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Thursday, December 27, 2007

How to Unjoin many communities Quickly

Well Many people nowadays want to unjoin all the communities they have joined...
and it would take hours to manually unjoin all of those communities..

So here is a small software for all people who want to unjoin all of there communities

Note : I have not checked this software..I only got this from my community. So let me know how good this software is. (This software is working at the moment)



This is a software you can all use to unjoin your communities...
Download the software from Here
You would need .net 2.0 Framework.

Note : If you want to keep some communities First mark those communities then unjoin all communities and then join the marked communities

This is all !!
Hope this Helps

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Orkut Profile being added to Google Search

Some orkut profiles will appear in Google search results as an orkut OneBox. A OneBox is a summary of your orkut profile, including key details like your name, photo and location. A OneBox appears only when someone who is logged in to orkut performs a search on Google.com for their friends or friends of friends. Keep in mind that this project is still in its experimental stage, so for now, only a small percentage of orkut users will see the OneBox in their search results.

Wondering what a OneBox Is ??
On top of the organic results (and sometimes at the bottom), Google shows OneBox results for queries that can be answered instantly or when a direct link can be offered.

There are several kinds of OneBox results.
Click Here to know more about OneBox Result

You'll have the same privacy settings for the OneBox as you do for your full orkut profile, so no information you've made private in orkut will appear in Google search results. Additionally, if you wish to opt-out of the orkut Onebox altogether, you can do so by following these steps:

1. On the left sidebar of the orkut hompage, click settings.
2. Click the privacy tab.
3. Under orkut in Google search results, click the hide information bubble.
4. Click save changes at the bottom of the page.

Note:

Orkut and the search team both don't have a way to change whose profiles will appear in Google search results as a OneBox.

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How to be safe from Scrapbook XSS Bug

I have already posted many posts including incidents in which Scrapbook XSS Bug was used...

here are some posts :
Automatically Log out Script
Orkut ScrapAll Virus
Orkut Worm

Many Orkut Users became the victim of these attacks..
so Now i am posting to tell you how you can be safe from these XSS hacks

Firefox Users :

Update Firefox to 2.0.0.11 or higher
The latest series of firefox comes with an inbuilt feature of httpOnly which encrypts your cookies so that the information in the cookie cannot be read. This may result to be a boon for orkut users.
You can download the latest version of firefox from www.getfirefox.com

Download FlashBlock

For firefox users i would highly recommend that they should Install Flashblock firefox extension!
After Installing FlashBlock just restart your browser


Internet Explorer Users :

  • Go to the Tools Menu -> Internet Options
  • Click on the Security tab
  • Click on Custom Level
  • DisableRun ActiveX controls and plug-ins

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Orkut worm hits 500,000 + users

As i already wrote about another similar Orkut Virus which uses the same technique as this Orkut worm created by Rodrigo Narrates

The Portuguese language attack exploited a vulnerability in Orkut's scrapbook feature to post malicious JavaScript code on a user's page.

The worm, which was reported yesterday by McAfee Avert Labs, had gained ground by spreading quickly from friend to friend.

The worm was transmitted when members received malicious scraps written in Portuguese. When translated to English, one scrap read, "2008 is coming. I wish that it begins quite well for you."
On viewing the scrapbook post, the code performed the exploit and downloaded a .js file to the user's machine.

The worm then took control of the user's account, sending out copies of itself to all of the user's friends and joining a group called 'Infectados pelo VĂ­rus do Orkut', which translates as 'Infected by Orkut virus'.

With in the first 12 hours of the creation of the community the community got 400,000 members

Rodrigo says something like this about it :

August 8, 2006 was the date he came to know about an XSS but at that point of time he didn't have perfect programming skills to exploit the hole. He says, at that time he wanted to hack as many communities and profiles as he could on orkut. The hole was fixed soon.

December 19, 2007 , he came across a similar XSS and this time he had proper programming skills to do what ever he wanted to. But his state of mind was a bit different this time. His attempt was not to hack or hurt anyone but wanted to show how destructive this can be if used for evil purposes.

The virus spread through Orkut's new tool that allows users to write messages containing HTML code. The ability to add Flash/Javascript content to Orkut scraps was only recently introduced.

The worm does not appear to download any other malicious programs. Security experts said yesterday that the malicious code has been removed from users' pages and the worm has been taken offline.

Symantec researcher Umesh Wanve said that, although the attack was largely benevolent, it is worrisome because it was launched simply by loading the user's Orkut profile.

"This worm illustrates how a simple script injection exploit could affect a large social networking site," wrote Wanve in a company blog.

"This worm could have been used for other malicious purposes, such as stealing cookies, exploiting other vulnerabilities or stealing sensitive data."

McAfee researcher Vinay Mahadik expressed similar concerns. "This clearly illustrates the issue with allowing rich content on social/professional networking sites, and not sanitising it enough," he wrote on a company blog.

Orkut Says About it :
This week, the orkut team discovered that a user had exploited a bug in our scrapbook feature. As a result, many of you likely received scraps from friends of yours that they actually didn't send, and friends may have received scraps that appeared to come from you.

The orkut team responded quickly, and worked late into the night to fix the underlying issue and contain the spread of these scraps.

We believe that this action has been effectively stopped and you should no longer receive any more of these unintended messages. We appreciate your understanding in this case and hope that this did not create too much of an inconvenience for you or your fellow orkut friends.

Well this is all that i got to know about this Worm...If you guys get to know more about it...Then do let me know...
Read this to know How to be safe from these kinds of things

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Logout Script in Scrapbook (Tease Friends)

Well here is a small trick i used to tease few of my friends..

Copy the HTML Code below and paste it in your friends scrapbook.



Now each time some one including your friends visits that scrapbook he would automatically log out of Orkut.
Annoying nah... :p

Well here is the procedure to be safe from this trick

How to Avoid this scrap

if you want to avoid being logged off again when you see the scrap, you can block flash in your browser.
For firefox, download the following plugin :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
In opera, you can disable the flash plugin.

How to delete this scrap

To delete the scrap with the logout script, first open your scrapbook(where the logout script is there), open any page(except the scrapbook) in a new window(don't close your scrapbook window).

When you open the new page of orkut, it'll ask you to log in. Enter your details and login to orkut. After login, go to your scrapbook page(which you had kept open), and delete the scrap which was causing the logout to occur.

see simple... :)
Hope you like this..
and leave your comments about this little trick..

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View Locked Album Hack Updated

Guys i have updated the View Locked Album Hack..

If you want to View Locked Album follow the instructions HERE

THE END

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ScrapBoy Version 2.0

Well I have already posted a post about ScrapBoy Version 1 in the past..
But now there has been a new released by them..

It is of course better then the previous one but is it good enough ??
lets find out.

PROS

Receive Instant notifications for new scraps
It's as simple as that. When you recieve a new scrap, Scrapboy will bring it to your desktop in the same way that you are used to with any other Messenger.



Send Instant Scraps from your Desktop

With Scrapboy you can send scraps from your desktop with the same convenience as writing an instant message.




Format Your Scraps
Now you can format your scrap easily. You can also look at Multiple scrapbooks at the same time. Add smileys and all that stuff by simple clicks

Access your FriendList more easily (Search through your friends)
well this is a great feature i like.. You can scroll through all your friends and also search your friends.

You can Block any friends scrap notification you want.

Navigate more easily
well here have a look at this :
See who is Online
Note: Scrapboy also will inform you of new friend requests, upcoming birthdays, as well as your fans.

See Other People Album

You can also scrap them without going to there profile

CONS:

Jotting down all the pros, was an easy task. Their website and testimonials helped me through. But the cons were what I knew I would have to dig for, yet were so very obvious.

  • First of all it was a heavy setup to download. I would not mind if it was worth it at the end of it.
  • While using scrapboy, you are not notified if a friend is online or not. By logging into your orkut account, there is a module that atleast gives you a clue which friends of yours were last online.
  • If you have grouped your friends on orkut, scrapboy does not reflect the same. It does not allow you to make new groups either.
  • There is no option to delete any scrap. If you receive any offensive scrap and would like to delete it, you need to login to orkut through your browser. If you need to delete your own scrap that u posted erroneously, again you need to login to orkut to delete that. Then why the hell do you need scrapboy!!
  • The software is slow and hangs up for few seconds while downloading new scraps. In all it’s a badly written software with many bugs around too.
  • I am not able to see any pictures in my scrapboy messenger. All i see is a no photo image :(
  • This software only shows me the first few scraps in my scrapbook when i click on View More... it just hangs up
  • You cannot send links through this software.. well I send a lot of links to my friends...but i can't do that using this software it gives an error.

Well there are many advantages of this But there are also disadvantages of using this software.
I would rather remain at orkutting then using this software..
Hope the next version is even better then this one.

Users interested in Scrapboy can download the program over here, and if anyone has any other suggestions (or in need of support), they can visit the official Scrapboy forum over here.

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Monday, December 17, 2007

What To Do When Your Gmail or Google Account is Hacked

Well i have already written about How your account Gets hacked... and How You can get your communities back..

Now i am writing about what to do if your Gmail or Google Account gets Hacked...

It can be a nightmare if someone else takes control of your Google Account because all your Google services like Gmail, Orkut, Google Calendar, Blogger, AdSense, Google Docs and even Google Checkout are tied to the same account.

Here are some options suggested by Google Support when your forget the Gmail password or if someone else takes ownership of your Google Account and changes the password:

1. Reset Your Google Account Password:

Type the email address associated with your Google Account or Gmail user name at google.com/accounts/ForgotPasswd - you will receive an email at your secondary email address with a link to reset your Google Account Password.

This will not work if the other person has changed your secondary email address or if you no longer have access to that address.

2. For Google Accounts Associated with Gmail

If you have problems while logging into your Gmail account, you can consider contacting Google by filling this form. It however requires you to remember the exact date when you created that Gmail account.

3. For Hijacked Google Accounts Not Linked to Gmail

If your Google Account doesn’t use a Gmail address, contact Google by filling this form. This approach may help bring back your Google Account if you religiously preserve all your old emails. You will be required to know the exact creation date of your Google Account plus a copy of that original “Google Email Verification” message.

It may be slightly tough to get your Google Account back but definitely not impossible if you have the relevant information in your secondary email mailbox.

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Orkut Scrap All Virus

Orkut is getting targeted by a new Brazilian scrap virus, the virus infects users clicking on the above scrap message claiming to show some kind of video with the machine translated english version of the message below Updated(Thanks To Liens) :

this video remind me of you.
check how cool it is. but don't get mad at me, ok?
hahaha
tell me later what you thought about it

This virus that claimes to be a video is a .exe file which infects users computer and sends the same scrap to all your friends on Orkut, the virus installs "orkutkut.exe" and "imglog.exe" on the infected computer, the virus can easily be disabled by following the steps below:

  1. Kill both the process from the task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).
  2. Remove startup entries using msconfig.exe
  3. Delete the two above mentioned files from system32 folder.
Here is a screen shot :


To secure yourself from such threats never click on unknown links in your scrapbook.

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Find Your Gmail Friends On Orkut

Orkut Recently released there new feature through which you can add your Gmail friends as Orkut friends.. :)

This is one of the most awaited feature of Orkut..
Many other Social Networking Sites had this feature...They used this to invite more people to there site. Now Orkut have also introduced this great feature..
All the Google Talk users would be loving his feature as they can now invite or add there Google Talk friends on Orkut.

Everyone Knows that finding a profile on Orkut is very difficult. This feature makes this task easier for Orkut users.

Orkut Officials say about it :

One of the nice things about Gmail is that it adds the names of the people you have been in touch with over the years as contacts in your address book. Wouldn't it be nice if you could automatically find those contacts on orkut? We've started rolling out a new feature to do just that. If you use a gmail address to log into orkut, finding your friends is now just a click away. The find friends button on the homepage, friends page or friends list page gets you started on importing contacts. Your gmail address is already filled in, and since you've already logged into orkut, we don't have to ask for your Gmail password once again. We'll show you the contacts who are already on orkut, and let you choose which ones to add as friends. For contacts who aren't on orkut yet, we make it easy to choose the ones you want to invite to orkut. You can even add a personal message to send with the invite. Soon, we'll be adding support to import your contacts from other email accounts.

Well i feel sorry for the people who don't use Gmail Login, or have a different login for Orkut as they would not be able to use this feature. This feature is only available for Gmail as Orkut do not import address book at this time.
Note : Gmail does import address Book. so you can use gmail to import address book

Now all those People who have a Gmail email address would see the above find friends feature on there Homepage. If Not you can go here :
http://www.orkut.com/FindFriends.aspx

Once you go to the page it would look like this :


Hope you like this feature..
Happy Orkutting !:-)

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'Orkut has become integral part of Indians lives'

Chennai (PTI): Google's social networking site , Orkut.com has become an integral part of Indians' lives, a top official of the company said on Friday.

"We are quite pleased with what we have seen with both the loyalty and usage of Orkut in India.It seems to have become a very central part of people's lives and we are very proud of the fact that people get value addition," Shailesh Rao, Managing Director, Google India told reporters on the sidelines of a management seminar here on Friday.

Rao said Google had launched several products in local languages in India."Today, on Orkut, the users can transliterate using an English keyboard into Hindi, can view Orkut content in multiple regional languages," he said.

The MD also said the company had a lot more work to do in India and "our time in India is much more ahead of us than behind us."

To a query if other social networking sites were beginning to eat away at Orkut's users, he said "In fact, we are quite pleased with how users are taking to all kinds of services on the internet including social networking. In India, what we require is more diversity, more services, more options, more experimentation, more innovation. So I think it is wonderful there are more platforms that Indians can use and experiment lots of things."

Rao said the company's Indian operations had the largest number of employees next only to its US operations.

He said India would be the focus country for the company to carry out product and service developments.

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View Locked ScrapBook (Not Working Now)

Update : This Trick is no Longer working Now

Again a new Vulnerability in Orkut Privacy ...
This Hack is made by Rodrigo Lecerdo

It is strange how Orkut handles it's users Privacy. Orkut is one of the most non trust able source on the web. While still in beta form it have got many Bugs. Most features of Orkut gets cracked within 24 hours. Orkut should pay some more effort on this issue

There are four Methods of Using this Hack.



Method # 1
Login To your Sandbox Account and then Just go straight to the Locked Album

Method # 2
You can also see the scrapbook by using Javascripts

Navigate to the scrapbook you want to see and then Run this script in the address bar :



Wait for few seconds for scrapbook to load

Method # 3

Just go here :
http://x13.110mb.com/scraps.php?uid=*****************

and in place of ************* Enter The User Id of the person who's scrapbook you want to see...
Use ID is the number at the end of your Profile link.
You can also

Method # 4
Use a userscript for the above javascript made by D3.
This would be much more helpful as you would not have to run the script again. Firefox would automatically open Locked scrapbook for you.

You would need Firefox for this. Then Install Greasemonkey
After that Install the View Locked Scrapbook Script

That's all

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Hate Clubs Mushroom on Orkut



If you happen to hate Big B's smug face, beaming across from every other channel, or those tireless 'K's' from Ekta Kapoor's 'soap factory', you now have space to vent your emotions.

Hate communities or hate clubs are becoming increasingly popular on social networking Web sites like Google-owned Orkut.

On Orkut, the Ekta Kapoor hate club leads the pack with a membership of nearly 76,468 and counting. Followed by Himesh Reshamiya (of the nasal twang) with 33,137 members; Shah Rukh Khan with 11,179; Greg Chappell with 7,659; yes, Mahatma Gandhi with 6,647; General Musharraf with 1,362; and the Big B with 1,410.
Psychiatrist Sameer Parekh feels that such communities have become popular as they appeal to our hatred for certain things. Very true, but why would anybody hate Mahatma Gandhi and even have the audacity to start a hate group dedicated to him?

“People have certain amount of hatred, dislikes and complexities and they get a chance to express it on such communities. But, there are very few people who give importance to such things. They reinforce your point of view and you join them without giving much thought,” explained Parekh.

It is one thing to start a community to express common dislikes about regular things in life. Such groups even have a humorous tone. But, it’s another issue altogether when communities on the Internet hurt the sentiments of others.
Social networking sites are thus coming up with new methods to prevent the abuse of communities on the Web.
A Google spokesperson said,
“We take the abuse fo Orkut seriously and are constantly developing new tools to review inappropriate content on the site. Orkut users can report content to our reviewers by clicking the ‘report as bogus’ button. There are also tools for community owners to delete posts or topics, ban users and delete anonymous posts.”

“But, at the same time, we put a certain amount of trust in our users to notify us of violations. We have also introduced a priority reporting tool. It makes life easier for the police to contact us when they get concerns about content on Orkut,” the Google spokesperson added.

So, it is evident that measures ARE being taken to check the misuse of social networking sites such as Orkut, but regulating such communities is what still remains a problem. However, a group that came to my notice on Orkut entitled “We Hate Caste Feeling” is something acceptable in times like ours.

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Delete all Photos From Your Album

This Trick is for all those Guys who have lots of Photos in there Album....Now they can remove all these Photos by just a simple Trick..
First Navigate to Album Page
Then Run this script in your address Bar :
Enter the Number of Pictures in your Album and then Click on Okay.

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Friday, December 07, 2007

Give a Suggestion to Orkut

Orkut have asked it's user to tell them which new features they want Orkut to implement on Orkut..


Here to Vote for your favourite feature CLICK HERE

"Please tell us which new features you'd like to see on orkut.com. If your
favorite idea isn't listed, just select "I have another idea." While we don't
reply to individual suggestions, we do review them all and will keep them in
mind for future development."


You Votes do count. and if luckily too many people want the same feature as you want Orkut would probably implement it..

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Fun with Orkut ..throw tomatoes at a profile

This one is another old trick but as people are unaware of this so i am posting it for you

1. First login to your orkut profile.
2. Go to the profile you want to play with.
3. In another page open this url.


Anyways, you can always change the address 'www.orkut.com' to point another website in the above link.
Try this one:


Leave Your comments about it..

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View Your Friends on a Map in orkut

It's old and many people know about this feature...But recently Orkut removed the button which took us to the Orkut Map page.

"The friends map on orkut.com is a feature offering powerful, user-friendly mapping technology to see where all of your friends are located around the world. By clicking on any of your friends' pictures on the right-hand side of the map, you'll be taken to their locations on the map."

To see your friends on a map, go to this page (you need to have an orkut account). This Google Maps mashup uses the location information you put in your orkut profile.

You can now click on a friend’s profile picture to see their location on the map shown. Please know that if we don’t have map data for a particular region or if your friend chose not to put their location in their orkut profile, you’ll see a message “(not on map)” below their profile name.

Please know that if we don’t have map data for a particular region or if your friend chose not to put their location in their orkut profile, you’ll see a message “(not on map)” below their profile name. You can also click on the “tiny little blue men” to see your friends’ locations. By clicking on one of these figures, a bubble will pop open to let you know which friend lives in that location.

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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

How to add more then 9 communities in related communities

Well guys you might have seen this on orkut that many communities are hacing more then nine communities as there re;ated communities...



And many people are asking me on orkut how to add more then 9 related communities so here is a small trick..
First go to the community you want to add related communities too...

See at the browser the link would be like :
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=XXXXXXX


Change this link to :
http://www.orkut.com/CommunitySearch.aspx?cmm=XXXXXXX


now click Enter or press Go...
This page would load :

Start searching and adding communities with this cool trick..
And leave your comment about it..

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