Virus found – explorer.exe crashes when loading cmd or regedit – antivirus won’t update

We’ve had a spate of customer’s machines get infected with this over the last week. Had us scratching our heads for a few hours … thought it was conficker or some variant but it seems not. Looks like it was actually Trojan:Win32/Daonol.B
Symptoms
Causes some or all of the symptoms below :-
1. Antivirus software won’t update from [...]

Record useful tweets in Evernote

Here’s a brilliant new feature from Evernote …
I was actually just thinking about this earlier today. There is so much cool & useful stuff that gets posted on twitter that I don’t have time to read/review/pursue most of it during the day when it’s live – but would like to refer to again. I wanted [...]

Choosing between Live Mesh / Live Sync / Live Drive for synchronising files between PCs

We’ve been using Microsoft Groove for a couple of years now to synchronise a shared company folder between our geographically distributed users. It hasn’t been touched since it was set up two or three years ago and I’ve been wanting to revisit and look at alternatives for a while.  Groove is overkill for us and [...]

It’s all about thin clients on a grand scale

We definitely seem to be heading back around the thin-thick cycle except this time it’s going to be on a massive scale … and includes the consumer market. The technology has evolved so much recently that we now have all the same benefits and far less of the negatives of “thin computing” from 15 years [...]

Software As A Service / The Cloud!

I’ve resisted this for a long time, preferring the traditional self-hosted, outright purchase model and have been a very reluctant convert! But over the last few months I’ve been starting to use more applications that operate on a SAAS basis.

Evernote
Remember The Milk
SourceAnywhere Hosted
Net Intelligence
Google Apps

Why?

These applications are VERY good at what they do – they [...]

Blackberry 4.5 OS

In an attempt to sort a different problem I downloaded the new Blackberry Desktop Manager last night and it prompted me to upgrade the Core Blackberry software to 4.5. Never one to hold back on the latest of anything I fired it on. Not sure how I missed this upgrade last year but there are [...]

Windows / Linux / Mac

People continually badger me (in a completely good natured way of course!) for concentrating on the Windows platform.  I have tried Mac OS (briefly) & Linux of various persuasions over the years. Want to know why I’m still stuck with MS?
1. It’s what all our customers use 
We work in the SME sector in the [...]

The ‘tech home’ project

This has been a bit of a personal project in planning for a while – and over the holidays it’s finally started moving from my head to reality!
The plan is for a whole house zoned audio system and server / remote  controlled lighting & electrics. So far I’ve got audio in the Living Room, Kitchen, [...]

Snom 820 .. now that is a nice phone!

How long will I be able to resist one of these!?? … yes I know … I really do need to get out more! £315 though…. not cheap …..

“snom today launched the snom 820, an elegant and attractive VoIP phone. It features a large high-resolution TFT color display (3.5″, 320 x 240 pixels) and can [...]

Switch off that mobile ….

“I took this picture at the local post office,” George writes, “I guess they must have installed the same computers they use in airplanes and hospitals.”

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