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New Malware Infection
Had a client with a system that was infected with an new strain of malware. It was identified as Trojan.Win32.Genome.arbx and was infecting the svchost.exe.
The system was running Windows XP Kaspesky Antivirus 2011. The client complaint was that the system had been locking up and running slow. Initial contact with the system was remotely. Initial check show that the Kaspersky was was running and the database were up to date.
I checked the task manager and found 6 iexplorer processes running without a user interface. Attempts to kill the process would restart a new process. I updated Malwarebytes, Ran a scan Continue reading
Notepad++ keyboard shortcuts
Notepad++ Keyboard Shortcuts
Notepad++ has become my favorite editor when coding PHP or XML. It just has so many useful little features. You can have all of the documents you need opened in one window and separated with tabs. You can have a 2nd workspace hidden within the same window, which is great when you are updating some code, you can have the original in one “view” and the new code in another view. The FIND feature of looking into all open documents, or documents in a directory is awesome to have if you are stuck on windows and don’t have cools tools like ‘find’ and ‘grep’ handy. I have also setup my own “language” that parses through Java error logs so that you can collapse each error and skip all of the “at ..” lines when not needed.
The TextFX plugins are awesome and the XML re-indent tool has been a real life saver and speeds up fixing messed up CSS sheets and other XML coding.
Read more to get a list of the Notepad++ keyboard shortcut keys.
Windows keyboard shortcuts
Windows Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts can make it easier to interact with your computer because you don’t need to use the mouse as often.
Ease of Access keyboard shortcuts
The following table contains keyboard shortcuts that can help make your computer easier to use.
|
Press this key |
To do this |
| Right SHIFT for eight seconds | Turn Filter Keys on and off |
| Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN (or PRTSCRN) | Turn High Contrast on or off |
| Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK | Turn Mouse Keys on or off |
| SHIFT five times | Turn Sticky Keys on or off |
| NUM LOCK for five seconds | Turn Toggle Keys on or off |
| Windows logo key +U | Open the Ease of Access Center |