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Manual Removal of W32/AutoRun.WQH Worm » smss.exe

W32/AutoRun.WQH Worm Known Files » smss.exe, Autoplay.exe
W32/AutoRun.WQH is a worm. The worm will infect Windows systems.
This Worm Copies its files to Documents and Settings\Default User, root of Windows installed drive\RECYCLER folder as hidden files or active non-hidden files.
This worm information updated on September 9, 2009.
Other names of W32/AutoRun.WQH Worm:
This worm is also known as Worm.Win32.AutoRun.wqh, WORM_AUTORUN.DCU, Worm:Win32/Hikjav.A.

Download Registry, Taskmanager and Folder Options Repair Tool

W32/AutoRun.WQH Worm 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 ]
Download W32/AutoRun.WQH Worm Known File Removal Tool - Request Tool by Commenting
[In Windows Vista Run As Administrator, After Execution System Will Restart]
  • %Documents and Settings\Default User\smss.exe
  • %Root of Windows Drive\RECYCLER\Autoplay.exe
    [ No Exact Information about Files, search above related files in Program files Folder ]
    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/AutoRun.WQH Worm 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, [ Right Click - Save Target As/Linked Content As ]
  • 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.]
  • Or Download Regfile to enable Registry editor 
  • Download Registry Enabler [ Right click - Save Target As ] 
  • Open it with Registry editor
W32/AutoRun.WQH Worm modifies registry at the following locations to ensure its automatic execution at every system Startup:
Delete The Entries
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Delete file entries from right side
Search Registry For W32/AutoRun.WQH Worm 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 magakos on October 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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Windows 7 At PDC09

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the one event that all developers who use any Microsoft technologies must attend at least once in their professional careers. It’s the flagship event for developers, offering the most comprehensive, future-looking, technically deep, densely-packed set of sessions from Microsoft speakers you can find anywhere. This year’s PDC is no exception and you can expect it to be a very exciting event.

My first PDC was PDC08, held last November at the LA Convention Center. As one of the people at Microsoft who work on Windows 7, I was fortunate enough to be in the loop regarding Windows 7 @ PDC08, and was able to contribute (even if only in a small way) to one of the keynote. During the Day 2 keynote,

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Steven Sinofsky presented Windows 7 to the world and for the first time people outside of Microsoft saw the new Taskbar, the Windows Ribbon, and witnessed a live multitouch demo. Attendees received a 160G hard drive (makes you wonder what they'll get this year…) with Windows 7 build 6800 (does anyone remember this build number?). The Windows team presented a lot of its technologies in a series of impressive sessions. And since then, through the different versions of Windows--Beta, RC, and RTM--we continued to push new content to help developers ramp up and get ready for Windows 7.

Windows 7 will become “Generally Available” (GA) to the public on October 22nd, exactly two weeks from today, and this year’s PDC takes place right after Windows 7 GA. With the pre-release veil of secrecy lifted, during this year's PDC we can dive deep (very deep) into Windows 7 to extend our understanding of how Windows 7 works and, even more importantly, how developers can take advantage of all the great new improvements and features Windows 7 has to offer.

To start with, on the day before PDC09 starts, there is a FREE Windows 7 (seminar) Boot Camp led by top Microsoft Windows experts like Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang, and Arun Kishan. Then, during the PDC proper, we’ll have several deep-dive Windows 7 sessions.

So here is the first set of Windows 7 sessions that we are announcing:

This first one is probably my favorite topic (I am a geek, what can I say). What could be more important than performance, especially as it relates to Windows 7 and applications running on Windows 7? This has to be a MUST Attend session for any developer who writes any software (native or .NET) for Windows (and not just Windows 7) – this is truly a unique opportunity.

Optimizing for Performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit

The Windows team uses the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) to optimize the Windows OS. Come and see how the Windows Performance team used the WPT throughout the Windows 7 development cycle to optimize for customer scenarios and how you can leverage many of its features and capabilities to help you build faster applications on Windows. This session will present case studies that demonstrate how you can use the toolkit to pinpoint areas for improvement in your application and provide you with some best practices to follow in order to create applications with optimum performance.

The next two sessions are also personal favorites (you can’t blame me for loving Windows 7), as I think these technologies represent new levels of user interaction and adaptive user interfaces:

Building Sensor- and Location-aware Applications with Windows 7 and .NET

How many times have you thought to yourself, “My application would be so much better if it knew where the user was?” With Windows 7 and.NET Framework 4.0, you now have the tools at your fingertips to location-enable your applications. Based on the new Location platform for Windows 7, the location API in .NET Framework 4.0 provides a single, consistent API to get you your latitude and longitude regardless of the underlying technology that acquired it—allowing you to focus on creating exciting, differentiated location-aware applications.

Windows Touch Deep Dive

Windows provides applications with a default experience for gestures and touch interaction. This provides applications that you want to go beyond that basic experience with a powerful platform to build upon. This session is targeted at developers interested in building touch-optimized experiences. We’ll look closely at some of the more powerful portions of the Touch platform, like manipulation and inertia processors, as well as cover real-world problems that developers have encountered and overcome. Come help build the next generation of user experiences!

Another highly recommended session is the Windows Ribbon session. Before you dismiss the Ribbon, I suggest you take a second look and read between the lines of the Windows Ribbon native API. There is a lot of very interesting software architecture in the current API that provides a glimpse into tomorrow’s “commanding framework.”

Windows Ribbon Technical Deep Dive

This talk will cover some of the more subtle and complex aspects of ribbon implementation, like designing a great gallery (a critical task for any ribbon), adding an outspace MRU, etc. We will draw from specific experiences with Windows Live and other partners and spread the learning that those teams amassed as Windows Ribbon guinea pigs.

A lot has been said about the update to the Windows 7 graphics stack. This stack plays a major role in the performance improvements Windows 7 offers. You, as a developer, can tap into that user experience and start enjoying a rich and modern graphic framework that pushes GPUs to their limits.

Modern 3D Graphics Using Windows 7 & Direct3D 11 Hardware

Dig deep into the capabilities of Direct3D 11 and Windows 7to gain practical knowledge that will help you push graphics to the limit. Learn about the new tessellation stage in Direct3D 11, which enables an unprecedented level of rendering quality by dynamically generating geometry on the GPU. In addition, see how the multi-core improvements in the Direct3D 11 runtime can help you scale your application to take full advantage of all of the cores on a machine. Finally, take a peek at the power of DirectCompute (the hardware-accelerated general purpose computing technology) in a graphics application context.

Advanced Graphics Functionality Using DirectX

The number of PC configurations is exploding. With both netbooks and high-end desktop systems using the latest in graphics hardware, creating an application that can target all of these systems is getting harder every year. Join us as we explore the many options available in Windows 7 to facilitate graphics development across all kinds of hardware configurations, from low-end integrated GPUs to top of the line discrete GPUs. Learn about Direct3D 10 Level 9, which enables Direct3D 10 applications to run on pretty much every computer in the market today. Check out WARP, our new software rasterizer that lets your application use high-quality graphics even when there’s no graphics card. Finally, learn about Direct2D, DirectWrite, WIC, and the interoperability of Windows 7 technologies for making slick, high-quality graphics for your applications of the future.

The last session for today’s post, but most certainly not the least, is about the Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET framework. This is a framework that I have a personal interest in and I often blog about. With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4, .NET developers have an easier life. Nonetheless, there are still a great number of valuable Windows APIs that are NOT in the framework. This Open Source library provides a good intermediate solution.

Developing with the Windows API Code Pack for .NET Framework

The Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework provides a source code library that you can use to access some new Windows 7 features (and some existing features of older versions of the Windows operating system) from managed code. These Windows features are not available to developers today in the .NET Framework. This session will show you how to access features like taskbar integration, JumpLists, libraries, the sensor platform, Direct2D, and more.

Written by Yochay Kiriaty on October 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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Network Administrator – Beta 4 Released

We are right on track with our beta – Network Administrator Beta 4 has been released.

You can get a copy of the beta from here:

Network Administrator Beta 4

As I wrote last week, we were working on the remote execute engine within Network Administrator. I am pleased to say that it is complete.

As a result of that implementation we were able to add two new plugins. They are:

Change Network Settings

Switch a computer to DHCP, or update the DNS Settings to different servers

Change Network Settings

Remote Execute

This allows you to remotely execute a vbscript, batch file, MSI installer (It automatically makes it quiet for you), or command line program. This is a very powerful addition, since it gives you the ability to create a script, and push it across all the machines on your network. One other point to note about this is that this will be faster than you doing this yourself from the command line using tools like PSExec. This is because Network Administrator will spawn more than one process at a time to accomplish your task.

Remote Execute Plugin

If you missed my post last week, we promised 10 plugins by the time we release on October 30th. In addition to the two I just discussed, here is what we have created so far:

Mass Folder Copy – This plugin allows you to pick a folder on your hard drive, and copy it to many machines across your network. Perfect way to copy a set of shortcuts to everyone’s desktop.

Offline Files Disabler – Disables the annoying offline files setting in Windows XP, and 2003.

Logon Disclaimer – Allows you to set a logon disclaimer that is displayed to a user before they login.

Wallpaper Set – You can set a common background wallpaper image, and set options such as tile, stretch, and center.

One of our next plugins will allow you to change the password of a local admin user account. It is easy to change an Active Directory user account, but when an admin leaves, you still have those local account passwords floating around. This would allow you to change it in a few moments – across your entire network.

Get your suggestion in by mailing us at plugins@intelliadmin.com We cannot answer all of the emails sent, but we do read them all.

Give it a spin, and let us know what you think.

Pre order your upgrade of Network Administrator 3.0 for only $99 (Includes a copy of 2.9)- Don’t wait – It will be $199 when it is released on October 30th. Click here to purchase

Written by Steve Wiseman on October 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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Video: Windows Mobile And Bing Navigation

Whenever traveling to other cities for business I always print off a list of address, phone numbers, etc. On this latest trip to Atlanta however I decided to forego this practice and put the Microsoft mobile experience to the test. I made a conscious decision to rely completely on the integrated backend systems that combine web services with Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint combined with their surfacing of information through my HTC Ozone Windows Phone on the Verizon Network. Toss in the stellar GPS capabilities of the device and this latest business trip I was living the mobile dream. In this episode of Michael on the Go I demonstrate how all this took place.

- Michael Gannotti is a Portals Technology Specialist for Microsoft and the author of the blog SocialMedia Talk.

Written by Michael Gannotti on October 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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Conferences and Sprints

While the vast majority of the work of the Ubuntu community takes place online, Ubuntu developers do, from time to time, meet face to face. Since Ubuntu has released, there have been three public conferences organized and funded by Canonical Ltd.:

• The Mataró Sessions in Mataró, Catalonia, Spain, in December 2004
• Ubuntu Down Under in Sydney, Australia, in April 2005
• Ubuntu Below Zero in Montreal, Canada, in November 2005

With Canonical Ltd., Ubuntu tries to organize these conferences so that they occur once per release, usually toward the very beginning of a release cycle, so that the specifications and goals for the forthcoming release can be discussed, thrashed out, and decided upon. A glance at the previous conferences shows how these conferences move around the globe geographically so that, over a several-year period, a large percentage of the Ubuntu community will be able to attend at least one conference and meet with other developers.

While the format changes slightly each time, these conferences have been between one and two weeks in length. Frequently, a given attendee stays for only one week. At Ubuntu Below Zero, the second week was devoted almost entirely to discussing, implementing, and developing infrastructure related to Launchpaddiscussed. The format of these conferences has changed as the attendees have experimented with different methods for structuring the events and maximizing efficiency of these short periods. One common theme, though, is a process of writing specifications.

At conferences, attendees describe features that they would like to see out in the next Ubuntu release. At an arranged time or in a series of meetings, a small set of interested users and developers work to draft a written specification. This process of drafting involves brainstorming and ends up with a formal, approved "spec" that describes a problem or need and provides a detailed description of how it will be fixed or implemented. While these specifications are often technical in nature, they are also used to describe goals that may pertain to localization, documentation, or community building. For example, both The Fridge and the planning of each conference began as a specification. With time, these specifications are categorized in terms of their priority for the upcoming release. Later, individuals will claim or be assigned some set of these specs. Paid developers at Canonical Ltd. frequently take responsibility for the highest priority technical specs. Each specification is written up and improved on the wiki so that Ubuntu hackers who cannot attend the conference are still able to participate.

These conferences have, so far, occurred in hotels with conference centers and have been attended by up to several hundred people. The conferences have been wholly organized and funded by Canonical Ltd., which ensures that its employees attend and also distributes funds for other active volunteers to travel. This funding tends to be divided up based on the contributions of volunteers over the last release cycle and their geographic proximity to the conference location. This is done to minimize travel expenditure and to ensure that users around the world get a chance to attend a conference when it comes near them.

In addition to the biannual conferences, Canonical Ltd. organizes a number of "sprints" each year. These sprints tend to be one- to three-week long intense collocated work sessions that involve a team or subteam tasked with a well-defined goal. They provide a time where team members can write code, write documentation, make plans, or do whatever else is necessary to fulfill that goal. The sprints attempt to squeeze large amounts of work into a short period of time and have earned a reputation for being exhausting, fulfilling, amazingly productive, fun experiences. These sprints are work sessions and are often limited to a small group of Canonical Ltd. employees. In many situations, they also include volunteer attendees as well.

While conferences act as a site for major technical advances in brainstorming and development, they are also fun and enjoyable experiences. They provide a venue for users to put faces to names, IRC "nicks," and e-mail addresses, and they provide for enjoyable, humorous, and productive interaction. In addition to work, there are frequent card-playing, eating, drinking, and athletic activities. Many Ubuntu users from the local area who've attended because they were curious have gone on to become some of the community's most important contributors. Attending a conference is like taking a drink from an Ubuntu fire hose. It is frequently overwhelming but can ultimately be a useful, productive, and rewarding experience as well.


Source of Information : The Official Ubuntu Book

Written by magakos on October 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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