I was going through the pictures I took in Sacramento over the Thanksgiving Day vacation.
Taken at Effie Yeaw Nature Center.
Malware Alert: Cloud AV 2012
On Wednesday November 23rd, 2011; the day before Thanksgiving Day I received a call.
“Hey, just want to let you know I was using my computer and Cloud AV 2012 just installed itself.”
Yeah, that’s a Malware.
I was getting ready for my Thanksgiving trip, so I had to work on this malware problem later. Bleeping Computer has a great instructions on removing Cloud AV 2012.
I am documenting what I’m doing to remove Cloud AV 2012.
- I want to know if Combofix can completely remove Cloud AV 2012. I ran Combofix in Safe Mode with Networking. It took about 15 minutes for Combofix to find some malware and removing them, unfortunately it is not enough.
- The next step is to run Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.
- I ran Spybot – Search and Destroy to clean up whatever part of malware it can find.
- I ran Combofix again, and it found a few leftover Cloud AV 2012 files.
- Reboot the computer a few times and so far I do not see any suspicious activities.
I’m going to put this computer on quarantine for a few days and see if Cloud AV 2012 is completely gone.
The day after Thanksgiving Day.
So, it is the day after Thanksgiving and I skip the whole Black Friday shopping. Instead, I spent Friday with some friends talking about things we care about.
Why bother wasting time waiting to spend your money?
Thanksgiving Day.
All of our team members are celebrating Thanksgiving day with family and friends. Most of us will be back on Friday November 25th, 2011 and partly resume our daily routines (read jobs).
Even though I am officially on vacation today, I get to speak to David Wadhwani, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media Business Unit Adobe Systems Incorporated. We talked about the demise of Adobe Flash on Mobile platform, Deblur filter, Creative Suite 6.0/6.5 and a lot more.
VMware Fusion 4.1.1: No Snow Leopard client allowed!
After the initial excitement regarding the ability to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard client (or older Mac OS X client), VMware clarifies that only the following Mac OS X are supported to run in VMWare Fusion 4:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Server (Leopard)
- Mac OS X 10.6 Server (Snow Leopard)
- Mac OS X 10.7 Client and Server (Lion)
VMware knowledge base also states:
VMware Fusion 4.x includes a check to ensure that the version of Mac OS X being started is one of those listed. Any virtual machine that contains a Mac OS not listed above does not work after updating to VMware Fusion 4.1.1 or later. These unsupported virtual machines no longer boot after upgrading or downgrading from VMware Fusion 4.1.0.
Well, for those who have downloaded VMware Fusion 4.1.0 might want to keep the installer safe, just in case.
Windows 7 on Mac mini.
When running windows on virtual machine is not enough, I fired up Boot Camp on the Mac mini to install Windows 7.
Previously I was running Windows in Parallels 7, unfortunately there are some hardware that wouldn’t interface correctly in the virtual machine.
Kindle Fire: One week after.
It has been one week since Amazon Kindle Fire arrived and there are a lot of things to say about it.
Let’s start with the good things.
- The 7-inch tablet form factor is easy to hold with one hand.
- Kindle Fire interface is visually pleasing.
- Amazon Prime video streaming works really well (with good Internet connection, obviously).
- Good color reproduction and viewing angle. Thanks to the IPS screen.
- The User Interface is pretty responsive, in general.
- The ability to sideload Android apps not from Amazon Appstore.
Here comes the bad things:
- Bad power/lock button. It’s at the “bottom” of the Kindle Fire and easily pressed by accident.
- No hardware volume buttons.
- On-screen keyboard feels “floaty”.
- 1024×600 screen ratio in landscape mode is hard to look at, especially for web-browsing and email.
- Sluggish screen redraw.
There a re still a lot to say about Kindle Fire. Amazon can easily fix a lot of the issues through software updates.