The Windows Media Center Virus

As you open your computer, all executable (.exe) program have been redirected to Windows Media Center.  This means that any program that you want to open , the Windows Media Center will be open, not the program you want to open. Although this may not be so destructive since it did not modify your executables or any document file but this can get you headache.

I encounter this virus last week from a friend laptop. I search for online solution and here's I found. From the website http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-363335-windows-media-center-virus . Just download the program, right click then Merge in windows 7 or 8. In Windows XP, just double click it then install then restart your computer. If the icon is in Windows Media Center file,open the command prompt, type regedit then browse these tree folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ FileExts \ .exe  and finally, delete all contents which are associated with Window Media Center.

Thanks to sieuchuoi...for this solution.
Download Registry to Fix Windows Media Center Virus

The Power of A Torrent

Today, movie creators, programmers and software developers have lost a lot of money due to torrents. You can have a copy of movies a day after it has been show in cinemas and a DVD rip or a BlueRay rip after the movies DVD and BlueRay copy has been out to the market. You can have a software application with crack or serial included using the torrent or play latest games without even buying it from the store.You just have to know how to READ, UNDERSTAND and FOLLOW instructions specially when working with crack and keygen. Also you have to risk because other cracks have a hidden virus waiting to be installed.Well, what should you do? Just download a uTorent program or a BitComet application from the internet and install it. Then goto www.torrentz.eu. It's a site links to all torrent site online such as piratebay, h33t, kickasstorrents, rarbg, torlock, extratorrent, torrentbit, vector, fenoy, torrenthound, fulldls, seedpeer, torrentzap, torrentdownloads, torrents.net, bitsnoop, 1337x, newtorrents.info, katmirror.com and many more. Just select the link that has a greater number of seeders for faster downloads and for the movie enthusiasts, always select those uploaded by YiFY because I can assure you that, it's a good quality.

What is a Virus?

Here in the Philippines, I usually encounter people specially those that did not study computer tend to used the word "Virus" even the problem is Hardware faulty wire, power supply failure, or dust. Let me tell you what is a virus? A virus is a software program created by programmers not to help but to destroy, misplaced, or delete your hard work data and files on your PC. It is usually a resident program hidden in memory waiting for a user intervention through commonly used command or time triggered to be activated or just a simple file from disk waiting to be open and reproduced itself.

Some virus also destroys your hardware specially BIOS the first program run by your computer before Operating Systems loaded, and other's reset and shutdown your PC repeatedly.

Nowadays, the virus that I always encountered is the virus that targeted flash drive to propagate themselves. When a PC is infected with this virus, the flash drive that will be inserted to the PC will be compromised by setting the real folders attributes to hidden and set it to system folders and creates the same folder name in which it's true identity\is not a folder but an executable file with an icon of a folder.  That folder when opened by a user creates a memory resident program to the target computer and opened the real folders linked to it and checked if flash drive inserted is already compromised. Every newly folder created in a flash drive by a user is hid by the virus and creates a copy of itself with a name the same as the newly created folder.

ESET Nod32 antivirus can clean this virus by deleting those executable folders from the flasdrive resulting from unable to access your files on your flash drive which you may now think that your files  have been deleted by the virus but it's not because if you see the properties of your flash drive, it is not 100% free space. Your files are still there. It is only hidden and set to system folders.

How to unmarked a files and folders attributes as system files and folder? Hidden files can be unhide though windows properties but not system files and folders. It can only be done through the ATTRIB command in the COMMAND PROMPT. That is if you know how to used DOS commands. You can also download a special third party program called FEBOOTI fileTweak from www.filetweak.com. Febooti file tweak Expands Windows property tabs to display additional file properties such as  the Attributes tabs. View file and folder content (copy file list to clipboard). View file and directory description. Manage Creation date, Modified date and Last Accessed date.
Read more: Febooti FileTweak - CNET Download.com http://download.cnet.com/Febooti-FileTweak/3000-2248_4-10466056.html#ixzz2WOEt4N00

When febooti file tweak is installed just show hidden and system file from the folder options in the control panel. To do this, go to Control Panel click Folder Options, Click the view tab, uncheck "Don't show hidden files, folders or drives" and uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System files (Recommended)" and click APPLY. Now open your flash drive and unhide every file and folder or just select it all by pressing Ctrl+A then right click to the files then click Properties then click ATTRIBUTES tabs(you will see this when febooti is installed) then unchecked "hidden", unchecked "system" check "include subfolders" and press OK. Now you have to hide the system folders again because system folders should not be visible to the user by default as it is used by Windows to operates. Go to Control panel then folder options then click view then click Restore Defaults and press OK.

That's it! You unhide your files hid by the virus in your flashdrive. Well be sure that your PC is not affected by this virus before doing everything. Because everything you do will be waste because everytime a folder that is not set to hidden and system attributes will be hide by the virus automatically.