You can find some more stuff on my site if you really want to.

-MFSiNC

Stuff that’s happened since my last post:

• I bought an Alienware M15x laptop custom spec from dell.
• I now have a Pics folder on my server
• I *might* be making a new map, dm_uh_complex. But it’s a long way off. Feature requests on the UH group page soon.
• If anyone can decode this image, you win Respected User status on my server!

• I got the GMod achievement “Yes, I am the real garry!” which only 0.3% of steam users have.
• Just Cause 2 doesn’t support Windows XP, i will try the RLD crack + DX10 patch sometime soon on a test pc.

And thats about all that’s happened.

If you don’t know already, it infects all running EXE files and most of the EXE and HTML files on disk, and also connects to an IRC server to await commands. Even one infected file is enough to re-infect the whole system.

Most of the advice i got online was to nuke the HDD and reinstall windows. Remember, failure is always an option. Here’s how i did it without re-installing the OS or even booting from the windows CD.

You will need:
. Virus-free pc(s)
. Dr Web Cure-It
. Avast home
. Virus infected HDD(s)
. Windows CD of the same version installed, ISO image and an emulator work fine too.

Step one,
Remove the HDD from the infected PC and connect it via SATA or a USB-SATA adapter to a clean PC. eSATA and internal SATA are faster, USB works too but is slower.

Step two,
Run Dr Web on the whole drive from the other PC (this takes many hours, i have 138GB on C:\ and this took over 8 hrs), also note Dr Web sometimes does a BSOD on Windows 7.

(Dr Web can clean the files of the virus but leave the original file intact (most of the time))

Note: if you have multiple hard drives, run scans from multiple PC’s at the same time. i had 3 going for over 8 hours on 5 hard drives (2x per PC and one over USB on my laptop)

Step three,
After the Dr Web scan is complete, scan every drive again but with Avast.

Step four,
Replace HDDs, Power up, Hope.

If windows boots and all “seems” to work, run SFC /SCANNOW at a command prompt to verify all windows files. You will need your windows CD/mounted ISO at this point. If it keeps asking and doesn’t accept the CD and just keeps saying “Try Again” even if its there, then you may have to change these registry entries at:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

Change SourcePath to the drive letter of the windows cd, example D:

And Installation Sources must contain the root drive of the windows cd, example D:

This is what i did and it seems to be COMPLETELY GONE. no iffy net connections, no mysterious CPU usage, all files scan clean on avast. Also clean on virustotal.com for a Dr.Web “cured” file that used to be infected.

Also note, some programs will probably be corrupted (Nero, AWIcons, DVDShrink, Nokia PC Suite are a few of the ones that got messed up) but these can easyly be re-downloaded again. MUCH better re-install 15 programs than reinstall the whole OS and over 100 programs.

HeX = 1, Win32.Virut = 0

:D

If you have any questions/problems just comment, i usually reply within the day.

I compiled this with the track listings at Discogs, this is not a rip from the original CD, this is a re compiled version.

Tracklist:
01. katarina & the waves – walking on sunshine.mp3
02. Huey Lewis & the News – The Power of Love.mp3
03. Martha And The Muffins – Echo Beach.mp3
04. Go West – Tracks Of My Tears.mp3
05. Haircut 100 – Fantastic Day.mp3
06. The Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold.mp3
07. Tom Robinson Band – 2 4 6 8 Motorway.mp3
08. The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon.mp3
09. Steve Harley – Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me).mp3
10. Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don’t Care.mp3
11. Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell.mp3
12. Lynard Skynard – Free Bird.mp3

Download:

Pass: cheesecake

Download:

The infrared receiver was only compatible with Windows XP Media Center Edition, and my pc is XP Home.

But my laptop is XP-MCE, so i started hacking the driver into XP Home.

After 2 hours, i had a working driver on my pc, and 20mins later i had a rar of the drivers needed to make it work.

Here is the driver for this remote (although may work on other makes) for XP home/Pro

You might be thinking “what, that’s no driver”, but it is!

Right click > Save Link As > Save > change driver.png to driver.rar and extract with WinRAR.

Next is the tricky job of getting it to work.

• 1. Plug in the infrared recever
• 2. From the install wizard select the folder called “Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver” or if it don’t work “eHome Infrared Receiver”
• 3. Mess with it trying drivers from the folders in the rar, and uninstalling from Device Manager (i just hate explaning this kind of infinitely complicated thing to noobs)

There.

Oh, and to do the RAR-In-Image thing, make sure some-pic.jpg and some-rar.rar exist in C:\

then do this.

cd c:\
copy /b some-pic.jpg + some-rar.rar output-file.jpg