Twittering with friends seems to be the new “thing-to-do” on the web these days. Many bloggers are using it and it has even made its way into an episode of CSI! So what exactly is Twitter you ask? Twitter is an online web service that lets you post what you are doing - in 140 characters or less - in which those who are “following” can track what you’re doing based on what you post. Bloggers sometimes also use Twitter to share URLs and to share quick thoughts on a variety of topics.

Now I said that Twitter was a web service right? Well the Twitter developers have released an API in which developers can use to create “Twitter clients” to be used outside the web browser.

Alan Le, from the company Vertigo, has utilized the Twitter API and designed a WPF Twitter client called Witty that extends the Twitter experience into Windows Vista. If you recall, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is built in to Windows Vista.  

I also blogged about another awesome product from the Vertigo folks back in August called Family.Show. Family.Show is a WPF app used in tracking family history and creating a family tree.

With Witty, I can quickly receive updates from people I am following as well as quickly post on what I’m doing (or any specific thought quickly I might have) quickly as the app nicely sits on my notification area of my taskbar.

Download: Witty 0.1.5 (986Kb)

To install Witty, just download the .zip file (above) and extract to a folder on your PC. Once the files are extracted, open the folder the files were extracted to and double click on Witty.exe. Feel free to follow me! You cal also follow the Windows Vista Team Blog on Twitter as well - which will update whenever a new post is made here on the blog.

Please note that the latest version of Witty released is 0.1.5 - which is what I recommend you use. My screenshots reflect 0.1.6 but it is an early alpha (pre-beta) version of Witty I am helping test out for Alan. For future versions of Witty, feel free to leave comments and I’ll make sure Alan gets them!

Attention all Facebook membeRs.

Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated, There have been many members complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow.Record shows that the reason is that there are too many non-active Facebook members And on the other side too many new Facebook members. We will be sending this messages around to see if the Members are active or not,If you’re active please send to other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are active Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks, The user will be deleted without hesitation to create more space, If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until then send this message to all your friends and make sure you send this message to show me that your active and not deleted.

Founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg

You should be alert during the next days:

Do not open any message with an attached filed called”Invitation” regardless of who sent it, It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which “burns” the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact
list, that is why you should send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.If you receive a mail called “invitation”, though sent by a friend, do not open it and shut down your computer immediately.
This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been Classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus.This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc,where the vital information is kept.

Trojan Win32/Qoologic used to be a real Trojan, now fake anti-spyware software like IE Defender or Files Secure which will display Trojan Win32/Qoologic as a fake popup message or their scan result to trick user to buy the fake anti-spyware program. The fake anti-spyware program usually get installed onto your PC without your permission, through Trojan, malware and virus (or you could get it by installing a fake video codec).

The possible error messages are either “Your PC is infected by Trojan - Win32/Qoologic. It’s dangerous for your system (critical files can be lost)! Click OK to download the antispyware program to clean your system! (Recommended)”, or “Your browser was hijacked by Trojan Win32/Qoologic”. As discussed previously, these messages are completely misleading. You can safely remove Trojan Win32/Qoologic by following our manual removal instructions if you are familiar with regedit and dll files. Good luck!

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility

Manual Trojan Win32/Qoologic Removal Instructions:

Unregister Trojan Win32/Qoologic DLL Files:
(Learn how to do this)
poswin.dll
isfmdl.dll
pdswin.dll
oggview32.dll
pbukv2.dll
huriscos.dll
hsirziq.dll
pwnbho.dll
spads.dll
dataclenu.dll
domnftwpto.dll
PhWh11M3.dll
vturppp.dll
jkklm.dll
tgfaifwm.dll
qomllji.dll

Find and Delete these Trojan Win32/Qoologic Files:
(Learn how to do this)
poswin.dll
isfmdl.dll
pdswin.dll
pbukv2.dll
huriscos.dll
hsirziq.dll
pwnbho.dll
spads.dll
dataclenu.dll
domnftwpto.dll
PhWh11M3.dll
vturppp.dll
jkklm.dll
tgfaifwm.dll
qomllji.dll

Remove Trojan Win32/Qoologic Registry Values:
(Learn how to do this)
3e0cee63-f8bc-4485-a745-cc01b2a0e9d9
369A87BB-07DF-4AB6-B23D-B5BF81338572
69B98C68-D2B8-4A4E-9CB7-E85B6F3A7014
4EBAA7B0-740D-4CFA-9455-5C233BB354E1
4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-A0E8-F479B685FA7D
a60e765a-fd37-4529-bf73-cf805dfd84ea
CAA8DC4B-648A-4C2F-8F2A-39E607830DEF
4AAC4708-FE47-4B80-92EF-47406444DDD2
8E015787-B1E3-404a-95DE-3E71E1FA0305
3D50DBC0-414E-480F-9C5E-5DB9E4568EF7
7E24E909-FB8A-4837-9DF7-05E7587CB26C
F10587E9-0E47-4CBE-84AE-7DD20B8684BB
4AAC4708-FE47-4B80-92EF-47406444DDD2
83CDEF6B-98D2-4C60-84FC-00C44606A4F8
85589B5D-D53D-4237-A677-46B82EA275F3
CA4F0D8D-5F2B-4F16-838A-8D52249EAB21
55E04179-C2DF-4D7F-B74E-3E644C983237
44a5d01d-1dd0-4412-be7e-ce652025d433
FF64059D-4D2A-4D6B-AA0F-2EE4A2FE3856

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.

You can also download the free version of Avira Antivir to remove the spyware (update)

Trojan Win32/Qoologic Variants: Trojan.Win32, Trojan.Win32.Patched and Trojan.Win32.Obfuscated.gx