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Hack KaZaA - Part 3
How it's done
I discovered this by accident. I wasn't out looking for people's personal things, I never intended to find them, but once I discovered that they were there I must say it peaked my interest.
I was on KaZaA one night, bored, and for god-knows-why I decided to search for a component of Internet Explorer named MSHTML.DLL. Everyone who has Internet Explorer has this file. I searched it, 100 users came up in the results, I clicked "search more," and 100 more users appeared for a total of 200 users (maximum allowable result) having MSHTML.DLL available for download.
I right-clicked one of the users and selected "SHOW MORE FROM SAME USER," and a huge list of mostly useless files came up. It was apparent that this person didn't understand KaZaA very much, and instead of sharing just those media files they wanted to distribute, they chose to share their entire computer.
Pretty soon I started to see some things that looked interesting in a voyeuristic sense. A long list of .html files with filenames like "convo," "mark_convo," etc. I downloaded a few of these small files and read them. As it turns out, they were AIM conversations that were saved. Another file I saved, buddylist.blt, was predictably this same person's buddylist and AIM settings, which could be loaded onto AIM or more practically read in notepad by right-clicking and selecting "Open with."
Now you know one way to get personal files... by tracking down people who are clearly sharing the entire contents of their computer. A good way to single these people out is to search a common system file, in this case MSHTML.DLL, find the people sharing that, and view the other files they are sharing, which will likely be every file on their computer.
The only problem I have found with this method is that it will frequently crash KaZaA when you view a list of files so large. Work fast, scan the list and scroll as it loads, look for those juicy bits you want and double-click them to start them downloading. If KaZaA crashes, just restart it and keep plugging.
But that's not your only option... I mean, having KaZaA crash 20 times in the course of an hour is pretty lame, especially if your computer is slow, and sifting through thousands of meaningless files to find to good stuff does get old fast... so quickly I figured out some other methods of accomplishing the same goal... read on.
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