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How To: Remove Virus Trigger 2009

By Jamsi • Nov 13th, 2008 • Category: Rogue AntiVirus Removal

Yet another rogue spyware program on the loose, this time named “Virus Trigger 2009″. One thing I noticed about this program, is that the website looks quite professional and appears in the number 1 spot in google when you search for keyword “Virus Trigger 2009″. Nasty huh. READ more to find out how to removal this malicious program.



How To: Remove Ultra Antivirus 2009

By Jamsi • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Rogue AntiVirus Removal

Yet another nasty rogue anti-spyware program is amongst us, this time named “Ultra Antivirus 2009″. I managed to get this baby loaded on my test machine and boy did I let her rip! Read this post to learn how to remove this bad boy.



Remove Win32/Heur Virus

By Jamsi • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Spyware & Virus Removal

So a friend of mine had a virus called “Win32/Heur”. According to research, the Win32 Heur virus spreads via peer to peer programs such as iMesh, WinMX, Ares and torrents. This virus is nasty for a few reasons;

It actually records your browsing activities and displays advertisements to you based on your usage.
It de-activates your anti-virus [...]



Downgrade from IE8 to IE7

By Jamsi • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Windows Vista, Windows XP

So you’ve tried Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and you’re not impressed. Lucky for you there’s a quick solution to downgrade back to trusty old IE7!
Windows XP Solution
1) Click the Start menu, control panel
2) From the control panel select “Add/Remove programs”
3) Find Internet Explorer 8 and proceed to uninstall it.
After the uninstall is complete you’ll be [...]



Vista NTLM Setting

By Jamsi • Nov 7th, 2008 • Category: Windows Vista

A few users have reportedly had troubles with accessing storage devices that require NTLM authentication. For those running vista, you may or may not know that it only uses NTLMv2 authentication and therefore it won’t work.
To get your storage device to work with Vista, you can enable your Windows Vista PC to use both NTLM [...]



WinXP Taskbar Double

By Jamsi • Nov 7th, 2008 • Category: Windows XP

The problem:
Your windows XP taskbar is showing as two rows or it has doubled in size.
The solution:
Lucky for you, fixing this problem is dead simple.

First of all, make sure your taskbar is NOT locked.
1) Right click the taskbar (Make sure you “right click” a blank space, that is, don’t right click a running program)
2) [...]



Windows Updates Won’t Install

By Jamsi • Nov 1st, 2008 • Category: Windows XP

I’ve seen this problem a few times, whereby you will be in the middle of doing a Windows Update and right after the updates have downloaded, they will refuse to be installed - often freezing and not showing any sign of further progress.
Here are a few solutions that are known to work.
Solution 1 - Reinstalling [...]



ASP.NETs Forms Based Authentication

By Jamsi • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: ASP.NET

Websites that offer membership based services often require their important files to be secured from non-members. For this purpose, they need to implement form based authentication that ensures that only members can access the files and even if a non-member copies the exact location of the file on the server, he/she is denied access to [...]



How To: Configure IPSec with Sonicwall

By Jamsi • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Linux, Network Security

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of installing and configuring a VPN link between an outdated Linux box and a Sonicwall TZ170. Oh the joys I had in getting this to work ..
The Sonicwall device was located in a data center, whilst the Linux machine was located in an office protecting a 192.168.0.0/24 [...]



Ubuntu Virtual Machine

By Jamsi • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Linux

One of the biggest problems I faced when I made the switch to Ubuntu was my workplace. You see, I’m often assigned to projects that require me to work on websites and online systems using ASP.NET and C#. It’s these projects that require me to have access to Visual Studio 2005 and mSQL on my [...]



Meebo Crashes Firefox on Ubuntu

By Jamsi • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Linux

So I felt like some instant messaging action and my favorite IM client at the moment is web based Meebo, which allows you to log into multiple IM networks using the one sexy, Ajax client otherwise known as Meebo. But BAM, Firefox closed without a hint of what the problem was. So I tried again, [...]



The GridView fired event PageIndexChanging which wasn’t handled

By Jamsi • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: ASP.NET

If you’ve set a gridviews AllowPaging attribute to “true”, you’ll notice the following error;
The GridView fired event PageIndexChanging which wasn’t handled