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Searching Tools Tools (& hints, & suggestions) that new and old ~S~ may find useful

[searchtools] & [ferrets] [Browsers (Opera)] [images tools] [sound tools] [banner killers] [other tools] [Codebars] [Password busters] [Port listeners, pingers & tracerouters] [firewalls & proxies] [Memory readers] [Hiders]

Introduction to the web searching tools

This "internet searching tools" page loads more than 70.000 bytes, but as you'll soon realize they are worth loading in gold. My tools page is not only a "swiss blades" repository for newbies that begin to grasp our powerful reversers' and seekers' lore... the tools I have gathered on this page should be useful as well for any powerful one that happens to be "lost on an alien computer"... miles from home, and without his trusted own-made CDs.
This happens to me often enough, hence I found myself this page quite useful more than once :-)

You'll find here (I hope) all the necessary tools to survive, secure your current box, AND reverse everything in sight, and then some.
There are tools here, that will even allow you to retaliate and strike back, should anyone dare to annoy you!
This section will always be "in fieri", yet there's no other section of my site that you should peruse as thoroughly as this one...

Note that there are NO CRACKED applications whatsoever here (nor anywhere else on my sites). All software is in pristine, original, uncracked conditions.
I wonder why should anyone publish or distribute cracked programs: their protections - as far as they are protected at all - are so stupid that anyone with eggplant intelligence could crack them "on the fly" in three seconds flat... as I show here for some pitiful cases.

Moreover: the complete and regged full versions of any software program are so easy to find on the web that it is a shame.

Another intent of mine, on this page, is to demonstrate that you DO NOT need the most recent version of a given software... far from it: you may in most cases use a old dos program instead of the most recent frilly windoze "xp" application, with the advantage (if you use such "older" applications) that you'll at least be sure that the program you use are not trojaning your data somewhere in the background everytime you connect to the web!

Main advice of this "Tools" section

DO NOT UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE IF YOU CAN AVOID IT!...
...unless you know pretty well how to reverse - and modify - it!
As a (simplistic) rule: the older your version, the less likely it is that it will [malbehave] and spy on you...

You want a typical example? WINAMP, the mp3 player. You should use previous versions, for instance version 2.91 (see below)
All more recent versions, from version 3 onward, hog your resources a lot and are spyware (I.e.: send your data back to mama).

CopernicSvr.exe
:54BB5B E814E9F8FF   call 4DA474
:54BB60 E88730F2FF   call 46EBEC  ;are we allowed to showe ads into your eyes?
:54BB65 84C0         test al, al  ;ax is not zero? Ahah! Eat ads, poor luser!
:54BB67 0F8599000000 jne 54BC06   ;0F84... (je 54BC06 would sooth your eyeballs ;-) 
:54BB6D A1B8785700   mov eax, dword ptr [5778B8]
:54BB72 80780C00     cmp byte ptr [eax+0C], 00

But we have [our own bots] as well...

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Check also [mysearch.zip]: ~ 20233 bytes A search bot in Visual Basic by Shoki (see [shokiwcd.htm])

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Browsers
Either you know why you should use these tools, or you search & learn, or just try and understand :-)
"Probieren geht über studieren"

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Opera

[Opera] ~ the ultimate browser for searchers. An incredible tool: your sword on the web! Also check the ad hoc Tutti all'opera page!

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Older versions
[version 3.0] [version 3.2] [version 3.6] [version 5.1] [version 6.5]
Version you should use
[version 7.23]

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Usually the most recent version is NOT the best one to use. But this case is an exception

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As you can read in depth on the ad hoc page, one of the most important things is that Opera has a very convenient no-images icon that allows you to stop on the fly all images loading from any site you are visiting. Not a minor feat in a Web that, as you will already have realized, is an Ocean of knowledge... about two centimeters deep. Most sites just overload visitors with completely useless graphical frills: having a browser able to stop them "on the fly" is a very useful weapon that you will need again and again. Note also how the development of both the M$IE and the Netscape browsersaurii went to great lengths to AVOID you having the possibility to turn off images (and hence advertisements).
But there's more: Opera has even various 'anti-popup' function BUILT INSIDE IT: have a look at file ~ preferences ~ windows... see the checkbox for 'allow documents to create windows? Well... uncheck it! What are you waiting for? :-)
You think I have finished with the advantages that Opera offers? Nossir...try this other one: file ~ preferences ~ multimedia... see the checkbox 'enable animation GIF images'? Well... uncheck it! Yep, believe or not: you can selectively kill those useless animated gifs that nobody in his right mind would ever 'prefer' to load! :-)
Of course you can download hic et nunc Opera for LINUX Opera for LINUX as well...

Did I mention that Opera's code is 30 times smaller than M$IE or Netscrape?

Ta-daaa! Opera version 7.23: [ow32en-GBen-GB723.exe] : 3525491 bytes zipped (less than the previous versions!) selfexecutable, the ultimate browser for real searchers, point à la ligne. This freeversion has a crappish advertisement banner that will disappear when you register or find a serial on the web. See my tutti all'opera page for more info.	VERY Precious Item
By all means, use Opera together with Proxomitron: cosmic power for your seeking trips!

:41596D 8B442430           mov eax, dword ptr [esp+30]
:415971 3BF8               cmp edi, eax
:415973 757A               jne 4159EF  ;bad_guy_exit
:415975 85FF               test edi, edi
:415977 7476               je 4159EF   ;bad_guy_exit
:415979 83F801             cmp eax, 1
:41597C 7C71               jl 4159EF   ;bad_guy_exit
:41597E 8D4C2410           lea ecx, dword ptr [esp+10]
:415982 C644242400         mov [esp+24], 0

VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License.

ares.zip ~ 1598100 bytes ares.zip [When fred ~ fred doesn't work, but you need to gain access nevertheless] Most useful tool, must have when somebody dares denying you access somewhere... remember to save your proxy list as "proxy.ini" inside ares' working subdirectory. Do not use hostnames in your proxy lists, just numeric IPs! Use a good combo username/password list!

Precious Item

goldeneye.zip ~ 650352 bytes goldeneye.zip version 1.0 [When fred ~ fred doesn't work, but you need to gain access nevertheless] Most useful tool, must have when somebody dares denying you access somewhere. Worth experimenting with, eheh. Do not forget to set the speed slider to a significant digit: default zero won't work, duh

Precious Item

apdfprp.zip ~ 738241 bytes Advanced PDF Password Recovery Pro 2.12 [When those annoying pdf-files dare to confront you] Decrypt protected Adobe Acrobat PDF files, which have "user" and/or "owner" passwords set, preventing the file from opening or editing, printing, selecting text and graphics etc.

Precious Item

:4039BE E833DFFFFF    call 4018F6
:4039C3 85C0          test eax, eax
:4039C5 7512          jne 4039D9	; jne "good guy"    	
:4039C7 6824D34000    push 40D324    	; --> "ipTicker v1.6 (U N R E G I S T E R E D   V E R S I O N)" 

ethereal092.zip ~ 7089400 bytes, ethereal092.zip ETHEREAL! (Version 0.92) eh :-) The best Network protocol analyzer. Trace everything, investigate, check what's going on! CATCH spywares REDHANDED!

Precious Item

regcle34.zip ~ 251475 bytes regcle34.zip RegCleaner, by Jouni Vuorio, a GREAT tool. Freeware. Does MUCH MORE than those expensive 'automatic' registry cleaners. Try it! Search for "gator" and "cmesys" on your own system, and you may have some surprises... Inter alia it automatically removes all kinds of junk from the registry. Corrupted data is also removed from the registry. I say "inter alia" because this tool can have different uses as well, as Vuorio points out: "Say you've accidentally destroyed a nice shareware program what has a 30-day trial period. Later on, when you notice that it's been destroyed, you try reinstalling it, only to find out that you can't, because the program thinks that you're just trying to get another 30 days. If you first remove the program's registry entries, however, you may very well be able to reinstall the software and recover your trial period again."

Precious Item

cust115.zip ~ 272528 bytes: cust115.zip [The customizer per anthonomasia, version 1.15] A ridicolous time check protection... any kid could set all FOUR occurrences of 000007D1 (if you have installed it in 2001) to -say- 00000BB9 with the result that the program will expire in 3001. (And if that's not enough... set all four to 00000FA1 :-) Maybe the good people at wanga should learn [some better tricks] to protect this most useful appz.

Precious Item

OUR_FRIEND_PROXOMITRON!   Scott Lemmon, Proxomitron Author, passed away at the age of 36 on May 1st 2004 :-(

ProxN44.zip ~ 1141224 bytes proxo.zip (PROXOMITRON! Version Naoko-4.4) [there is no need to explain how important this little thing is - complete documentation inside] ProxN45j.zip ~ 1136575 bytes proxo.zip (PROXOMITRON! June Version) [there is no need to explain how important this little thing is - complete documentation inside] Older version: proxo.zip ~ 873971 bytes proxo.zip (PROXOMITRON! Version Naoko-3) If you never used it, you'll find this so useful that you'll wonder how comes you never used it before :-) Check Oncle Faf goes inside proxomitron	Magical Item
How to input multiple proxies on the fly in Proxomitron, by -Bone Digger Copy your proxy list to your clipboard. Click the Proxy button on the Proxomitron Main Window. Click the Add button on the "External Proxy Selector" window. Right Click in the "Enter New Proxy server" text box. Choose Paste from the right click menu. All unique proxies (i.e. those not already listed) from your clipboard will be added. OR open the default.cfg file in a text editor. Scroll to the [Proxies] section at the bottom. Leave a full empty line below the "OpenLog = TRUE" and "Count = 1" line and paste or input your proxies one per line.
You'll find various proxy lists here and one ready to be pasted inside proxomitron here
By all means, use Proxomitron together with Opera: cosmic power for your seeking trips!

• Lists all processes and their modules currently running on the system.
• Lists the memory pages used by the selected process.
• Filter on the memory pages.
• Lists windows associated with each process
• Follower that will show the region occupied by each window you select
• Read/Write to other processes memory.
• Search in the memory pages selected from the list.
• ASCII search (automatic standard and UNICODE). Type ["something] (without the brackets) to search for "something"
• Binary search. Type some numbers (for example 10 20 30) to search for the bytes 10 20 and 30. You can change from hex to dec using $ and # symbols. For example the following search ($10 #20 $14 15) will search for $10 $14 $14 and $15
• Currently the search is byte oriented
• Remember the current state of a selected region of memory pages (like GameWizard).
• Search for changes in the remembered region.
• Search for differences. Using this search I found the address where Minesweeper keeps the array of the play field. I have created a Minesweeper trainer.
• Search for increments
• Search for decrements
• Currently the search is byte oriented.

  

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Finally... Cosmic and Tactical depths

Finally, since you are on my main "download" page, some old gems, just in order to grasp how insignificant "we and our worries" are, and how important it is to AVOID taking ourself too much seriously.

First take a look at the real small place our galaxy has in the universe, through [this wondrous program], that every father should show to his kids in "relativising" awe... funny isn't it?
Mortals are at the same time nothing of relevance and yet they have so much to give...

What? You still have a lot of time to waste? Learn for free some strategy (and delve into such tactical depths)... and of course, while playing, do not forget to apply some sound theory to your virtual soldiers! :-)