In this page, I'll show you how to speed up folder access on your computer. Why you need to speed up folder access? In my opinion, you need to do that if you have a lot of folders and sub directories on your computer. Because when you access a directory, your windows system will wastes a lot of time updating the stamp showing the last access time for that directory. So you need to disable access update to stop your computer from doing this. Follow these steps to speed up folder access by disable access update on your computer.
1. Click on RUN, type Regedit in the open box and then click "OK".
2. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Control > FileSystem
3. Create new DWORD Value called NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate by right-click in a blank area of the window on the right and then select DWORD Value.
4. Double click on "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate", change the value data to 1 and then click OK. That's al
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent
Go to ontrol Panel > System, > Advanced > Performance area > Settings button Visual Effects tab "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop"
How to Rename the Recycle Bin
To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon, open Regedit and go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want (don't type any quotes).
GENERAL Virus and Trojan removal Instructions.
BEFORE you start, UNDERSTAND something very clearly;
If the steps below do NOT fix your problem
You will have to post a “HijackThis Log” at one of the security forums that provide spyware cleaning services.
Wilders Security does NOT provide Spyware Cleaning Services!
For the most part what I have suggested fixes the greater majority of problems out there...however, it does NOT fix everything.
If the steps below do NOT fix your problem
You will have to post a “HijackThis Log” at one of the security forums that provide spyware cleaning services.
Wilders Security does NOT provide Spyware Cleaning Services!
For the most part what I have suggested fixes the greater majority of problems out there...however, it does NOT fix everything.
Please PRINT out the following Instructions and read them FULLY before proceeding.
After this follow each step in order, and ONE step at a time.
Do NOT go onto a further step until you have completed the one you are on.
Also make sure you have the very latest version of each product mentioned and they are fully up-to-date.
If you use Forum specific software, such as NOD32, you may want to place a new thread in one of these forums regarding your problem, as there are Moderators and experienced people involved in each. They will be able to help you further with these programs. You still may be directed back to this thread to follow the instructions below.
Step 1. Update your Anti-virus program. If you do not have an Anti-virus software program, please download a free version from here and update it. Do NOT run this YET.
NOTE: do NOT install an additional Anti-virus or Anti-Trojan software program if you currently have one, as this may cause further problems.
Step 2. Download Winsock XP Fix available here. Do NOT run this YET.
Step 3. If you don't have a firewall package, download and install a free one such as Zone Alarm – a firewall with visual outgoing alerts to see what is trying to access the internet, available here. A list of other free firewalls can be found here.
Step 4. Download Stinger (free) – Offline Virus removal tool, available here. Do NOT run this YET.
Step 5. Download one of these Anti-Trojan packages: TrojanHunter (eval) or Ewido (free/ 'plus' version eval). Install and update it. Do NOT run this YET.
Step 6. Install and update Spybot Search and Destroy (free) – Spyware removal and protection, with registry monitor, available here or here. Install and update it. Do NOT run this YET.
Step 7. Download “Ad-Aware” (free) – Spyware removal. What Spybot Search and Destroy doesn’t pick up, this will, and vice versa. Ad-Aware is available here or here. Install and update it. Do NOT run this YET.
Step 8. Download “CWShredder” (free) – Specific Spyware removal tool, available here. Install and update it. Do NOT run this YET.
Step 9. Download “VX2 Cleaner” (free) – Specific Spyware removal tool, available here. Do NOT run this YET.
NOTE: Make sure you choose the correct version for your Windows operating system.
Step 10. MAKE SURE YOUR ANTI-VIRUS IS FULLY UP TO DATE with the latest virus signatures, BEFOREcontinuing.
Step 11. Turn OFF “System Restore”, this applies only to Windows ME and Windows XP:
WARNING: Turning OFF System Restore means you will NOT be able to ROLL BACK your computer to the current state it is in.
Windows XP Instructions (reference with screen images)
1. Right click on the “My Computer” icon on the Windows desktop.
2. Click “Properties”.
3. Click on the “System Restore”.
4. Place a tick in “Turn off System Restore on all Drives”.
5. Click OK.
6. Close and RESTART your system.
OR
Windows ME Instructions (reference with screen images)
1. Right click on the “My Computer” icon on the Windows desktop.
2. Click “Properties”.
3. Click on “Performance”.
4. Click “File system”.
5. Click “Troubleshooting”.
6. Check “Disable system restore”.
7. Click on OK.
8. Close and RESTART your system.
Step 12. Restart your system again in “SAFE MODE” by pressing/tapping F8 while booting up your computer.
Further instructions of placing your system into “SAFE MODE” can be found here as pressing/tapping the F8 key does not always work with some computers.
Step 13. Delete your TEMP files by doing the following:
Open up Internet Explorer.
Click on Tools.
Internet Options.
General TAB.
Temporary Internet Files.
Delete Files.
Delete All Offline Content.
While in “SAFE MODE” do ALL of the following and REMAIN in SAFE MODE until Step 21:
Step 14. Run a scan with your “Anti-virus Program” or the program you downloaded above.
NOTE: If your Anti-virus has a Quarantine feature – USE IT when asked/offered to do so.
Step 15. Run a scan with “Stinger” the program you downloaded above.
Step 16. Run a scan with the Anti-Trojan program you use or downloaded above.
Step 17. Run a scan with “Spybot Search and Destroy” the program you downloaded above.
Step 18. Run a scan with “AdAware” the program you downloaded above.
Step 19. Run a scan with “CWShredder” the program you downloaded above.
Step 20. Run a scan with “VX2 Cleaner” the program you downloaded above.
Step 21. Reboot your system into NORMAL MODE.
Step 22. Run the ONLINE virus scan found here, or run one from the list found here.
Step 23. Make sure your Windows is FULLY up-to-date (NO EXCUSES) by doing the following:
While on the Internet, Click on Internet Explorer (the Blue “e”)
Click on Tools (on the bar at the top of your screen in Internet Explorer)
Click on Windows Update.
This will take you to the Microsoft Windows Update page where you need to follow the on screen prompts, starting with “EXPRESS INSTALL”. Install ALL “Critical Updates” and “Service Packs”.
REPEAT STEPS 12 to 22, THREE TIMES, as some Viruses, Trojans and Spyware can be very elusive.
If all the above steps do NOT fix your problem please download and run "HijackThis" found here and post your log at a security forum that provides spyware cleaning services.
Keep in mind the following quote:
Quote:
Originally Posted by LowWaterMark There are many other good spyware cleaning sites out there, but we don't maintain a comprehensive site list ourselves. Three of the sites we've often recommended in many replies here are: SpywareInfo, CastleCopsand TomCoyote, though certainly there are others we could include. |
If after or during the above cleaning process you find that your internet connection has been broken, please run the Winsock XP Fix application that you downloaded in Step 1 at the beginning of this post.
OR
Proceed with the following to delete the corrupted registry keys, and then reinstall the TCP/IP protocol.
Step 1. Delete the corrupted registry keys
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. In Registry Editor, locate the following keys, right-click each key, and then click Delete:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2
4. When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.
NOTE: Restart the computer after you delete the Winsock keys. Doing so causes the Windows XP operating system to create new shell entries for those two keys. If you do not restart the computer after you delete the Winsock keys, the next step does not work correctly.
Step 2. Install TCP/IP
1. Right-click the network connection, and then click Properties.
2. Click Install.
3. Click Protocol, and then click Add.
4. Click Have Disk.
5. Type C:\Windows\inf, and then click OK.
6. On the list of available protocols, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click OK.
7. Restart the computer.
list of trojan horses
- Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
- Bandook
- Beast Trojan
- Bifrost
- Downloader.Zlob
- Generic8.LDI
- Graybird (Backdoor Graybird, Backdoor Graybird P)
- Insurrection
- Infostealer.lineage
- LeoSrv
- Look2Me
- Micro Bill Systems (MicroBillSys, MBS or Microbillsystems)
- Nuclear RAT (NR, NucRat)
- Optix Pro
- Pigeon AXLM
- Posion Ivy
- Trojan.Qoologic - Key Logger
- Trojan Luder - B
- Trojan horse dropper.Exebing.U
- Shaft
- sharK
- SHeur.BWOH
- SHeur.ZSQ
- Storm Trojan
- ProRat
- Trojan.Bytesize?
- Trojan.Jakposh
- Trojan.wavBfly
- Trojan.wavVerify
- Trojan.Wimad
- Trojan.Vundo
- Obfuscated.en
- Zlob trojan
- Trojan Metamorf.C
- Trojan virtumonde
- TrojanDownloader.xs
- Trojan.Zonebac
Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
Manually Removing PC Viruses!
Have you ever been in the possition that you know you have an virus but you dont have any antivirus?? Its almost impossible to remove it manual without knowing about a few tips & tricks.
After reading this turtorial im sure you will know how to manual remove most of the virus lurking around. But that dosnt mean you shouldnt have any anti virus on you computer! Anyway, lets get starting with the turtorial.. I suppose you already know what safe mode is. If you dont try pressing the F8 key some times when you start your computer. You havto do this when your computer is about to start the first windows components. In win2k or xp i think you can press space and then F8 when it ask you if you want to go back to previous working setting.
Enough talk about how to start you computer in safe mode, but if you want to manual remove viruses you almost everytime haveto do this in safe mode becouse in safemode most viruses dosnt start. Only some few windows component is allowed to run in safemode. So here is what to do. Step:
1: Start your computer in safemode.
2: If you know where the virus are hiding delete the executable file.
3: Open the registry and go to the keys below and add an : in front of the value of the string that you think its the virus. Like this, if string is "virus" and its value is "c:\virus.exe" change its value to ":c:\virus.exe". The : is like comenting out the value. But if you are sure its the virus you can just delete the string. Here are the keys you maybe want to look at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce
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4: The virus can start itself from some other places to. win.ini is the most common files that viruses can use. Soo you should find the files named win.ini and system.ini and look through them and see if you find anything.
5: Look through the startup folder that is normaly located in your profile directory \Start Menu\Programs\Startup.
6: Try searching for the virus executable to see if its hiding some other place.
7: Finally look through the list of services that windows is running. This list is often located under control panel - administrative tools - services. After this 7 steps just reboot your computer in normal mode and try to figure out if the virus is still there.. If not SUCCESS if yes, try to go back to safe mode and hunt some more. Off course this 7 steps will not work on every virus out there, but many of them.
Note:-
-Be carefull with the registery, dont mess it up, if u do ur computer is Gone , depends on wat u mess up, i suggest u made a system restore point first, so incase someting happens you can go back on it. -
Can Virus be good ?
For most users, computer virus is synonym of the worst nightmares that can happen on their system. Yet some famous researchers keep insisting that it is possible to use the replication mechanism of the viral programs for some useful and beneficial purposes. This mechanism does not specify explicitly that it is malicious. Intuitively, computer viruses are just a kind of technology. As with any other kind of technology, they are ethically neutral – they are neither bad nor good – it is the purposes that people use them for can be bad or good. So far they have been used mostly for bad purposes. It is therefore natural to ask the question whether it is possible to use this kind of technology for good purposes. Indeed, Fred Cohen (Cohn 1994, p.15), one of the most active proponents of the idea has attempted to implement the idea.
The File Compressor Virus is one of the oldest ideas for good viruses of Cohn. The idea consists of creating a self-replicating program, which will compress the files it inflects, before attaching itself to them. Such a program is easy to implement and it has already been done. There is a family of MS-DOS viruses which appends itself to the executable files, then compress the infected file, and then deposits a small decompressor that would decompress the file in memory at runtime.
Some people have had the idea to develop an “anti virus” virus – a virus that would be able to locate other malicious ones and remove them, Such a self-replicating anti-virus program would have the benefits to spread very fast and update itself automatically. Several viruses have been constructed along these ideas. Some of them locate a few known viruses and removed them from the infected files, others attach themselves to the clean files and issue an error message if another piece of code becomes attached after the unwanted virus.
It appears that all these good viruses are far from successful as they have too many undesirable or even destructive properties so that the existence of good virus is highly questionable.
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