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Removal of “Security Tool”

August 10th, 2010 Ceeke
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When receiving popups as mentioned above, your not really infected, that is if you don’t put a fake antivirus program in account.

Quote from Wikipedia:

Security Tool is a rogue antivirus program that displays false scan reports intended to convince the user that his or her computer is infected with various forms of malware. This misleading software will tell the user that he or she needs to purchase the full version of the software to remove these threats. These so-called infections do not actually exist, however, as they are only attempts to frighten the user to purchase the full version of the software. This rogue is designed to scam the operator into giving the fake purchase panel their credit card number and information.

In other words: Security Tool displays fake security alerts. Once running, Security Tool will scan the computer and randomly select various files and labels them as malware. Also it blocks the ability to run legit programs.

1. How to remove ?

By using a combination of the following software:
Malwarebytes Anti Malware - Superantispyware

  1. Boot to Safe Mode with network (press F8 while rebooting.)
  2. Install Malwarebytes Anti Malware and do an update.
  3. Install  Superantispyware, you can use the portable edition which does NOT install anything on your Start Menu or Program Files and does NOT need to be uninstalled.
  4. After Malwarebytes has been updated, let it do a full scan.
  5. When the scan is complete, click OK, then “Show Results” to view the results. Check everything and click “Remove Selected”. Reboot if prompted.

To make sure your computer is completely clean, do another scan with Superantispyware, using the latest version and definitions.

2. How to avoid ?

It’s one good thing on how to remove rogue programs, but it would be far better if these can be avoided in the future.

  1. Make sure you have an updated virusscanner.
  2. Verify your sources when downloading updates, software, etc
  3. Use common sense; e.g. don’t click on everything that seems legit
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Too hot for you ?

July 9th, 2010 Ceeke
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With these hot temperatures lately (+30°c); this could come in handy.

otherwise you can build your own fan:

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hide toolbar in google

May 17th, 2010 Ceeke
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Recently Google has changed it’s layout: bigger font and buttons, but also a “handy” toolbar which allows you to switch between the different Google options.

A few ways to hide this toolbar are:

Quote from: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76243

Creates a button below Google search bar to make possible show and hide this annoying left sidebar in Google search results. Script tested with Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome 5.0.396.0 dev and Opera 10.53. It remembers last user’s choice.

Installing:

Firefox: just click Install (need Greasemonkey extension installed https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/748)

Chrome: just click Install

Opera:
1. Download script to a directory of your choice, i.e. C:\Program Files\Opera\Scripts.
2. Open Opera, and go to Tools->Preferences.
3. Click on the “Advanced” tab and select “Content”.
4. Now click “JavaScript Options…” and set “User JavaScript files” to the directory you chose before.
5. Restart browser

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my ipod and my apps (part 1)

February 22nd, 2010 Ceeke
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Recently I bought myself an iPod Touch 8Gb and off course a couple of (usefull) applications/games.

Wifitrak (0,79 euro)

WifiTrak helps you find FREE and open WiFi hotspots and public access points quickly and easily.

WifiTrak scans for all available WiFi devices and networks in the area and tests each network it finds for usability. It shows a list of the networks sorted from most useable (open, not redirected, strongest signal) to least useable (secured or hidden, weak signal). It can automatically notify and launch mail or a browser when it finds a suitable network 

Notemaster Lite (Free)

Notemaster (Lite) let you easily create  notes containing text, images, and headers.  These notes can be organized with categories and be password-protected for privacy.

Facebook (Free)

Not much introduction needed :-) - Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends’ latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.

iDroid Mini (Free)

iDroid Mini Browser is an innovative browser designed specifically for the iPhone/iPod. Inspired by iPhone’s Safari,Android browser and Opera mini including full screen, tabs, smart url, etc.

For me a nice replacement until Opera comes out with their version for the ipod ;)

FileApp (Free)

FileApp browser displays files by folders, alphabetically, by date of copy or by file type.
You can view almost every file with the build-in viewer; such as:

PDF Viewer, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Images (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others), iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynotes), Open Office (OpenDocument) (Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation), Plain Text and RTF (Rich Text Format),  Audio (MP3 VBR, AAC, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, CAF), Video (standard iPhone formats : H.264, MPEG-4), Web Archives,  HTML files, ZIP Archives, Comic Books, etc… 

iDownload (1,59 euro)

iDownload allows you to download files directly to your iPhone or iPod touch and share them to any browser enabled device (pc, mac, linux, iphone, ipod touch, mobile devices, etc). You can use iDownload like a normal browser and when u click a download link i should pop up an alert asking u if u want to download or save the link.

After downloading you can share your files to any computer or mobile device as long as it is connected to same wifi network.

Part 2 will follow soon.

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lockhunter a foolproof file unlocker

February 10th, 2010 Ceeke
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File In Use or Folder In Use

The operation can’t be completed because the file/folder is open in another program.
Close the file/folder and try again

One of the most annoying experience when using Windows is the message above. When a file is in use or accessed by a running program, or a folder that contains a file that’s been accessed, opened, written or used by other user or program, Windows will fail to delete or remove the file or folder with this error message.

One way to resolve this is by:
- Open a CMD window
- Close the explorer.exe process
- Navigate to the file/folder location and delete it

However, this doesn’t always work, because another program could be responsible for the “file-lock”.

Another and perhaps easier way is by the use of LockHunter.
It is a free tool to delete or/and unlock files blocked by something you do not know, by simply right-clicking on the desired item.

We can choose to unlock it, or delete it. Other options are “Close locking processes” and “Delete locking processes from disk”

Key Features

  1. Shows processes locking a file or folder
  2. Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file
  3. Allows to kill locking process
  4. Allows to remove locking processes from hard drive
  5. Integrates in to Explorer menu
  6. It deletes files into the recycle bin, so you may restore them if deleted by mistake
  7. Supports both 32 and 64bit Windows
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Happy wintereenmas !

January 25th, 2010 Ceeke
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According to the brilliant guys at Ctrlaltdel-online.com,

“Winter-een-mas, in it’s essence, is a holiday for gamers. It is a celebration of games and the gamers who play them. Video games allow us to do things, go places, see stuff that we couldn’t do in real life. They can be an escape from reality, a release after a long day, a fun activity with friends, or just an enjoyable way to pass time. They give us a lot of entertainment. So why shouldn’t  they be celebrated?

And in the same spirit, gamers themselves are extraordinary people. There are millions of people world-wide that enjoy video games. Some are hardcore fanatics, some are casual gamers. But we are all part of the same community, and it’s a community to be proud of.

The Winter-een-mas season lasts all of January, with the actual holiday lasting seven days, January 25-31.”
Happy Winter-een-mas!

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The People Search Engine – Whoozy.

January 11th, 2010 Ceeke
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Whoozy Search Engine

http://whoozy.be
http://whoozy.co.uk/

Whoozy is a search engine for people. It searches the web for information about a particular person and uses search engines, social networks and picture/video/audio sites to gather relevant info.

Also a number of tools which help to use Whoozy even better are developed. You can add Whoozy for example to your favorite startpage (like iGoogle) or use it as a search plugin in your favorite browser.

What goes on the net, stays on the net :)

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EAC crashes on open file dialog

December 13th, 2009 Ceeke
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When adobe CS4 master collection is installed and you use Exact Audio Copy on windows 7 (or Vista), the application EAC can suddenly close via the standard open file dialog:

For some unknown reason EAC has started crashing in Vista x64 when opening any file via standard Windows open file dialog — the dialog opens, shows the folder tree panel and then… EAC is gone without a trace, no error messages, no processes left in device manager, nothing. This happens if you try to set default folder in Directories tab, split a wav file by cue, provide a path to external compressor in Compression options, etc.

I can confirm that Adobe Drive CS4 is the problem. I had the same problem you stated plus I am also using Vista Business 64-bit as well as Adobe Master Collection CS4.

2 solutions:
- Remove Adobo Drive CS4
Easier said than done. Adobe Drive CS4 x64 is installed as a dependency of Photoshop CS4 x64. It cannot be uninstalled without removing Photoshop; at least, not using the Adobe installer anyway.

Not to be deterred, I uninstalled Adobe Drive manually. First I unregistered the DLLs by running (as administrator)

regsvr32 /u “%CommonProgramFiles%\Adobe\Adobe Drive CS4\ADFSMenu.dll
regsvr32 /u “%CommonProgramFiles%\Adobe\Adobe Drive CS4\AdobeDriveCS4_NP.dll

Then I ripped all references to “Adobe Drive” out of the registry using regedit, and finally I deleted the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Drive CS4 folder.

And now EAC works again, and Photoshop seems to get by just fine without Adobe Drive!

- Change Compatibility setting
check “disable visual themes” under EAC, Properties, Compatibility tab

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WIP – IE8 issues

December 7th, 2009 Ceeke
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yeah, this blog still has some issues with IE8, but works fine under:
- Opera >9
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari

Work work.

Development

Sites to pass the time

November 29th, 2009 Ceeke
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The internet is full of pages who made you laugh, make you go O M G, do a facepalm or worse. A snippet of the finest links available:

  1. Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?

    2. Needles to say: pictures of cats in all sort of funny events.

  2. FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail

    3. Collection of  ”fails”

  3. FML: Your everyday life stories

    4. Today, I was outside, peeing on a cactus. Then all of a sudden my dog jumped on my back, knocking me into the cactus. FML

    Fmylife.com is a weird and wonderful addition to the web. It’s a collection of everyday anecdotes and stories likely to happen to anyone and everyone, sent to us exclusively by our users, which we then publish on the site. This is a space where you can let it all out and unwind by sharing the little things that screw with your day, and maybe realize that you are not alone in experiencing day to day crap. Posts start with ‘Today’ and end with ‘FML’. The site is meant to be fun to read and can be enjoyed on a daily basis.

  4. People of Wallmart

    5. A collection of all the creatures that grace us with their presence at Walmart, America’s favorite store.

  5. There I Fixed it

    6. There are as many sources for the word Kludge as there are jury-rigged mailboxes in the mobile home parks of America. Whether the source of the word is Gaelic, German, or Naval Acronym, we know them when we see them, and on this web site, we celebrate these iconic images of mankind’s eternal struggle to hammer square pegs into round holes (with duct tape.)

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