Victory is Mine! over Win32 Trat Bho

Posted by Ronan on Jan 29, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

I don’t like windows because it every idiot can write a virus to attack one of the many vulnerabilities. One super-idiot put the win32 Trat BHO virus together. For the past 3 weeks my Avast would detect it and try to delete it. It couldn’t as the virus attaches itself to winotify.exe by creating random named .dll files (ddlfed.dll) to the .exe. (any attempt to ‘unlock’ and delete the dll file causes windows to crash). I tried everything, every spam/spyware/viral detector/remover.. but all are no good. At last I got rid of it. Here is how – with pointers from www.techspot.com.

Get the LATEST version of ComboFix.exe . Download it to the Desktop (this is important!). Disable all network connections. Stop Avast by right mouse clicking the Avast tray icon and click ‘Stop On-Access Protection’ and run ComboFix. You’ll need to click one or two buttons.. then let it run. It will identify the bad .dll’s (it spawns!) and forces a reboot. Let ComboFix.exe do it stuff on reboot and don’t start any application until the log file shows. At this stage you should be clean of this annoying little virus.. Victory is Mine!

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rage towards the High Society Engineers

Posted by Ronan on Jan 25, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

I don’t get mad often but this afternoon I felt the urge to go crazy.

When I got back home I was expecting to find a little brown letter confirming the time for Monday’s surgery in Croom. Instead all I found was a pizza hut flyer, some random donation bag and the limerick independent paper.

Ring Ring went the phone to find out what is happening. Ring Ring, Ring, Ring.. it rang out three times before someone answered. I said my name clearly but people have real issues with my surname ( I can empathise with Samir from Office Space.. “No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It’s not that hard: Samir Na-gheen-an-a-jar. Nagheenanajar”.). So after we got past the surname bit, she politely told me I wasn’t on the list for Monday and I was rescheduled for the following Monday because my surgeon had to leave early this Monday.

Thanks for letting me know HSE – you are brilliant!!

I have been building up (and looking forward) to getting the screw out and getting back to more normal things. OK so I wouldn’t be able to walk immediately after the screw comes out but it timestamps the point where I can start putting weight on the foot. Now that timestamp is delayed by another week. What’s another week? not a lot in the grand scale of things.. but I don’t see it like that right now. Once I calm down it will be alright – I’d normally play a game of soccer to relieve stress and anger but it’s my beloved soccer that got me into this situation in the first place.

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Worst sweets ever!

Posted by Ronan on Jan 25, 2008 in Uncategorized | 6 comments

It’s a tradition to bring back sweets and/or chocolate whenever someone from the WAR centre goes on a trip abroad. A lot of strange things have came into the tea room from different parts of the world but nothing quite like the sweets from Egypt. These are the worst ever “sweets”.. they even surpass the vile tasting cherry liqueur chocolates from M&S. We got 12 pieces of flavored loukoum ( strach, sugar, glucose and natural flavor).

I dare anyone to eat a full one, not make a face and keep it down…
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Broken ankle update (iii)

Posted by Ronan on Jan 16, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

The cast is no more. ! woohoo! The process of getting it off is painless and quick. Once off I went to get a x-ray and then to see my surgeon. He said everything looks great, moved the ankle a bit and said he would see me in 12 days.

One of the most annoying things about any cast is you can not get them wet. So for showering my method was to use a vets glove to cover the cast/leg and then wrap a towel around the top of the cast and plop my knee onto a stool – the method worked well! Thankfully the glove was a new & unused :)


So now the cast is gone and I had a fantastic long hot shower last night. It was great not having to worry about getting the stupid cast wet – I feel normality is slowly returning. Yesterday I could just about move the ankle – it was very stiff but even after a day of light exercise I’ve noticed an improvement.

I still have a screw in my ankle so unfortunately I can’t put weight on the foot for another 12 days (which means another countdown!) . That means things are still on hold – no driving, no swimming and no walking.

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Separated at birth..

Posted by Ronan on Jan 12, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Sam the Eagle – Manager of Chelsea FC

Avram Grant – Muppet Character.
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Sweet mother of gaud

Posted by Ronan on Jan 3, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

I unfortunately watched a program called My Super Sweet 16 on MTV today. It should be called Super Spoiled 15 year old turning 16.
Like a lot of shows it has a formula.
1. Find super rich family with spoiled teenager who has got their way since day one.
2. Make sure spoiled teenager spends at least $1000 on nothing per day(it’s a plus if they have similar “friends”)
3. The party is organised by professional people to the demands of spoiled teenager which will cost approx $200k
4. The spoiled teenager should get a ridiculously expensive present from mommy and daddy e.g. 4×4
5. Everybody thinks the party/teenager is cool.
6. Roll credits.

I’m more astounded at the lack of respect for family (and worse.. themselves) than the amount of money wasted / thrown around.
We are all doomed if My Super Sweet 16 is a true reflection of teenagers.

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