January 8th, 2009

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Manual Removal of W32/Hexzone.GII Trojan

Manual Removal of W32/Hexzone.GII Trojan.

W32/Hexzone.GII is a trojan. The trojan will infect Windows systems.
This trojan first appeared on January 8, 2009.
Other names of W32/Hexzone.GII Trojan:
This trojan is also known as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Hexzone.gii, DR/Ransom.Hexzone.gii

Damage Level : Medium/High
Distribution Level: Medium

No Removal Tool for W32/Hexzone.GII Trojan
Removal instructions from Symantec
Trojan 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 also Running in Tasks
End the Following Active Process Before Removal

[ Kill the Process, Use Killbox if your Access Denied ]
%Windows\System\fbilib.dll
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
Open it with Regedit.exe [%system32\regedit.exe], then it Confirms Add to registry Yes or No, Confirm Yes, then click Ok.

Trojan Entries Manual Removal 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 this UnHookExec.inf, and then continue with the removal.Save it to your Windows desktop. Do not run it at this time, download it only.
After booting into the Safe Mode or VGA Mode
Right-click the UnHookExec.inf file and click Install. [This is a small file. It does not display any notice or boxes when you run it.]

The Trojan modifies registry at the following locations to ensure its automatic execution at every system startup:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib

Search Registry For Virus File Names listed above to remove completely,
Edit Menu - Find, enter Keyword and remove all value that find in search.

Exit the Registry Editor,

Restart your Computer.

Recommended Removal Tools:

Kaspersky Antivirus or Internet Security (Shareware)
Spyware Doctor (Shareware)
AVG Antivirus (Freeware)

Killbox (Freeware)

Written by FireFly on January 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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Windows 7 Puts it’s Finger on Enhanced Biometric Support

I’ve always found biometrics to be an interesting aspect to technology. And I was excited to discover that Windows 7 offers changes to the way Windows handles biometrics to enable better experiences. Windows 7 introduces the Windows Biometric Framework which makes integration easier and more consistent to help deliver enhanced reliability, compatibility and usability of fingerprint-based solutions. The Windows Biometric Framework also makes it easier for developers to include biometrics in their applications by providing a common API that can be added independently with each biometric fingerprint solution. For a more in-depth look at the Windows Biometric Framework check out this whitepaper from Windows Hardware Developer Central.

This week at CES 2009, we have several key partners announcing support for the Windows Biometric Framework in Windows 7.

With tens of millions of notebooks in the market with UPEK fingerprint sensors, UPEK has worked closely with us on the development of the Windows Biometric Framework and sees strong value in using applications that support fingerprint biometrics through the Windows Biometric Framework. If your laptop uses a UPEK fingerprint sensor, such as my Lenovo X300, you can download the pre-release Protector Suite software here which utilizes the Windows Biometric Framework in the Windows 7 Beta today. I’m currently testing it out myself and its pretty slick! Rob Blau, UPEK’s Vice President of Development, talks more about UPEK’s support for Windows 7 here in their press release (Word Document).

AuthenTec has also worked closely with us on the development of the Windows Biometric Framework. They are providing beta test participants with access to software that enable convenient logon for Windows 7-based PCs, thanks to AuthenTec fingerprint sensors integrated with the new Windows Biometric Framework. You can download their 32-bit software here and their 64-bit software here. AuthenTec fingerprint sensors can be seen in business and consumer notebooks from the world’s leading brands from ASUS, Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, Lenovo, LG, Samsung and Toshiba. Andy VanDamia, AuthenTec’s Director of PC Software, discusses working with us on the Windows Biometric Framework here.

And Validity believes the Windows Biometric Framework facilitates greater adoption of fingerprint security solutions by providing a flexible platform, enabling easy fingerprint sensor integration into PCs.

The early adoption and readiness by these companies has played a vital role in validating the suitability of the Windows Biometric Framework as a platform for fingerprint biometric devices in Windows 7.

Written by Brandon LeBlanc on January 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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Groundhog Day or Freedom?

Far from this being a whining diatribe on my life, life, your life, life in general – this actually quite a joyous kind of commentary.

For those of you who have not heard of Groundhog Day – it’s not so much what is celebrated in the US on the 2nd of February but the film starring Bill Murray. In short the film is about a news presenter’s life, where he goes off to report this festival. He hates it. But then he starts to realise each time he wakes up, he can’t get away from that day, no matter what he does, he wakes up to the 2nd of February all over again and can’t escape it until he sorts his life out and breaks out of the routine of life.

And so, describing your life as being like Groundhog Day is like life becoming one illegible blur, one where you can’t really pick out what you’ve done and certainly one where you are trapped in routine, no longer free maybe.

Groundhog Day is one of my favourite films of all time and along with American Beauty probably are my adages to which I try and live my life by; although saying it like that sounds much more grandiose than that mantra sounds!

So what brought this on. Well my drive home from the Christmas/New Year period last Sunday. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, it just underlined things and I thought I’d share it.

I guess it’s very easy to get trapped in your routines, your religiously followed through actions. I mean, what else is there in life, you go to work, 5 days a week, solve the similar kind of problems month to month or do the same kind of work, come home, cook, watch telly, go to bed and start again. At the weekend you get a little chance at breaking out of the mould.

I try to do that as you might gather through my various antics here and there, mostly involved around my walking and kind of doing things because they seem like a good idea.

Driving home, I had the obvious route back of the motorway once I had dropped my brother off in Bristol, or perhaps a slightly less odd route from Bath straight down the A36 to Southampton and along the coast. I have plenty of fond memories of wonderful summer evenings of driving along the A4 so decided to go along the A4, down the A34 (bit boring) then the A272 behind the downs, diving off through Fittleworth (down to a winding B road), on to an unclassified road over Greatham Bridge before ending up back on an A road (the 283) to Storrington and on to the A24 before getting back to Worthing.

This was a bit of a longer route mostly due to the A4. But what the heck. Not like I had to be back at a certain time. Not like anything was stopping me going that way except myself. Yes perhaps the most logical route was the M4, M25, M23 but that sucks. Boring. Foot down and 200 miles later oh whoops I’m in Worthing – now what happened back there on the motorway, hmm it’s all blurred into one and I can’t remember.

At least the way I went back was scenic, though I didn’t see much after a certain point as it got dark. But I did see Bath again which was nice around the central bit I often miss out on when I use the A36. And I saw a very ugly cutting through the hillside on the other side of Bath for the A46 and A4, nasty business. Another Twyford like decimation. Saddening

I also saw the Christmas lights at Chippenham and Marlborough which were dead pretty. At Chippenham they even had them on the bypass around the town strung between the lamp posts, now that was unusual for a country so obsessed with always always cutting costs, driving things down, scrimping and cutting everything back to the bone (and then wondering why everything is crap…)

In the daylight I would have been able to perhaps detour more to Avebury. I guess the good thing about the A4 (well the bit that doesn’t strangle West London this is) is that it is the old main road to the West and it’s a nice wide single carriageway road, you can do 60mph on it where allowed and its a good fun drive. At such a quiet period (and the A4 once out of Bath through to Newbury usually is since it was ‘replaced’ by the M4 by the early 1970s) it’s just lovely, peaceful in a way. And even though it was dark, it didn’t matter.

It feels good to do things that logically don’t make much sense or break away from the mould. Kind of shows you that life doesn’t have to be tedium once you grow up and have to pay bills. It’s down to you in many ways.

That said, my car is utterly filthy now

But here’s to being free!

Written by lilserenity on January 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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VIIrtualization: I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but the Windows 7 Beta is out

You know… just in case you haven’t heard it. I’m sure there aren’t a lot of people talking about it or anything, so you might have missed it. (There’s some good information in that link – I highly advise you to click on it if you plan on getting the beta.)

The beta is currently available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, but it will be available to the public at some point on 1/9. That includes both the client and the server versions, which means that not only will you be able to play with all of the great work that’s been done in Windows 7 client, but you can also kick the tires on the next version of Hyper-V, which is included with Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2).

My team and I have been working super hard on Hyper-V in R2, and we’re really happy to be able to talk about it now. I’ll have more about the new Hyper-V later on, but right now I’ve got some posts lined up that do what this blog was originally started for – to tell you how to run a shiny new beta of Windows in a VM.

I’ll start with Hyper-V, and then move on to Virtual PC and Virtual Server.

These posts are all about VIIrtualization (see what I did there?).

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Written by mikekol on January 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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Antivirus2010

Description of Antivirus2010 and consequences of its residing on your PC

Antivirus2010 has practically the same characteristics with Antivirus 2009. Antivirus 2009 is the malware that was prevailing over other rogue programs during year of 2008, but everything shows clearly now that this malware is to be finally rooted out soon. At the same time, there is Antivirus2010 rogue that is going to replace Antivirus 2009. It means, the danger does not vanish but just takes another incarnation in Antivirus2010.
Antivirus2010, exactly like its notorious ancestor, Antivirus2009, is mainly spread with trojans of various types that find vulnerabilities in many fair but slightly behindhand in updates of trojans database security tools. It is good to remove Antivirus2010 in any case, and it is very good to remove Antivirus2010 associated trojan before the malware installation (of course, it is always better never have neither Antivirus2010 nor trojan infection). The trojan may be considered as separate threat to your computer stability and system existence. It is not always controlled by trialware of Antivirus2010, though its main predestination is to provide installation of Antivirus2010. That is why the trojan responsible for download of Antivirus2010 malware cannot be stopped and keeps on controlling the browsing (consequentially, keeps getting on user’s nerves) even after user has paid for registration of Antivirus2010. Antivirus2010, in its turn, may be installed as trialware without trojan (spam, installation from various website applying misleading banners redirection technique etc.) and has its own devices to make your PC run with errors and slower than normal. Long residing of Antivirus2010 at any computer leads operating system to collapse.
Click here to start free scan and get rid of Antivirus2010, as well as to remove related trojan. It does not mean that the tool recommended will not detect and remove any other virus, worm, trojan, piece of malware or simply suspicious program – quite in contrary.

Antivirus2010 Technical Details

Full name: Antivirus2010
Version: 2010
Type: Rogue anti-spyware
Origin: Russian Federation

Antivirus2010 Screenshots (click to enlarge):

Signs of being infected with Antivirus2010:

Antivirus2010 is easy for detection malware. It is easily installed with trojan and installation procedure does not necessarily demands user’s participation.
Main signs of Antivirus2010 are as follows:
- popping up alerts at the vicinity of system tray and at the alerts with various titles that apply Windows or Microsoft name to make user trust them.
- Program window with pictures similar to windows logo; they usually appear as user logs on to Windows. The window has option of scan and registration. If the scan option is unused, scan usually starts without any order.
Trojan’s behavior is more variable but usually includes redirection of browser to various website pushing Antivirus2010.
Click here to start free scan and remove Antivirus2010 and trojan related.

Automatic Removal of Antivirus2010 from your PC:

As you can see, Antivirus2010 is usually powered and accompanied by trojan. All types of trojans cannot be covered in any removal guide, that is why remove Antivirus2010 automatically to ensure system complete cleanup or just follow the link below to locate threats at your PC and find relevant manual removal tips elsewhere at this or other computer security help websites.

Download Antivirus2010 Removal Tool

Manual Removal of Antivirus2010:

These guidelines for Antivirus2010 removal shall be applied carefully in order that any Registry harmful entry would not be confused with harmless as they may have very similar names, the same is applicable to files, especially dll.
It is strongly recommended to reboot computer before and after removing Antivirus2010 manually and avoid activating any program in the meantime. Internet connection would better be disabled.
Follow the guidelines below to remove Antivirus2010 manually or apply automatic procedure as recommended above.

Remove Antivirus2010 files and dll’s

AV2010.exe
svchost.exe
IEDefender.dll
wingamma.exe
AV2010.lnk
AV2010.lnk
Uninstall.lnk

Unregister Antivirus2010 registry values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AV2010
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\
{3C40236D-990B-443C-90E8-B1C07BCD4A68}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\IEDefender.DLL
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
{FC8A493F-D236-4653-9A03-2BF4FD94F643}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IEDefender.IEDefenderBHO
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IEDefender.IEDefenderBHO.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
{7BC7565C-5062-43CE-8797-DC2C271140A9}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
{705FD64B-2B7B-4856-9337-44CA1DA86849}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{FC8A493F-D236-4653-9A03-2BF4FD94F643}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\
Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0012
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\
Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0013
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\
Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0014
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run “Windows Gamma Display”

Antivirus2010 Remover with free scan

Written by admin on January 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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Installing Windows 7 via USB or SD Media

So Windows 7 beta is out the door and you are ready to begin your beta experience. Over the next few months there will be additional builds for Windows 7 (x86 and x64) as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 and that leads to a lot of installs and a lot of DVD burning and useless DVDs as soon as a new build is out. So why not install from USB or whatever other removable media your computer can boot from? Insert your removable media into a Windows XP or Vista PC and run the following commands from an elevated command prompt.

diskpart
list disk (find the disk number for the removable media)
select disk #
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign letter=y (or any free drive letter)
exit

Once that is complete mount the ISO and run the following command.

xcopy x:\*.* /s/e/f y:\

Where “x” is the drive letter of the mounted ISO. Once complete boot off the device and install the OS. When a new Windows 7 or 2008 R2 build is released, simply delete the contents, rerun the xcopy command and you are ready to go again. As a note this also works for Windows Vista and Server 2008 but you already figured that out :)

You can grab the Windows 7 and Server 2008 beta (as of January 9th, 2009) at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ and there are plenty more Windows 7 resources coming to the TechNet Springboard site as well!