Secret Backdoor To Many Websites

Ever
experienced this? You ask Google to look something up; the engine
returns with a number of finds, but if you try to open the ones with
the most promising content, you are confronted with a registration page
instead, and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you
unless you agree to a credit card transaction first....
The lesson you should have learned here is: Obviously Google can go where you can't.

Can we solve this problem? Yes, we can. We merely have to convince the site we want to enter, that WE ARE GOOGLE.
In
fact, many sites that force users to register or even pay in order to
search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the Googlebot,
because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate
sales leads, site hits and exposure.
Examples of such sites are Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many, many newspapers around the globe.
How
then, can you disguise yourself as a Googlebot? Quite simple: by
changing your browser's User Agent. Copy the following code segment and
paste it into a fresh notepad file. Save it as Useragent.reg and merge
it into your registry.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Googlebot/2.1"
"Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"

You're done!

You
may always change it back again.... I know only one site that uses you
User Agent to establish your eligability to use its services, and
that's the Windows Update site...
To restore the IE6 User Agent, save the following code to NormalAgent.reg and merge with your registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"