Tagging FTPs
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Note: It is recommended to read How to scan for FTPs
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Introduction
So you did a scan and now you've got this perms.log thing and your wondering what the heck you should do with it... Well you could just copy the whole tthing and paste it as a post to a FXP board but thats lame when people can't even spend the time to run a few tests on the pubs they find. Most of the time it is because they do not know how to efficiently do this. This tutorial will show several different ways to make the pub fillers much happier when looking for pubs.
Necessary Tools
Installation & Setup
Installing Ping Companion (PC) and TagCheck is simple, just extract both zip files into the Ping directory. PC needs a small amount of configuration before we start using it. Start up PC and then click the options button. Set up the general tab like in the screenshot above. If you have a fast connection you can choose to upload the 1mb file and it will be a good speed test, it is suggested to only use this only if your can upload at least 100KBps. Also it is good to use Ping style logs because they are nicer for posting purposes. On the firewalls you can import your firewall list from your ping.ini if you have any, otherwise just leave this off. On the FXP tab you can test a pub for accepting FXP transfers and speed using a dump that you may have. Enter all the information for the dump here and PC will try to FXP a file from it to all the pubs that allow uploading. This is not necessary so if you do not have a dump you can just leave the box unchecked on this tab. Tag check requires no setup and can be used as is.
Using Ping Companion
This program is quite simple, all you do is hit go and point it to a perms.log (NOT results.log) and then hit ok. It will then start checking all the pubs for upload/download, list, HD Space, and the FXP test if it's enabled. You can watch it go and once it is done there will be a nice new companion.log in the Ping directory. If you open it up you'll notice it looks just like the perms.log but with some extra information in it. The speeds next to Upload and Download are very inaccurate when using the 1kb file because it only takes a second to transfer it. The point of using that file is to make the process go quick because it still verifies the Upload and Download status of the pub. Also most pubs will get n/a for the HD Space check, this is because it uploads a space.asp and then tries to check it using http. If the site is not enabled for http or only allows viewing of html files it will fail. If it does work you will see the HD Space available in the log file as well. If a pub does not allow uploading PC does not bother with the other tests because it is then useless, so all you will see is "UPLOAD: No (0.00 kbytes/s)." If you have the FXP test enabled you will see the transfer speed at the end of each pub listing. If it has an error message rather than a speed then PC could not FXP to that pub. Even if you have a FXPable dump to test from some pubs specifically block FXP transfers. Anything over 100k for a FXP test is fairly good. OK from here you can either skip to the end of this and post the log as we have it now and let the fillers check for tags and tag the pubs themselves. Or you can continue with the tutorial and check for the tags yourself. As a beginner it is suggested checking yourself as it will really get you noticed because not a lot of scanners check for tags.
Tag Checking
Checking pubs for tags can be a long and frustrating process, many of the pubs you come across will already be tagged. Checking for tags can either be done manually or using TagCheck. Many people prefer checking manually. TagCheck is the easy way to do it, but can be very slow sometimes (if there are a lot of directories). This tutorial will explain how to check for tags both ways. It is suggest reading through this and the tagging section before proceeding, to save time you can tag pubs as you go along rather than checking them all and then going back and tagging.
There are two ways you can use TagCheck, either have it check the whole list at once, or paste the IP in one by one. The easiest way is to have it do the whole list, to do this put perms.log in where it wants the address. Then all you do is hit start and away it goes. It will show all that it thinks could be tags, most of the time it is junk that has the same words as a tag would and then sometimes it does find tags. Once it is done you can go through the list of pubs and mark the ones it found tags on as "Tagged." If the tag is older than 2 weeks the pub can be checked manually to determine if anyone is still using it. If it is not in use it can be re-tagged by you.
Manually checking is a little more tricky, you first need to start up FlashFXP and select the remote pane (the right side usually). Go to your log and select the first ip and copy it and take mental note of the pub dir, then go back to FlashFXP. Press F8, which is the hot key for the quick connect dialog, and paste your ip in and hit enter. Once it connects browse to the pub dir and take a look and what's inside. If it is empty your lucky, you can tag it right there without any further checking. Usually there will be a mess of folders inside, the first thing to look for is any folders named: tag, tagged, com, lpt, or prn. If you see any of these check the creation date, if there are any within the last two weeks then mark the pub as tagged and move to the next. If they are all fairly old you can start checking sub directories by double clicking them and looking for folders with those same names in each sub dir. If you cannot find any tags within a few levels deep it is usually safe to assume that there is no one there. Any recent tags found and you should leave the pub alone because someone else is probably using it already.
Tagging Pubs
The easiest way to tag pubs is to create a directory structure on your computer and upload it to the pub. Here is an example of some tags:
/scanned/and/tagged/by/-=[~Tagged~]=- /tagged/by/-=[Tagged]=-/for/-=[~Tag~]=-
All you do is create those directories in side of each other in a temporary folder on your computer. Once that is done you can start up FlashFXP and connect to one of the untagged pubs you found. On the pub right click and select "Make Folder" and make a new folder named something that shows this is a tag like simply tag or tagged works fine. Then enter that folder and on the local pane (left side) browse to where you started your uploadable tag. Drag the first folder of the tag to the pub and it will create all the directories just how you did on your computer. Once it is complete you will be back where you started. Before you go double clicking all the folders to get to the new working path, you can just use the pull-down menu and it will show all the recently used directories. You can simply select the longest one and it will take you there. From here you can either copy the directory and paste it into your log (over the old directory) and move to the next pub, or you can try making some locked folders so people wont be able to delete your tag as easily.
Posting Pubs
You are now ready to post your log, so go to WarezNET and post your findings in the the section it goes in. Read WarezNET's rules first before you do so. Once you read over the rules you can click the Link to create a new thread. You can usually do one of the following to define that it is a list of pubs, "Perms xxx.xxx-xxx.xxx", where the xxx is the range that is being posted or just name the thread with how many pubs you are posting, something like: -=[16 Tagged and Tested]=-.
