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any of the following software. None of these programs install anything to
your PC - they
do not write anything to your registry (with the obvious exception of MJ
Registry Watcher) and
they are all self-contained .EXE files - you simply make an installation
directory for them,
and unzip them into, and run them from there. They were all developed with
Borland C++ Builder
Professional, and they are free of charge. If
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To get the best out of MJ Browser, MJ Player and MJ Emails, you
should use admin rights to
install the mjbrow_raisever.reg file into the registry. This
registry file is in each of the zip files,
and elevates the Internet Explorer DLLs used by these programs from version
7 to version 11.
** Latest Features : Service Mode, Process Launch Monitoring, DLL
Injection Detection, Emailing of Alerts, Quarantine, Registry Backup
**
MJ Registry Watcher is a simple registry, file and directory hooker/poller,
that safeguards the
most important startup files, registry keys and values, and other more
exotic registry
locations commonly attacked by trojans. It has very low resource usage, and
is set to poll
every 30 seconds by default, although you can adjust this to anywhere
between 0 and 9999. A
configuration file stores all your settings for future use. MJRW not only
polls the system, but
it also hooks it, so that most changes to keys, files and directories are
reported
instantaneously. Key deletions are still caught by the polling loop though,
since they cannot
be hooked. Exactly which keys and files are protected can be completely
configured by the user,
although the sets I supply with MJRW will cover most standard PCs.
There is an additional automatic registry backup system that takes a
snapshot of the entire
registry about every 28 days and stores it in the directory MJRegBackup. The
filename is of the
form MJRegBackup_yyyymmdd.reg where yyyy is the year, mm is the month and dd
is the day. The
last 15 snapshots are kept. They can be restored from a menu option : this
can be used in Safe
Mode as administrator to rescue a non-booting PC. It should only be used as
a last resort : it
saved my PC when I accidentally knocked out the video drivers during an
over-zealous session in
the registry, cleaning out "LogMeIn"!
To install it, extract the files with pathnames, and you'll have a
self-contained .exe file
with a small help text file, the keys and files lists, and a couple of
exclusion files in the
MJRegWatcher directory. Launch RegWatcher.exe and then, use the Options,
Settings, Automatic
Startup Options screen to install it either just for the current user, or
for all users. From
this screen, you can also choose which key set to start it up with, or you
can uninstall it.
Please note that under Vista and later, MJRW may need to be
configured with
administrator privilege to write to the registry. To do this, go to the
RegWatcher.exe file in
Explorer, right-click to Properties, and go to the Compatibility tab. Check
the admin box.
Whenever the PC is restarted, you may have to OK MJRW to start with admin
rights. Unless
you disable UAC, the only way round this is to use the task scheduler to
launch MJRW with
administrator rights and set it to run at log on.
There is also a service mode which is documented in the help file as follows
:-
RUNNING MJ REGISTRY WATCHER AS A SERVICE
You will need administrator access rights to set up the MJ RegWatcher
Service. You can use the
item under the Options menu to "Install MJ RegWatcher Service". REMEMBER
TO UNINSTALL THE
INTERACTIVE MJ REGISTRY WATCHER (using Options, Settings, Automatic
Startup Options or
disabling the scheduled task or Startup menu item) before you start using
the service since
they cannot be run simultaneously. Once interactive MJRW is uninstalled,
and the service has
been installed, you can start the service by running services.msc (or
Administrative Tools,
Services from Windows) and going to the entry "MJ RegWatcher Service Stub"
and starting it.
Once running, it will continue to run until the PC is shutdown, surviving
logins and logouts,
and automatically starting up when the PC is started (and before anyone
logs in). If someone
tries to terminate it without stopping the service stub, it will be
re-launched automatically.
To remove the service, you have to stop the service running using
services.msc (or Windows
service manager with Administrative Tools, Services). Navigate to "MJ
RegWatcher Service
Stub" and stop it. Then launch interactive MJ Registry Watcher (by running
RegWatcher.exe from
the installation directory) and choose "Uninstall MJ RegWatcher Service"
from the Options
menu. REMEMBER TO INSTALL THE INTERACTIVE MJ REGISTRY WATCHER (using
Options, Settings,
Automatic Startup Options or enabling/creating the scheduled task or
Startup menu item) if you
want MJ Registry Watcher interactive mode to start up automatically when
someone logs in.
The service has some important differences from the interactive mode :-
Only Accept and Reject modes are supported. Prompt mode defaults to
and sets Accept mode.
There is no tray icon or visible application interface. It runs
invisibly.
Keys and filespecs prefixed with $ to always prompt, will instead
Accept or Reject depending on which mode is set.
The configuration of the service is taken from that used by the
normal interactive configuration.
Only one instance of the service can be run at a time, and it cannot
be run at the same time as an interactive session.
To be informed about alerts while the service is running, you can :-
a) Run the application mjrwmon.exe
from the installation directory to watch the service
b) Use the alert sound set in interactive
mode
c) Use the email settings set in interactive
mode
d) Keep a view open and refreshed on the log
file mjregwatchkeys.log
If a trojan attempts to change your startup settings, you will be alerted,
and you can prevent
any changes being made. You can also configure MJRW to email the alert
details to, for
example, an administrator. It is fully configurable as to what keys and
files are monitored,
so, if you have a vested interest in protecting your file association for
the mailto protocol
(your default emailer), so that your preferred app loads them, and something
else is trying
very hard to undermine this association (Outlook for example), this will
popup, offering to
stop a new association attempt, after Outlook had loaded, say. The key that
stores this
association is hkey_lmus\software\classes\mailto\shell\open\command, and you
will find
that all such keys are covered by the wildcard key
hkey_lmus\software\classes\???\shell\???\command.
This means that all your file associations are protected. All the system
files are also
monitored, including system dlls, executables and driver files. If there is
a change to any
of these files, an alert is recorded as to what files have changed and you
may be optionally
informed with an on-screen alert. However, changes to the files cannot be
undone.
It assumes write access and directory create rights for the path the .exe
file sits in (ie.
wherever you installed it). The default set of keys and files should ensure
that nothing gets
run at startup without you knowing about it, and important boot up files
don't get changed
behind your back. When monitoring, keys are opened in Read-Only mode, and
the application only
needs Write Registry access when it has detected a change. It keeps a log of
any suspect
activity, and displays any such information for the current session in the
bottom panel. A log
file has this appended to it and can be viewed by pressing the Log button.
The file keeps a
complete history of alerts.
You can also visit a Wilders
Security
forum thread dedicated to the formative years of this application. My
moniker is
Graphic Equaliser. The thread started November 13th 2004 and finished on
June 29th 2010.
The default set of keys was chosen to balance security against
intrusiveness. However, you can
experiment by selecting different security levels on the Options menu, and
see the impact on
PC performance. The higher you set it, the better the coverage, and also,
the more warnings
you'll get (especially with the openwithlist keys monitored). This list is
based on some
invaluable work done by Hojtsy documented in
Hojtsy's
compiled
list of the security hotspots in the registry. It also has stuff from
the
Gladiator
AV Forum,
Silent Runners' Launch
Points List and
Creer's
List.
is a simple news reader with the added advantage that you don't need to set
up accounts, and it
writes nothing to your hard disk except for a couple of small text
configuration files, which
simply list your preferred news servers and your identity when sending
replies. This simple
.exe file will allow browsing of, and, usually, postings to newsgroups.
Searching and thread
traversal are catered for with a unique interface design. Both headers and
message bodies can
be searched for wildcarded text or even regular expressions (prefix with
mjre: to announce a
regular expression match). The Message header "References" is maintained
when replying to
threads. It is an adaptation and enhancement of the
Netmasters Fastnet news reader
demo program.
is a utilities program-gone-mad. It can list all legal WAVEFORMATEX control
blocks for the PC
it is running on (right-click the little globe button on the right-hand side
of the window to
activate report procedure), and do TCP/IP connections to any port and ip
address, if allowed.
It can do DNS and Mailbox (MX) lookups on any host or IP address. You can
"talk" to your POP3
server if you know the POP3 protocol, for example. Give it a URL and it will
get whatever is
there, into a file on your PC with the same name, but in the directory this
program runs in. It
factorises numbers, has a calculator, VU meters for the currently-selected
input source, and a
bonkers colour selector. Some of the functions are only knowable from
reading the pop-up hints
on certain controls. For example, there is an NIC information getter, but
I'll leave that for
you to find. The Middle Window is an anagram and crossword solver, and also
does the "Numbers
Game" in Channel 4's Countdown (you enter 6 numbers and a target, separated
by spaces and
press Enter). It is also useful in Scrabble games.
framoligen,s will give all words from these letters for Scrabble
framoligen,8 will give all words from these letters with 8 letters or
more
dnrefainlto,8,9 will give all words with between 8 and 9 letters
b*n??t will give all words starting with b and ending in n--t (eg.
blanket)
j ep,4 will give jape, jeep, and jupe
4 6 8 3 7 2 275 might give 3+4*(8*7+2*6) = 275 or 3+2*8*(7+6+4)
= 275
* means any sequence of letters and ? means any single letter
Press Alt-D to lookup selected word in the dictionary, Ctrl+F to search
the text, and F3 to find again.
Enjoy!
is a lean and mean media player. Simply download the zip file, and
"extract with paths" into a
directory of your choice. Then simply launch the file "mjplayer.exe" from
the directory you chose.
It can play CDs and look up the CD information from freedb.org. It has
very low resource usage.
When playing MP3 files, it will display the artist, title, album, year and
track number in the
centre of the player window, if these exist in the tag for the MP3 file.
You can also easily
launch the Windows properties information for any file it is playing.
It can optionally introduce each song using the speech engine in Windows
XP and above, by
checking the "DJ" checkbox. The introductions are already configured with
the supplied text file,
MJIntros.txt - it has over 700 DJ "announcements" in it, and the more
lines it has, the more human the DJ will sound!
You can edit this file if you like, to customise your own DJ.
You can access this file by right-clicking on the DJ checkbox. A line from
this file
is picked at random to announce each track. Some examples of
"announcements"
that come pre-defined for MJ Player (the # sign at the start of each line
means delay playing the track until the announcement is over, otherwise
the announcement talks
over the track start) :-
#Let's go back to %year% with %artist% playing %song%
#%artist% came round my house and played %song% in my %describe% %random%
#Coming up next is
#Party out with
#They looked up at the sky and saw a million stars. %segway%
#I came in my pants when I first heard
#%song% by %artist% was my gateway into drugs
#Hedonistic happiness from
#Tremendous work from
#Top notch %describe% %random% by
#Pink horses galloped across the sea. %segway%
#You're shitting me.
#Good god, it's
#Groove out with
#I saw %artist% live and they were incredible. Here they are with %song%
#Well, I never did. What a turn up for the books. Here's %artist% with %song%
#Quality %random% %random% from
#%artist% phoned me to tell me to play %song% from %year% or they'd cook my %random%!
If there is no mnemonic %artist%, %song%, %album% or %year% in the
announcement, it puts
"%artist% with %song%" on the end of the announcement for you.
The full list of mnemonics you can use in your announcements is here.
For example, it might say
"I saw Magazine live and they were incredible. Here they are with Parade".
or "They looked up at the sky and saw a million stars. Some spanking
sounds now, from Led Zeppelin with When the Levee Breaks"
To change or edit the intros, simply right-click on the DJ checkbox.
There is no limit to the
number of different intros you can have in the intros file. You can also
have a very long intro
as long as it is all on one line. When a new song is about to start, an
intro is taken at
random from the current intros file and used to introduce the track. The
voice is configured
from the Speech applet in Control Panel. MJ Player tries to make the voice
randomly intonated
to "humanise" it a bit. Have fun inventing your own DJ! If you're using
Windows XP, there are
2 extra voices for XP with the
SAPI 5.1
redistributable (10 MB).
If you're using Windows 7 or higher, there are 3 voices by default on your
system (2 ladies, 1 gent).
If there is more than one voice installed on the PC, the DJ's voice is
changed every hour.
Jingles
By checking the "Jingles" checkbox, you can intersperse jingles between
tracks.
It selects 3 jingles at random from the 2,008 supplied to play when a
track has finished.
You can always add more jingles (short .mp3 files) to the subdirectory
"jingles" off of the installation directory.
For example, if you had installed mjplayer.exe into a directory
c:\mjapps\mjplayer,
then the jingles should go into c:\mjapps\mjplayer\jingles
Playlists
You can add to the playlist when the player is stopped. Simply click the
"Open Playlist Builder" button.
You can add directories and subdirectories of sounds, music or videos to
the current playlist.
You can clear the list to start a new one. You can also select multiple
entries (Ctrl+Click to select multiple entries,
Shift+Click to select a range) and remove them with the Del key.
Once you have a list you like loaded in the main player, you can store it
by clicking the "Save the Playlist" button. The extension defaults to
".mjp".
You can load it back in at any time by clicking the "Load a Playlist"
button. ".m3u" format playlists are supported.
On the main player, if you click the "Of" label, the current playlist is
immediately stored. If
you right click this label, the stored playlist is immediately reloaded
(ensure you have saved
the current list if it's one you wanted to keep before right-clicking the
"Of" label). To
select a track from the playlist, click the track name label and choose
from the list.
You can edit any of the playlists : the files are plain text files.
Special lists are named as follows :-
mjplayer.cply - the current playlist - stored when you exit the
player, so it can continue from where it left off, the next time you
load the player.
mjplayer.cbak - the quickly stored playlist (clicking the "Of"
label)
Recording
You can record from your soundcard - click the Record button when nothing
is playing, and enter
a filename, which is given a .wav extension, and choose a sound format
from the list of
supported audio compression codecs on your PC. After choosing one, it will
then start recording
from whatever the computer's input source is set to on your soundcard. You
can press Stop to
stop recording and choose whether to save it, or you can press record
again to stop recording
and automatically save it.
Other features
Videos will usually be loaded and played via sending an M3U playlist from
MJ Player to Windows Media Player.
It also has an infinite loop mode, with a seamless loop point for WAV
files.
The 2 black buttons on the end can step back and forth by a fixed amount
of milliseconds, which you can set as low as 1ms, so you can frame-step
through video sequences,
for example. The slider control shows where you are in the current track,
and you can slide it to
where you want to hear from in the track, and play from there.
Here is a small help section (viewable by right-clicking the "Show Info"
button) :-
Command Line
mjplayer [playlist] will load [playlist] and play it.
If it's an MJ playlist (.mjp file), it will play from where it last left off.
Playlists
You can add to the playlist when the player is stopped, by clicking on the "Playlist Builder" button.
You can see what's on the playlist by clicking anywhere on the track information.
To save the current playlist, click the "Save the Playlist" button. The extension defaults to .mjp
To load a stored playlist, click the "Load a Playlist" button. M3U playlists are supported.
To quickly save the current playlist, click the "Of" label.
To restore the last quickly saved playlist, right-click the "Of" label.
Recording
The Record button can be used when nothing is playing. You enter a filename
which is given a .wav extension, and choose a sound format. It will then start
recording. You can press Stop to stop recording and choose whether to save it, or
you can press record again to stop recording and automatically save it.
DJ Mode Mnemonics for Announcements (Right-Click DJ Checkbox)
%artist% is substituted for the name of the artist
%song% is substituted for the name of the song
%album% is substituted for the name of the album
%year% is substituted for the year of release
%track% is substituted for the number of the track
%random% is substituted for a random word from the list of words in the file words.txt
%segway% is substituted for a random segway from a list I put together
%describe% is substituted for a random description like 'flaming brilliant'
%qualifier% is substituted for a random adverb like 'superlatively'
%adjective% is substituted for a random adjective like 'excellent'
Prefix announcement line with '#' sign to suspend playing until announcement is done
Right-Click on the seek bar to rewind the current track back to the beginning.
is a simple BMP, JPG, PNG, WMF, EMF and ICO image viewer, converter and
printer. It can also
copy any image to the Windows clipboard (right-click on the Print button).
is a simple and fast, but fully-featured browser, based on IE's underlying
built-in OS support
routines. It has support for :-
Tabbed Browsing with up to 100 tabs
Reading out highlighted text (Helpful for the partially-sighted)
A Complete History of Unique Sites Visited
Favourites
Set as Default Browser (Right-Click "Add Favs." Button)
Form Completion
Google, Dictionary/Thesaurus and Translate Lookups of Selected Text
Print Preview
Save Webpage as File(s)
Startups with all tabs remembered from when last used
Page Snapshot - store an image of the visible webpage. Supports BMP,
JPEG, and PNG formats.
You can run it by right-clicking the Print button. It can also be run
from command line using this syntax :- MJNewBro.exe {url;width;height;top;left;imagefilename;delay-in-ms}
Command line usage will close the browser after delay-in-ms
milliseconds (default 5000 or 5 seconds).
If you specify zero for the width or height, it will work out the
dimensions for you - this can
result in very large images on large web pages!
If you do not specify anything for width, it defaults to 800 and
height to 600. top and left default to zero.
For example, mjnewbro.exe {www.jacobsm.com;800;600;12;17;jake.png}
or snapshot all of msn.co.uk with mjnewbro.exe
{www.msn.co.uk;0;0;0;0;c:\temp\mjsnap1.png}
producing a 1.3 MB png file about 1000 pixels wide by 3000 pixels
high.
Right-Click on "Close Tab" button to re-open last closed tab.
Got rid of OLE Handle and EInvalidOp errors.
Added mjbrow_raisever.reg to the download so that you can
ensure MJBrowser (and MJEmails below) is using
the latest IE DLLs, rather than the default IE7 ones. Extract the .reg
file and
double-click it to enter the key into the registry. You may need to
restart MJBrowser if it was
running when you do this.
Now allows you to set silent mode (no dialogs) on or off yourself.
Login dialogs can now pop up.
Remembers browser window size and position between sessions.
Access violations no longer bring the whole browser down.
Better dictionary site used. Google translate to English added.
is a simple and fast POP3/SMTP email client. It can use APOP for secure
login and TLS for encrypted
message retrieval and sending. You can even use it to handle your
emails from a USB pen
drive without affecting or leaving anything on the host computer. It
also has a complete
log of POP3 activity, accessible by right-clicking the "POP3" button,
which is useful if comms
do not work as they should. Unzip the contents of the zip into a directory
of your choice. To
set up your accounts, click the "POP3" button to configure your hosts and
port numbers.
You can set TLS by prefixing the port number with a '+' for explicit TLS
and '-' for implicit TSL.
I found that, on Office365 mail servers, POP3 host uses implicit TLS, and
SMTP uses explicit.
For example, POP3 host "mail.office365.com/-995" and SMTP host
"smtp.office365.com/+587"
The send and receive screens both pick up details from the lines in this
configuration screen.
New Stuff
Corrected bug with Print and Print Preview
SSL libraries updated to OpenSSL version 1.0.2o
POP3 details and personal address book now both fully encrypted when
stored.
Encrypt your email message so that only other MJEmail users can read
it.
WYSIWYG HTML Editor with full support for object embedding, emoji
insertion, and other things probably not supported by
Outlook email clients! (Still, a very useful
HTML editor which you can use for your own purposes.)
TLS support. APOP support. Message Archiving into Zip files with
optional password protection.
Search Received and Sent messages for any text, with wildcard and regular expression support.
Right-Click the "Explore RCVD Directory" button to bring up the
archiving dialog. All files in the relevant RCVD
directory older than 30 days are moved to a zip archive with a default
name (can be changed) of today's date.
HTML email preview window can now act as an WYSIWIG drag and drop
editor.
It uses your own white and black lists to filter relevant email. It
automatically decodes email
text that is base64/mime encoded. You can also export the retrieved list
of emails to a CSV file
for further investigation and processing. MJEmails allows you to vet an
email drop for spam and
clear away any emails that you know you don't want. It has a 20 second
keep-alive when connected.
You can send HTML email with inserted images and attachments. It has a
built-in sent email log
and address book. It has command line support for "mailto:" email
addresses so it can be called up from,
for example, Mozilla Firefox "mailto:" links.
The HTML email composer window has spell-checking with English UK and US
dictionaries and thesauruses. Misspelt words are wiggly-underlined in red
and you can
right-click on misspellings to see corrections, suggestions and spelling
options. There are even more
options on the editor's context menu as shown in the screen snapshot. Many
aids for composing HTML emails
are built in, for example, inserting images automatically handles the
<IMG...> tags for you, by placing
them at the cursor position. Pressing "Enter" will automatically add a
<BR> tag for you too (if you
really just want a new line, use Ctrl+Enter instead). You can also click
into the HTML preview window, and by
placing focus there, you can edit the HTML directly, using drag and drop
techniques, typing, and an
enhanced right-click menu. You can select an image, move it around, and
resize it, all with your mouse.
Once you are happy with the way the email looks in the preview window, you
can save your changes to the
Email HTML Body window with the "Save to Email HTML Body" button. The
editor is shown in the "Marie Claire" screen shot below.
There is also a simple CSS Style Designer and a message viewer. These both
use internal
browser components based on the in-built IE DLLs in the Windows OS. These
default to using IE7
controls, unless you apply the included "mjbrow_raisever.reg" registry
file so that they use
the IE11 DLLs instead. Obviously, you will need IE11 installed on the PC
before this will work.
The IE11 controls are more up-to-date and perform faster and better than
the IE7 ones.
One of its strongest features is the filtering of spam using regular
expressions and wildcards
("*" to match any characters or none, "?" to match any single character,
and "mjre:" to prefix a regular expression filter).
The first 20 lines of the message, plus the "from", "to" and "subject"
lines can be checked against
your filters. I commonly use these filters to trap loads of spam :-
undisclosed*recipient
--spam--
mjre:\*\*spam\*\*
Regular Expression filters are introduced by
prefixing the filter with
"mjre:". On the third line, I check for the string "**spam**" and because
"*" usually means
match any character, I have used a regular expression to denote that I
mean the asterisk
character to be taken literally, and not as a wildcard character. My ISP
puts "--spam--" into
the subject line of any email it reckons is spam. And I always discard
email addressed to
"undisclosed recipients", "undisclosed-recipient", or any combination of
those words.
Help Screen :-
Click Column Header to Sort that Column
Right-Click Column Header to Search that Column
Del to Mark Email as Deleted
Ctrl+Del to Recall Email
Alt+Up/Down Prev/Next Whitelist hit
Double Click or Enter to Get Message from Cache/Server
Ctrl+Enter Get Msg from Server (Bypass Cache)
Entries marked with * will be permanently deleted on manual disconnect or quit
(Still, a very useful
HTML editor which you can use for your own purposes.)
