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As a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry fan, I believe that Talk About the Weather is their best record. Also, all of my friends that like RLYL think this as well.

No Comments » Posted by RobbieCrash / random

I recently received an email from a co-worker that said Malwarebytes was the source of a particularly vexing problem that’s been encountered recently. The problem is that once someone has been infected with one of those fake Security Centre viruses, and subsequently cleaned and rebooted, no programs will launch. This didn’t sit right with me, so I decided to investigate a bit. I’ve confirmed that Malwarebytes is not the cause of this issue. Well, at least not directly.

By confirmed I mean that the root cause of the issue is present before any anti-malware work is done on a computer that will eventually exhibit this issue. I’ve tested this on three machines that were infected, one accidentally infected physical machine and on two purposefully infected VM’s (XP and 7) I have.

Short version:
The problem
The issue is caused by this latest security centre virus variant, and when Malware Bytes removes the infection the associations that it sets are removed, and can no longer be run.

The fix:
WARNING: Don’t muck about in the registry if you’re not sure how it works, don’t edit anything that ‘doesn’t look right’ without checking that it isn’t right first. You should know this, but I don’t want people yelling at me when they just followed the short version and broke something.

Open up regedit and make sure HKCR\.exe points to exefile and that the command extensions for exefile are set to “%1” %*

The looooooong version:
Seriously, unless you actually care how the Windows registry works and are interested in some registry information this is for sure tl;dr. Read More »

No Comments » Posted by RobbieCrash / nerd

With the recent leak of Apple’s developer EULA, people have been rightly comparing Apple’s current tactics to the ones that were attacked by everyone when employed by Microsoft in the 90s. Everything that is set out in the EULA protects Apple’s monopoly, and reduces not only customer choice, but also developer choice in how they can deliver their product to the customer. Apple has a full out monopoly over what can, and cannot be installed on your iDevice. Obviously the caveat of jailbreaking applies, but that voids your warranty, so doesn’t really count. Additionally, if one was to believe Apple, jailbreaking your phone lets the terrorists win, and is illegal and needs to be outlawed, it’s both a breach of copyright law and of the DMCA. In addition to their monopoly over what can be installed on your device, Apple can revoke the softwares right to work on your device, disabling your copy of the software in the process. So they control how you get it, and can take it away, but they also decide what you can have in the first place. Read More »

No Comments » Posted by RobbieCrash / random

Hi, I’m Paul, I’m new to this site. I think I’m posting this correctly. Can’t wait to see all of you at the game later, Bye!

No Comments » Posted by Paul Indeed / random