Timer hack!!!
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 3:25 pm
Hi
It's been a long time since i was here because i was very satisfied with the version i used, everything worked well. I had only one fear and that was that someone who knows much about computers can hack the timer. Personally I know 1 way to do it. Today a friend showed me several hacks by which you can alter the timer, stop the timer, even start the computer without throwing in money. I use deepfreeze software. The timer monitor is normally not active on my kiosks. Today he showed me how he alters the timer. So I activated the monitor and let him try again, but the monitor didn't work. He stopped the timer again and the computer didn't restart which it should be because of the monitor.
Anyway, how does he do this all? Very simple, by getting in to the registry and altering the registerkeys of your software.
1. First of all lets begin with the hack of starting the computer without throwing in money. What he does is restart the computer, at the POST screen press f5 to get in to Safe mode of windows XP. The kiosks have two user accounts. One is the standard Administrator account and second an account i made by which the computer starts up normally. In Safe mode he logs of the second user account and logs back in by Administrator, opens up Msconfig and at checks out Weavefuturetimer software from Startup and reboots. When he was doing this i was thinking that it won't work because deepfreeze, but it did work. The kiosk started up, weavefuturetimer started also up with locked screen, after waiting about 20 seconds the timer started up with 1 hour of internet. This is how he starts up without throwing in money.
What we can do about this is, I know from other kiosksoftware I used before I used Weavefuture is that you can somehow block the keyboard usage at the startup of the computer, this way they can't get in the bios or press f5 to get in to safemode of windows. How that software did this, I don't know. Can you find this maybe?
2. How to stop timer? He opens a internet explorer screen. at the address field he writes c: and enters, by this you can get in to the rootdirectory even if you hided the diskdrives in the admin menu of the timersoftware. There he finds in the windows folder the registry and opens the registry key where the timer is being held at that time. He opens the key and puts there a 0 in and presses ok and closes down the registry. At that time the timer is stopped at whatever minute and second it was. Even if the timer monitor is active, the timer doesn't reset. Can you please check on this and fix it. How can we prevent this ?
It's been a long time since i was here because i was very satisfied with the version i used, everything worked well. I had only one fear and that was that someone who knows much about computers can hack the timer. Personally I know 1 way to do it. Today a friend showed me several hacks by which you can alter the timer, stop the timer, even start the computer without throwing in money. I use deepfreeze software. The timer monitor is normally not active on my kiosks. Today he showed me how he alters the timer. So I activated the monitor and let him try again, but the monitor didn't work. He stopped the timer again and the computer didn't restart which it should be because of the monitor.
Anyway, how does he do this all? Very simple, by getting in to the registry and altering the registerkeys of your software.
1. First of all lets begin with the hack of starting the computer without throwing in money. What he does is restart the computer, at the POST screen press f5 to get in to Safe mode of windows XP. The kiosks have two user accounts. One is the standard Administrator account and second an account i made by which the computer starts up normally. In Safe mode he logs of the second user account and logs back in by Administrator, opens up Msconfig and at checks out Weavefuturetimer software from Startup and reboots. When he was doing this i was thinking that it won't work because deepfreeze, but it did work. The kiosk started up, weavefuturetimer started also up with locked screen, after waiting about 20 seconds the timer started up with 1 hour of internet. This is how he starts up without throwing in money.
What we can do about this is, I know from other kiosksoftware I used before I used Weavefuture is that you can somehow block the keyboard usage at the startup of the computer, this way they can't get in the bios or press f5 to get in to safemode of windows. How that software did this, I don't know. Can you find this maybe?
2. How to stop timer? He opens a internet explorer screen. at the address field he writes c: and enters, by this you can get in to the rootdirectory even if you hided the diskdrives in the admin menu of the timersoftware. There he finds in the windows folder the registry and opens the registry key where the timer is being held at that time. He opens the key and puts there a 0 in and presses ok and closes down the registry. At that time the timer is stopped at whatever minute and second it was. Even if the timer monitor is active, the timer doesn't reset. Can you please check on this and fix it. How can we prevent this ?