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Having fun with Netzero
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By _Sli-p\_
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Release Date: Wednesday, August 17, 1999
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Introduction:
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This text-file deals with taking full advantage of Netzero.
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Basic background info on Netzero:
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Netzero is a free dial-up ISP. There are local access numbers in every major city in the United
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States. In exchange for free net access and POP email they require that you display a standard
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size ad on your screen. There is no way to move the ad window off of the screen or hide it
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behind other applications.
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To dial up you access a local Netzero java applet at which point you enter your nick and pass.
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You then are connected with Netzero's dial-up server. Once a connection is established, an
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application called Zcast is launched. Zcast's job is to: 1) put the ad banner on your screen, 2)
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every 30 seconds put a new ad on your screen (taking up a nice amount of bandwidth), 3) make
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sure that the ad banner stays on the screen, 4) upon connection, launch your web browser
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towards Netzero's home page, 5) In an obvious and obnoxious way inform you when there is an
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update in Netzero's software, 6) and disconnect you if you try to hide the ad banner.
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The computer mask for all Netzero dial-ups is something like Resale<yourcity>.saturn.bbn.com
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with a few rare exceptions. The netzero dial up numbers are shared with the standard roaming
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program that most ISP's use. So for example if you have roaming set up with your ISP, and you
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travel to another city, almost always the dial-ups for your roaming program are the same as
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Netzero. The way that the dial-up server recognizes you as a "roamer" is that for roaming your
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ISP requires you to add a @<yourisp>.com to your user name.
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Removing the ad banner:
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NOTE: The following explains how to remove the Netzero ad banner. THIS INFORMATION IS
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FOR REFERENCE ONLY. Trying to remove the ad banner is a violation of the Netzero Terms
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of Service and the Netzero User Agreement. Do not hold me responsible for the following
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information. I do not endorse the following information. Again, to sum up: Don't do this, you
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didn't hear it from me, and it's your fault.
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On to the fun stuff. As far as I know, one of the only ways to remove the ad banner is to prevent
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Zcast from starting in the first place. This is very simple.
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-->Start up the Netzero software. Wait for it to get to the logon screen.
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-->Explore to C:\Program Files\Netzero\Bin
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-->Take the Net.dll file and move it anywhere, just remove it from the Bin folder.
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-->Continue the dial-up process
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-->Netzero will connect, and because the net.dll file is what launches Zcast, there will be no
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irritations.
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-->When you want to connect to Netzero again, just replace the net.dll file into the bin folder
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and start over.
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It is important that you wait for the logon screen to come up before you remove net.dll from the
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bin folder, otherwise Netzero will terminate. Now I'm sure that soon enough they will come out
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with a new software release that makes this useless, but as long as Zcast never starts, they can't
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force you to download anything. This will also remove the "You have been idle, you will be
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disconnected in 60 seconds". Kinda nice, eh?
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Replacing the Netzero graphics:
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When you initially launch Netzero, a splash screen comes up that you must wait to time out.
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This takes around 4 seconds. I suggest replacing this image with something more interesting.
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The name of the graphic is nzs.bmp in the following directory -----> C:\Program Files\Netzero
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After the logon screen, when you are connecting, the image that has a big Netzero icon on the
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left, and "We believe in a Free Internet" on the right is netzerobig3.gif and can be found in
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-----------> C:\Program Files\Netzero\images
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The icon that is found in the upper left hand corner depicting a N and a Z when connection is
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netzero.gif in the following folder ----------> C:\Program Files\Netzero\images
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Peace,
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Slip
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Shoutouts to: _AW0L_, Neuro, Nudemonk, and Polarfire
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Visit http://www.hacktech.org
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****************************************
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Slip Pin
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slip@hacktech.org
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Find me on Dalnet, my nick is _sli-p\_
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#hackersusa, #hackersunited, #hra, and #uwa
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Affiliated with the United Alliance
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