November 5th, 2008

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Windows 7 Torrents all over Torrent Sites

Microsoft released to PDC attendees copies of Windows Vista successor — Windows 7. ChannelRegister is already reporting that versions of Windows 7 for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications are already available as downloads from Pirate Bay, Seedpeer, and Mininova.

In an excerpt:

Microsoft’s “pre-beta” version of its upcoming OS – Windows 7 – has already tipped up on BitTorrent sites just as the dust settles on the firm’s Professional Developers Conference.
Developers and hacks at the software giant’s event were handed copies of the operating system in Los Angeles last week.

Both Windows Seven 32-bit Version (Microsoft.Windows.7.32Bit.Build.6801.DVD-WinBeta - 3.36GB) and 64-bit Version (Microsoft.Windows.7.64Bit.Build.6801.DVD-WinBeta - 2.75GB) are hosted at many Torrent Sites.[Via Vista Weblog]

Written by ShaDow on November 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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When will the Operating System not matter?

There are all kinds of computer users. On one end of the spectrum, there are folks that just want their MySpace and iTunes, and on the other end there are folks like me who really dig computers - they are a hobby, they are (possibly) a career, and most importantly they are a passion.

Even in the latter category there is often division. You will run into “Computer Guys” who define themselves as “Mac Guys”, or “PC/MS/Windows Guys” or “Linux/UNIX Guys” (or Gals in all 3 cases ).

I just enjoy computers. I enjoy interacting with a machine and making it do something, and I enjoy exploring different systems to see what makes them work, and learning how to make different systems interact with each other. I do enjoy the Linux experience more simply because I can be involved in it. I can test new stuff, file bug reports, send the developer of an application an e-mail, communicate with other Linux users on mailing lists, web forums and IRC chat-rooms. I can help a new Linux user get started, or help an experienced user figure out that really weird error they’re getting. This part of it is the “hobby” for me. Recently I’ve also been getting interested in OpenSolaris, running it in a Virtual Machine. It looks really interesting, and like Linux is an open community and I’m very interested to see where it goes in the future. In short, I simply like the Open Source way of doing things. You can see what’s under the hood, and a community of people, who likely have never met in person can collaborate over the Internet and create something that is used and enjoyed by millions of people (apparently the number of Ubuntu users has now risen to 8 million and growing).

I am blessed to be able to use all three major “desktop platforms” every day. I have my “Home-Grown” Ubuntu desktop at home, my Dell Precision Workstation running Vista at work and I have a MacBook Pro that I’m able to use as well. The odd thing is, between all three Operating Systems, as different (or similar) as they may be, I can use many of the same applications. For example, on all three machines I have OpenOffice.org, Firefox, VirtualBox, GIMP, VIM, and probably something obvious I’m forgetting. There is also the aspect of “Cloud Computing”, and I use Gmail.com for my email and Google Reader to manage my RSS feeds and this very blog is hosted on WordPress.com, which in turn uses Amazon S3 to host media. It seems every day we are getting to the point to where it will not matter what Operating System you are using. What will matter most are the applications installed (or better yet, if it has internet access), and many of those applications, thanks to the Open Source community will be the very same Applications across all of the platforms. I haven’t even touched on the mega-smartphone craze! Man the iPhone and T-Mobile G1 “Google Phone” can in effect be computers in themselves!

Yet another open source project, WINE breaks those barriers down even further by allowing Windows applications to run on Linux/UNIX and even the Mac. Also, all three of the major desktop virtualization applications (VMware Workstation/Fusion, Parallels Desktop and VirtualBox) allow some sort of “unity” or “seamless” mode where the applications virutalized in the VM can be integrated directly onto the host machine’s desktop.

At work, I’m in the middle of a new Citrix XenApp deployment which will allow my Mac using remote employee the same access to the same proprietary Windows applications as his Windows using colleague. I could also fire up a Linux desktop, install the Citrix client, and again access the same applications.

Every year someone predicts “This will be the year of Linux on the Desktop”. Well, every year that hasn’t come to be, but since Dell first started offering Ubuntu systems pre-installed on their website, it’s been getting closer. The “netbook” craze has helped expose Linux to many people who have never heard of Linux (and many that still don’t even know they are running Linux). Lenovo was offering Thinkpads with Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop pre-installed, and Dell offers Precision Workstations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well. Wal-Mart has even made a couple of attempts at Linux Powered Desktops. Linux on the desktop is going strong, slowly but surely, but what I’m really waiting for is “The year of Open Source on the Desktop”, and the day that the OS no longer matters!

Written by jaysonrowe on November 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Ubuntu Link of the Day…

I swear, I’m not becoming a link blogger

I just came across this story reading through some of the stories on Tuxmachines. It seems DeviceGuru has had similar experiences with Ubuntu, KDE and GNOME that practically mirror mine.

I used KDE for a very long time, and for much of that time I wouldn’t have even considered using GNOME, but for me, GNOME has become the Linux Desktop standard.

I really think there are tons of great features in KDE 4, and I know that the KDE developers will come together and get a solid release in time, I just hope for the sake of competition that it isn’t too late, and that by that time, KDE is still considered a viable alternative. I’m seeing more and more users like DeviceGuru and myself that are trying GNOME and finding that it really is a great desktop, that is (now) very customizable (compared to older releases) and simply does what we need without getting in the way.

I can’t help but wonder if die-hard KDE user Linus Torvalds himself is using KDE 4, or if he has switched to GNOME…

Written by jaysonrowe on November 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Write Blog post from Word 2007

Word 2007 is a wonderful and modern tool for writing documents, but most of people might don’t know that you can use it to post to your blog as well? This is very useful if you want to write very long, word posts, or if you want to make your post more beautiful.

One of the most important for us is it will upload the image we posted to the Upload Directory in your wordpress blog automatic. That before you have to do it yours selves and take time to do the screenshot for your wordpress post.

It also support: Blogger, Windows Live Space, Sharepoint Blog, Community Server, Typepad, …and your hosted wordpress blog also.

Here is my example wordpress post from Word 2007 :
In Word 2007 you can Create new Document and Choose “New Blog Post”

Screen clipping taken: 11/6/2008, 9:28 AM-by Myhouse

Then Click on Register now:

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Then choose your blog provider

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Then Fill in replace my blog URL with yours as below:

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Then Happy Blogging!

Posted in Office

Written by Myhouse on November 5th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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Manual Removal of Sndconfg16.exe (P2P Worm)

Sndconfg16.exe (Worm)
This file is a worm! It is the WORM_SHAREBOT.A worm which uses P2P networks to infect users. This worm, when executed will dump a bunch of files in random folders (usually shared folders) with names.
Aliases:
P2P-Worm.Win32.Krepper.c (Kaspersky Lab) is also known as: Worm.P2P.Krepper.c (Kaspersky Lab), W32/Sndc.worm!p2p (McAfee), W32.IRCBot (Symantec), Win32.HLLW.Krepper (Doctor Web), W32/Ircbot-X (Sophos), Win32/HLLW.Krepper.B (RAV), WORM_SHAREBOT.A (Trend Micro), Worm/Krepper.C (H+BEDV), W32/Pcbot.A@p2p (FRISK), Win32:Mopy (ALWIL), Worm/Krepper.C (Grisoft), Win32.P2P.Poom.A (SOFTWIN), Worm.P2P.Poom.A (ClamAV), W32/Sndc.A.worm (Panda), Win32/Krepper.C (Eset)

There is NO Auto Removal Tool for Sndconfg16.exe (P2P Worm)
Damage Level : High
Distribution Level: High

Manual Removal Instructions
Recommend Removal from Safe Mode:
How to Start in Safe mode:
Restart your Computer, Press F8 repeatedly when your Screen turns on, Select Safe mode, press enter.

The Infected Files Can be Seen in these folders and names
Known Files:

%Windir%\system32\sndcfg16.exe
%Windir%\system32\p2pnetwork.exe

if you have any of these files in running process from task manger, end the process before removal.
Note: if task manager is disabled, Download the following file,
Click to Download - Enable Registry.reg

Manually Remove From Registry
Click Start; Run,Type regedit,Click OK.
Note: If the registry editor fails to open the threat may have modified the registry to prevent access to the registry editor. Download and run this UnHookExec.inf, and then continue with the removal.
Navigate to the subkey:
Here, These are windows Startup Folders, Remove the entry of the file you untrust, Delete from Right Side only.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
In the right pane, delete any value that was detected during the scan.
Delete any of the following registry entries, if present:
-Run- sndcfg16.exe
-RunServices- sndcfg16.exe
- Run - p2pnetwork.exe

Exit the Registry Editor.
Restart your Computer.

Recommended Removal Tools:
Recommended Removal Tools:
Kaspersky Antivirus or Internet Security (Shareware)
Spyware Doctor (Shareware)
AVG Antivirus (Freeware)
Killbox (Freeware)

Written by FireFly on November 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Antivirus Pro 2009

Description of Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009) and consequences of its residing on your PC

Antivirus Pro 2009 is usually bundled with trojan responsible for its installation and advertising so that trojan is adware and may be considered as a part of program that we call Antivirus Pro 2009. As you may conclude from the above, there is no need not to install Antivirus Pro 2009 as this guest knows how to come without invitation.
The trojan installing Antivirus Pro 2009 is also a source of instant annoying. Even in case Antivirus Pro 2009 installed by the trojan have reached its goal, i.e. if user of infected machine have invested in future malware development purchasing registered copy of this fake virus remover, the trojan’s activities would not stop and just be paused to restart later with new ads.
As you can see, failure to remove Antivirus Pro 2009 results in instant bothering. Effects after Antivirus Pro 2009 presence are not just annoying though. They also include upload of various viruses and programs pretending to be useful like either fake registry cleaners or system optimizer and privacy guards. These fake utilities share the same final aim with Antivirus Pro 2009, i.e. they want user to pay for registration.
The last but not least undesirable consequences of Antivirus Pro 2009 activities are system disordering and data erasing. Click here to detect this and other rogues and to get rid of Antivirus Pro 2009.

Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009) Technical Details

Full name: Antivirus Pro 2009, AntivirusPro 2009, AntivirusPro2009
Version: 2009
Type: Rogue anti-spyware
Origin: Russian Federation

Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009) Screenshot (click to enlarge):

Signs of being infected with Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009):

Antivirus Pro 2009, in contrast to majority of similar malware, has very nice-looking general pop-up. Needless to say, rascals concocted such malware as AntiSpywareXP 2009 and XP Antispyware 2009 would never forget to impress user with pseudo Windows logo. This pop-up window usually appears automatically as Windows starts, and then scan is launched. Antivirus Pro 2009 has no such trouble as monitoring real objects stored at you PC. Instead of this, the rogue lists at your monitor random names extracted from one of the files that belongs to its trialware (the name varies; since this file is harmless, it is not included into the guide for Antivirus Pro 2009 removal in order to make application of the instruction for Antivirus Pro 2009 removal not too complicated).
Even in case you have not observed obvious proofs of Antivirus Pro 2009 presence at your PC, it does not mean there is no need to remove Antivirus Pro 2009 already know and finally this threat does not threaten you at all. This is because trojans installing Antivirus Pro 2009 might have faced resistance of your mechanical friend and require some time to win this local battle.
In case your PC behaves with any strange deviations from its normal pattern, there are good reasons to scan your computer. Click here to start scanning your system right now and get rid of Antivirus Pro 2009.

Automatic Removal of Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009) from your PC:

Follow the link below and download free copy of reliable tool to scan computer free of charge and to remove Antivirus Pro 2009. After that there are two ways: one is to register the free copy, another is to remove threats found manually. Automatic removal of Antivirus Pro 2009 has advantage of obtaining security tool that will guard your system safety and your privacy.

Download Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009) Removal Tool

Manual Removal of Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009):

Since you are about to remove trojan removing Antivirus Pro 2009, do not disregard these simple tip: reboot PC before and after Antivirus Pro 2009 removal. Be as fast as you can but not too fast. Long interruptions are undesirable, but any mistyping may seriously damage your operating system especially if you remove wrong registry entry, and of course may lead to removal failure. The tool for automatic Antivirus Pro 2009 is absolutely safe and can be easily uninsulated so that do not hesitate to check whether Antivirus Pro 2009 removal has been effective using the tool as a free scanner (click the relevant link above)
to get rid of Antivirus Pro 2009 or to start free scan of your PC for threats detection.

Remove Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009) files and dll’s

AVP2009.exe
AntivirusPro2009.exe
AntivirusPro2009.lnk
UninstallAntivirusPro2009.lnk
avp2009.cpl
avp2009.dat
AVP20091.dat

Unregister Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009) registry values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AntiVirus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVP2009
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run “Antivirus”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run “Antivirus”