I am usually very careful but I got a virus that I noticed in my startup menu that has no manufacturer listed. It appears the virus is very new only a couple days old.

This virus first appeared yesterday Jan 6th and my MS Security Essentials didn’t even know about it because it was so new.

What does it do?

About every 3 or 4th search on Google within Firefox 9 it would take me to an advertisement instead of the page Google intented. Sometimes it doesn’t go to an ad it take you to another virus.

What I am doing to clean my computer.

I disabled it on start up and deleted it in the directory, but it seems to be in the registry as well so that is what I am working on now.

If anyone figures out how to clean this off there Windows 7 system please let me know.

How I got rid of it

I did a restore from Jan 5th at 5am in the morning and that got rid of it.

Happened between 12/24 to 1/4/12

Google Gmail:

I am guessing that “50.16.179.243″ is backupify using amazon’s servers. And

These are the files they placed on my site:

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Wed Dec 28 23:14:18 2011 0 213.5.71.102 45 /home/learning/__check.html a _ i r learning ftp 1
* c
Wed Dec 28 23:14:22 2011 0 213.5.71.102 45 /home/learning/public_html/__check.html a _ i r learning ftp 1
* c
Wed Dec 28 23:14:24 2011 0 213.5.71.102 35057 /home/learning/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/utils/utils.php a _ i r learning ftp 1

OK, I am not a home builder but something seems odd here.

The person installing the window was very nice and did a nice job cleaning up but when I asked him if he was done he said yes, that was odd because I could see light coming through the window.

The small picture above is looking down at the bottom of the window and you can see a piece of paper that was pushed gently through the air gap from inside where the sealant was not fully applied.

I am not an expert but this not a replacement window, this is a brand new window in newly framed location, should it not have flashing around the exterior?

Couple of days ago I started getting the “authorization failure” error when trying to watch a movie.

• I called Netflix and they said to call Microsoft SliverLight team
• I called Microsoft but they told me to call HP where I got the computer (they wanted to charge me for tech support.
• I didn’t call HP because I know what they are going to say

I logged in to Netflix and removed all my devices (5 of them) and then tried it but no luck. I then try it on my other 2 computers, but no luck.

Frustrating.

• Also I tried reverting back from Windows 7 SP1 because Netflix worked at that time before the SP was installed but that didn’t work.
• Also I called a friend that never used his Netflix on WMC, I asked him to set it up and try it and it didn’t work for him (we are both on Comcast).

If I find a fix I will post it here.

UPDATE 7/5/2011 It started working again all of a sudden.

With all the tests I did I really think this was a Netflix issue even though they blamed it on MS.

I show how to uninstall a hard drive in a 3 year old HP slimline and then replace it with a new one.