Software is only a eight letter word. Still you could talk about it for ages and you could find so much information about this vast topic that you couldn't possibly read all of it even if you spent years doing only that. There is some kind of software for almost anything in this world involving computer use.

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You can find a special software to help you calculate your taxes, draw the floor plans for your future home, design your baby's clothes, operate your computer, watch movies, edit photos and what not? But all these tone of examples of software must be gathered and divided into major groups according to their main features and purposes because we don't live in a chaotic world, after all.



Well, people argue about this classification, too. Some people say there are two major types of software (operating systems and applications), others that there are three (system software,  programming software and application software) and finally some others think there are more of them which I will enumerate later on.

The first major type of software that can be found in all classifications is the operating system software. This kind of software is the basic software of a computer and it helps run the computer hardware and system. It includes: device drivers, operating systems for personal computers, servers, utilities and windowing systems. The best known operating systems are : Windows, Linux, Mac OS. You usually install this kind of software more rarely, when you need to update the whole operating system or there have been some bugs and malfunctions in the system.

The second major type of software (also found in all classifications) is the application software. These software applications have specific purposes and are designed for a certain purpose, for example play games, listen to music, write letters, etc.Examples of such software: educational software, medical software, tax software, database, military software and a lot others.This is probably the most used type of software that is used by all the people all over the world. Not all of us use the same software applications, but the fun is the fact that you have the possibility which application to use. Besides, hey are very easy to purchase, either by buying them from specialized stores or simply downloading the free version from the internet. It all depends on your tastes and preoccupations.

Another type of software, mentioned only in some classifications, is the programming software. It deals mainly with providing tools that will assist computer programmers in their attempt to write computer programs and allow them to use different programming languages in a way that is convenient for them. The tools of this software may include: compilers, debuggers, interpreters, linkers, text editors, etc.



Some other types of software can be considered: inventory management software (deals with the inventory in certain areas - shops, industry, warehouses ; it includes many other subtypes, utility software ( disk de-fragmentation, virus scanners),  data backup and recovery software  - that can also offer some advice as what to backup and where, not just copy the data from a hard drive. Anyway, the average computer user only use the first two major types of software: the operating system software and the software applications. The rest is used by professionals or people working in a specific field of activity.

IP spoofing software is designed and used by people who purposely try to break the law in order to get material gains or willingly undermine someone's image. IP is short for internet protocol and is in fact a number that is allocated to your computer as a web user and it can be identified every time you browse the internet, so it is rather like a trace that you leave behind on the internet and computer professionals can find out exactly where you were and what web sites you visited and everything you did on the internet.

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If that's OK with me, as I don't have anything to hide, some people want to change their identity on the internet in order not to be recognized and be granted access to certain web sites and internet browsers. Of course who does this has sometthing to hide and usually this something is not pretty at all. So they thought of a solution: to "borrow" somebody else's identity on the internet, that is his or her IP and use it as his own in order to make some illegal moves that could be severeley punished if his real identity could be found out.



Of course they use different illegal methods to change their identity, that is disguised under someone else's IP and access a certain web page they have been hunting for a long time. Well, what IP spoofing software does is to pretend to be the actual owner of that software and in fact redirect the person who wants to access a certain web page to another one created by them. Now there are two possibilities after you have been redirected by this tricky software: you either get to a "dirty" web site containing porn or dirty words or I don't know what else that could undermine the name of the web site owner or, even worse, it redirects you to an almost exact replica of the original web site, with the big difference that now he has control over whatever you type and do there, on the replica site.

Some of the guys who use IP spoofing software do this in order to have their revenge on the company that fired them and redirect all its customers to a web site that contains crap about the respective company. They make sure the stupid things they write there are crazy enough to draw attention and get to the newspapers and this way they consider their revenge is done.

Others disguise their real IP because they have been denied access to a certain web site because of security issues or because they did something the web administrator did not allow -multiple accounts, dirty language when talking to the other forum users , cheating in competitions and so on. These are all reasons to be banned access to a certain web site . But if they really want to go there, they steal someone else's IP or invent some bogus IP under which they disguise and try to have access to the wanted web site again. This could work until the next time he does something stupid and will be banned again.



And the last case, and the worst one at the same time, is the internet user who only wants the IP spoofing software because he wants to do some bad things and gain material advantages from tricking people. Let's see what happens. This person uses IP spoofing software to get another IP and in this way he succeeds in tricking people that a fake web site is actually the original one. How does he do that? Well, they clone the web site belonging to a bank usually, one that has internet access for the clients to manage their money .

When the clients want to access their accounts online, they are actually redirected to another web site, usually a replica of the original one. When they enter the identification codes (user name and password), this data is sent to the perpetrator and in this way he has direct access to the poor victim's funds. This is definitely a breaking of the law and also a serious crime. But what about the victim's security?



These spoofed web sites are very difficult to identify and usually it is even harder to prove who did what as the IPs differ . Well, the best thing for all internet users is to have a really powerful anti-spam software installed and to stay alert. In case you see something that is not right, a small misspelling, a different color of the usual web site or any tiny difference, do not hesitate to leave the internet browser immediately and contact the web site owner in order to make things clear. After all, it is better safe than sorry.

I am not going to search the internet for you and offer you IP spoofing software, as this kind of software is illegal . Do it at your own risk and expense if you want to. I just want to warn you that this is a serious matter and it breaks the law if used with a bad purpose in mind. Just be careful if you find such software offered for free download, as you might get "spoofed" yourself or get infected with all kinds of computer viruses and Trojans.



You can find some useful software that can protect you against this kind of fraud attempts and also from phishing if you visit www.downloadmanager.org. A network can be protected against IP spoofing if it uses Ingress filtering , that uses pakets to filter the inbound traffic. In this case the system will be able to find out if the packets come from inside the network or from outside it. Any way there are some other similar software programs that allow you to hide your IP and some people might use it for fun, but the bottom line is this is not OK, as it can be used in a very harmful way for other people.

Ever since people appeared on the face of the Earth they were divided from the point of view of their intentions: some have good intentions and some have bad intentions. This is not an effect of money, fortune or misfortune. Some people are made this way or maybe they lacked the proper education. The point is that people are not always trustworthy, especially if they are on the internet where they can hide their real identity and intentions and pretend to be whatever they want to be. When banks appeared, bank robbers were not too late to appear; when software programmes meant to protect the user appeared, the people who wanted to break it appeared, too.
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As hard as you might fight to protect your accounts and passwords on the internet, there will always be some people trying to break it and hack it and basically "steal" your account and identity. Some people who do that and "hack" email accounts actually have material benefits from it, but some do it just for fun, to prove they are "good hackers" and they can break any code or cyphre and they consider it just a game or a challenge. Any way, if you try to find some hotmail hacking software on the internet it is not hard at all. Though they are advertised as software that can help you when you are in trouble because you forgot your email account password or something like that. I agree, that happens quite frequently, but there are other ways of recovering your password (usually you have to answer a secret question that has only one right answer that you wrote when you did that account); you don't have to hack an account just because you forgot a password. Well, this is just a cover for the bad intentions of the people who want to use such a hotmail hacking software or any other hacking software.

Before even starting to talk about this kind of software I must warn you that hacking somebody else's email account is a felony and you are likely to break the law when doing it. It is ok to do this only if you are hacking your own email account in your attempt to recover the lost or forgotten password.

One example is Email Password Hacking Software 2.0.1.5 that can be downloaded here.  Let's see the features of this software in order to see how you can use it and what exactly it can do. This software can help you hack all Windows password programmes (Word, Excel, access, pdf, zip, etc). It can also break the login password for the accounts of such email providers as: Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Google, etc. It is capable to break the safety and crack the password of any account for shopping, email, search engine, news and so on. It is said to recover the passwords saved on the computer operating systems behind the asterisks. It also provides a free demo to show you how you can recover passwords regardless of length and difficulty. It can operate on any Windows variant, including Windows Vista and use its memory for recovering all saved data and passwords in the system memory.

Whereas the software presented above was used for many purposes and many account passwords, here you can find a special software that deals only with recovery of the Hotmail password only - Retrieve Hotmail Password 5.0.1.This kind of software works only if you tick the box that asks you if you agree to be signed in automatically when you access that particular web page. If you tick it, it implies that you agreed to this and the password introduced by you there will be saved on the system memory and reintroduced by it automatically next time you want to sign in to your hotmail account. Even when that happens the password you chose will not appear on the screen, but it will be hidden under asterisks. This software actually hacks the system memory and "steals" the hotmail password from there, in thid way having access to your Hotmail account. My advice for you all is to tick this box only if you are absolutele certain that you are the only user on your computer and that nobody else will have access to it. Make sure you do not tick the acceptance of having your password automatically saved when you access your account from another computer. The reason is pretty simple: no software, not even hotmail hacking software can find your password from a distant computer, unless they hack the Hotmail server, which is a lot more difficult, more like impossible. This software is useful only if you forget your own password and have difficulty in accessing your account.

Anyway, my personal opinion is to have a special folder saved under a harmless name, encrypted and saved very well on your computer, where only you can have access and where to keep your password, in order to avoid unpleasant moments as forgetting it and being unable to access your own account. I don't advise you to use this software for finding out other people's account passwords and stealing personal information from them or affecting them in an unpleasant way, as you break the law, like I said before, and you can get in trouble with the police.

This being said, it is ok to know that this software exists and to know what it can do, or even use it for your own remembrance of passwords, but make sure you stay out of trouble.