A day or two back, my friend H-N was at my place for some work reasons, and guess what, he got Najam’s external HDD with him, which had his files, a dozen and more bunch of viruses..

My antivirus (avast), instantly recoginized these viruses, and stopped most of them, some were too quick and planted them in my OS drive, which is absolutely a primary drive to run the operating system of the computer..

2 days later and my computer was still infected, I actually was occupied with work that’s not related to computers so this dis-infection of the computer was delayed. DAMN !

Any how, this particular night, I had enough of this virus pop ups from my AntiVirus scanner, and I decided to get rid of it, with a little help from the internet (my little form of research), I discovered it was a Rootkit virus, which generally are a bit hard to remove. Any how I guess most of it or a 100% of it are gone now, since all the dsoftwares I used to disinfect my computer say that there’s no more virus in my 320 GB HDD..

I m going to list all the softwares and methods below so anyone who gets something as nasty can get some help from here.

My Antivirus is Avast Home Edition 4.8, and prompted that I had some infected file in <System Root>\system32\drivers folder which was called klif.sys, I moved it to the antivirus chest, in other words quarantined it, and then deleted it from the chest, means making it ineffective and deleting it, obviously even deleting this would not help, since it had spread a bit. So I also ran a boot time scan of my computer, after I had run a thorough scan.

My next step was to run a complete spyware scan of my HDD, which revealed I had 2 registry values added or modified, I used Spybot Search & Destroy and TrendMicro Hijack this, for this purpose.

I also had to look up manually if any autorun files had been added, and there’s no surprze they had been done so on all my fixed Hard drives and also my ipod which was connected.. These files would pop up each time even after I had removed them.. so what I did was to run a live version of Ubuntu which I had just downloaded and remove all the autorun files from there.. for those who’re wondering, ubuntu is a free linux distribution, recommended for any home/pro user.

I then booted again in to Windows XP, and reran the antivirus and antispyware and used Sophos Rootkit Remover, this also found something, and cleaned it for me.

I ran an antivirus again and found out that my computer was now been clean, but somehow, I couldn’t still view the hidden files, no matter how many times I enables/disabled it from the folder options, so I searched a bit and found that a registry value could’ve been added/modified, and as I checked indeed, it had been modified, so yes, I modified it again, and you can find the solution to it here. It’s a bit of a registry work, so proceed with caution.

So now I have my computer back, anyone who has been bothered by my “non-presence” this was the reason, I m sorry.

I m hoping everyoen says safe from Viruses, please if you still haven’t got an antiviurs, do so and keep your files safe, and donot connect drives unless they’ve been checked for viruses, getting the viruses off your system is a big hassle, trust me.

Oh and if this helps any one, do tell me.

Tags: avast, computer, crap, f*ck, hassan, hijack this, kill, klif.sys, linux, M, najam, PC, rootkit, shit, sophos, spybot search and destroy, thanks, ubuntu, virus, windows

I guess most people now know, that I had resigned from Creative Chaos (Pvt.) Ltd. last month, and was just serving my notice period, and then I had some great opportunities to select from.. I think I had found the right one, and might be relocated for that particular purpose.

Right this day, it’s going to be my 2nd last day, Monday being the last day that I serve at Creative Chaos, also, I’ll be collecting all my letters and all sorts of stuff that’s post resignation on Monday.

I have also been working on a sex education website, which should be live by Monday hopefully… or thats something we here at Creative Chaos are hoping, I’ll post the link and review here, once the website goes live.

I’ve also been listening to Ali Azmat’s ‘Klashinfolk‘ on loop lately, which has been released just recently, and boy it’s good.. to good !

I m also planning to take a 2-3 day break before I join the other company, and fix things that shouldn’ve been fixed some time ago. Also I will need to help dad on somethings he had planned, but that’s going to happen only after he’s well.. right now he’s still a little weak, and needs speech therapy..

The rest all seems ok, I know one thing right now, I m going to miss Creative Chaos and all the people here alot.. There’s no one here, that I might not like, all the folks here are awesome !

Tags: ali, azmat, creative chaos, illusio, job, klashinfolk, music, oppurtunity, resignation, work

Independence day is near, and instead of making some thing very nice on those lines, I’d made up a pretty negative type work !

And why you may ask this is.. Well I m not that bad, I m also going to make one on a positive vibe too, but for now there are too many things to face..

Oh and guess what I m also decorating the design room at my current work place with all sorts of patriotic stuff… so far looks cool.. will upload pics some where soon.

Oh did I forget to mention, Muzzi (aka Soul Maker), has left and infact reached USA now, and is already getting bored.

Tags: 14, 2008, august, day, independence

On the 1st of August 2008, my collugues had decided that we’d go and see ‘Wanted’, after we’re done with all the work that we had to do at office, and since, it was not much work that we’d have to stay back, every one agreed. At around 8pm, we reached ‘Capri Cinema’, which seemed like a crowded place with so many vehicles around it, but still, we tried getting tickets, and it turned out that the whole show had been booked by Habib Bank for it’s employees, which was a blow, and a lesson was learned, we should call in before going to the cinema..

We then headed for Nishaat cinema, to watch ‘Ramchand Pakistani’, even though we knew it would be a good production, given that it came from Mehreen Jabbar, but like many, we still had doubts in our little clumsy minds.. What we witnessed next, was one mind blowing movie, maybe mind blowing is not the right term for this kind of movie, and keep in mind, it’s for people, who would like to see some reality, and good dialogue delivery, it’s not a boom boom dishum kind of a movie, and you’ll not get to see any hot chicks dancing.. It’s a dramatic kind of a movie, and has the reality touch to it..

Oh and I almost forgot, we also got to meet that little kid who acts in the movie, since we got in to the first show in Karachi.

I would any how, suggest not to take minors to the movie, since the dialogues are some what harsh and abusive to be adopted by the little minds…

It’s for sure a moview worth watching and worth supporting.. Get this I watched it twice in two days, both times at the cinema.

Tags: awesome, cinema, jabbar, mehreen, movie, nandita, office, pakiostani, ramchand

I don’t know but it seems like a good change happening, and I m a little happy about it too. I write crap I know, but I still like to read some good stuff, lately I’ve been visiting Teabreak more and more to read, yes read. I did have some sort of confusion, but then, one doesn’t need to be confused once it’s rolling good.

Then I m caught up with some work, both from the office and freelance, and I m getting less time to focus on the freelance, which is bad, but then we have week ends for that, and I m hoping to wrap it up nicely in a gifted manner before the week ends.

I m also going a little easy on some things I should not be, some of this stuff includes my current work, and the reason I’d say for going easy is to make it as smooth as possible, while staying relaxed, because I know I’ll pull it off before the time ends.

Zair dude is also getting people involved into blogging, he recently got another blogger ‘Aychaa‘, which is good, you know I m into blogging, and I do make efforts to get more people involved too.

Of late, I’ve started wondering about my new job, how is it going to be, how’s the new expereicne going to be? will I enjoy it, will I hate it.. what not.. hell, it’s not yet time.

I’ve also recently discovered Cuil. If all goes well, it could make for a decent competetor for Google search, only if all goes well. I really like it’s GUI. I m also planning on learning alot of new stuff including PHP, some of the seniors here at work had started some classes on that, sadly, these classes have stopped for some reasons I m not allowed to write here, even though this is my space..

I would like to write more now, but then whose gonna do my work..

Tags: aychaa, creative chaos, cuil, free, freelance, Google, job, me, office, teabreak, time, work, Zair

I wish I was much better that day.. oh yesterday I mean…

I was supposed to be there early, and sadly I turned out to be the one who entered last from the whole team..

Why you may ask.. damn I wasn’t well, vomiting all around, with my face stuck deep inside the commode ! ok, not that deep inside

Any how, when I reached Copper Kettle II, where the event had been organized the folks had already started, since alot of people had already come, and they couldn’t wait for me.. sob sob When I had arrived, the debate and the topic of focus were the blogging ethics, which honestly very few people follow, right now only a handful of bloggers practice such thing, the others just scribble what ever pleases them, which may work fine for them, but for others it might be something offending.

Since everyone was right there during this time, and we expected no more people, we though it would be best if all the bloggers could introduce themselves,and tell about what they write about on their blogs and what would they love to see happening on the blogosphere in Pakistan, this I believe was a nice thing to do… I said very little though.. I was sick remember

Everyone was asked to grab some food, you know everyone gets hungry so food it was, and for me, just a drink and an ice cream.. couldn’t take anything heavy, and didn’t feel like eating anything either, I’m still on soup. damn !

We all sat down again, talked about things we do other than blogging, about our work and businesses, about technology, music, anything that would fancy either one. For me, this was the only thing I talked about, I wasn’t myself yesterday, due to the face, again, that I wasn’t feeling well..

I hope to write more about the event, gotta get my soup now.

Tags: 2, copper, event, hitea, II, kettle, party, teabreak

I m here writing, just a couple of hours after I finally got the courage to say bye bye to my current so awesome job, to join another company for a different experience. As per the policy of this current so damn awesome company I will have to serve yet another month, before I can join the other company.

My new destination will be Trippert Labs, if all goes well, I should be joining it in a month’s time, though I was supposed to join in like 15 days time, but sadly that period has been made into a month.. :S

Any how, I m hoping the ride is going to be funfilled. I’ve already text-spoken to the HR, and the CTO, and they seem pretty nice people.

I know one thing for sure, I m going to miss this place as hell, I seem to have grown with this place, developed and polished myself a lot here. Fallen in love with the entire crew. Raised my standards, and learned alot or principals. Yes thats a good thing, progress is good.

So what now, right ? Well, thinking what to do, right now I haven’t spoken to my family about the resignation, it’s going to be a little bit of shock, but they’ll adjust, though my mom knows about this, almost nothing is hidden from here, but even she wouldn’t be expecting that I’d resign so soon.

Right now I m looking forward for good wishes, and a better carrier/future. Hope I get that.

On the other hand, we have a Teabreak meet up this Sunday, and we even have a Convention of the Creatives on the same day, lets see what happens, the Teabreak event is for bloggers and select folks only, where as the Convention is for everyone. A handful of people will be joining us on the launching event of TeaBreak. I hope it goes around good too… Right now I’ll head out of office with Zair to meet Ammar and Asim to discuss the whole event thing.

Prayers… Love you all.

Tags: creative chaos, dates, going, Islamabad, job, joining, karachi, living, offers, oppurtunity, resign, teabreak, trippert labs, work

The new version of Wordpress you know includes the Google gears implementation, in case you folks did not know that, this is one big help, no kidding..

Your writing and managing the blog becomes much more easier, not to mention effecient.

The link at the top right of the admin page in Wordpress, which says ‘Turbo’ is what enables this option. You will need to download and install Google Gears, which is available for Firefox as well as Internet explorer. sweet..

The new other impressive feature is the Pressthis link. Which is much more sophisticated and categorized  to what you want to put online. Surely wordpress has progressed and groomed itself very well.. awesome.

Here check out this video which has a detailed account of the new features of Wordpress 2.6.

Tags: 2.6, gears, Google, new version, wordpress

Damn man, this is so tiring, I know I might not be the best, atleast I know a couple of folks who are better than me, at what we do. So any how, oh well never mind..

Right now, at this very moment, I m super exhausted, like super super exhausted.. I know it’s nit much, but I haven’t slept in like 24+ hours, and damn I doozed off for a couple of minutes here, and I snored.. damn, I never knew I snore. shit shit shit..

Oh and I m also talking to M lady right now, which feels good, since she’s in Lahore for a wedding, and she’s having fun, maybe missing me too I hope so I m hoping she’s haveing a real good time… Oh yeah I love her.

But hell this work is getting on my nerver now..

time out…

Tags: exhaust, love, m lady, work

Yes this is another random post, just today someone said I should tel people about the inflation in the prices, but hell they already know about it, it’s not somethign they hsould get to know from my blog.

After the release of the new version of my website, I’ve seen some good traffic, and also some good projects coming my way, some of which I had to turn down for a couple of reasons.. Please donot question what reasons.

There’s also some very funny stuff going on between me and Zair, haha I should laugh, it’s an internal joke, that I don’t want everyone to know, and oh since working about work, our asses at work are all jammed for now, so much work, so less time, well thats the nature of this work my friend, that how we roll.. and I m working on a project that’s quite a delicate subject, but very educating, I hope they get a positive and a balanced response.

And then my friends, some of them are crazy pissed at me, and yes I m aware of that, haven’t been able to see some of them in eternity damn. I hope to meet them soon.. And Babrus, the cool digitartist rockstar dude has flown to Dubai. WOW!

Thats all for now.. and oh the new version of wordpress is beteer. yaay.

I’ve also removed justified text from this blog. yaayness.

Also check out this video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNK_r6iFRVQ
(awesomeness)

Tags: artist, babrus, ckcp, digital, friends, muraine, robert, rock on, tlabs, traffic, uzey, wordpress, work, youtube, Zair