Access Denied
Folder Exploit
By
Cyrus
Access Denied Folder Exploit
An Exploit by Cyrus
For
Area6
Newbies Explanation
Definition of Exploit: An exploit is a hole found in a
program. Any program and any hole. By hole i mean a bug in the program that lets
you get away with something your not supposed to. hehe. :)
There is an exploit that I found while messing around in
DOS back in the day when i was still a "baby" hacker and couldn't program or do
anything "kewl". I don't remember if I actually discovered it or read it
somewhere. I seriously can't remember that far back. Sorry.
How it works:
First go to your main hard drive. (This can
be accomplished by going to My Computer, Double-clicking your main hard drive,
which is usually C:\). Then create a new folder and name it one short word only.
I suggest you name it "private" or something like that. Just keep it kinda
short. Then just move all your *private* (you know what i mean :) )
files into the new folder that you have just created. Then after you have moved
all your old files into the new folder. Go back to the c:/ drive. (this can be
accomplished by going to my computer again and double-clicking your main hard
drive.) Then once it is open, goto "Start", "Run", the type in "command" without
the quotes. A black ugly box should pop up and now you are going to have to
perform the hardest part. (*gasp*)
You are going to have to type in:
rename foldername (hold down alt and enter
255)newname
Here is an example using a folder named
private:
rename private (ALT+255)private
Make
sure there is a space between rename and foldername and another space between
foldername and ALT+255foldername. Those are the only spaces that are supposed be
there.
Why do you have to hit ALT+255? Because this is a security
hole that makes this whole exploit possible. You know how you can get special
characters by typing in ALT + anumber to get different characters. Look, try
hitting ALT+ 0169 anywhere you can type text and see what you get. See how you
get this character: © ? Pretty kewl huh? See, back in the day of DOS Alt+255 was
nothing but a space. But then later on when Windows came out, some programmer
someday changed it to where it would give you this character: _ . So you see,
Windows is not programmed to see the ALT+255 from the DOS days, so if you name a
folder in DOS with ALT+255, windows doesn't know what the hell that is so then
it just says that it cannot open that folder. While all your files are safely
stored inside. There is no way through windows to access that folder. Now, while
no one is looking, you want to regain access to your *private* folder right?
Well you need to go to DOS again ("Start", "Run", type in "command" without
the quotes.) and then make sure that you are just in C:\ . If it says something
else like C:\windows or something like that then you need to enter the command:
CD\ which will take you back to your main hard drive. ) And now you
enter:
rename (ALT+255)foldername foldername
Using my example of the folder private you would enter:
rename (ALT+255)private private
You are just
renaming it back to normal under DOS. Then you can just exit the DOS window and
go through windows to access your *private* folder with your *private* files.
(hehehe). Then when you are done looking at your *private* files just repeat the
steps you used to make it unaccessible to windows. Cool exploit huh? I think so.
I find it useful. Well i'm off to write another tutorial. So laterz.
Written by Cyrus
A member of Area6
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