Mavis visit
April 16, 2008 by Bastiaan Olij
Last weekend Lily''s high school friend Mavis visited us. She is a stewardess for Cathey Pacific and happened to fly on Amsterdam.
She really wanted to see windmills so we made a small trip to de Zaanse Schans:)
Also lily''s PC was infected by one of these irritating MSN photo album worms. I think I managed to kill it after failed attempts of our virus scanner... Some more searching on google revealed we had a variant using newsystem25.dll to do its bidding... Some people need to get a life!
Tip for anyone faced with this, go to your c:\windows directory and c:\windows\system32 directory and sort the files on dates. You''ll find a few new files created on the day your PC was infected. Usually a zip in the windows directory and a dll in the system32 directory. These need to be removed (after you shut down MSN offcourse). Note that entries for the DLL also exist in your registry. Be sure to google on the name of the DLL and verify its not something you need, if you''re not infected by one of these blasted worms, many of the DLLs in the system32 directory are actually needed and you shouldn''t simply deleted them. Owh and you do this at your own risk. Don''t go crying to me if you can''t get it fixed. It''ll teach you not to open files you suddenly receive through unsafe channels such as MSN!
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