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How to be sneaky?

Z

Z24

Senior member
Hi,

What's the best way to hide your cows?

The -quiet option works great at removing the icon, etc. but there's the problem of 100% CPU usage. Somebody noticing that might start looking.

Anyway around this?

-Dave
 
Yes and no... The first question is why do you want to run it without showing the CPU? Do you have permision to run in on these machines? If you don't then you can't, its that simple ready the DNet fine print.....Actually I don't think it is that fine, I think it is in BOLD.

Now if you want to be trickey, and you have the right to install the program with out the individual's knowledge. This would be used if you were a high up manger who had the rights to set company policy and the rigth to decide what can and can't be run on machines... I want to make this point very clear......

If they are NT machines the best way is to get this program. A few things, you must have the approriate access levels to install services remotly. After you get this software change the exe info to something like vcheck.exe or seccheck.exe, something that most people will look at and not think anything off... If they see it eating 100% they will send mail to help desk, and the response will be something like "this is a low priority program and should have no affect on the performance of your machine. If you would like us to only run this afterhours please let us know your normal work schedule so we can set it up to install in this maner." Remember if you change the service name, the user is going to think that whatever you named the service is eating up the proc, not associating it with dnetc at all. From the above program you can install, update, stop, start, change settings, etc to the client. If people want to be on an after hour schedule, you just need to create a job that runs at a certain time using a tool from the NT resource kit to start services remotly.

So lets say someone replies with the following. " I would prefer this to run during off hours. My normal hours are Monday through Friday 9-6". First you install the service. Set the ini file so that the client runs for 15 hours and exits. Then create a batch file that calls the SC.EXE command from the NT resource kit to start the service on that persons machine every night at 6pm. The client will start, run for 15 hours and then start the process all over again. Then for friday night you need to have your batch file copy over a new INI file to that machine with the run time set to 63 hours.

Using this method you will be able to achieve high keyrates.

Let me stress again the importance of being in a managment position that allows you the authority to do this, or clearing this type of activity with senior people in your company.

Hope this brings more work units in.....

Maybe I should write a book "Mander's guide to cracking RC5 succesfully" hahaha 🙂

Matthew (AKA mander)
 
Great to see you here, Mander! 🙂 Dang, you as a junior member... 😕

Another way to keep people from fretting over the 100% CPU usage on an NT machine is to configure the client to pause itself when it sees taskmgr.exe running. Pretty clever, and I'd give credit where it's due if I could remember for sure who I learned that from. 🙂

I also reinforce the importance of having either the authority or else the permission to run the client... you probably know already, but just in case.
 
Don't worry about permission. I assure you it's okay. The issue is this: I set up most of the network stuff (10 machines, servers included). But now I am away at school. There is one other guy there who has the computer knowledge to ask questions. He probably wouldn't like the idea of dist.net. But, if it turned into a pissing contest, I'd win. I just want to avoid any hassles. (He can't raise it as an issue if he isn't aware of it. I don't even think he knows what distributed.net is, just if he investigated 100% CPU usage, he might find out.)

mechBgon,

I like the taskmgr.exe idea. Right now, I set the server to run only from 7pm to 5am so no-one should notice it. This might work as an alternative (and give lots more keys). Hey, is there an equivalent for System Monitor in Win9x? I'm gonna experiment with that last one and will post if I find something.

Thanks
 
You can specify for the client to pause when it sees another program running by going into the Congifuration menu and specifying it in " 1) General Client Options", and you're looking for option 7) "Pause if running" ==>

So you could add pretty much any program a user might temporarilly call up..
 
[Jan 08 05:10:23 UTC] Paused... ('sysmon.exe' active)
[Jan 08 05:10:35 UTC] Running again after pause... ('sysmon.exe' inactive)


Wow! Dnetc is WICKED! This is the coolest thing ever. (I can just imagine the frustration that someone would go through trying to catch this thing... it's like trying to open the fridge door fast enough to see if the light goes off!!!)

Okay, I think I'm a little too impressed with this thing, but whatever...

-dave


 
There is another common system monitor app for win9x, called wintop.exe, that comes with the kernel toys from microstof. It looks quite like NT's task manager.
 
Can more than one program be specified to pause the client? Would there be a way to pause the client if taskmgr.exe and/or wintop.exe were being run?
 
No problem. Just put a | character between the program names (that is the "shifted backslash" or "vertical bar"
 
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