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General Software Discussion / Re: Does anyone know how I may remove Trojan Dropper:MSIL/Livate.A ?

« Last post by 4wd on November 08, 2013, 10:41 PM »

There's also ComboFix which can squash quite a few things ...

-4wd (November 07, 2013, 04:52 PM)

Including your OS if you don't know what you're doing, or get a little too careless when attempting to fix things CF reports but doesn't handle automatically.

-40hz (November 07, 2013, 08:39 PM)

Hence the reference to "if you're going to re-install you might as well"   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free FTP storage using my own FTP client??

« Last post by 4wd on November 08, 2013, 08:58 PM »

If you don't mind it, I've a VPS with ~48GB out of 50GB that's not being used for anything apart from a couple of websites and a VPN tunnel, (and more bandwidth/month than I can use in three), it's located in LA so you should get decent speeds to it.

I could set up a FTP server with an account for you if you like, (might take me a couple of days to read the instructions ).

EDIT: That was easy - let me know if you want it.  If it's <3.5GB of data I can also rsync to another VPS in the UK for backup.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on November 08, 2013, 08:39 PM »

An NSA Whiz Designs 4 Fonts to Foil Google's All-Seeing Eye

-Arizona Hot (November 08, 2013, 03:36 PM)

You'd trust something designed by the NSA to foil Google ...

How about something designed by neither of them that foils both of them ?

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Living Room / Re: Bought 128gb SSD (cheap) non standard connector - landfill?

« Last post by 4wd on November 08, 2013, 08:19 PM »

I'd guess that it's a standard (m)SATA data/power connection but munged to be in a proprietary format so that people are forced to return to a Lenovo agent for any, (over-priced), parts/repairs - the same thing Dell used to do, (and maybe still does), to standard ATX PSUs.

Probably the only way to find out what kind of adapter you'll need, (and you'll most likely have to make one), would be to either:

• get the schematics for the U300s, (or at least pinout of the connector),
• find someone that has already done it,
• use a signal analyser to match the wires to the same on a normal SATA device, (for this you'd naturally need a U300s also),
• trace the tracks from the connector on the Lenovo SSD to the components on it and try and match them up with those from a normal SSD, (this should be possible since it most likely uses a standard SSD controller ... unless Lenovo have removed all manufacturer identification from the chips), or
• sell it on ebay for £10 and next time remember to look more closely at the images or ask more questions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does anyone know how I may remove Trojan Dropper:MSIL/Livate.A ?

« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2013, 04:52 PM »

There's also ComboFix which can squash quite a few things where others fail.

If you do end up going nuclear on the computer you may as well try running it before you do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sagelight Image Editor

« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2013, 04:38 PM »

A couple of things that annoy me about it are:
1) The window is maximised - and that's it.  Other than minimise to the Taskbar I can't resize it.
2) No drag and drop of images onto it to load up a new one.  Having to use a menu or file requesters gets very annoying, very fast.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2013, 04:30 PM »

so... unexpire it 4wd?

Maybe get Deo to check...

-wraith808 (November 07, 2013, 01:34 PM)

I've unexpired it but it still doesn't work for me - even going through a VPN to Germany doesn't help.

Mixed reports on the OzB site as to whether or not it works - seems to be hit or miss.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands [FREE via UPlay]

« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2013, 05:17 PM »

Looks like it may be a deal that happened earlier this year but they hadn't pulled the site after it expired.

Sorry you missed out Deo, I'll mark it expired.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands [FREE via UPlay]

« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2013, 04:05 AM »

Hmm, strange you should get a page with a serial number on it - worked for me this morning.

EDIT: Looks like they may have stopped it, since they've probably just woken up this morning to an enormous number of hits on the website from everywhere not in Germany.

I'm guessing the website may have got hammered, perhaps they might have fixed it by nighttime there, (they haven't pulled it down so they may still go ahead with it).

I'll keep checking every few hours and see what happens.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2013, 08:44 PM »

Bitcoin at risk of network attack, say researchers

The [theoretical] Cornell attack involves one large mining group that does not say when it has been rewarded with new Bitcoins. This "selfish" mining group then begins working on the cryptographic puzzle that will eventually release the next reward.

This gives it an advantage because every other mining group will still be working on a puzzle that has already been solved. By leveraging this advantage and being careful about when they release information about new Bitcoins they have mined, the group could gradually take control of the entire mining system.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2013, 06:43 PM »

NOTE: Site no longer works ... possibly.  Mixed reports, you grabs ya apples and ya tries ya luck.

From the OzBargain website: [Uplay] FREE - Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands



Silent Hunter 5 Gold Edition
http://www.gamestar....eys/silent-hunter-5/

Silent Hunter 5 takes players behind the periscope of a German Type VII U-boat to take on the Allied Forces in battles across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Players command the U-boat as a submarine captain from a first-person view in a campaign that spans 1939-1943.

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
http://www.gamestar....sia-vergessene-zeit/

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands returns to the storyline established by Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and concluded by Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones - taking place in the seven-year gap between Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

Just click on the games image to receive a free uPlay key. In uPlay simply click on the gear icon in the top right hand corner, then select activate product.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2013, 06:26 PM »

You'll never look at Australia the same way again.
 (see attachment in previous post)

-app103 (November 03, 2013, 12:53 AM)

Dammit!  I'll have to move ... I'm definitely a dog person.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Configuring Directory Opus for Fun and Profit

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2013, 05:08 AM »

You can also right-click the tab and choose Link, followed by Slave:





Works slightly different to Navigation Lock, if the folder doesn't exist in the Slave pane then it changes to be the same as the Master.  Also, Slaving only affects a pair of tabs, others will remain independent - so you could have multiple pairs of Master/Slave tabs within a lister.



More about it here.

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Living Room / Re: Android upgrade ... help ... lost internet page shortcuts

« Last post by 4wd on November 03, 2013, 07:12 PM »

I've heard it similarly said:

"Two is one; one is none."

Translation: If you only have one of something, Murphy's Law dictates it will break down (get lost/destroyed, etc.) at just the wrong moment and then you won't have any of that something. So be prepared and have a backup so that when one breaks, you still have one.

-Deozaan (November 03, 2013, 03:25 AM)

Except since you now only have one copy Murphy's Law will kick in again and your backup will be toast.

Always have more than one backup.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2013, 11:37 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Android upgrade ... help ... lost internet page shortcuts

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2013, 11:07 PM »

Would it be worth it to just turn off OTA updates?

Then check manually or wait for notification of an update.

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Living Room / Re: Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2013, 05:57 PM »

Sorry, I was referring to the 'theory' about the high frequency networking side of it.

5 minutes should have been all that was required to prove it, (assuming the machine cooperated in those 5 minutes), one way or the other.

EDIT: Maybe it's the way in which the story's told but it seems strange to me that they've had the problem for 3 years but it's only recently that they've suspected a USB drive?

I would have thought that one of the first things after seeing the symptoms on varying hardware would be to isolate what's common to all.

And I'm probably being a bit thick here but:

However, if true (insofar as the other 30-50% goes) it makes for a very strong argument for Coreboot or UEFI - although Microsoft's gamesmanship with UEFI also makes me wonder if this story might be just a little too conveniently timed. Especially since desktop system/OS sales are down now that most companies are keeping their non-UEFI/SecureBoot legacy PCs for as long as possible rather than replacing them.

-40hz (November 01, 2013, 06:26 AM)

Doesn't the MacBook, (and possibly all recent Macs), use EFI?

Yet, here's a piece of software that has infected it and, presumably, other UEFI based computers - I would have thought that it made a case against Coreboot/UEFI.

ie. You'd be safer with the old Award/AMI BIOSes.

NVM: I missed the reference distinguishing the two.

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Living Room / Re: Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2013, 07:03 AM »

I would have thought:
1) a simple sound meter capable of measuring up to 25kHz, (or 40kHz if you really want to check normal ultra-sound transducer frequencies), would have settled the matter, and
2) the microphones in a laptop would be so frequency limited that they wouldn't respond to much above 20kHz, (if that), since their primary purpose is to pick up the human voice, (~400Hz-4kHz was standard for phones when I was with Telstra).

So I'm going along with 40 on this ... call me skeptical too  


Just for something to do, grab one of the many dog whistle apps for your smartphone and then point it at your laptop while it's running something like audioTester, Soundcard Oscilloscope, etc.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Change (sub) folder(s) date based on newest/oldest file in the folder

« Last post by 4wd on October 31, 2013, 01:04 AM »

Just playing around with the GUI atm:

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General Software Discussion / Re: notepad2-mod: custom code folding for txt files?

« Last post by 4wd on October 27, 2013, 08:09 AM »

The first result from using YAML scheme went (very) wrong:

-Shades (October 27, 2013, 08:05 AM)

I noticed that when I was initially playing with it, editing things in and out but, as you found, reloading the file seemed to fix it up.

Do you have Insert TABs as Spaces set, (I do) ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: notepad2-mod: custom code folding for txt files?

« Last post by 4wd on October 27, 2013, 08:01 AM »

Except for a slight colour difference to Nod5's, the settings are attached.

I recommend you Export your current settings in case they differ from the default, otherwise I've included the default in the archive also.

In notepad2-mod, View->Customize Schemes ... and then Import the .ini file.

*.txt will now be identified as YAML files when opened and the relevant formatting applied.

Change the colour and/or text styles to suit your needs.

You can use WinMerge, BeyondCompare or similar to see the differences between the default and modified files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by 4wd on October 27, 2013, 12:44 AM »

Supposedly no restart required either -- though a bit complex-seeming after first installation.

-ewemoa (October 26, 2013, 09:37 AM)

Not really, you click on the icon in the Addon bar and then select when you want to have that sites cookies terminated, (or not).

Otherwise, you can go to its options, (through Add-ons Manager), and change what you like, they're pretty self-explanatory.

The only things I've changed are:
Grace Period - now 3 seconds
Notifications - checked
Include Local Storage - checked
Clear cache when idle - 30 minutes
Strict Cookie Access Policy - checked
Icon and Menu Entries - checked



Another add-on: Mozilla has released Lightbeam - it originally started life as Collusion.

The origins of Lightbeam
Lightbeam began in July 2011 as Collusion, a personal project by Mozilla software developer Atul Varma. Inspired by the book The Filter Bubble, Atul created an experimental add-on to visualize browsing behavior and data collection on the Web.

Normally you'd have lines linking all the sites and a few triangles signifying third-party sites you've connected to that href back to the originating site - so I guess all my anti-tracking stuff kind of works

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General Software Discussion / Re: notepad2-mod: custom code folding for txt files?

« Last post by 4wd on October 26, 2013, 10:12 PM »

In Notepad2-mod, if you remove all the colour styles from the YAML parser, add the txt extension to it, (and remove it from Default), then it will do folding in plain text files on TAB indents.

If you're not likely to use YAML for anything, this is probably the easiest way.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by 4wd on October 26, 2013, 02:21 AM »

One for those that dislike cookies: Self-Destructing Cookies

Cookies when you need them, not when others need them to track you - gets rid of a site's cookies and LocalStorage as soon as you close its tabs. Protects against trackers and zombie-cookies. Trustworthy services can be whitelisted.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Contest: DARPA offers $2 milllion for security software to be written

« Last post by 4wd on October 25, 2013, 07:53 PM »

Not sure I get it.

Is this to protect the Government from the NSA or to give the NSA a heads up on the next encryption/protection methods so they don't have to work as hard?