It’s been a couple of days since I had landed in Karachi on the 1st November, and since then I’ve become pretty busy here, yes I also found a better job, which is more relevent to my experience as a web designer.

Not only that, but i’ve also been offered alot of jobs since I came back, and most of them were of great value, but I had to point myself to one direction, so I opted joining Xuqa. It’s an online gaming company, which means I’ll also be learning a good deal of flash, so I can be a part of the game development team, which is good. I m hoping to master the Actionscript area mostly.

Other than that, I went to visit my old office Creative Chaos, and had some good time spent there, met the old folks, maaaaan I miss that place.

Anyways, I was late yesterday at my work place, and I then I saw one of my former collegue online, who was also at her work place, fortunately she lives near my house, so I asked her if she could drop me near my place, to which she agreed, I’d like to thank her for that.. many many thanks. A million thanks.

Oh I’d also like to tell the world that my Dubai trip was good, awesome with the people at the office, and my relatives, but otherwise Dubai is not a place to live, atleast for a guy like me, I m not a fan of too much luxury and honestly Dubai is a place for tourists..

Any how, I’d like to thank these people from Illusio: Mr. Ronaq, Shuja, Mansoor, Babar, Shahzeb, Saahir, Riaz (boy oh boy), Murtaza, Naeem, Murtaza, Aurangzeb, Sajid. Thank you so much.

Oh and I’ve been talking to lady ‘M’ recently like 10 minutes for two-three days already.

The rest all seems cool for now, I hope to have a good time at Xuqa. Got to hit the sack now.

Tags: babar, back in karachi, creative chaos, dubai, love, mansoor, memories, miss, murtaza, naeem, peanut labs, people, riaz, ronaq, saahir, sajid, Seher, shahzem aurangzeb, shuja, thanks, xuqa

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’ll use today’s post, just to thank everyone, who’ve been there for me all this while !

My Parents.
The most important people of my life, without them I probably wouldn’t have had the life, I have today, thanks for taking care of me while I was little, and nourishing me, and guiding me through this path of life, and then supporting me when I took my stands ! Thank you very much, I know I will never be able to thank you enough, but still, this is just a little token of appreciation from me !

M Girl.
Yes that M girl I’ve known since grade 5th, and fell for her love in grade seven, thanks for coming in my life, and changing things, my view and perspective. I know you’ll always be here for me, and I’ll always be there for you !

Asim Saeed.
The one guy I trust most apart from the above two, not only is he a friend I’ve known for years, but both of us have actually been through almost the same things, we’ve been happy together and we’ve been in bad times together too. I know i never say thanks to you, since that’s our rule, but for once, I m really grateful !

Hassaan Sarwar.
Another of my greatest friends, with lots of things in common and he’s a guy, I’ve been hanging out alot ! Even though I haven’t done much for him, he’s done alot ! Thanks man ! I wish you all I can for you and your band and career

Najam -ur- Rehman.
This dude, whom we (Hassaan and me) refer to as our stripper boy, is one hell of a dude to be around with, since he’s in Dubai working his bums off, we’re really missing him…come back home !

Arooj Zafar.
This is one lady that I don’t know in person, but she sure is a person who brings the little smile on my face, that I wish I’d always have on my face (though it sometimes looks odd), thanks for bearing to all my stupid jokes and text, I really appreciate you being here !

Uzma Ghazanfer Ali.
Uzma, a girl I came to know through an art community (deviantart.com), and since then we’ve been friends, throwing odd jokes at each other, fighting over nonsense and helping out when time called ! Uzey, girl thanks for dropping on my page

Creative Chaos Staff.
I m thankful to them for accepting me into their system and looking at my horrible work ! I thank them for being supportive and helpful all the time, I really enjoy being there, thank you all !

Ansaruddin Wasif.
He’s an inspiration, and that’s not something to be surprised at ! This guy has the work and talent like no other, and his work has alot of times inspired me ! Thanks for the inspiration and heads up Ansar !

Phahim.
This funky fella, met him only a small amount of times, but I know he’s inspired me too, and lots of time, check out his work to know why I m thanking him !

Raheel Lakhani.
The owner of Pakdeviants community on deviantart, I m so happy I know him, why you may ask, he’s the guy who’s going to be there looking out when you’re digging the treasure He’s one supportive guy and doesn’t really takes offence on most things I say !

Fahad Paracha.
This humpy bumpi kid knows photography like crap, though he’s become a good friend, with nice ideas and all, there no reason why he doesn’t deserve gratitude !

Babrus Khan.
This guy has a thousand names ! The one thing I know is I m not going to get bored when I am anywhere near him, his short but cranky stories are going to help you laugh your intestines out ! Cheers bro !

All my relatives and other friends !
To all my other relatives and friends, I thank you for being there for me when I needed you, and I thank all those too, who never card, since it helped me find alternate ways ! Thanks

To all those who didn’t get a mention
I m sorry if I missed your name, but you know how thankful I m to you !

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