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

Here is some stuff from me, that I’ve put online as of late

See this on deviantart/flickr (This one is also a dedication to Hassan Sarwar.)

See this on deviantart/flickr

Tags: a, art, ever, flying, free, h-n, hassan, have, high, i, known, lonely, me, one, road, sarwa, that, the, three, walk

It’s very much a challenge when you work at a company as awesome as the one I work at, I mean seriously, I love my job, I know there are times, I’d want to pull out my hair and bang my head on the walls, and maybe scream on some one’s face, but hey, that’s what makes it worth while, when at the end, I see a polished product that I worked on.

If you put it the other way, yes, I have no life haha !

Any how, this is just another random post, but here are a few things, some of them are rough, while some are good.. I have been enjoying work lately, and the least I can say is, work is awesome, always has been. I would go as far as saying, this has been the best company I have yet worked for.

I play a fool most of the times, and act like I m on crack, but the fact is I enjoy the freedom I get, while I work, this makes the whole experience much more rich.

On the other hand, there have been some bad happenings, including that of Asim Imtiaz, he already left Creative Chaos, to study in UK, I wish him best of luck for the future, though I will be collaborating with him on some projects, Inshallah !

On the other hand, one of my great friends, H-N has also left the office, the reasons are best not disclosed, I wish him al the best for the future too.

Zair on the other hand, is on a leave, which has made me a little more active, he’s not on the desk, and I m playing boss boss, with my only other colleague in the team..Zair if you’re reading this, cal up boogie man

The rest is all awesome, prayers and best wishes are always welcome, and hate mails get replies from my inbox.

Love.

Tags: aweosme, bad, chaos, creative, farhan, gratitude, hassan, love, manage, me, shitty, tala, work, Zair

Thanks to Zair, for partially suggesting this blog entry’s title.

Now, now, the day, has been quite of a stir, a mix up of things, various things.. Both good and bad, odd and wow type. But in the end, I m still me, happy and woah..what… !

First, H-N had problems returning to Karachi, and that’s why he had been going through some mental stress and torture, but he should hopefully be here in the morning

Then we have those teaming and grouping things at office and before that those three people from Network department getting a farewell.. damn man !

Me, Zair, our manager Farhan, had a meeting with a client, and man, the guy’s awesome, infact all the people in the room at that time are awesome and since then, I’ve been saying a a lot of no’s and what’s to lots of things, for no apparent reasons…odd? I know !

Then some non disclosure agreement issues…oh hell !

We even have MB, having problems getting back to normal life, since she’s lonely..cheer up girl

And then there is me… All excited for the new day… Zair’s gonna have some hard time

Tags: awesome, clients, group, hassan, mb, meeting, mix up, nda, team, travel, wicked, work, Zair