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New Malware Infection

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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

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Notepad++ Keyboard Shortcuts

Notepad++ has become my favorite editor when coding PHP, HTML, or CSS. 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. 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 searching all open documents, or documents in a directory.  The REPLACE feature allows quick editing of all pages, eliminating the tedious work of updating your website.

Read more to get a list of the Notepad++ keyboard shortcut keys.

Shortcut Command
1 Ctrl-C Copy Continue reading →

Windows keyboard shortcuts

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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

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