Hmmmm. I haven’t posted here in ages. Lots going on. At one point I used this as a journal for tech stuff. Somewhere along the way I got sidetracked into a lot of other things. I’m wondering though if it’s time to restart…. lots of linux administration and tech stuff to write about. Watch this space there may be new material coming soon.
Tag: cleanup
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The latest and greatest in Malware Removals
I have started referring to malware more and more lately because the term virus doesn’t exactly describe the pests I see on peoples machines and the terms spyware or adware aren’t doing justice to some of these pests either. (There are many pieces of what I would consider malware that do undesired things that protest vehemently (and technically correct) that they are not spyware.) So, the last week I’ve had my hands full with a machine on the bench that had a bug in it that was like a multi-headed hydra. It’s kind of like Night of the Living dead or one of those Friday the 13th movies… every time you think you’ve got the baddies licked they keep coming back. Hang on this could be a long post….
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Juice – formerly ipodder podcast client for Linux (Windows and Mac too…)
I’ve been playing around a bit with podcast clients the last couple of days. I’ve been finding online news feeds for the onlineradiotv.com site and for many of those I have bash scripts to handle downloading or streaming the audio available from shortwave broadcasters. I did run across a few podcasts too though and thought it might be time to take another look at linux podcasting clients…
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Spyware, viral cleanup disabling system restore
Sorry, but to get into the guts of what I found in the wake of the WMF exploit, I did leave out another important step in the cleanup process. IF you are trying to clean up an infested machine one of the first real goals has to be disabling system restore. (start, (settings,) control panel, system, system restore, and use the checkbox on that sheet, then ok to confirm.) This was one of the first things I did after infection to start the process of cleaning up. Windows uses system restore to keep copies of vital windows files. Unfortunately they can be viral/trojaned files as well.
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http://60.topnssearch.com popups in infestation
One other note from the previous series on WMF exploit infestation cleanup. Among the multiple popups that came when launching internet explorer, most were directed at the site http://60.topnssearch.com –