Ghiath’s Computer Blog

External memory devices are common virus distribution method. Once you open an infected memory device the Autorun.inf will copy the virus to your machine and it will get infected as well.

However, there’s a very simple protection method that doesn’t require any third-party software.

First, you have to enable viewing hidden and protected files. You can do this simply by enabling two options from Folder Options as shown in the following image:

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Source: Robert McMillan (IDG News Service)

Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent days.

A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company’s site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. “A portion of our site — some pages were attacked,” said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. “We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night — and took corrective action.”

On Thursday security vendor McAfee reported that more than 20,000 Web pages have been affected by the attack. The pages are infected with malicious code that tries to install password-stealing software on the PCs of people who visit the sites.

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This morning, I noticed that MSN Messenger is not working also I could run some videos on Windows Media Player 11. Anyway, when I checked my event log I got this error message:

“The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Windows Live Messenger ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: msnmsgr.exe, 8.5.1302.1018, 4717a53b, ddraw.dll, 5.3.2600.2180, 411096a0, 0, 00009751.”

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We’ve featured so far two products for securing computers, Kaspersky Internet Security and PC Tools Spyware Doctor. These two products are very helpful if your operating system is working fine. But what if your computer is damaged badly by a virus or a worm and you can’t even start your Microsoft Windows in “Normal Mode” or that virus is not letting you install applications.

In order to scan your computer with Trend Micro System Cleaner, you have to download sysclean.com and download the latest pattern file from Trend Micro’s website. Extract the Zip archive of the pattern file and put the the two files on the same directory and execute sysclean.com.

Now, Trend Micros Sytem Cleaner windows should appear on the screen. Just click on scan to scan all your files or click on advanced to choose more advanced options.

Once Sysclean finished scanning your computer an log file will be generated. You can click on “View Log” to see the scan result.

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There are a lot of users including me who faced trouble trying to see Google Adsense Ads while they are using Kaspersky Internet Security. The reason for this is that Kaspersky’s Anti-Banner is blocking the script for Google Adsense Syndication. However, the solution for this problem is very simple and here are the steps to enable Adsense with KIS.

Step 1:

Open Kaspersly Internet Security Firewall Settings and click on Configure as shown in the image below:

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Spyware Doctor

I consider Spyware Doctor the most powerful against spyware, tracking cookies and suspicious applications I’ve tried so far. Too many things make this tool a frontline for defeating threats.

Advantages:

A. Excellent Threat Detection: Spyware Doctor is very effective against spyware, malware and tracking cookies. The good thing about this tool is that it installs itself as a Windows service and checks every single file from startup to shutdown. The OnGuard feature give this tool extra power for detecting threats from Browsers, Cookies, KeyLoggers, Networks and Malicious applications.
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According to VirusList.com , these are the top 20 viruses for January 2008:

For the second month in a row, representatives of the new Trojan-Downloader family Diehard have been creating a considerable stir in mail traffic.

December 2007 Top Twenty contain three variants of this program; yet another variant has joined the rankings in the first month of 2008. The unknown authors are using exactly the same approach which made families such as Warezov and Zhelatin so successful two years ago – conducting a multitude of very short lived mass-mailings. However, in contrast to Warezov, we’re not yet seeing ten new variants of Diehard every day.
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I will start a series of posts to review a number of products that I found very help for personal computer protection. There are thousand for security products that claims to be give your computer the best protection.

Kaspersky Internet Security:

Kaspersky is the best Internet Protection Suit I’ve tried so far. I will list the thing advantages and the disadvantages for it so it can be easy to evaluate:

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Source: Google Operating System

Even if it’s hard to believe that Yahoo will accept it, there’s a simple way to make Yahoo more profitable: drop its search advertising service and use Google AdWords. Google has a better technology for ranking ads, a bigger inventory and higher click-through rates. If Google accepts to offer Yahoo most of the earnings, it’s likely that Yahoo’s profits will make investors happy again.

According to Wall Street Journal, “Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company’s help in any effort to thwart Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, say people familiar with the matter. (…) Google could play a role in attempts by others to outbid Microsoft, or by Yahoo to remain independent. Google could potentially offer money, or guaranteed revenue in return for a Yahoo advertising outsourcing pact, under that scenario.”
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Are you getting bored from searching for KAV 7.0 keys? This is a very simple way to get your own free key.

The article was published in TechSnack.net and it also has the instructions for getting the key.

There are 2 things you need to do in order to get a free serial number (1 year license). First, you need to register as a member at the forum. Then, provide them your email address and they will send the serial number for you. If you can read Chinese, you probably won’t face any problems. But if you can’t read, i had done a translation and you can complete it by just follow my tutorial.
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