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Product of the Now
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Good day All and welcome to Product of the Now,
Today I will be looking at something I discovered at work… while I was surfing the internet. Yeah, so
rry, there is no way this would cut it at the airport.. not enough megahurtz and jigawatts. But for home use? Sounds interesting and very intruiging. Right off the bat they beat out the competitors with their price tag ($399 MSRP, $350 at Newegg) and their feature set which is based around the Intel Atom and the Windows Home Server. Those three features alone are enough to convince me of this product, then Acer goes ahead and give your a WD Green Terabyte drive to get you started.
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Securom Removal Update – Windows 7
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Alright everyone, I’ll skip the introductions this time. Just let it be known that Securom is evil and should be destroyed. More information about this rootkit here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securom
In order to remove it you must first download the Securom Removal Tool from Securom themselves. After they got sued a bizillion times they were required to make a removal tool I guess… but don’t trust it so much. The link is here:
The key here is to execute the program using the command prompt in Windows so that you can initiate a full uninstall. I find that just executing the tool doesn’t actually remove all of it. Here is the play by play on how to do that:
1. Download the Securom Removal Tool using the above link
2. Extract the contents, in this example we are going extract it to D:\SRT
I would never recommend extracting the contents of a file on your root drive, try to use a USB drive if available. Plus if you using Windows 7 it won’t let you run it or extract it there anyways.
3. Run the command prompt, you can get to it by typing in CMD in the start menu search area. You will need administrative privileges to do this.
4. Navigate to the extraction directory. The code will be something like:\
“cd\ d:” enter
“cd\ SRT” enter
“SecuROM Remover.exe /fulluninstall” enter
This will launch the regular Securom remover. Proceed with the removal.
*** This is the key part that keeps this crap out ***
Go into all the directories that the Securom Remover lists as removed and replicate them. I believe there is a folder in the user’s application data directory. In order to view it you will need to set Windows Explorer to view hidden files.
1. Remove the Securom folder and make a new folder with the exact same name in the exact same position.
2. Remove all read/write/modify permissions for all users to those folders. This will prevent Securom from repopulating itself automatically. So far this has been what has stopped it from reaccuring.
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An Introduction of Sorts
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Gooday all,
This site is my personal blog about the things I do at work. That may sound boring, and probably for most it will be, but I noticed that some of the things I do are somewhat cutting edge and original so I owe it to the intrawebz and everyone else who helped me along the way to pay it foward and post my research. Most of what I post can by summerized into two catergories: My Work, My Opinion.
Since I work at the airport as a computer tech. I manage 400+ computers and we run an Windows XP environment. Currently my main focus is to get an image ready to deploy to a majority of these systems. I realize that many of the methods out there are dated and can be confusing, so I am putting together my own guide on how to do this. There will be a master guide which I will change as I deem neccesary and then my blog which will show my findings. Hopefully I can organize this stuff into a managable and easy to read source for any other developers out there.
Good Luck Pirates and Godspeed,
Michael Angelo Tabano.
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