Friday, January 5, 2007

How to get rid of the W32.Mixor.Q infection on a computer?

Follow the steps to get rid of W32.Mixor.Q from your computer:

  1. Click Start > Run.
  2. Type regedit
  3. Click OK.
  4. Note: If the registry editor fails to open the threat may have modified the registry to prevent access to the registry editor. Security Response has developed a tool to resolve this problem. Download and run this tool, and then continue with the removal.
  5. Navigate to the subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  6. In the right pane, delete the value:"agent" = "%System%\ppl.exe"or"agent" = "%System%\alsys.exe"
  7. Navigate to the subkey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  8. In the right pane, delete the values:"taskdir"="%System%\taskdir.exe""adir"="%System%\adirss.exe"
  9. Navigate to the subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess
  10. In the right pane, restore the following entry to its previous value, if required:"Start" = "4"
  11. Exit the Registry Editor.

0x00000019 BAD_POOL_HEADER Invalid Pool Header

The error code is oxoooooo19 (0x82f29408, 0x0a200003). This error happens in windows xp and displays blue screen message as BSOD (0x00000019 BAD_POOL_HEADER Invalid Pool Header). Why this one happens and what is the main cause fo this error? All these error is genearted because of minidumps. All the minidumps fail with the same instruction address. It must be software error.
How to read the small memory dump files that Windows creates for debugging

Small memory dump files

A small memory dump file records the smallest set of useful information that may help identify why your computer has stopped unexpectedly. This option requires a paging file of at least 2 megabytes (MB) on the boot volume. On computers that are running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later, Windows create a new file every time your computer stops unexpectedly. A history of these files is stored in a folder.This dump file type includes the following information:

  • The Stop message and its parameters and other data
  • A list of loaded drivers
  • The processor context (PRCB) for the processor that stopped
  • The process information and kernel context (EPROCESS) for the process that stopped
  • The process information and kernel context (ETHREAD) for the thread that stopped
  • The Kernel-mode call stack for the thread that stopped
The small memory dump file can be useful when hard disk space is limited. However, because of the limited information that is included, errors that were not directly caused by the thread that was running at the time of the problem may not be discovered by an analysis of this file.
If a second problem occurs and if Windows creates a second small memory dump file, Windows preserves the previous file. Windows gives each file a distinct, date-encoded file name. For example, Mini022900-01.dmp is the first memory dump file that was generated on February 29, 2000. Windows keeps a list of all the small memory dump files in the %SystemRoot%\Minidump folder.
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Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Free Amazon AWS Scripts

Download, configure and install the script


Locate and download an (preferbally free) Amazon AWS script - PHPs are quiet eazy to handle - unzip, set up the configuration files properly, upload the configured system to your server, and your basic site should be up and running. A couple of scripts that we recommend you try first is listed here :

Amazon Products Feed
This script, written in Perl, has a very strong user community dedicated to its potential and development. It is also supported by a strong forum group. We were using this script for about a year before moving to a PHP version listed below..
Amazon Store Manager V2 (ASM2)
Written in PHP, installs in minutes, very easy to use, even for the novice webmaster, comes with built in SEO capability. This is the script we are using for all our AWS stores.
Chipmunk's PHP AWS script
A completely customizable amazon affiliate script. You decide what products you want to show in categories you create. We have yet to use this one so we can't say much about it.
AmazOOP Awesom! : a PHP OOP API for AWS
A component that lets you create lists of products to feature on your Mambo-driven site using information provided by Amazon through Amazon Web Services.
HotScripts.com
The largest depository of free and commercial script on the internet. Search this site and you'll come across lots more of what you are looking for.
For more details about the amazon scripts and non technical guide for amazon visit here.