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Automatic Restoration of Quarantined McAfee Files

After reading about the most recent faux-pas from McAfee where couple of system files were identified as infected I found this script which restores the quarantined files: Option Explicit on error resume next Dim fso, f, str, commando, df, fdf, r, ff, WshShell, fx, strfx, rr, arrParm Set fso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) if fso.FileExists(“C:\quarantine\infected.log”) Then Set [...]

Slow Startup After Logging into XP

So this one friend was complaining about his Windows XP acting sluggish after he has logged in. It takes almost 3 minutes until he is able to open the Windows Explorer – during that time the computer reacts very slowly, but the CPU load never really jumps up. After installing all updates and such I [...]

GPG error – Key error while apt-get update

Invoking apt-get update led to following error message #apt-get update [...] Fetched 254kB in 7s (35.8kB/s) Reading package lists… Done W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 9AA38DCD55BE302B W: GPG error: http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B W: [...]