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:

* c
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

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.

Try these things:

• Remove and reinstall Quicktime
• Disable Resample on all clips
• Lower the quality of the preview window
• Purge unused media to help free up resources
• Match Project Properties to your source media
• Disable all start programs from running
• Play around with the Split Screen button above the preview window
• In the Trimmer window, unselect the “Show Video Monitor” button
• Preferences Video Tab: Take your RAM preview to 0 megabytes.
• If you get green clips coming in, select all clips and bring them in to a new project file because the old one is corrupt.
• Make a new folder on your other hard drive and under preferences place all the temp files on there.
• Zoom out
• Press F5 to rebuild peaks, peaks have to be built before importing them on timeline
• Virtual memory to c: on not d: since d has the video files
• stay with 8bit editing and not 32bit. While 32bit editing can offer a tiny bit better visual quality when using plugins or transitions, it is extremely slow to edit as such.
• Set the preview quality (in the preview window) to “preview (auto)”.

photo credit: eflon

One of my sites has a popular podcast on DSLR video and it sucking most of my bandwidth 20gig of hosted bandwidth up so I tried Microsoft’s Skydrive.

I uploaded the mp3 to the cloud service and all was good for 3 days and then the URL’s that I was using changed and all my podcasts said “file not found” in my mp3 player. So I tried the new URL’s and only about 8 hours later those failed too, it is like it is learning.

So then I tried Google’s documents that now allows you to upload any file format. But I ran in to a problem with Google’s anti-virus message.

Anyone have other options?