Monthly Archives: January 2008

[How To Solve] Show Hidden Files And Folders Not Working II

Posted on January 21, 2008 by od3n

If anyone’s still having trouble, here’s a fix that worked for me after I got the RavMon virus : 1. Click “Start” -> “Run…” (or press Windows key + R) 2. Type “regedit” and click “Ok”. 3. Find the key … Continue reading →

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Rsync Simplified

Posted on January 18, 2008 by od3n

rsync is a super-useful tool. All unixes have it, and you can get it as part of cygwin for your windows PC. The most common use I have for it is to replicate a directory – either from one machine … Continue reading →

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[How To Remove] Funny UST Scandal.avi.exe Virus

Posted on January 18, 2008 by od3n

After receiving many complaints from people’s about this virus, I finally decided to guide the users about the removal of this virus. Some of the problems caused by this virus are : 1. Show Hidden Files and Folders not working. … Continue reading →

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[How To Recover] Task Manager Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

Posted on January 17, 2008 by od3n

Muhammad Rizwan asks that whenever he tries to open the task manager, he is encountered by the following error : “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator” Here is solution from the Microsoft article about enabling the task manager … Continue reading →

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[How To Remove] ntde1ect.com And autorun.inf Files

Posted on January 17, 2008 by od3n

There is a Trojan/virus (either the Win32/Pacex virus or the Win32/PSW.Agent.NDP trojan) that uses the two files ntde1ect.com and autorun.inf. Here is how you can get rid of them :

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[How To Solve] Get Open With Dialog When Opening Windows Drives

Posted on January 17, 2008 by od3n

Recently, I had been facing this problem on all the virus hit systems on one of my client’s network. The problem was that I was getting the “Open With” dialog every time I double clicked any drive in My Computer. … Continue reading →

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[How To Recover] Registry Editing Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

Posted on January 17, 2008 by od3n

Today a friend of mine asked that his registry editor had been disabled accidently and now how should he enable it back again. Here are two ways to enable the registry editing in Windows. 1- From Group Policy Editor Go … Continue reading →

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[How To Restore] All Folder Option Settings

Posted on January 17, 2008 by od3n

Due to viruses, many things do not work. For Example Folder Options Show Hidden Files and Folders, Hide Operating System Protected Files and many more. To correct all these options, use Ravmon Virus Removal Tool Restore Windows Default Settings Check … Continue reading →

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[How To Repair] Folder Options Missing In Windows XP

Posted on January 17, 2008 by od3n

After a virus attack in one of my client machines, the folder options from the windows explorer was missing and we were unable to show all the files including the hidden ones. So here’s what I did to restore it … Continue reading →

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[How To Remove] New Folder.exe Virus

Posted on January 17, 2008 by od3n

Virus Infections This virus affects your system by : Disabling Task Manager Disabling Registry Editor Creates a startup entry to start upon system start and Creates its own exe files in Shared Documents folder which appear like ordinary folders. Disables … Continue reading →

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