Virus Today

Am not here to lecture on the history of viruses, but to put forth some of them I remember, and would want to remember as of how they demanded my attention to them. whatever the name be, a virus or a trojan, i assume here to be a virus. Some interesting viruses I have seen are:

The New Folder:
whoever named it did a wonderful job! Ever had the enthu to see the number of directories in your system? this thing I am talking about creates as many folders.. sry.. files in the name of new folder, the icon of which resembles that of a folder as well. Our natural tendency when we see a new folder is to see whats in it, so that we name it for good. one instance of that is enough to ruin the system beyond nothing but a clean format unless and until u find some anti-virus that can clean it. none, when i saw it. partial format such as the format option given in the context menu with the OS will not do.

explorer virus:
The most striking feature in windows coming from dos, the GUI and the ability to click and explore the drives. This one interferes with the capabilities of explorer and removes the click-ability of the icons for disk drives in my computer thus having to do it the harder way - use the address bar by giving the location..phew..

gtalk virus:
relatively uncomplicated compared to many contemporaries, but attention grabber as it chats with your friends on the gtalk list and prompts them to click a link and survives its race :). another one dissembles the sound drivers and demands a clean format as well.

there are a lot many out there like the one that restarts the PC on opening the My computer or the cmd, ones that keep replicating and eat the space and many more that I haven't remembered or that their function is reasonably subtle for me to recognise.
They have all done their jobs keeping us on our toes for the constant vigil that is needed. At a stage its felt that maintaining an antivirus is far more difficult than it is to have the viruses on computer as, the first of their preferences is to turn off the antivirus..hmm.. this business has become quite lucrative and I heard some grapevine that some people create the deadly things and claim to have the soln for them so that it attracts many a customers to buy the product. Great techniques indeed!!
these little viruses have made some history, pages of which are here. :D

virus tomorrow :
some kinds of viruses I anticipate the existence in the future are:

the clipboard virus: this takes control of the clipboard and cripples the system by not allowing any movement/replication through the clipboard. moving a file to a different folder thus involves the arduous task of uploading the file and sending it to yourself using a p2p s/w so that u can download and save in the location of interest. Does deleting a file involve the clipboard? :P

mouse/keyboard virus:
this future virus manipulates the drivers of keyboard and mouse and making them dysfunctional. And if possible the CD drive as well making a deadly combo where in one can only switch on and do nothing else.. is format a possibility?
making the mouse/keyboard alone dysfunctional is not such a big problem as there are this on screen keyboard and navigation keys for cursor.

format king:
when the primary OS is XP, having vista in some other drive makes it irremovable unless vista is removed first (vista's grub or whatever it is, is in the primary OS drive and vista being a higher OS in the lineage.) my concept is: the virus should be able to place one such grub in the primary OS making it irremovable as long as the virus isn't healed. of course linux can clean the mess.

I doubt the validity of the types i have mentioned above. thats what i think about the present ones and the ones that i anticipate in the future. not that i want them to move about freely. windows has become the home ground for these fellows, lets hope windows can see their backs soon. :)
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hmm.. yet another one

Am running out of ideas to write anything on the blog, infact got none :D. so got to stick with the previous post's subject until i find one :)

another method of hiding folders.. purposes served not one but two. one is obvious and the other one is ease of retrieval.here is how it goes(/n) :

this time its not only folders that am talking about but files as well. the result is you do not end up going to the folder options, select show hidden files,but, u simply access the file or folder through a simple command in run.

select the file(note that here on file can be file/folder in this post), right click over it and select create shortcut. rename the shortcut to something u easily remember and do not have trouble typing.now cut the shortcut and paste it in the :\windows\system32 folder.thats all. we are done with half the job.now right click over the file/folder go to properties and check hidden.we are done :).

now if the folder/file is still visible then go to folder options and check do not show hidden files or folder under view tab.save and apply the settings. now click start on the taskbar and open run and type in the shortcut you have named a step ago and press enter.u will see your folder the way it was.

after doing this you skip the irksome part of changing the folder options everytime u want to view the folder.enjoy your hiding :)

hiding folders, a good method

i wanna tell some handy tips in my blogs here-after. these tips apply on windows-xp and can work on vista and other OS' that are from windows family.

here is the first one:

hiding folders: in steps

1).select the folder u wanna hide by clicking it once

2).rename the folder by right clicking and selecting rename or simply pressing f2 button on the keyboard.

3).now keep the alt key pressed and type 0160 from the number pad.
note:numbers 0160 should be typed from the numpad only.

4).now press enter or click the empty space in the window.
by now the name should have gone. right?
we have to do this because windows does not accept unnamed files or names with only spaces.

5).then right click the folder u desire to be hidden and select properties and then select the customize tab in the properties window.then select change icon and select among the icons, the one right to what appears like a lock i.e an empty space like icon and then apply changes.

by now if everything has gone fine your folder becomes invisible.

if the folder is in the middle of a page then hiding it by this method looks weird because there appears a blank space in the window.in order to come over that we can do one thing. deselect the autoarrange option in the window and drag the folder to the end of the page.

if at all any problem implementing this post a comment i will address ur comment in the next post or update this.