Archive for September, 2008
iTunes 8 is now ready for download. We’re excited to see the new look and features. Tell us your thoughts on the new iTunes 8.
Client today received an email from someone complaining that they were sending malicious programs. The email complaint has attached an apparent IP log. The file attached may be IPLOGS.EXE or in a ZIP form. This email with subject “I am wait your reply” is a virus attack itself. DO NOT OPEN the attached file.
We have no idea yet of what it does, but will post as soon as we get a report. In the meantime delete all email with the subject “I am wait for your reply”.
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Update 4:03pm:
“I am tired of receiving messages containing malicious computer programs, viruses from your email address!!!…”
Reports on Virscan.org show that the file contains as a virus / trojan horse. Do not download the IPLOGS.exe or IPLOGS.zip, and do not open it.
This may be a common issue. You attempt to start Internet Explorer and instead you get an windows error and it prompts you to either send or not send the report.
Well, before selecting to either send or not, the links on that window will help in troubleshooting the real problem.
At this window, click on the “What does this error report contain?”.
At this window, you will be able to read what DLL or File may be causing the issue.
What I was able to find was that a “toolbar.dll” file was the culprit.
That allowed me to look further into the issue. Withour starting Internet Explorer, I right clicked on the icon on the desktop, (if it’s not a shortcut that is), and selected properties. Another way to do it, is from Control Panel -> Internet Options.
At the Internet Properties window, select the Programs tab. Click on your Manage-Add ons button. At the Manage Add-ons window, from the drop down menu to Show, select ‘Add-ons that have been used by Internet Explorer’. From the list of add-ons keep an eye under the ‘Type’ column for anything that may mention toolbar, or anything resembling the error file. When you select the item, you have a choice to enable or disable the add-on. Select to disable.
At this point, disable all toolbars, or anything resembling the culprit file. Restart IE, and if it works, you found the problem. Which in my case was that stupid Zango toolbar. What in the world is Zango anyway?
So, after finding out it was a toolbar, I went back and enabled them one by one, restarting IE in between each change to determine which one it was.
Hopes this helps!
One of our clients where we monitor their server was receiving an error that their Remote and Routing service had stopped. It was a first for us. I couldn’t think of anything that would have caused this.
When I looked at the Event logs I found that the HDD was near it’s capacity. I searched the drive for any content that could be cleared up. Usually the temp folder, update uninstall folders, etc.
I then realized that the “WsusContent” folder was near 13 GB. Whoa!!! That was quite a bit.
The first step was all I needed to reduce the size… here they are:
Based on my research, WSUS Server will not automatic purge old and unneeded updates, so this kind of large WSUS folder issue is general. I suggest we try the following steps to see if we can resolve this issue:
1. Use “WsusDebugTool.exe /Tool:PurgeUnneededFiles” command to purge unused files.
You can download the tool from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/bb466192.aspx
Note: The Server Diagnostic Tool.
2. Use WSUSutil command with movecontent option to change the file system location where the WSUS Server stores update files. For more info, please refer to:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/2686bd2b-910a-479b-961e-cea2a20280241033.mspx?mfr=true
Hope this helps!!
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