Archive for May, 2008
System Upgraded
I’ve upgraded my system yet again, The main system used to run an AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ (Socket 939) with an AsRock 939Dual-VSTA motherboard. Now it’s currently running an AMD Phenim X3 8450 (Socket AM2+) with an ASUS M3A motherboard, the rest of the specs are pretty much the same, cept that the RAM is now 2 sticks of DDR2 instead of 4 Sticks of DDR1 memory. Still using 4GBs of total system memory tho. 
The system’s been running quite stable, although I should really consider getting 64-bit Vista instead of using 32-bit Vista. lol.
A picture of my computer area will be up soon in the gallery if you are interested in seeing it. lol. A quick description would be 2 dual displayed systems, a macbook pro and a dell inspiron laptop. Theres also a PS3 and PS2.
As for site news, I’ve upgraded the gallery system after hours of trying to figure out this thing (1 hour). Instead of LazyK gallery, I’m using NexGen Gallery at the recommendation of Steph. Also I’m going to attempt to make if not find a new set of emoticons instead of using IPB’s set of emoticon. Try a little change or 2, hehe And I’ll be adding more pictures to the gallery whenever I feel like adding them.
Damn Persistant Virus
After basically the entire day of scanning and spending money on a new anti-virus program. I semi resolved the issue of fighting this damn virus. I have the dreaded Vundo virus, the one apparently hard to remove.
From Wikipedia:
Vundo infects victims’ computers by exploiting a vulnerability in Sun Java 1.5 and earlier versions. Many of the popups advertise programs including (but not limited to) Sysprotect, Storage Protector and WinFixer. It attaches to the system using bogus Browser Helper Objects and DLL files attached to Winlogon and Explorer.exe.
Avast kept detecting it but everytime it deletes it, the virus creates a new dll file and the cycle begins over again. So I’ve decided to look around for the “best” anti-virus software. Looking at neowin I decided to buy NOD32 anti-virus. But buying might not have been the best idea, as it appears they dont have the cure either. and using their trial version was hopeless as the virus definition was out of date. lol But anyway, I used the online scanner, it detected it and attempted to remove it. But like Avast it detected the dll file only but required the system to restart in order for it to delete the dll file. Since it was not the main virus, a new dll file was created and the cycle began.
I then used Spybot S&D. It found the virus and registries files. It deleted it. And I went into the Command Prompt from windows repair, using the Vista install disc to delete the last bits of the dll files.
So far. Spybot’s TeaTimer hasn’t bugged me about any changes in msconfig or registry and NOD32 isn’t detecting the virus. So Hopefully this is gone.
Either way, I’ve been having hardware problems anyway and I was considering buying new hardware for it, such as Going AM2+ with Tri-Core processor and DDR2 RAMs. the upgrade would cost roughly under 500 dollars. But it’s a needing upgrade anyway, the system is like 2 years old. :p
I’ve been thinking about going Linux, installing ubuntu ontop of vista and using it most of the time. Boot into windows if I need to play games.
- @alanhsu disappointed... i thought you were an IT guy....