TORRENTS - A POWERFUL SEARCH ENGINE (Lesson 2)

Searching password cracker’s or full version of software’s is a bit difficult when a person is using a search engine like google, altavista, etc.

For e.g.: If a person is searching for a password cracker that can crack Microsoft office password’s on a search engine, then the initial few sites that he would get are the companies that spends lot of money on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and their target segment is not a hacker. These websites are looking for people or companies which actually pay for there software’s and hence these are not our target sites as well.

Make a note of one point that NO SEARCH ENGINE IS PERFECT, though they can provide you with good result 80% of time but still there is a gap of 20% and from a hacker’s point of view these 20% are most important.

So where a SEARCH ENGINE fails TORRENT’S pass.

What are Torrents?

When you browse the web, the pages you look have to be downloaded to your computer. This transferring of web pages to your computer relies on the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP - just a standard way of transferring web pages to your computer).

Another Protocol is File Transfer Protocol (FTP - a standard way to transfer files between computers).

There are different browsers which are HTTP compliant such as - Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, etc. The same holds true for torrents and hence there are many different programs that are "Torrent Compliant", which means they will be able to connect and transfer files using the Torrent method.

So in case of torrents there are two things a TORRENT PROGRAM and a TORRENT FILE. A Torrent file just contains a bunch of information that define where to connect (the system address), what to download, etc.

Some of the torrents program available free of cost on net are - BIT TORRENT, AZUREUS, etc.

How to use a Torrent? (The process is very much similar to that of a Download Manager program)

Steps involved-

1). Download the torrent program from internet.

2). Install it on your system.

3). Search for the torrent file.

- Either on a normal search engine – google, altavista, etc.

- Or on a torrent search engine such as isohunt, demonoid, etc.

The size of a torrent file is in KB’s so not a big deal to download. Once you have downloaded the torrent file just click on it, it will automatically open in the torrent program or choose from the “open with” option to open it in the torrent program on your system.

Rest is like download manager.

E.g.:

-I want to download Microsoft office password cracker. I tried google but couldn’t get the full version.

-I downloaded a program called AZUREUS, then I downloaded the additional software required to run it which is a java client.

-I opened a torrent search engine and typed Microsoft office password cracker. I got around 100 results. But what the hell is this “S” and “L” written in front of every result.

>S is a seed which in turn is a computer that has a complete file available for other computers to download (so the torrent file with maximum number of seeds is the best file to download)

>L is leeching which specifies the number of users who are currently downloading the file.

-I downloaded the file with maximum number of seeds but it took only 2 secs whereas the file size mentioned was 5 MB.

>The file size mentioned was the original file size of the password cracker. The size of a torrent file will never be more than a few KB.

-I clicked on the torrent file and it automatically opened in the program. I then specified the directory path where I want to download the password cracker and the download starts instantaneously. If I switch off the system and then again switch it on the download will start from the same point where it stopped.

Torrent method can generate unexpected results provided you must have your own personal computer with a good connection speed.