Bababa ba?

Windows, they say, can be super duper mega cluttered. My brother, JAngelo, recommends reformatting your hard-drives once in a while, since various files build up over time.

For example, Microsoft Anti-spyware creates a file that supposedly records the history of it’s own activity. The file (which I do not remember the name because I deleted it) can become very massive in size (ours reached around 4GB, if I remember correctly).

I was jumping in and out of partitions in my computer since the trojan incident,when I found 2 files that are very large in size: the HIBERFIL.SYS and PAGEFIL.SYS.

Now my question is, would you recommend deleting these files? My desktop computer has been gasping for memory recently (I have around only 700MB-1GB free, which is then partitioned into 4 drives). Reformatting the computer right now is not an option, since I still don’t have the capability to back up our files (tons of pictures and mp3s, no burner, no external hard drive).

Oh well.

Buuuuuut, but, but!. If you guys would want to save me the trouble of reformatting my computer, just give me a Mac as a late birthday present. XD

A friend had this trojan stuck on her laptop. It shows “Taga Lipa Are!” on IE’s bar. Not annoying at first, actually. Hahaha. But once you get obsessive-compulsive, it’s as if you would want to scratch the screen to take the thing out.

At first I didn’t know how it operated, so I proceeded to charge my iPod using her laptop’s USB port. And all was good.

Until I plugged my iPod to another device.

When I connected my iPod to my dad’s laptop, I started receiving error messages saying that the computer cannot start “FS6519.dll.vbs” on F:\ (my iPod’s drive). And then my anti-virus program pops up, asking me what I should do with the file.
Puzzled, I googled for the file. And guess what I found out. It was the proprietor of the “Taga Lipa Are!” virus! (oh noes). And it propagrates through the USB drive! (oh noes again!)

Well, it was a good thing that I was using FireFox for my web surfing, and AVG for virus protection. So, the virus wasn’t given a chance to start-up and spread itself (AVG blocked it at first click). It was stuck on my iPod the whole time. :p Thus, I was able to delete the virus immediately.

If you were hit with this virus, Sir Martin has links to some files that can remove this file (although I wasn’t able to try these virus-removers, since I was already able to remove it). Good luck in your virus busting!