Sunday, November 25, 2007

How To Turn Off AutoPlay Using gpedit.msc

Turning off AutoPlay is extremely important because most viruses hack in to your system using this risk.
You can easily disable Autopaly using following steps

1) Goto start -> Run -> Type gpedit.msc
2) This will load the group policy editor
3) Goto Administrative Templates -> System -> Find "Turn off Autoplay"
4) Then Enable it for all drives (choose it from the drop down box)

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How To Show Hidden Files Using Command Line

You may need this skill to detect hidden viruses in your pen.
For Example lets see how to delete worm/small.2.f (MicrosoftPowerPoint.exe)
1) click Start menu -> run -> type cmd
2) A command Line will be opened.
3) goto your USB drive, type I: (ex: H: or I:)
4) prompt will be changed to you USB driver letter I:\>
5) type dir /a:h and press enter
6) if you see MicrosoftPowerPoint.exe the virus is in your pen drive.
7) delete it by typing del MicrosoftPowerPoint.exe /a:r and press enter.

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I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE (NOT DETECTED) Virus

Maybe you get a dialog box "I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE" when you try to open Mozilla Firefox. This is done by a virus called W32.USBWorm which is transmitted through USB drives.
This virus also responsible to deny access to YouTube - "youtube IS BANNED" and orkut - orkut IS BANNED.
W32.USBWorm does not harm your system files, it just restrict access to firefox and you cannot also Uninstall it.
I ran AVG free and AVG Spyware to detect it but could not detect it.

Here are the manual steps:
1.Go to Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del
2.On Process Tab delete Delete only the svchost.exe of your user name
3.Type c:\heap41a in you address bar of your explorer.
4.Right click on svchost icon and goto properties.
4.Remove the tick on "read-only" from the general tab and press OK.
5.Now Delete all files in that heap41a.

Best way to stay safe is to remove autoplay from the USB drive, you can find lot of articles how to remove autoplay from you computer in the net.


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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Sri Lankan Online News

Here is a list of Sri Lankan Online News sites I like.

1) www.groundviews.org - GroundViews
This site is done in a blog style contain simple yet very powerful reviews about current news headlines.

2)www.lankapage.com - LankaPages
You can find all the hot topics in the main page.

3)www.dailynews.lk - Daily News
Classic news paper that you don't want miss.

4)www.lankaweb.com - Lanka Web

You can read my earlier posts to see some other news sites as well.

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Sri Lankan Tour Of Australia 2007

Sri Lankan Tour Of Australia 2007
It seems like we are into a defeat in the first test match.
Our cricket have never been like on 1996, where we lions used to win every single match we play.
Anyway I'm wishing our team JAYA WEWA!!!

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Saturday, November 3, 2007

Kuppiya.com - Free Sinhala Learning Video Site

Kuppiya.com - Free Sinhala Learning Video Site

Please visit my new site www.kuppiya.com
This site contain free learning videos regarding most aspects of the IT world.
Kuppiya.com is totally free to use. You can help Kuppiya.com by providing free learning videos you have made.

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