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Soundskool

Soundskool - an inter-school battle of the band competition released teaser videos for this upcoming event, and the “announcement” of a link, going to this particular site ( http://www.handakanabangsumikat.ph/ ). [Download MP4s] [Download Reports] Fellow musicians, join now and help me spread the good news!
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Focused Group Discussion on FOSS

A research group from Ateneo de Manila University invited developers in a Focused Group Discussion(FGD) on FOSS development at BCD Pinpoint, 4th Floor Bloomingdale Building, 205 Salcedo Street, Legazpi Village, Makati. The FGD was divided into two, the first had it on Feb. 26 and the second on Feb. 28, which targeted freelancers and employees respectively. The topics were: 1. Software / Deployment stack usage 2. FOSS advocacy 3. FOSS community Technical discussions were already going on before the formal one started. Michael Cole, an I.T. Manager, who was one of the speakers during Software Freedom Day 2007, gave a lot of his insights regarding the use of FOSS on the desktop space. He also revealed some of FOSS’s limitations at its current state. Re Alvarez, a system administrator, laid out some of his plans for FOSS usage on the company that he is working with. He gave out a lot of tips for newbies. Archie Cortes, a FOSS advocate and a full-time user since 1998, clarified t...
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Removing virus services.exe and fservice.exe

The virus consists of the following. C:\Windows\system32\fservice.exe and C:\Windows\services.exe The virus is a key logger. It sends an email message every time a connection to the internet is made. It blocks the Windows XP Protect Shield and System Restore services. Removing the virus: 1. Kill fservice.exe - Use TASKKILL /F /IM fservice.exe - If it doesn’t work on the first attempt, use NTSD -P [PID of fservice.exe] then quit the debugger to kill the task. 2. Kill services.exe - Kill the bogus one not the genuine services.exe - Follow procedure in number 1. 3. Delete all occurrences of fservice.exe and the fake services.exe - Do not delete the real services.exe found in C:\Windows\system32 4. Clean the registry for entries containing fservice.exe and the fake services.exe
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Removing jaymyka worm

Today is Gat Andres Bonifacio’s day. No work, no pressure, so I took the advantage of going to my aunt’s workplace to remove the so-called Jaymyka worm. All the computers were infected. Worm: Jaymyka Threat Level: Low Target Victims: Users viewing adult sites (Geez! Who did that in the office?) Description: It creates an autorun.inf file per drive with the following contents, [autorun] open=jay.exe ;shell\open=Open(&O) shell\open\Command=jay.exe shell\open\Default=1 ;shell\explore=Manager(&X) shell\explore\Command=jay.exe The autorun.inf file is paired with jay.exe. The jay.exe file handles the annoying duplication of files and some resource-hogging tasks leading to DoS attack. If this worm is able to infect the target device successfully, it attaches a file named mveo.exe at startup. This mveo.exe is responsible for the worm’s capability of regeneration. [Diagnosis] 1. Kill mveo.exe and jay.exe TASKKILL /F /IM mveo.exe /IM jay.exe 2. Delete...
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