overcast
You know when you have one of those days, and everything is just shit? Well today is one of those. The weather is overcast and I feel overcast! However, I tried my best to be productive! Woke up, and didn’t do much… Well, did the normal. Sat at my desk…
What is this? If there is one rule to follow, it’s if you run a “Keygen.exe” and nothing happens, or you get an ie popup then activate the emergency forcefields and batton down the hatches!!!! Amist trying to install a perfecly legal application that I had innocently lost my legal key for, I had managed to infect myself with some kind of uncharted virus! That’s right! It replicated itself to “%SYSTEMROOT%\Program Files\winupdates\” and made a load of registry entries, which were designed to stop me stopping it. It blocked my access to taskmgr.exe, cmd.exe, mmc.exe and regedit.exe. Fear not though! I quickly rebooted into safe mode and proceeded to clean up my registry so the virus wouldn’t load on boot. After this I installed some free av and ran it on my system… No Viruses found? I scanned the file. Not a virus. Well, that’s a lie! I opened the keygen.exe in notepad and cleaned up after it manually. I have no idea what the virus code was intended to do, but it’s gone now! If I find the author I will be castrating him (or alternatively, contacting abuse.net and filing a claim under the computer misuse act :P).
After this I spent about 3 hours looking through Jobs.. Found about 15-20 of relative interest, CV will be sent with haste. Ermm, after that I had some tea (beans, and scrambled eggs on toast :D) and came back home to email Sam and be bored/miss her *blush*.