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Down and Out

One of the rare moments … when I am down and out.

But hey as I say …
n’Joy everything !

And since I am reposting this, I realize that I can not remember why did I make this post. !

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON Wednesday, November 09, 2005
REPOSTED FROM ABOUT2EVOLVE TO SEPTEMBERTHE22ND

Update please wait – W32/Nyxem-D

Somehow for the last few days I saw this funny icon in my taskbar that looked like a small computer and when I took my mouse over it, it read “Update please wait”. The computer was acting funny and there were few other problems too.
1. Norton Antivirus would not start with Windows even though it was configured like that.
2. My “commmon tasks” were not being displayed in explorer/folders.

Then suddenly I got curious about this “Update please wait” thingy and googled it. Off the few top entries, one of them pointed here. I followed the steps mentioned there to realize that I was infected with W32/Nyxem-D. Some more clicks on the web made me sure that it was indeed a worm.

I was infected by a malware after about two years and I was very angry. Somehow I was also very happy to see a real problem on my computer. I had to spend about an hour doing it all by myself and I was able to get rid of it.

And when I tried to find the reasons for the infection, I found that I was infected because of my open share. I had created that open share to help me copy files quick over the network. Further analysis revealed that it “offers the promise of pornography“. I am sure I have never copied anything remotely resembling porn on my laptop.

Removal Instructions and Automated Tool
Apart from making money, the antivirus companies do sometimes act as good samaritans also and Symantec has created an automated tool to remove the worm. They identify this worm as W32.Blackmal.E@mm and the removal tool is located here. I certainly enjoyed working though the registry and restarting the computer 5 times to remove it. Tool was not that much fun.

I think I have been attacked by a virus after about a couple of years and it was huge fun to work on it 😀

IBM Thinkpad R51 – KQ1 – Reposted

I posted in a previous post about my thinkpad. It islocated here.

I am reposting thisfortwo reaons. One, its beenan year since I bought my laptop. I bought my laptop on 31st oflast to last year. I founda key broken, wanted to get it replaced but IBM peopledurely and courteously refused to do so. Company policy theysaid. So I hadthis new laptop, it was not more than two days old and IBM would not change/replace/repair it because it was their company policy.

Second reasonfor thispost isthe broken keypad thats gotten even worse. Somehow the space bar has started acting funny. Sometimes, I wouldget a perfectly fineandnormalspacing and at other times I wouldnot insert andspaces. I have absolutely no clue how all of a sudden thismight happen.

And now since IBM has sold Thinkpad asa brand to Lenovo, I dont think there is apoint in even calling them up to get some help. Andsince the annual maintenance I had was for a year only and they could not help me when I was covered by their warranty, i cant even imagine to talk to them without the warranty.

And if you are wonderingwhat happened to thispost, thisis becuase of the funny space bar.

This is my last line in this post and I am trying very hard to maintain my typing speeds and hitting space bar …

Its a Small World !!!!

There is a very famous law called Six Degrees of Separation. It proves that world indeed is a small place now. It says that ” …anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries…”

Apart from being a small world, it is a very well connected world too. For example, this is a part of conversation with a very dear friend after I installed a lan talk software on her insistence…

MB: hello!!!
ME: hi

MB: i am so happy i can now contact u at 2 messengers!!
ME: if you want to be more happy, you can add me on google talk, skpye, msn, trillian, rediff bol and indiatimes messenger … that would make you 6 times happy and not to forget SMS !

It is indeed a small and a connected world !

Alt + Tab

I am a huge proponent of Microsoft Office Powerpoint. I love it and use it all the time to make presentations but I hate it for one thing … Alt + Tab would NOT work with it.

They should add the Alt+Tab thingy !!!!!

Class Project: General Motors India



Print Ads for General Motors India
2005 November: Class Assignment on Corporate Campaigns

We were supposed to make this Corporate Campaign for General Motors India. Me and my group came up with “Selcet One” theme and above posted three print advertisements.

My team included Anindito Guha, Ankit Mahajan, Nilanjan Roy Chowdhary and Shweta Vij.

Added Later: We were “awarded” lowest marks for this effort and the faculty thought we did not put effort and time !