Archive for January, 2008

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

Jan 21, 2008 How To

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 : 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvancedFolderHiddenSHOWALL

4. Look at the “CheckedValue” key… This should be a DWORD key. If it isn’t, delete the key.
5. Create a new key called “CheckedValue” as a DWORD (hexadecimal) with a value of 1.
6. The “Show hidden files & folders” check box should now work normally. Enjoy! :)

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Rsync Simplified

Jan 18, 2008 Unix

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 to another or from a HDD to some removeable storage.

Unfortunately, it’s a big and complicated application. The manual page begins “There are eight different ways of using rsync. They are: …” and continues to describe each in excruciating detail. So, here’s the ultra-simplified version :

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

Jan 18, 2008 How To

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.
2. My Computer Drives open another explorer window.
3. When you run a program, just in 2 or 3 minutes the program dissappears (Actually runs in background but you can not see its window in foreground).

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

Jan 17, 2008 How To

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 :

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

Jan 17, 2008 How To

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

Jan 17, 2008 How To

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. I had to select Internet Explorer from Open With dialog to open the drives. One of my friends came up with an idea and it worked great. The idea was to create a blank autorun.inf file in the drive having problems. And it was perfect .. now I can open all my drives (after placing the blank autorun.inf in the drive) by double clicking them.

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

Jan 17, 2008 How To

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 to Run –> gpedit.msc

In the left hand menu, go to User Config –> Administrative Templated –> System.

Now In the right hand pane, select “Prevent access to registry editing tools”. It will probably be not configured or enabled. If it’s enabled, disable it and if it’s not configured, first enable it, apply settings and then disable it. Most probably the settings have been applied instantly. If not, then run gpupdate in command prompt to apply the group policies.

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[How To Restore] All Folder Option Settings

Jan 17, 2008 How To

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 Restore All Folder Options
  • OK.

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[How To Repair] Folder Options Missing In Windows XP

Jan 17, 2008 How To

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 back:

Go to Run –>gpedit.msc
User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Windows Explorer
Enable and then Disable “Removes Folder Options menu from Tools menu“
Close all windows explorer windows and then open again.. most probably your folder options is back :-)

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[How To Remove] New Folder.exe Virus

Jan 17, 2008 How To

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 Folder Options
  • Uses your 50% or more processor

You can see that the folders in Shared Documents have an exe extension If you have unchecked Hide extensions for known file types in Folder Options.

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