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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Saturday, September 27, 2003
Viruses, Windows Updates and Network Congestion Dino: Damn, Peter, can you FTP to our server? For some m'f'ing reason, I can't seem to connect to any of our domains! WTF? Peter: Hmmm. Works over here. I don't know what to tell you. Try rebooting. Dino: Don't you think I went through the "Idiot's List of Things to Check Before Calling Tech Support"? I did everything. I just can't seem to connect. Peter: Sucks to be you. I don't know what to tell you. I pulled my hair out for hours, trying to figure out this m'f'ing issue. My computer has the latest updates. Virus definitions are up to date. WTF!? Hmm. I'm seeing some network activity on the router. Let's take a looksy. Hmm. Looks like Josh's computer is continuously sending and receiving packets of info. He's not downloading videos on Agent. He doesn't have weatherbug running. WTF!? So I ran Adaware on his computer and removed 103 instances of data miners, including a nice copy of the king of data miners, Gator. How can someone accidentally load Gator on their computer? I don't get it. I still can't FTP to our domains. But voila! When I disable Josh's network adapter, I'm in! Now, I concentrate the rest of my cherished free night on fixing Josh's shit. Closer inspection of his machine: I can't ctrl-alt-del to get a Task Manager, and I can't run Windows updates. Wonderful. Reboot. Still can't connect to Windows update, so I decide to create a new admin login for myself. I logout and then login with the new profile. Still network congestion on his computer, but I finally get the Microsoft Windows Update plugin. Making progress. I run the update checker, and he's still at XP version 0.01. He had 36 critical updates that he somehow just forgot about. I select them all, and it chokes halfway through. After about an hour ordeal of piece-mealing each update into smaller chunks, I finally complete all the critical updates. Definitely making progress. But, still I can't FTP from my computer. Hmm. Let's check his anti-virus program. Looking... looking... looking... hmmm. No anti-vrius program. Anyone on this earth that does not run an anti-virus program is just asking for a world of hurt. I'm surprised he's lived as long as he has without one. What the hell is brain made out of? Bubble gum? So, I dig around for an XP Norton Anti-Virus, and for the life of me, I can't find one for XP. Sure, I have them for Windows 2000, and I can even install them remotely from my Windows 2000 server. But his OS is XP. Norton's site doesn't even help me out, so I try to install the Windows 2000 version (older v 7.51) on his machine. It loads, but the real-time protection chokes. Not a problem. I need to scan his computer. After 110.40 minutes of scanning 176,112 files, the jerry-rigged NAV finds four viruses on his computer: three (3) W32.Spybot.Worm, and a Backdoor.Sdbot on .scr files and one .exe file. Now what? His computer is still pumping out and receiving MASSIVE amounts of packets. And my m'f'ing computer STILL can't FTP to our domains if his network adapter isn't disabled. WTF!? I've already turned on his XP built-in firewall. Do I install Zone Alarm? His computer is like his aquarium, his room, his hobbies and his life: he just doesn't give a flying f*. Josh is the antithesis of "tidy" and "orderly". I've been infected with his entropy for six years, and now it's affecting MY computer life. posted by Dino at 3:40 AM (permanent link) |