Recent battle with iamfamous.dll.

So last night I was up till 2 o'clock trying to sort out a problem with my laptop. For some reason I couldnt access web pages but could ping known websites IP addresses. It was looking like something was screwing with my DNS. Also on login I was seeing two cmd windows flashing up and disappearing upon login. Had a look at my hosts file and could see that everything had been changed to resolve to my localmachine but I couldnt edit the hosts file "c:\windows\System32\Drivers\etc". Anyway I installed XP SP3 and that seemed to sort the web browser problem. However I still couldnt update any of my security programs, ie AVG, Spybot, Ad-aware etc. after a bit of googling there seems to be a fairly new worm/trojan created to cause these effects. It modifies registry keys creates a few files in the temp folders and dumps the "iamfamous.dll" file in your "c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\iamfamous.dll" Came across TrojanRemover which is free to try for thirty days and it did the trick. I believe Avanger can also sort it anyway heres a link to a more detailed discussion on the problem.

http://www.computing.net/answers/security/cant-get-rid-of-iamfamousdll/24144.html

Got my dSLR eventually

Ive been talking and thinking about this getting one for a long time now. (Bok you might remember). My brother is currently in the US of A so I asked him to price it for me. €680 for the camera and double lens kit, he called me yesterday while in the shop and I took a deep breadth and said "buy it now!". Have to say I dont know a whole lot about photography but im looking forward to getting into it. TBH I havent bought any gadgets since I started working (over two years ago now!) and Ive been itchin like mad to get something. so anyway, Ive read all the reviews, it seems to stack up well against the competition, only thing being the lens' might be a bit more expensive. But with the built in Image Stabilisation, it means I dont have to shell out in IS for every Lens I buy from now on.

My speed on O2 broadband

This was at about 20:15 on Monday night. Have to say im happy enough with it so far!!


Edit: Ok, so I got the extension cable, and im now receiving three signal bars, It hasnt made a whole lot of difference, last speed test was showing 1.1Mbs down but Ive had a few sub 800K results aswell. Meh Im still happy enough. easily pleased I spose.

Mobile TV trial

Just got my hands on this. Its the Nokia N92 handset and I have it because of a tv trial here in O2. The TV trial uses DVBH .Its pretty cool I think O2 have about 12 channels at the minute as well as a couple of Interactive channels. The Handset is quite large and very heavy. Anyway Im off to play with it. Will have feedback soon.

Oops.

So I my dropped my Laptop and made shit of it. Well I didnt but my girlfriend did, She was working on it and had it charging and tripped on the powercord which sent the laptop crashing to the ground. I taught the ac power cable would have just pulled out from the back of the laptop but unfortunately not (It was at the wrong angle to do this). I was missing a few of the rubber feet from the bottom aswell so I suppose this helped to shift it off the table. It still works but the lid is completely cracked off from one hinge. I havent tested all the other hardware yet but I got a quote from dell for €233 to have the lid fixed. Il post pictures tomorrow. So then I see Aldi have a fairly alright spec laptop this Thursday for €799 and Im considering it at the minute, comes with:
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T2060 1.60GHz 533 MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache
1,024MB DDR2 SDRAM
120GB Hard Disk
15.4" TFT WXGA Widescreen Display
Wireless LAN 802.11 a/b/g

And Lidl have one aswell for €999 that comes with XP

Cool IPTv on a 360

Looks cool, saw this on the reg this morning.

Dell recall batteries

You may have seen it on todays news,Dell are recalling a number of battery models that have been catching fire lately. Aparently six of these packs have caught fire already. If you own any of the following models of Dell laptops it may be worth clicking the link below

Latitude: D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810
Inspiron: 500M, 510M, 600M, 700M, 710M, 6000, 6400, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, E1505, E1705
Precision: M20, M60, M70, M90
XPS: XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170, XPS M1710



Click Here for a full list of effected batteries

My Speed on NTL Broadband

Heres a neat speed tester. Very fancy but the end result is the same. Seen this on TCAL.

Click here to test your speed

Creative's answer to the Nano

Check out this little gizmo. Its called the Creative Zen V, It comes in 1, 2 or 4 Gigs and the V plus has a video player also. Not full sure of the prices over here yet but for more info check out. Zen V