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Ah another war with viruses

// January 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // About Fahd Murtaza, Viruses Trojons and Worms

As you guys/gals know I have moved to a new workplace. Today; when I logged on to my PC, it was crowded with all the bloody viruses, those readme.eml and lots other crap. Anyhow this wasted 5 hours and 13 minutes and I am back to work now after a complete fresh installation of the softwares I need for my development purposes. (more…)

Desktop_.ini Ruins my day

// July 16th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // Data Security, Viruses Trojons and Worms

My system started malfunctioning again 3 or 4 days ago and what I discovered was my folder packed up with Desktop_.ini. Even after reinstalling a fresh copy of windows after uninstalling the old one even formatting my windows drive didn’t solve the issue. I am still trying to solve the issue and can’t do. Here seems to be a good discussion about Desktop_.ini issue.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070226081955AAM4nav

This file i.e Desktop_.ini copies itself to every folder accessed. I am McAfee 10 Enterprise Edition but this virus, I believe has even cleaned up some registry values and I can’t even start Active Shield and My Firewall is also disabled. Tough Virus Ah!