I decided to delete my Orkut account as i found it as less interesting than last 2 years.More spam, more friends to manage, more communities to visit, the fights and scrap wars, prank profiles having pic and name of a girl but managed by a guy with out a **** … . All these things made me to hate Orkut. After thinking and mixing up a lot, i made up my mind to press the delete button.

Orkut is not in my Services.

And finally i became a non-orkutian! I was calm and happy. But only for a few minutes. I loged in to check how my friends are responding.. Even though i deleted my profile, the process will complete only after 24 hours (as said by Orkut). So we can still login and check everything , but cant respond. I got scraps from almost all my friends asking why i am deleting my profile.

But i re-enabled my profile now! How?? Secret! Not a big deal though.. But want to keep it secret as it may cause some problems related to hacking.. Mailed Orkut guys now about the issue.If you think i am lying you can check my profile @ http://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx?xid=13201059641369514590

If your computer is infected with this powerful Trojan /virus, it sends the nsl-school.org url to all of your friend list in yahoo messenger using your ID and expect that in only a few hours many of your friends will get infected with it.

Many of my friends’ PCs are now infected with this. I searched online and found a cure which I think worked for many who tried it. Here’s the solution from one of the security alert forum.

There is a very bad virus attack on Yahoo Messenger where it will take control of your messenger and without your knowledge sends some messages with a website links which contains the virus, to your friends list, remind you without YOUR KNOWLEDGE so be careful, try to do the following things to remove if your are effected.

One of our viewers compiles the below steps to a batch file so that it can be used by novice users… —>>>> DOWNLOAD

First download it and run it. Check whether the system is cleaned or not. If not try again with the below steps.

So how to remove this manually from your computer ?

1: Close the IE browser. Log out messenger / Remove Internet Cable.

2: To enable Regedit

Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better – Copy and paste)

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

3: To enable task manager : (To kill the process we need to enable task manager)

Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better – Copy and paste)

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

4: Now we need to change the default page of IE though regedit.

Start>Run>Regedit

From the below locations in Regedit chage your default home page to google.com or other.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

HKEY_USERS\Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Just replace the attacker site with google.com or set it to blank page.

5: Now we need to kill the process from back end. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del

Kill the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running.. check properly)

6: Delete svhost32.exe , svhost.exe files from Windows/ & temp/ directories. Or just search for svhost in your comp.. delete those files.

7: Go to regedit search for svhost and delete all the results you get.

Start menu > Run > Regedit >

8: Restart the computer. That’s it now you are virus free.

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