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. So I am using Windows XP and Kaspersky Antivirus as per recommendation from our network adminsitrator. Another day wasted with viruses. Though I am on it and working on my new project that is San Jose Educational Foundations full back office for their online course portal. This is a great thing and I love working on it.

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!