gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » survey http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CPALead Bypass, New Techniquehttp://www.ghacks.net/2010/12/05/cpalead-bypass-new-technique/ http://www.ghacks.net/2010/12/05/cpalead-bypass-new-technique/#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:21:20 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=37616 CPALead is an advertising company that offers webmasters a script to place on their website. The script acts as a barrier between public and private contents on the website. Visitors who want to access the content secured by CPALead need to perform an action to do so. This usually means filling out a survey before the secured page becomes available.

CPALead bypass tutorials and tips usually only work for a specific time before the company reacts on their discovery to prevent them from working.

One of the latest -currently- working options is to bypass CPALead surveys by redirecting their traffic to another server. How does it work? The CPALead script running on the website usually connects to a CPALead server for information whether the survey has been filled out successfully by the visitor. If the server returns a true (which means yes in layman terms) then access to the content is granted, if it returns false (which equals no) then no access is granted.

This method basically redirects the requests to a proxy server which will always return true to the website.

Users need to edit their hosts file for this to work. The host file is located in Windows\system32\drivers\etc\ on Windows and /etc/hosts on Linux

The following two entries need to be added to the hosts file

46.4.160.45 cpalead.com
46.4.160.45 www.cpalead.com

This basically tells the operating system to always redirect requests to cpalead.com and www.cpalead.com to the server 46.4.160.45 (which is not the official CPALead website).

The method works fine right now, but it can – and likely will happen – that it will stop working eventually. It can be that the proxy server goes offline or changes IP addresses, or it can be that CPALead once again tweaks their script to block this method of bypassing their service (via Blogsolute)

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2010/12/05/cpalead-bypass-new-technique/feed/ 3 Please Help Ghacks With This Surveyhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/16/please-help-ghacks-with-this-survey/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/16/please-help-ghacks-with-this-survey/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:55:30 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16407 I was approached by one of the companies that I work with (IDG) to publish a survey on my website. This survey is being used to create a Media Kit for Ghacks that will be used as a data source in advertising deals. This should mean a higher ad revenue for the site as the advertising companies have a better understanding of some general information about the website’s visitors (which would make me happy, haha)

They would like to analyze 100 surveys and I thought a good way to do this is to create a post asking for your help. The survey takes between 5 to 10 minutes to complete and is completely anonymous. You do not have to provide an email address or your name in the survey. You might do it however as there will be a drawing in the end awarding one of the participants a $100 Visa gift certificate that is valid worldwide.

I would also like to add five Ghacks T-shirts to users who contribute in the survey. Just leave a comment telling me that you did and you enter in the drawing for those shirts. You can click the link below to be taken to the survey. I understand that some of you have strong objections against surveys. That’s totally legit as well. Thanks for taking the time to read this plea for help and thanks again if you have decided to participate in the survey.

Survey Link

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