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

Shut up Fool. This guy will do anything

Gotta love country music

Came across this on good old boards!

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.

Anyone Know a Social Worker

Check out this link its hilarious. Ninja dad takes on his two toddlers.

Camera trouble.

So I whipped the memory card out of the camera there last night to transfer files to the PC. Put it in the card reader and went to view the pics but it turns out that any pics ive taken in the last month were not readable. This was strange as I could still see them on the camera when I had the card in it. So I put the card back in the camera and, shock horror the camera just beeps now and displays "card error" on the lcd display. Ive tried reformatting the card in the camera but to no avail, the activity led flashes for about 2 seconds (hardly enough time format the card!). tried reformatting it on the pc, when that completed I put it back in the camera but still no luck. I seriously hope its the card and not the camera!

Anyone have a similar experience?

The Rimini Riddle

Does anyone remember this? A couple of us have been talking about it in work and searching the web for pictures or videos. It was on on Saturday mornings on RTE and possibly repeated sunday eveinings. It was about two (maybe three kids) who went to live with their Aunt Vera. The characters were puppet based characters and there was another weird sock type puppet "otto" I think was his name. There was also something about some weird painting that led the kids into a fantasy land. It was real Scary shit, I have no idea why I watched it but I cant find anything much about it on the Web! Theres a few mentions on boards but no images.