May 19, 2006
May 16, 2006
Cut/Copy Denied? R u Infected?
How does it sound like? If you have worked with anything on your computer or done any of your projects yourself, you would be knowing how important CUT-COPY-PASTE Operations are. Well, I donno about you guys, but I certainly use them a lot, actually the shortcuts (lol). What if a user like me or anybody else, is denied of CUT-COPY-PASTE, I dont know how we will live...
Well it is close to a nightmare, and it is also the reality. My comp has denied me of the three most essential operations a computer operator requires.
It all began when I downloaded a software, i mean that was supposed to be a software. But when i executed the setup file, it turned out to be a malware/spyware.
I quickly uninstalled it, but then realised that it was not installed, but who the hell cares. But a while later, I was trying and copying something from Firefox to Word. I simply pressed CTRL+A, CTRL+C, and then could not paste a single letter in Word. Damn. I was shocked for a moment, but then i thought that there is something wrong with my systems Clipboard. I typed some junk,copied it, and then pasted it in word. That worked absolutely fine. That means something was wrong with firefox. Tried it with Opera, Maxthon, and even IE. All were infected. Then I realised that, that small advertisement was the fault.
Scanned all of the the bug reports on firefox but cudnt find anything.
I tried renaming firefox.exe to something like firefoxx.exe, and voila, COPY/PASTE was back. But this was not a FIX, it was just J-Method. You know what means.
Today, i looked and found that nothing was wrong with firefox, it was the malware that was causing it.
Whenever any application is loaded, the malware gets loaded with it. But it only denies copy/paste to certain targetted applications. Actually, it is designed to show ads on these browsers, but due to a bug in the malware/adware, it causes the copy/paste to be denied. WTF...
**The malware does *not* appear as a process and does not affect any files in
the Mozilla directories or Firefox program folder directly.*** This has been
hard for certain people to grasp! This is why when you uninstall and completely
remove Firefox and reinstall it, the problem still persists!
The malware comes in two parts. A nasty .dll file called pushow**.dll where **
is any random number and a windows registry entry for the string
'AppInit_DLLs'. This particular string 'helpfully' ensures the .dll file is
"loaded by each Microsoft Windows-based application that is running in the
current log on session". I pulled that quote straight off the microsoft website
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197571
(I know for a fact that this malware affects Opera and IE too but I'll just
refer to Firefox to make it easier)
Ok, here is what you need to do to remove the Avertisemen.com malware: -
Once the search has finished select the pushow**.dll file (there will be multiple copies if you ran the setup file more than once). Delete the file or files.
Start Firefox and feel really good at being able to cut and paste properly again :)
Firefox is a great piece of open source software. It seems it wasn't a bug after all but a piece of malware that affected most major web browsers. If anything, Firefox was the only browser that flagged up any problems and I doubt I would have worked it out otherwise… Hopefully this will have fixed your problem. At the end, A big thumbs up to firefox and open source. \m/
Well it is close to a nightmare, and it is also the reality. My comp has denied me of the three most essential operations a computer operator requires.
It all began when I downloaded a software, i mean that was supposed to be a software. But when i executed the setup file, it turned out to be a malware/spyware.
I quickly uninstalled it, but then realised that it was not installed, but who the hell cares. But a while later, I was trying and copying something from Firefox to Word. I simply pressed CTRL+A, CTRL+C, and then could not paste a single letter in Word. Damn. I was shocked for a moment, but then i thought that there is something wrong with my systems Clipboard. I typed some junk,copied it, and then pasted it in word. That worked absolutely fine. That means something was wrong with firefox. Tried it with Opera, Maxthon, and even IE. All were infected. Then I realised that, that small advertisement was the fault.
Scanned all of the the bug reports on firefox but cudnt find anything.
I tried renaming firefox.exe to something like firefoxx.exe, and voila, COPY/PASTE was back. But this was not a FIX, it was just J-Method. You know what means.
Today, i looked and found that nothing was wrong with firefox, it was the malware that was causing it.
Whenever any application is loaded, the malware gets loaded with it. But it only denies copy/paste to certain targetted applications. Actually, it is designed to show ads on these browsers, but due to a bug in the malware/adware, it causes the copy/paste to be denied. WTF...
**The malware does *not* appear as a process and does not affect any files in
the Mozilla directories or Firefox program folder directly.*** This has been
hard for certain people to grasp! This is why when you uninstall and completely
remove Firefox and reinstall it, the problem still persists!
The malware comes in two parts. A nasty .dll file called pushow**.dll where **
is any random number and a windows registry entry for the string
'AppInit_DLLs'. This particular string 'helpfully' ensures the .dll file is
"loaded by each Microsoft Windows-based application that is running in the
current log on session". I pulled that quote straight off the microsoft website
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197571
(I know for a fact that this malware affects Opera and IE too but I'll just
refer to Firefox to make it easier)
Ok, here is what you need to do to remove the Avertisemen.com malware: -
- Click Start > Run…
- Type “regedit.exe” and press OK.
- Get to the following location in the registry: -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows - In the pane on the right-hand side of regedit you should see a String called “AppInit_DLLs” with a value of “pushow**.dll” where ** is some random number.
- Right-click on this String and click Delete.
- Click Start > Run…
- Type “C:\windows\system32\” and press OK.
- Click on the Search toolbar button in the explorer window that just appeared.
- Click “All files and folders” on the search panel that has appeared on the left hand side of the window.
- Where it says “All or part of the file name:” enter “pushow*.dll” and click Search.
Important! Close all Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer windows.
Once the search has finished select the pushow**.dll file (there will be multiple copies if you ran the setup file more than once). Delete the file or files.
Start Firefox and feel really good at being able to cut and paste properly again :)
Firefox is a great piece of open source software. It seems it wasn't a bug after all but a piece of malware that affected most major web browsers. If anything, Firefox was the only browser that flagged up any problems and I doubt I would have worked it out otherwise… Hopefully this will have fixed your problem. At the end, A big thumbs up to firefox and open source. \m/
April 29, 2006
Mind Boggling...
Is it just me, or is it that I have forgotten old school mathematics. Hell.. This question here is driving me nuts. I saw this question sometime back at a frendz place, but didnt seem to get it then.. but now when i found it, I donno what to say..
Please anyone who can find the answer to this... plz answer it
The question that drives us crazy is :
How come the areas are not equal ??
Please anyone who can find the answer to this... plz answer it
The question that drives us crazy is :
How come the areas are not equal ??
April 27, 2006
Mac XP ??
Mac XP... Is this the future of home computing. Windows XP on a Mac? If this statement would have come some time back, everyone would have made fun of it. But believe it or not, Apple made it a reality... with Boot Camp. An all new utility from Apple that would allow Mac users to install Windows on their powerful machines.
Does it really install Windows or just runs an emulated version.. lol.. Wont believe it untill i see it. But as some unlucky Mac lovers have said, " I installed Win XP, and now I can't go back to Mac OSX." They are stuck on Windows. When I read this, I laughed so much that my stomach started to pain like hell. MacOS lovers stuck on windows, thats a laugh... Its like a local car driver given an F-1 to drive, but here the local car has more power i.e. MacOSX.
These user's are trying to get back to MacOS but the Apple support is not replying back to any of the queries. Reason? The answer is that BOOT CAMP is still in beta stages and no suport will be provided for it untill it is officially realeased in the next version of OSX. This statement was clearly mentioned where Boot Camp was available for download. Ahh well... if this works out well, we will see a nationwide, or mayb worldwide shift from desktop comps to powerful Macs. Gee.. That would be.. That means someday i will have a mac too..... yippee....
Does it really install Windows or just runs an emulated version.. lol.. Wont believe it untill i see it. But as some unlucky Mac lovers have said, " I installed Win XP, and now I can't go back to Mac OSX." They are stuck on Windows. When I read this, I laughed so much that my stomach started to pain like hell. MacOS lovers stuck on windows, thats a laugh... Its like a local car driver given an F-1 to drive, but here the local car has more power i.e. MacOSX.
These user's are trying to get back to MacOS but the Apple support is not replying back to any of the queries. Reason? The answer is that BOOT CAMP is still in beta stages and no suport will be provided for it untill it is officially realeased in the next version of OSX. This statement was clearly mentioned where Boot Camp was available for download. Ahh well... if this works out well, we will see a nationwide, or mayb worldwide shift from desktop comps to powerful Macs. Gee.. That would be.. That means someday i will have a mac too..... yippee....
April 25, 2006
Screwed
Im posting here after a very long time now. I feel as if gates screwed me bigtime.
I didnt study anything for the whole semester, didnt get any marks in the internals, got a paper cancelled... and now, the teachers have started lookin at me as if they gonna eat me alive...
Donno what to do, all i know is i have to do what i want to... presently i feel as if all this opened my eyes to the reality... Even though this has happened before, but still i donno, i havent realised anything...
Got my practicals next week, have studied nothing yet, donno anything.. have a week to do whatever i can to do my best... lest see what happenes....
I didnt study anything for the whole semester, didnt get any marks in the internals, got a paper cancelled... and now, the teachers have started lookin at me as if they gonna eat me alive...
Donno what to do, all i know is i have to do what i want to... presently i feel as if all this opened my eyes to the reality... Even though this has happened before, but still i donno, i havent realised anything...
Got my practicals next week, have studied nothing yet, donno anything.. have a week to do whatever i can to do my best... lest see what happenes....
April 18, 2006
A Ray of Hope?
Ahh... finally, I got the letter from the college computer for My Summer Internship.
It was a very difficult task, have been trying my level best for the past... mmm i guess 5 weeks now. It was gud to see like minded people with me take charge.
Today I went to Sony World, to select a digital camera.. I just regret I didnt have one when i told the receptionist that Batra Sir has called her.. She was like.. dont mind but.. she looked like as if now she fucked up badly..lol
Finally we got to hold of the letter, but then I realised that my misery was not over as yet. I saw that it had to be signed by the DG. I know he's a cool guy, but as Tapsie said, " Get a branded set of floaters, maybe Adidas"...
But at the end of it, i got the trainging letter... and am trying my level best to get Industrial training in Symbian OS.. I just wish this happens and and if it does, it will be like a ray of light destroying the darkness and enlightening me..
LOL.. i donno why i wrote that. Anyways, u guys have a look at this ::
It was a very difficult task, have been trying my level best for the past... mmm i guess 5 weeks now. It was gud to see like minded people with me take charge.
Today I went to Sony World, to select a digital camera.. I just regret I didnt have one when i told the receptionist that Batra Sir has called her.. She was like.. dont mind but.. she looked like as if now she fucked up badly..lol
Finally we got to hold of the letter, but then I realised that my misery was not over as yet. I saw that it had to be signed by the DG. I know he's a cool guy, but as Tapsie said, " Get a branded set of floaters, maybe Adidas"...
But at the end of it, i got the trainging letter... and am trying my level best to get Industrial training in Symbian OS.. I just wish this happens and and if it does, it will be like a ray of light destroying the darkness and enlightening me..
LOL.. i donno why i wrote that. Anyways, u guys have a look at this ::
April 10, 2006
Time for a Revolution...
I can't stand it any longer.
Why don't they increase reservations to 100%
while they're at it? Why do it piece by piece when
they're gonna reach 100% anyway?
All they want is more votes and nothing else... We have to do something ppl...
We have to join hands and protest against this. Many protests have already begun...
Have a look at this and feel free to comment : SayNoToMANDAL2
Our time is now, if we don't fight for our rights, who will??
We have to get together and do something about it. No1 will fight for us, we have to fight for ourselves. Get up, let the fire burn inside u...
Haath pe haath rakh ke baithne se kuch nahi hoga...
Why don't they increase reservations to 100%
while they're at it? Why do it piece by piece when
they're gonna reach 100% anyway?
All they want is more votes and nothing else... We have to do something ppl...
We have to join hands and protest against this. Many protests have already begun...
Have a look at this and feel free to comment : SayNoToMANDAL2
Our time is now, if we don't fight for our rights, who will??
We have to get together and do something about it. No1 will fight for us, we have to fight for ourselves. Get up, let the fire burn inside u...
Haath pe haath rakh ke baithne se kuch nahi hoga...