Aplus.net Web Hosting Review
I had used Aplus.net for almost 8 years, unfortunately I changed to another host because they did not have PHP5 and multiple domain management at the time I needed it. I checked back a few weeks later and they upgraded everything so I was disappointed I left.
I've used a lot of the lower end hosts with the default CPanel, but I have never once found a host as good as Aplus.net. They have been relentlessly reliable for all those years. I am already setup with several domains and have quite a bit installed and a few gigabytes uploaded, but once I saw their upgraded plans I already have planned to switch back to them even though it's going to take a few days to re-upload and re-configural several large sites.
I am not exaggerating, I don't work for Aplus (Im actually a freelance programmer), and I make no commission off posting this. If my clients dont have a host I refer them to Aplus because they are ridiculously good. They are about 2 dollars more than the average bottom-dollar host but everything about them is better from the control panel, ease of management, reliability, tech support, and even the individual domain name setup.
So if you are ever looking for a host and think the "unlimited everything" is the best, make sure to check Aplus. I don't often write about companies but I've always loved their services and they do things right so I might as well spread a good work about my experiences with them.
YoVille Causes Blindness
Danger! YoVille is causing blindness. The YoVille game has choppy flash animation which flickers and causes motion sickness which leads to blindness. Reports are flying in that 20 year olds are going blind for no reason. The reason isn't the flu season, it's the YoVille game.
YoVille is not FDA approved! Kids preserve your sight!
Please be safe when playing.
Remove Antivirus 2008, Antivirus 2008 Internet Explorer
Remove Antivirus 2008, this is a fake program that infects your computer causing it to go extremely slow. Its a trojan, and it comes in by Internet Explorer as a fake update. Its very annoying, but here's how to get rid of it.
Okay to fix this here is how, I spent 5 hours on it.
Get "Malware Bytes" (it’s free) and do a quick system scan and you’ll have about 7 or more viruses. Then once you reboot to clear other viruses it will keep going slow again, scan again and reboot again. Also get “Process Explorer” to see if any weird system processes are running (PE is better than Task Manager). You should be good after that but use firefox not IE7, I am still solving how to fix IE7 which keeps getting the infection.
The infection will create a file with about 8-12 random characters in your Windows/System32 folder. It will come up when you scan with Malware Bytes, that is the file that keep's relaunching itself once it's erased, so if Malware doesn't erase it after 2 reboots and 2 scans go to the far right tab in Malware Bytes to use FileASSASIN and forcibly remove the file and reboot.
Here is what my scan returned:
NOTE: Your file names will be differently named, so don't look for them the same as mine, scan your own or you wont find them!
C:RECYCLERS-1-5-18Dc1.dll (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32awtULBRl.dll (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32bndfdibb.dll (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32geBtSKaA.dll (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:Documents and SettingsJESSELocal SettingsTempseneka343d.tmp (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:Documents and SettingsJESSELocal SettingsTempseneka5ad4.tmp (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:Documents and SettingsJESSELocal SettingsTempsenekaea90.tmp (Trojan.Vundo) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32senekamefiiwyk.dll (Trojan.Agent) -> Delete on reboot.
C:WINDOWSsystem32senekapvmicuwp.dll (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32senekadf.dat (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32seneka.dat (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32senekalog.dat (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32driversseneka.sys (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:WINDOWSsystem32driverssenekapjerohof.sys (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
YoVille Hackers Again
Keeping up to date with the gossip I hear around the house is that YoVille is still being hacked. As of lately, hackers found a way to buy items from the store for free and autosell them. This means that hundreds of millions of coins were generated by hackers in the store. What's valuable then? The items that are no longer in the stores. Some items even sell for 300,000 coins if it is not in the store!
Besides the YoVille currency being out of whack with people having more coins than you could have paid $1000 real money for and 1 year of game play -- the white boards can be hacked also! The new feature where you draw on a white board and sell art -- wow the paint brush stinks, maybe they should add a few nicer options to make drawing easier! Anyways, when your white board is on display be sure to place an object such as a tree in front of it or a hacker with nothing better to do will come along and whipe it clean somehow.
Here's a video to make better white board drawings:
The software (freeware)