Had a fun time today cleaning off some trojans and rootkits.  On this one client system, while trying to go online, the Internet  turned into the Inertnet! (Hahahha! I love that one!)  As usual, I have lots of ideas why, but no real evidence and clients saying “I don’t know […]
I only need to update this once in a while, but twice now I’ve forgotten what to run after an update to /etc/login.conf. Run this: cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
Well, if you’re like me, you probably love Google Chrome browser. And although the latest version of Firefox (3.6) is much improved in speed, it launches fast and browses quick, I still like Chrome better now that I am used to it. Especially now that it’s got my two favorite […]
I had a client recently that had their browsers hijacked. Everything they typed in the browser ended up redirecting them to some test_s.php file at “www.fes.skâ€. (Don’t open that, or you might end up with a virus! I just wanted people to find this in case it might help clean […]
Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe – Antimalware service executable using high CPU Time I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, but I think this might be problem in any version. I keep having issues with Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe using high CPU Time and hogging the cpu.  Basically, using a large amount of resources, like […]