Computer Repairs Pro Blog.
Date: Thursday March 25, 2010Posted in: Computer IT, computer virus removal
Hi all, in case you haven’t noticed I have stopped posting stuff about computer repairs and electronic stuff in this blog. I wanted to keep this blog for more social political stuff.
If you want to read more about computer stuff. I have setup a new website called Computer Repairs Pro just for this purpose.
You can visit it at http://www.computerrepairspro.net
The blog site is acutally http://www.computerrepairspro.net/blog
and to get your computer Repair Parts here
I hope you enjoy these sites.
As for our Country.. We now live in the USSA… fortunetly for my father he is 82 years old and Medicare is still allowing him to get surgery. I know that when I am his age they will probably not allow it. I feel sorry for my kids and grand kids. They are the ones who will have to suffer with a more limited health system.
New spyware trojans that hi-jacks windows active desktop. Zlob trojan.an
Date: Thursday May 1, 2008Posted in: Computer IT, Windows XP, computer virus removal
If you get this trojan virus, you will notice a small yellow triangle that says System Alert! Your computer is infected. windows has detected a spyware infection. Of course these are not authentic messages coming from windows. They are caused by Spyware or Malware trojan virus called Smitfraud. I think the one I got is called Troj.vlob.an
This virus is so evil that it will disable your task manager, change you wallpaper and send you lots of popup to advertise fake anti-spyware programs. Do not click on these ads or you will keep getting more spyware, trojans and virus. It will eventually slow down your pc so much that you will have to call me.
Yesterday I went to repair another computer for a customer and she had this bad virus. She had the same type of Zlog trojan that I also wrote about last week. That time I decided to reinstall windows, but this time since I had read some articles about it, so I went prepared with a few tools to clean it. First I had the smitfraudfix.exe and I also had a fixtaskmanger.exe as well as a few other basic antispyware and antivirus programs. I thought that the smitfraudfix.exe would be the perfect tool. I went ahead and ran it in safe mode and let it do its things. But even after it was finished and rebooted, this virus kept reappearing. I also noticed that the task manager was still disabled. So now I ran the other tools. I ran the task manager fix tool and it did get me back the access to the taskmanager. I continued to clean using some original methods of regedit and msconfig. This PC had Windows XP home edition. I found a few entries for rundll followed by the name of some strange dlls. So I deleted these from the startup paths and also from the registry Hkey local machine, software, microsoft, windows, run key etc.
I also booted back into safe mode and deleted the strange dll’s which I know are the virus files. But I noticed that even in safe mode, I was still getting the highjacked wall paper and the little yellow triangle that this Zlob trojan causes. it looks like this is a new variant that not even smitfraudfix.exe can get rid off. I also ran Adaware, Spybot and trojanhunter. None of these programs could kill this virus. I was ready to reinstall windows. But I decided to try one more tool. I downloaded a SuperAntiSpyware free version and I tried that too. This program which I once I thought was spyware actually helped clean up many more adware, trojans and spyware programs. It only left the fake wallpaper and I removed that, but I still have a feeling that this virus is still hiding somewhere else.But where can it be hiding? I think it has somehow infected the files that windows uses to display the active wallpaper. I will have to go back this evening and this time I will have to try a self booting antivirus program and see if it find the effected files. If anybody who reads this post knows a better way I will be glad to here from you. I may even offer you a small reward!
I know that I will see this virus again. Next time I want to be even better prepared for it. Please post any helpful comments below. Thanks in advance.
BTW I just found a few more tools and will bring them to the PC tonight:
SmitRemove and Rouge remover. I also will run ccleaner and install the latest antivirus version as I can find.
How do Wireless Routers and cards burn out after a few months?
Date: Thursday April 17, 2008Posted in: Computer IT, Technology, computer virus removal
No matter which brand you choose, you may have experienced a sudden loss of reception from your wireless router. You may only get a signal when you are within 5 feet of the Router, or the Router may not even show up when you search for it.
I have had several Routers: Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and even a Novatech and this has happened to all of them. The router either shuts of power to the Radio transmiter or the Radio transmitter burns out completely.
When this happens, you may get lucky by just doing a Hard Reset and then reprogramming the Router. Also it may not be the router, it may be your wireless card too. But if you find out it is the router what can you do?
Well the answer is: reset it or replace it. You can also try doing a firmware update. But if none of this works, then this basically means that the radio transmiter or amplifier chip inside the router, or wireless card has burned out. This may have been caused by too much heat, or because of a power surge. If you still have a warranty then take it back and return it. If not buy a new one for about $50. This time buy it at a Store like BestBuy of Circuit City. Pay an extra $10 for the 3 year extended warranty. Also make sure to use a power strip.
Another thing: Always activate the WEP or other Wireless security features. It is possible that hackers can do things to your wireless router, pc’s and network that will cause the radio transmitter to burn out too. If you do not know how to setup security then you should unplug your router. Or you can call me and I will help walk you through this over the phone.
http://www.movicompservices.com
And lastly, if you ever go away for vacation, please unplug your router.
This applies to:
Linksys, Netgear, Belkin, 3com, Novatech etc.
