owns the name, there was no suggestion they are involved with IIIR and IIIR states that they did not register the domain. In an article by Chris Richardson, several points are made about the statius of the url, including a suggestion that its purpose is to collect gmail ids and passwords. Richardson does state that "The company who has ownership of the domain has received offers to sell the rights, although none were from Google. They have, up until now, declined to sell the rights, stating, "[l]uckily, we're honourable people." I wonder if that means that they will "do no evil"?

Now as to IIIR. They have had several incarnations, but basically are an ASP provider of financial projections under the name Pronet Analytics.com Limited. IIIR's founder and CEO is Shane Smith. Although well regarded, they have experienced significant financial difficulties lately and are struggling. An independent firm has estimated the trademarks worth at around $45M to $60M dollars. Must be nice for a guy who ran down after he heard Google's announcement of gmail and registered the trademark for $700. Yeah, that sounds like he was protecting his "intellectual property rights". It also speaks to how "reluctantly" he is proceeding with the claim against Google. In a pretty thorough search using these resources, I was unable to find any reference to IIIR and g-mail prior to the Google story. It was not mentioned in any of the company documents I read. Wouldn't a working e-mail system have a bit stronger web presence?

My conclusion is that the law suit is a money grab. There IS evidence of possible prior claims to the "gmail" name. Actually, quite a few, with established histories and credible owners. IIIR's is one of the weakest, although presented by one of the bigger firms, and augmented by the IIIR's area of business - International Finance. In the end, Smith's whole claim is based on a service that was never developed and seemingly no one uses, and a valuation based on what the name is worth to GOOGLE, not to IIIR. I doubt Google is too worried. The real shame is the way this shit muddies the waters and will make it very difficult for legitimate claimants to get a fair shake. Smith is grasping at straws to save a business that has already screwed its creditors. I, for one, am glad he picked the wrong target. Mr. Smith - "you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask off the ole Lone Ranger" and you sure as hell don't mess around with Google. Just ask Bill Gates. It ain't gonna be pretty.

billy - who would not call what's going to happen...well...evil

I think fravia's http://www.searchlores.org/ and his "bangla" project http://www.searchlores.org/bangla.htm are well worth being remembered in this context

I think fravia's http://www.searchlores.org/ and his "bangla" project http://www.searchlores.org/bangla.htm are well worth being remembered in this context

I've found great stuff from here, not necessarily open source though.

http://searchlores.org/bangla.htm

And of course, the Pricelessware.

http://www.pricelessware.org/

Check out this site: http://www.searchlores.org/.

Here we go again!

If it really was not spyware, they would not feel a need to spam message boards to say it.

And how can we be screwed? Pray tell. Do those hackers have magical powers or something? Do you think they can take out the internet permanently with clever VB viruses? Or DOS attacks? Do you think that those hackers can social engineer their way into getting US government/corporate passwords/manuals?

I doubt it. Any attack they make will only make the internet stronger and more resilient. Besides, it's the virus of the mind N Korea should be worrying about. Just you wait until those hackers get infected with Slashdot and Searchlores. Those hackers are probably the sons and daughters of the elite in their government. This elite will regret exposing their kids to so much foreign information.

Some helpful background on searching the net can be found on SearchLores.org.

Another good site is searchlores.org

It doesn't limit itself only to Google.

The PE specification is published in many places, and followed by many compilers, including GCC. You can open an EXE file and compare it to the standard. There are no hidden sections or secret codes in an EXE file.


You're an absolute idiot.

There might be some hope for you:
Read and educate yourself before you go sounding like a conceited asshole.

vivisimo.com does this to some extent, it doesn't assign less weight, it simply sorts the results into categorized folders, and if it has blog entries -- it places them into a blog folder. Here is the example of a query of a well known blogger.

And even if you don't like vivisimo, you still have plenty of options. You can look for other good search engines. And/or you could copy the Google page and hardcode the negative criterion "blog" into the url string.

In any case, if you do decide to screen out the word "blog" from your searches, it would be interesting to see how useful Google will be after that. At least with bloggers/forum posters, there are so many of them and they produce so much content, most of their links and most of their recommendations are a lot less biased than most commercially-driven web sites and news sites.

Dissecting DELL: The Real Story

Wow, you know all that stuff and cant simply go to astalavista like everybody? ;-)

btw (but you probably already know of), fravia made a nice website about searching, another quick place to use search engines is on freddo's search page.

You can still find old mirrors of the reverse engineering site, but the only active one I know of is at www.woodmann.com/fravia. The message board is at www.woodmann.net/forum, no crackz, serialz, or warez allowed. Just techniques, tools, etc.

The one remaining active mirror of his site is at http://www.woodmann.com/fravia. The messageboard at http://www.woodmann.com/upload is still the best place to go for reverse-engineering windows code; no crack requests, serial requests, or target-specific code are allowed, but you can address particular copy protections by name.

Fravia has since moved on to reverse-engineering search engines. If you want to find the stuff that doesn't turn up at the top of a google search, start here.

If you are trained in computer sciences, you unconsciously tend to think that everything that is easy for you is easy also for the others; well, it's not! All the knowledge you have built during many years is a mystery for them. On the net, you often find expert and trained people, because it's the right place to find them. Everywhere else in the world, they are rare.

_A&T

If you like this kind of tricks you can find dozen tricks like those ones and betteron Fravia's web site SearchLores.

I regarding the ability to use Google as a warez search machine. The article was about Google censorship and the one response to my post pinpointed almost exactly the point that I brought up, which is the point discussed in this article.

Google has a nice long list of directory lists containing warez (remember the days of l33t FTP searching for filenames? Google for something like, in my last article: "xwin32*.exe * * * * *" "listing of"), serial numbers (Oh, I've found XP's serial number several times in Google's cache) and other "sensitive" information. My question is if other commercial sites are being constantly shut down due to these links (intentional or not), why aren't people targeting Google as well?

In fact, if I'm *cough*too cheap to buy software*cough* or just want to evaluate some crippleware or such before I buy it, I often skip astalavista and cracks.am and just Google it up. Saves me the porn and pop ups, and I don't have to cripple my browser for this (yes I know it's possible to do in other ways, yes I enjoy javascript, no thanks, I don't want comments about how I'm retarded because I don't do it the right way).

This is similar for sites such as the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine that contains other sensitive information.

Because of the academic merit of both of these search mechanisms, I doubt either one will be shut down. Indeed, I highly doubt restrictions will be placed. They're valuable tools for finding more valuable tools. For more information about this sort of stuff, I suggest searching on Fravia+'s web-searching lore. Other information on there relates to "reality cracking", reverse engineering, and other taboo topics. Google's got it all cached. Interested? Just search for (insert topic here) site:searchlores.org.

Sometimes I don't think the comparison of Google to God is that far off. Pardon my heresy.

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/hp_slobo.htm

I wonder in what it is different from AGORA, Web-To-Email, Gopher, and such services services? If you dont know bout them, you might want to check the Accessing The Internet By E-mail -- Guide to Offline Internet Access and Fravia's "How to search the web" lesson 10.

Have fun.

you might want to have a look at AntiCrack which is a huge collection of tutorials cracking , reverse engineering, and programming. They also have a copy of the Old Fravia'Site, the new one being about searching).

There's a few games/challenges out there about reverse engineering, cracking, logic and programming. Give them a try if you wish (Arcanum is really nice):
AngularVision, Apotheosis, Arcanum, Aspect, Aspect2, C&CDisIncorporated, CyberArmy, Disavowed, Electrica, Escape, HackME, HackersGames, HackersLab, HackQuest, Hybrid, ICEFortress, Lamebulun, Mod-X, NetSplit, NGSEC'sSecurityGame, ProblemSetArchive, ReverserCourse, SlyFX, TheGame, and Try2hack.

have fun ;-)

• ftp://212.75.96.170/programy/graficzne/artgem/rlv_ ag12.exe
• ftp://ftp.komputerswiat.pl/Programy/Graficzne/ARTG EM/rlv_ag12.exe
• ftp://ftp.ksgry.pl/programy/graficzne/artgem/rlv_a g12.exe

• ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/rlv_ag13.exe

idd, all of the above and learn to use quotes "X free"

however i must say i prefer "XXX FREE" ;p

or better yet, an 'i feel lucky' on

"* my big black * you * *!" (very funny :)

seriously, go to searlores.org and learn to go00ogle

nothing about grub here, but personally i really like this web site that have a few search engines on it: http://freddo.netfirms.com/. It also refers to Fravia's new website and his invaluable forum.

A good reference about search engines is also Search Engine Watch

have fun...

The article is careless; they must be talking about fMRI, not MRI. The latter is the more familiar technology that provides images of brain morphology, usually by tweaking water protons. While the researchers are doubtless imaging to provide reference localization -- that is, a map of the brain -- the fMRI is entirely different because it measures brain metabolism, which is higher in parts of the brain that are more active, and so buring more sugar. So the first is a picture that looks like sliced brain, the latter is a map of hot spots that looks like an IR sensor image. They can integrate this with EEG (electroencephalogram), also, something we also couldn't do with old MRI. Cool.

Check here -- the first image you see is an overlay of functional hot spots (color) over a regular MRI (B&W). While on the topic of medical acronyms, there is not "CAT scan" anymore, it's CT for computed tomography. The earliest machines could only do axial cuts, hence "A" in CAT. But the public and TV shows like saying CAT. I used to work around CT, too, almost 20 years ago.

I'm jealous because I did research on psychiatric patients with MRI ten years ago, which was limited to detected tumors, atrophy, and other gross physical changes. That's very useful -- people with mental illnes have in some cases revealed what appears to be long-term degeneration marked by atrophy (shrinkage) of relevant lobes --but does not have the amazing possibilities of instantly detecting changes in brain activity. This is quite a bit short of reading your mind! Just 10 years ago the imaging MRI was a stunning achievement, now we're spoiled and moving into the next phase.

Is this research for marketing purposes invasive? Nah. It's just an (expensive) attempt to further quantify reaction to marketing, as has been done up to now with questionnaries and the like. It's not sneaky like subliminal advertising, which didn't work anyway despite being a compelling idea and making for a great episode of Columbo (conspiracy theorists disagree; scientists generally don't; but advertisers and maybe Republicans still try it anyway).

Anyway, advertisers have long had a general idea (sex) of (sex) what (sex) moves (sex) product (send me money). The marketers looking upon consumers as a horde of cattle, that's kind of patronizing, but it's nothing new.

One nice thing with Opera (6.0) is just type "A" then your query in the box where you would enter urls and it auto feeds your query to All The Web. Supersearch feature in Opera is also handy. I hope when they release 7.0 they add more engines to that very handy feature. When I'm on the Windows machine I sometimes break out FirstStop they have a free version which is decent for meta searching a few engines from the desktop. Searchlores is another interesting place to look for way too much information about search engines, and very strangely organized at that. Google is still my default search engine, but sometimes you can't find what you want there easily. Files can be particularly hard to come across. I use Atomic File Finder when that becomes bothersome. FTP-AFFD

Here is an other article from an HP insider : The great printer scam . It describes the strategies of printer manufacturers

Don't forget also Understanding, Reversing, and Hacking HP Printers , which however may be a bit off topic but was the original article to which the above on refers.