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January 28th, 2009

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Manual Removal of W32/Hexzone.GOA Dhofozr.dll Trojan

Manual Removal of W32/Hexzone.GOA Trojan.
W32/Hexzone.GOA is a trojan. The trojan will infect Windows systems.
This trojan first appeared on January 28, 2009.
Other names of W32/Hexzone.GOA Trojan:
This trojan is also known as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Hexzone.goa, TrojanDownloader:Win32/Renos.FS.
Damage Level : Medium/High
Distribution Level:
Medium
No Removal Tool for W32/Hexzone.GOA Trojan

W32/Hexzone.GOA 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 if Running
  • [ Kill the Process, Use Killbox if your Access Denied ]

Download W32/Hexzone.GOA Trojan Known Files Removal Tool
[ In Windows Vista Run As Administrator, After Execution System Will Restart ]

  • %Windows\System\dhofozr.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 [ Right Click - Save Target As/Linked Content As ]
    Open it with Regedit.exe [%system32\regedit.exe], then it Confirms Add to registry Yes or No, Confirm Yes, then click Ok.
W32/Hexzone.GOA 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 W32/Hexzone.GOA 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 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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Is it Windows XP or Vista?


Windows XP or Vista?

It is as the screenshot says Windows Vista.

But I think it looks kind of neat like this, I have found Aero to be a little bit jarring at times. But this is nice looking. Overall though I still am very much glad that I have Windows Vista on this box over XP which whilst fine, does have some annoyances when you use Vista a lot elsewhere e.g. desktop wide search built into start menu, and the nice improved Windows Explorer.

      

Written by lilserenity on January 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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Data Privacy Day

As a security guy, I get all sorts of questions from people about privacy. A lot of folks really think about online privacy as the same thing as computer security. Others see it as a pure tradeoff between one or the other. I don’t necessarily think that giving up privacy results in greater security; nor do I believe that greater security requires a loss of privacy. No matter what your thoughts are on security and privacy, I hope there is one thing we can all agree on: both are important.

That’s why I’m glad to report that Microsoft, along with other key players in the safety ecosystem, is once again participating in today’s global event, Data Privacy Day. A lot of you have probably never heard of Data Privacy Day, so here’s the skinny: it is a day intended to increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues that we all face. I’m proud of Microsoft’s commitment to protecting consumer privacy, and on a personal level, I’m happy to have been involved in campaigns promoting child safety and preventing identity theft.

I’m also proud of our work on Windows Vista. It’s built and tested to allow users to connect to whomever and whatever they want while providing the confidence that personal information is safe. The Windows Security Center in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista is one of the innovative tools that helps protects users from security risks. The program informs users if key security capabilities are turned on and updated and if a problem is detected, customers receive a notification and are given recommended actions to help protect their information. IE Protected Mode in Windows Vista also helps protect users from attack by running the Internet Explorer process with greatly restricted privileges. Protected Mode significantly reduces the ability of an attack to write, alter, or destroy data on the user's machine or to install malicious code. These are just a few of the ways that Microsoft is working to keep its customers safe. We are also continuing our commitment to security in Windows 7 by building upon the strong foundation created in Windows Vista.

Like me, many of us at Microsoft are passionate about helping to ensure that you have the safest, most secure computing experience possible. If you’re passionate about online safety or if you just want to learn more about the topic, check out the Data Privacy Day 2009 website to see how we’re working to raise awareness about online privacy and safety issues.

Written by Paul Cooke on January 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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Adware Eradicator

Description of Adware Eradicator and consequences of its residing on your PC

Adware is a variety of malware that is considered to be less dangerous than spyware, since it just bothers you posing no challenge to system safety and data confidentiality. That is what may be derived from most websites providing the definitions of malware, adware and spyware. However, one may wonder reading malware observing articles that adware (advertising software) is the name applied to programs hardly endamaging infected systems besides being very annoying. This conflicts with the statement in the first sentence above that adware poses no challenge to system safety. Thus, a new category should be introduced to designate programs generating misleading ads and crushing computers. Let us use the name “Crushware” to this purpose and there is another program that is to be described in this post that belongs to this just-introduced category. Remove Adware Eradicator (AdwareEradicator) as another program pretending to remove certain type of rogue program but in reality harming computers having infected them with its trial version. Of course, this program produces fake alerts and thus is not less bothering than typical pure adware.
Click here  to start free scan and remove AdwareEradicator to stop its popups and avoid system damaging.

Adware Eradicator Technical Details

  • Full name: Adware Eradicator, AdwareEradicator
  • Version: 2009
  • Type: Rogue anti-spyware
  • Origin: Russian Federation

Adware Eradicator Screenshots (click to enlarge):

Signs of being infected with Adware Eradicator:

Adware Eradicator is installed with triojan, from spam, from misleading websites or as a result of manual download, its trialware is implied. The aim of trialware installation is to make user pay for its registration. The full version is also possible to be installed directly passing by the trialware stage. Both trial and full versions of AdwareEradicator are hazardous simply for their rudeness! Remove AdwareEradicator at the first sign of its presence to avoid hard system disordering. Adware Eradicator is usually detected after its installation by large program window. There is a scan launched with the frames of this window. Its example is provided above. In a week or two the AdwareEradicator’s window is transformed into the grey versions with disabled buttons and the request to update the database. Do not follow the advices by AdwareEradicator as they all aim to make you pay for the registration of this fake antiadware. There may be an option to avoid installation of the malware. You may remove AdwareEradicator trojan revealing it in time. The trojan’s presence is to be expected if you have visited websites adverting AdwareEradicator, especially those pretending to scan computer online and producing popup. Trojan of Adware Eradicator removal is important as another direction of its activity is data deletion. If you do not remove Adware Eradicator related trojan, valuable files may be deleted. Click here to initiate free scan and get rid of Adware Eradicator.

Automatic Removal of Adware Eradicator from your PC:

If you care about your PC protection in the long-term future, remove Adware Eradicator using professional tool to avoid other invasions of rogue programs. In addition, the tool will remove Adware Eradicator and trojan, if any, at once. Follow the link below to scan computer for free and perform Adware Eradicator removal.

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Manual Removal of Adware Eradicator:

Tip: follow the link above to scan computer for free in order to establish whether Adware Eradicator is accompanied with aforementioned trojan or not. If trojan is present, you may try to find relevant removal instructions according to its name. Since there are hundreds of trojan varieties and each of them may be engaged in the scheme of Adware Eradicator with more or less equal probability, we could not include them all into the guide below. Try to find the instruction if you would need one at first at this website, then ask Google how to remove so-and-so trojan.
Please, print these instructions as you need to close all programs for security reasons before removing Adware Eradicator.

Remove Adware Eradicator files and dll’s

bpssr.exe
Adware Eradicator.lnk

Unregister Adware Eradicator registry values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adware Eradicator
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Adware Eradicator

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Written by admin on January 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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Free Exus OSm Omega Red Theme for Sony Ericsson


The Fire Edition of the Omega series include:
Animated Backgrounds
Animated Highlights
Softkey Press L+R
2 Wallpapers (1 without the "X" Logo and 1 with)

Compatible with SonyEricsson's K800i, K810i and W850i

Author: wich | Website: deviantart.com

Download Here

Written by magakos on January 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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Free Royale Themes Remixed 1.44


This mod grew from a finishing Royale Noir project to encompass Zune bug fixing as well. If you are a fan of Microsoft's Royale, this is the only Royale theme you will ever need. The theme now consists of 3 color schemes, Royale, Royale Noir and Royale Zune. For Royale Noir, Microsoft came 50% of the way, and I went the other 50%, a lot of work and bugfixes was done to finish the theme. For Zune, work was done to better the distasteful orange and many bugfixes implemented that Microsoft messed up. You will also get a Vista Cursor and Vista Sounds For Windows XP . - freshdl

Website: freshdl.net

Download Here (pass: freshdl.net)

Written by magakos on January 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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