. .. __________________ _________________________________________.. . \ | / \ | / . .. _________. \| _____________/ _____________.. . | | \ |___________\ \ | | \ / \ _____ \ ____| | \ /__/\_____/ | \ \ / ________/ | .dp. / \ / | \ / \_______________ / | \__________________ / \/| | \/ Damned Fucking Shit! | | Title: Defeating Windows and The Issue #47 | : Evil Sysops Editor: Access Denied | . Date: 10/16/94 : By: Dr. Techno . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *******Disclaimer********** NOTE:This information is common knowledge of the general computing public and as such is being conveyed to you for educational and legal purposes only. The author of this document in no way supports illegal activities, and is in no way responsible for any damage, either physical, or to private or public property that may result in the misuse of this information. By Continuing reading this document, you relinquish all of your rights as a free citizen of the World and agree that Dr. Techno is your Soveriegn Prince with all rights to govern you handed down by God. If you are reading this in an undemocratic area of the world, throw down your oppressive government and welcome Dr. Techno as your salvation with open arms. NOTE FRom DR. H. P. Nominaly. I as a doctor of many psychological disoders, have hereby scientifically scrutinized Dr. TEchno under the most extreme circumstances ever wrought upon a man, and have determined that Dr. TEchno indeed does not suffer from Meglomania, which has been asserted by his subject many times before. He is indeed crazy, but do not hold that against him, for he has a wealth of knowledge to convey to minds eager to bask in the glory of his knowledge. October 14, 1993 Down Home Labs presents Topic:Defeating Windows and The Evil Sysops. Many sysops run very crippled versions of windows on their netowrks. Nothing may frustrate a hacker more when he/she sits down at a terminal running windwows and tries to drop to dos only to be foiled by disabled commands, etc. This is called customized menu access. For the most part, intelligent sysops (is there such a thing?) will prevent you from running your own files, prevent you from exiting windows, and will usually prevent you from modifying their windwows setup entirely. Q: How do I get around this Dr. TEchno? A: Well, it is quite simple. Most sysops can not make their version of windows totally hack proof. Why? Most sysops will leave some form of a word processor in windows. THis is especially true at businesses, and at most schools / universities. Well, you may ask, what good is a word processing system going to do me. All that I want to do IS HACK HACK HACK!!!!!. Well, my children, a word processer will allow you to edit a windows file called PROGMAN.INI. This awesome ini file contains one nasty section called Restrictions. Most semi-intelligent sysops love to load up this section with nasties. All that you have to do is load in this file to the word processor (make sure you import it and save it in it's native format (ascii) or else you will create mucho problemos and will more than likely get caught. Once you have PROGMAN.INI, loaded in, use the following information to your advantage. ** NoRun = <0 or 1> A setting of 1 disables the File menu's Run command; it will appear dimmed. ** NoClose = <0 or 1> A setting of 1 disables the File menu's Exit Window's option so that user's can't exit Windows from the File menu or by pressing Alt+F4. ** NoFileMenu= <0 or 1> A setting of 1 removes the File Menu from the Program Manager entirely, disabling access to any of its functions. ** EditLevel= <0 to 4> Zero, the default value, lets users, make changes to Program Manager. A setting of 1 prevents users from creating, deleting, or renaming program groups. A value of 2 sets level 1 restrictions and also prevents users from creating or deleting individual program icons. A value of 3 sets level 2's restrictions and prevents users from modifying the command-line parameters of groups or icons in the File/Properties dialog box. A value of 4 sets level 3's resrictions and prevents users from making cahnges to any program-item information in the FIle/properties dialog box. 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