Microsoft Windows Tricks - Programming Tricks: 03/01/2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

See You at EclipseCon!

I have the very great honor of speaking at this year's EclipseCon with one of my heroes, Clay Shirky.

The theme of this year's EclipseCon is collaboration -- so all the talks are presented by two speakers. Our talk, The Social Mind: Designing Like Groups Matter, will alternate between the theory (Clay) and practice (Jeff) of online community. Hopefully in a coherent way.

This is an easy talk for me to deliver, because I quite literally used Clay Shirky's book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, as a blueprint for building Stack Overflow.

I wasn't kidding when I said It's Clay Shirky's Internet, We Just Live In It.

I can't emphasize enough how deeply I respect Clay. I've read everything he's written to a degree that you might even say I studied it. Clay continues to be one of the most perceptive and insightful technical writers in the world on the topic of internet culture and community. His latest missive on the demise of newspapers is not to be missed. It's thrilling to have this opportunity to speak side by side with such a vital, important figure in internet history.

It is also extremely gratifying to me that I am giving this talk to a group of non Windows-centric developers. Despite my personal background, we always intended Stack Overflow to be a tribute to the greater craft of programming, a place where you could rub shoulders with fellow programmers from all sorts of different backgrounds and professional interests -- a bit like the old, classic computer programming magazines like Byte and Dr. Dobb's Journal.

It pains me to see developers who let themselves get locked into some particular toolchain ghetto, without at least peripheral awareness of what else is going on in the programming world around them.

Good programmers are interested in everything -- and that's exactly the kind of talk Clay and I intend to deliver.

Update: I'm not sure the event was recorded, but Alan Zeichick's summary of our talk is outstanding. I also put the slides up on SlideShare for viewing or download, though it's tough without audio.

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The Ugly American Programmer

One of the most wonderful things about the internet is that you can pretend the world is flat. Whatever country you live in, whatever language you speak, you have the same access to the accumulated knowledge of the world as every other citizen of the planet Earth. And a growing percentage of that knowledge can and should be available in your native language.

But I believe the rules are different for programmers. So much so that I'm going to ask the unthinkable: shouldn't every software developer understand English?

A wildly disproportionate amount of programming information is available in English. The overwhelming majority of programming languages use English keywords. By any metric you can possibly measure, English is the lingua franca of programming.

Now, In terms of cultural literacy and travel, presuming that everyone should speak English is a totally unacceptable attitude, the epitome of the ugly american.

But those rules don't apply to us.

We're not talking about normal everyday people. We're talking about programmers. Citizens of the internet. People who swear allegiance not to a country, but a compiler. Hackers have their own culture, their own norms and standards for literacy. Eric Raymond notes that functional English is required for true hackers:

As an American and native English-speaker myself, I have previously been reluctant to suggest this, lest it be taken as a sort of cultural imperialism. But several native speakers of other languages have urged me to point out that English is the working language of the hacker culture and the Internet, and that you will need to know it to function in the hacker community.

Back around 1991 I learned that many hackers who have English as a second language use it in technical discussions even when they share a birth tongue; it was reported to me at the time that English has a richer technical vocabulary than any other language and is therefore simply a better tool for the job. For similar reasons, translations of technical books written in English are often unsatisfactory (when they get done at all).

Linus Torvalds, a Finn, comments his code in English (it apparently never occurred to him to do otherwise). His fluency in English has been an important factor in his ability to recruit a worldwide community of developers for Linux. It's an example worth following.

Being a native English-speaker does not guarantee that you have language skills good enough to function as a hacker. If your writing is semi-literate, ungrammatical, and riddled with misspellings, many hackers (including myself) will tend to ignore you. While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong -- and we have no use for sloppy thinkers. If you can't yet write competently, learn to.

It's difficult to communicate this idea without feeling like an ugly American programmer. But it doesn't come from a nationality, or a desire to dominate the world. It's nothing more than great hackers collectively realizing that sticking to English for technical discussion makes it easier to get stuff done. It's a meritocracy of code, not language, and nobody (or at least nobody who is sane, anyway) localizes programming languages.

I received this email from Slawomir, a Polish programmer, a few months ago. He confirmed what I've always suspected and secretly believed -- but have been hesitant to say:

I just listened to Stack Overflow podcast episode 29 where you discuss localization of developer tools.

In my opinion there is no reason to translate developer tools and documentation.

I know many developers in Poland who prefer (as Joel mentioned) to get English documentation rather than Polish translation and the reason for that is that translations were not always accurate. Even Microsoft developer documentation was translated partially or with errors, so reading original English document was easier than English-Polish soup.

If everybody blogs and develops in English - our global repository of solutions and blog posts is much bigger and you have better chances of finding an answer to your problem.

Consciously choosing to switch from Polish to English reminds me why I gave up Visual Basic for C#, as painful as that was. These languages do exactly the same things -- and the friction of choosing the minority language was severe. I found reams of code and answers in C# whenever I searched, and almost nothing at all in VB.NET. I spent so much time converting code into VB.NET and introducing new bugs and errors in the process, along with countless language-only forks. This eventually stopped making sense to me -- as it would to any good programmer.

Advocating the adoption of English as the de-facto standard language of software development is simple pragmatism, the most virtuous of all hacker traits. If that makes me an ugly American programmer, so be it.

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HijackThis log - Disabled CMD prompt, regedit

Ive been trying to solve this problem the whole morning till evening and came to a conclusion that ive been hit by a malware.

Im the only user of my laptop and the only one with administrative rights. I tried to install a new game and i was stopped by this malware.

I cant go into CMD prompt
I cant go into Regedit
I cant install Spyware Doctor, Ad-wareAE or any other programs

My log(I cant find the upload/attach file button)

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 5:09:17 PM, on 3/27/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16441)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:Program FilesNational InstrumentsMAXnimxs.exe
C:WINDOWSExplorer.EXE
C:WINDOWSsystem32RUNDLL32.EXE
C:AcerEmpowering Technologyadmtray.exe
C:Program FilesSynapticsSynTPSynTPEnh.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32rundll32.exe
C:Program FilesIntelWirelessbinZCfgSvc.exe
C:Program FilesIntelWirelessBinifrmewrk.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesLogitechLComMgrLVComSX.exe
C:WINDOWSRTHDCPL.EXE
C:Program FilesKaspersky LabKaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0avp.exe
C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12GrooveMonitor.exe
C:Program FilesAcerVoIP Phone Chargervoip phone charger.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32wbemunsecapp.exe
C:Program FilesSony EricssonMobile2Application LauncherApplication Launcher.exe
C:Program FilesQuickTimeqttask.exe
C:PROGRA~1LAUNCH~1LManager.exe
C:Program FilesAdobePhotoshop Album Starter Edition3.2Appsapdproxy.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe
C:Program FilesIntelWirelessBinDot1XCfg.exe
C:Program FilesRainlendar2Rainlendar2.exe
C:Program FilesSkypePhoneSkype.exe
C:DOCUME~171937LOCALS~1TempRtkBtMnt.exe
C:Program FilesSkypePlugin ManagerskypePM.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesTeleca SharedGeneric.exe
C:Program FilesSony EricssonMobile2Mobile Phone Monitorepmworker.exe
C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32NOTEPAD.EXE
D:Program FilesTrend MicroHijackThisHijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page = http://myrp.sg
R1 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet Connection Wizard,ShellNext = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005
R1 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings,ProxyServer = ISA-Firewall.rp.sg:8080
R3 - URLSearchHook: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:Program FilesYahoo!CompanionInstallscpnyt.dll
O2 - BHO: Thunder AtOnce - {01443AEC-0FD1-40fd-9C87-E93D1494C233} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: &Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4efb-9B51-7695ECA05670} - C:Program FilesYahoo!CompanionInstallscpnyt.dll
O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeAcrobatActiveXAcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:PROGRA~1SPYBOT~1SDHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: Groove GFS Browser Helper - {72853161-30C5-4D22-B7F9-0BBC1D38A37E} - C:PROGRA~1MI1933~1Office12GRA8E1~1.DLL
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_02binssv.dll
O2 - BHO: ThunderBHO - {889D2FEB-5411-4565-8998-1DD2C5261283} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Hotspot Shield Class - {F9E4A054-E9B1-4BC3-83A3-76A1AE736170} - C:Program FilesHotspot ShieldhssieHssIE.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:Program FilesYahoo!CompanionInstallscpnyt.dll
O4 - HKLM..Run: [PHIME2002ASync] C:WINDOWSsystem32IMETINTLGNTTINTSETP.EXE /SYNC
O4 - HKLM..Run: [PHIME2002A] C:WINDOWSsystem32IMETINTLGNTTINTSETP.EXE /IMEName
O4 - HKLM..Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:WINDOWSsystem32NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM..Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM..Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:WINDOWSsystem32NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM..Run: [ADMTray.exe] "C:AcerEmpowering Technologyadmtray.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SynTPEnh] C:Program FilesSynapticsSynTPSynTPEnh.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [IntelZeroConfig] "C:Program FilesIntelWirelessbinZCfgSvc.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [IntelWireless] "C:Program FilesIntelWirelessBinifrmewrk.exe" /tf Intel PROSet/Wireless
O4 - HKLM..Run: [ePower_DMC] C:AcerEmpowering TechnologyePowerePower_DMC.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Acer ePower Management] C:AcerEmpowering TechnologyePowerAcer ePower Management.exe boot
O4 - HKLM..Run: [eRecoveryService] C:AcerEmpowering TechnologyeRecoveryMonitor.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [IMEKRMIG6.1] C:WINDOWSimeimkr6_1IMEKRMIG.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [MSPY2002] C:WINDOWSsystem32IMEPINTLGNTImScInst.exe /SYNC
O4 - HKLM..Run: [LVCOMSX] "C:Program FilesCommon FilesLogitechLComMgrLVComSX.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [RTHDCPL] RTHDCPL.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SkyTel] SkyTel.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Alcmtr] ALCMTR.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [AVP] "C:Program FilesKaspersky LabKaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0avp.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [IMJPMIG8.1] "C:WINDOWSIMEimjp8_1IMJPMIG.EXE" /Spoil /RemAdvDef /Migration32
O4 - HKLM..Run: [GrooveMonitor] "C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12GrooveMonitor.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [ntiMUI] C:Program FilesNewTech InfosystemsNTI CD & DVD-Maker 7ntiMUI.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [WinampAgent] C:Program FilesWinampwinampa.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [vptray] C:PROGRA~1SYMANT~1VPTray.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [voip phone charger] "C:Program FilesAcerVoIP Phone Chargervoip phone charger.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Thunder] "D:Program FilesThunder NetworkThunderThunder.exe" /s
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_02binjusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Sony Ericsson PC Suite] "C:Program FilesSony EricssonMobile2Application LauncherApplication Launcher.exe" /startoptions
O4 - HKLM..Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:Program FilesQuickTimeqttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM..Run: [LManager] C:PROGRA~1LAUNCH~1LManager.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [iTunesHelper] "C:Program FilesiTunesiTunesHelper.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [DownloadAccelerator] "C:Program FilesDAPDAP.EXE" /STARTUP
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Adobe Reader Speed Launcher] "C:Program FilesAdobeReader 8.0ReaderReader_sl.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Adobe Photo Downloader] "C:Program FilesAdobePhotoshop Album Starter Edition3.2Appsapdproxy.exe"
O4 - HKCU..Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU..Run: [MsnMsgr] "C:Program FilesMSN MessengerMsnMsgr.Exe" /background
O4 - HKCU..Run: [Rainlendar2] C:Program FilesRainlendar2Rainlendar2.exe
O4 - HKCU..Run: [Skype] "C:Program FilesSkypePhoneSkype.exe" /nosplash /minimized
O4 - HKCU..Run: [Steam] "c:program filessteamsteam.exe" -silent
O4 - HKCU..Run: [updateMgr] C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 7.0ReaderAdobeUpdateManager.exe AcRdB7_0_9
O4 - HKCU..Run: [igndlm.exe] C:Program FilesDownload ManagerDLM.exe /windowsstart /startifwork
O4 - HKCU..Run: [ares] "C:Program FilesAresAres.exe" -h
O4 - HKCU..Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:Program FilesQuickTimeqttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKUSS-1-5-18..Run: [Communicator] "C:Program FilesMicrosoft Office CommunicatorCommunicator.exe" (User SYSTEM)
O4 - HKUS.DEFAULT..Run: [Communicator] "C:Program FilesMicrosoft Office CommunicatorCommunicator.exe" (User Default user)
O7 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem, DisableRegedit=1
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:PROGRA~1MI1933~1Office12EXCEL.EXE/3000
O8 - Extra context menu item: Send to &Bluetooth Device... - C:Program FilesWIDCOMMBluetooth Softwarebtsendto_ie_ctx.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: - D:Program FilesThunder NetworkThunderProgramgeturl.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: - D:Program FilesThunder NetworkThunderProgramgetallurl.htm
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_02binssv.dll
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_02binssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: 5 - {09BA8F6D-CB54-424B-839C-C2A6C8E6B436} - d:Program FilesThunder NetworkThunderThunder.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: 5 - {09BA8F6D-CB54-424B-839C-C2A6C8E6B436} - d:Program FilesThunder NetworkThunderThunder.exe
O9 - Extra button: Web Anti-Virus statistics - {1F460357-8A94-4D71-9CA3-AA4ACF32ED8E} - C:Program FilesKaspersky LabKaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0SCIEPlgn.dll
O9 - Extra button: Send to OneNote - {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - C:PROGRA~1MI1933~1Office12ONBttnIE.dll
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: S&end to OneNote - {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - C:PROGRA~1MI1933~1Office12ONBttnIE.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:PROGRA~1MI1933~1Office12REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: Researcher - {9455301C-CF6B-11D3-A266-00C04F689C50} - C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedEncarta ResearcherEROPROJ.DLL
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {B205A35E-1FC4-4CE3-818B-899DBBB3388C} - C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedEncarta Search BarENCSBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: @btrez.dll,-4015 - {CCA281CA-C863-46ef-9331-5C8D4460577F} - C:Program FilesWIDCOMMBluetooth Softwarebtsendto_ie.htm
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: @btrez.dll,-12650 - {CCA281CA-C863-46ef-9331-5C8D4460577F} - C:Program FilesWIDCOMMBluetooth Softwarebtsendto_ie.htm
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:WINDOWSNetwork Diagnosticxpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:WINDOWSNetwork Diagnosticxpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O10 - Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:windowssystem32nwprovau.dll
O16 - DPF: {02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B} (QuickTime Object) - http://a1540.g.akamai.net/7/1540/52/200 ... plugin.cab
O16 - DPF: {C3F79A2B-B9B4-4A66-B012-3EE46475B072} (MessengerStatsClient Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/Me ... b56907.cab
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://fpdownload2.macromedia.com/get/s ... wflash.cab
O17 - HKLMSystemCCSServicesTcpipParameters: Domain = rp.edu.sg
O17 - HKLMSoftware..Telephony: DomainName = rp.edu.sg
O17 - HKLMSystemCS1ServicesTcpipParameters: Domain = rp.edu.sg
O17 - HKLMSystemCS2ServicesTcpipParameters: Domain = rp.edu.sg
O17 - HKLMSystemCS3ServicesTcpipParameters: Domain = rp.edu.sg
O18 - Protocol: grooveLocalGWS - {88FED34C-F0CA-4636-A375-3CB6248B04CD} - C:PROGRA~1MI1933~1Office12GR99D3~1.DLL
O18 - Protocol: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - C:PROGRA~1COMMON~1SkypeSKYPE4~1.DLL
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: c:program,filespermissionresearchprai.dll,c:program,filespermissionresearchprai.dll,c:program,filespermissionresearchprai.dll,c:program,filespermissionresearchprai.dll,
O23 - Service: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 (AVP) - Kaspersky Lab - C:Program FilesKaspersky LabKaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0avp.exe
O23 - Service: AdminWorks Agent X6 (AWService) - Avocent Inc. - C:AcerEmpowering TechnologyadmServ.exe
O23 - Service: ##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762## (Bonjour Service) - Apple Computer, Inc. - C:Program FilesBonjourmDNSResponder.exe
O23 - Service: Bluetooth Service (btwdins) - Broadcom Corporation. - C:Program FilesWIDCOMMBluetooth Softwarebinbtwdins.exe
O23 - Service: SMS Agent Host (CcmExec) - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWSsystem32CCMCcmExec.exe
O23 - Service: Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Event Log (EvtEng) - Intel Corporation - C:Program FilesIntelWirelessBinEvtEng.exe
O23 - Service: FLEXnet Licensing Service - Macrovision Europe Ltd. - C:Program FilesCommon FilesMacrovision SharedFLEXnet PublisherFNPLicensingService.exe
O23 - Service: Genesis Streaming Service - Unknown owner - C:Program FilesWOW VisionGenesis ClientWPGApplicationLauncher.exe
O23 - Service: Hotspot Shield Service (HotspotShieldService) - Unknown owner - C:Program FilesHotspot Shieldbinopenvpnas.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:Program FilesCommon FilesInstallShieldDriver1150Intel 32IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Unknown owner - C:Program FilesiPodbiniPodService.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: Altera JTAG Server (JTAGServer) - Unknown owner - c:altera72sp3quartusbinjtagserver.exe
O23 - Service: LightScribeService Direct Disc Labeling Service (LightScribeService) - Hewlett-Packard Company - C:Program FilesCommon FilesLightScribeLSSrvc.exe
O23 - Service: Lookout Citadel Server (LkCitadelServer) - National Instruments, Inc. - C:WINDOWSsystem32lkcitdl.exe
O23 - Service: National Instruments PSP Server Locator (lkClassAds) - National Instruments Corporation - C:WINDOWSsystem32lkads.exe
O23 - Service: National Instruments Time Synchronization (lkTimeSync) - National Instruments Corporation - C:WINDOWSsystem32lktsrv.exe
O23 - Service: LVSrvLauncher - Logitech Inc. - C:Program FilesCommon FilesLogitechSrvLnchSrvLnch.exe
O23 - Service: NI Configuration Manager (mxssvr) - National Instruments Corporation - C:Program FilesNational InstrumentsMAXnimxs.exe
O23 - Service: National Instruments Domain Service (NIDomainService) - National Instruments Corporation - C:Program FilesNational InstrumentsSharedSecuritynidmsrv.exe
O23 - Service: NILM License Manager - Macrovision Corporation - C:Program FilesNational InstrumentsSharedLicense ManagerBinlmgrd.exe
O23 - Service: NI Service Locator (niSvcLoc) - National Instruments Corp. - C:WINDOWSsystem32nisvcloc.exe
O23 - Service: National Instruments Variable Engine (NITaggerService) - National Instruments Corporation - C:Program FilesNational InstrumentsSharedTaggertagsrv.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:WINDOWSsystem32nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: OpcEnum - OPC Foundation - C:WINDOWSsystem32OpcEnum.exe
O23 - Service: PnkBstrA - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWSsystem32PnkBstrA.exe
O23 - Service: Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Registry Service (RegSrvc) - Intel Corporation - C:Program FilesIntelWirelessBinRegSrvc.exe
O23 - Service: Cyberlink RichVideo Service(CRVS) (RichVideo) - Unknown owner - C:Program FilesCyberLinkShared FilesRichVideo.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Service (S24EventMonitor) - Intel Corporation - C:Program FilesIntelWirelessBinS24EvMon.exe
O23 - Service: TuneUp Drive Defrag Service (TuneUp.Defrag) - TuneUp Software - C:WINDOWSSystem32TuneUpDefragService.exe
O23 - Service: TuneUp Program Statistics Service (TuneUp.ProgramStatisticsSvc) - TuneUp Software - C:WINDOWSSystem32TUProgSt.exe
O23 - Service: Automatic Updates (wuauserv) - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWSsystem32driverssvchost.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: XAudioService - Conexant Systems, Inc. - C:WINDOWSsystem32DRIVERSxaudio.exe

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End of file - 15552 bytes

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See You at EclipseCon!

I have the very great honor of speaking at this year's EclipseCon with one of my heroes, Clay Shirky.

I wasn't kidding when I said It's Clay Shirky's Internet, We Just Live In It.

It pains me to see developers who let themselves get locked into some particular toolchain ghetto, without at least peripheral awareness of what else is going on in the programming world around them.

Good programmers are interested in everything -- and that's exactly the kind of talk Clay and I intend to deliver.

Update: I'm not sure the event was recorded, but Alan Zeichick's summary of our talk is outstanding.

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Vista says I'm connected; can't surf the web

OS: Vista Home Basic

Taskpanel icon says I am connected to the Internet (local and Internet). The connection says it is excellent, but I cant browse the web and command prompt cant ping Google.

This happens all the time.

Any ideas?

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Eset Smart Security Help!

When i try and install Eset Smart Security I get a error saying *Error writing to file: C:Program FilesESETESET Smart SecurityDriversepfwndis.sys. Verify that you have access to that directory*

Then When I Hit The *Ignore* Button It Comes Up *Error writing to file: C:Program FilesESETESET Smart SecurityeplgOutlookEmon.dll. Verify that you have access to that directory*
And I Cant Ignore It, I Was Going Change The Folder Permissions But I Couldnt Find It.

So Please If Anyone Knows How To Fix This It Would Be Much Appreciated

Help if you can please

I posted here in this section because its a windows problem..

I would like to help a friend who was hacked.

QUOTE:

Ive been searching for *fixes* and can only find others with the same
problem.

Many of the files in my installation of phpBB have an ugly patch of
scripting (Im googling the fairly unique string tmp_lkojfghx)

Last night, the bb stopped working. I found the problem with the files,
deleted them and uploaded fresh. It was working when I went to bed. (I
assumed it had happened recently when the files were set to 777 briefly
for a config change. Theyre changed back, and its still happened.)

This morning, its happened again. The files are read only. There are
only two of us with ftp access and I trust us both.

Crystal Tech is feeding me canned answers from a book, some of which
refer to versions of phpBB which are three years old; one link they sent
was regarding an exploit patched in 2005. (When CT works, its great,
but for some reason, when theres the slightest issue, they suddenly
become corporate stiffs who just keep repeating "not our fault; not our
fault." Also a bit scary, this morning Im having problems connecting to
them via ftp.)

Im not a MySQL admin, nor do I know much about PHP security. But I
cant find any helpful info about preventing this from happening again,
and Crystal Tech is pretty much leaving it up to me.

Thanks!
S

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Please check my Hijacked. Thanks.

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 7:33:52 PM, on 3/28/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exe
C:Program FilesAviraAntiVir PersonalEdition Classicsched.exe
C:WINDOWSExplorer.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32keyboardservices.exe
C:WINDOWSRTHDCPL.EXE
C:WINDOWSsystem32RUNDLL32.EXE
C:Program FilesAviraAntiVir PersonalEdition Classicavgnt.exe
C:Program FilescFosSpeedcFosSpeed.exe
C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataFearghuslsass.exe
C:Program FilesJavajre6binjusched.exe
C:Program FilesSUPERAntiSpywareSUPERAntiSpyware.exe
C:Program FilesAviraAntiVir PersonalEdition Classicavguard.exe
C:Program FilesBonjourmDNSResponder.exe
C:Program FilescFosSpeedspd.exe
C:Program FilesJavajre6binjqs.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32nvsvc32.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32PnkBstrA.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:PROGRA~1Yahoo!MESSEN~1YAHOOM~1.EXE
C:Program FilesGarenaGarena.exe
C:Program FilesWinampwinamp.exe
C:Program FilesmIRCmirc.exe
C:Program FilesuTorrentuTorrent.exe
C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe
C:Program FilesTrend MicroHijackThisHijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page = http://www.yahoo.com
F2 - REG:system.ini: Shell=Explorer.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32keyboardservices.exe
O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeAcrobatActiveXAcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHelperStub - {18DF081C-E8AD-4283-A596-FA578C2EBDC3} - C:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeAcrobatActiveXAcroIEHelperShim.dll
O2 - BHO: Skype add-on (mastermind) - {22BF413B-C6D2-4d91-82A9-A0F997BA588C} - C:Program FilesSkypeToolbarsInternet ExplorerSkypeIEPlugin.dll
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:Program FilesJavajre6binjp2ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: JQSIEStartDetectorImpl - {E7E6F031-17CE-4C07-BC86-EABFE594F69C} - C:Program FilesJavajre6libdeployjqsiejqs_plugin.dll
O4 - HKLM..Run: [RTHDCPL] RTHDCPL.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Alcmtr] ALCMTR.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:WINDOWSsystem32NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM..Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM..Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:WINDOWSsystem32NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM..Run: [NeroFilterCheck] C:WINDOWSsystem32NeroCheck.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [avgnt] "C:Program FilesAviraAntiVir PersonalEdition Classicavgnt.exe" /min
O4 - HKLM..Run: [cFosSpeed] C:Program FilescFosSpeedcFosSpeed.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Adobe Reader Speed Launcher] "C:Program FilesAdobeReader 9.0ReaderReader_sl.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [DAEMON Tools-1033] "C:Program FilesD-Toolsdaemon.exe" -lang 1033
O4 - HKLM..Run: [USB2.0] C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftUSB2.0usb-hi.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Keyboard] C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataFearghuslsass.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:Program FilesQuickTimeQTTask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:Program FilesJavajre6binjusched.exe"
O4 - HKCU..Run: [SUPERAntiSpyware] C:Program FilesSUPERAntiSpywareSUPERAntiSpyware.exe
O4 - HKCU..Run: [Yahoo! Pager] "C:Program FilesYahoo!MessengerYahooMessenger.exe" -quiet
O4 - HKCU..Run: [uTorrent] "C:Program FilesuTorrentuTorrent.exe"
O4 - Global Startup: kbdrv16.com
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:PROGRA~1MICROS~2OFFICE11EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: Skype - {77BF5300-1474-4EC7-9980-D32B190E9B07} - C:Program FilesSkypeToolbarsInternet ExplorerSkypeIEPlugin.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:PROGRA~1MICROS~2OFFICE11REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O18 - Protocol: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - C:PROGRA~1COMMON~1SkypeSKYPE4~1.DLL
O20 - Winlogon Notify: !SASWinLogon - C:Program FilesSUPERAntiSpywareSASWINLO.DLL
O23 - Service: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus Scheduler (AntiVirScheduler) - Avira GmbH - C:Program FilesAviraAntiVir PersonalEdition Classicsched.exe
O23 - Service: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus Guard (AntiVirService) - Avira GmbH - C:Program FilesAviraAntiVir PersonalEdition Classicavguard.exe
O23 - Service: ##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762## (Bonjour Service) - Apple Computer, Inc. - C:Program FilesBonjourmDNSResponder.exe
O23 - Service: cFosSpeed System Service (cFosSpeedS) - cFos Software GmbH - C:Program FilescFosSpeedspd.exe
O23 - Service: FLEXnet Licensing Service - Macrovision Europe Ltd. - C:Program FilesCommon FilesMacrovision SharedFLEXnet PublisherFNPLicensingService.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:Program FilesJavajre6binjqs.exe
O23 - Service: nProtect GameGuard Service (npggsvc) - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWSsystem32GameMon.des.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:WINDOWSsystem32nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: PnkBstrA - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWSsystem32PnkBstrA.exe

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Please Check My HijackThis Log

I think i have adware somewhere in my computer because everytime i open a page i get a pop-up

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 3:11:55 PM, on 3/29/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16791)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32csrss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exe
C:Program FilesO2Micro Flash Memory Card Drivero2flash.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32PSIService.exe
E:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsAuxs.exe
E:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsSvc.exe
C:Program FilesMicrosoftSearch Enhancement PackSeaPortSeaPort.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32wltrysvc.exe
C:WINDOWSExplorer.EXE
C:WINDOWSsystem32wscntfy.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32rundll32.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32alg.exe
C:Program FilesANIANIWZCS2 ServiceWZCSLDR2.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32bcmwltry.exe
C:Program FilesD-LinkD-Link Wireless G DWA-110AirGCFG.exe
C:Program FilesJavajre1.5.0_01binjusched.exe
C:Program FilesATI TechnologiesATI Control Panelatiptaxx.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesRealUpdate_OBrealsched.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32carpserv.exe
E:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsTray.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe
C:Program FilesShareaza ApplicationsShareazaShareaza.exe
C:Program FilesWindows LiveMessengermsnmsgr.exe
C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe
C:Program FilesWindows LiveContactswlcomm.exe
E:Program FilesuTorrentuTorrent.exe
E:Program FilesmIRCmirc.exe
E:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsGui.exe
C:Program FilesWindows LiveToolbarwltuser.exe
C:Program FilesTrend MicroHijackThisHijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page = http://www.ggames.com.br
R1 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {C2BA40A2-74F3-42BD-F434-2604812C8954} - (no file)
O3 - Toolbar: &Windows Live Toolbar - {21FA44EF-376D-4D53-9B0F-8A89D3229068} - C:Program FilesWindows LiveToolbarwltcore.dll
O4 - HKLM..Run: [ANIWZCS2Service] C:Program FilesANIANIWZCS2 ServiceWZCSLDR2.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [D-Link D-Link Wireless G DWA-110] C:Program FilesD-LinkD-Link Wireless G DWA-110AirGCFG.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:Program FilesJavajre1.5.0_01binjusched.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [ATIPTA] C:Program FilesATI TechnologiesATI Control Panelatiptaxx.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [TkBellExe] "C:Program FilesCommon FilesRealUpdate_OBrealsched.exe" -osboot
O4 - HKLM..Run: [CARPService] carpserv.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [LogonStudio] "C:Program FilesWinCustomizeLogonStudiologonstudio.exe" /RANDOM
O4 - HKLM..Run: [BootSkin Startup Jobs] "C:PROGRA~1StardockWINCUS~1BootSkinBootSkin.exe" /StartupJobs
O4 - HKLM..Run: [ISTray] "E:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsTray.exe"
O4 - HKCU..Run: [Uniblue RegistryBooster 2009] E:Program FilesUniblueRegistryBoosterRegistryBooster.exe /S
O4 - HKCU..Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU..Run: [msnmsgr] "C:Program FilesWindows LiveMessengermsnmsgr.exe" /background
O4 - Global Startup: InterVideo WinCinema Manager.lnk = C:Program FilesInterVideoCommonBinWinCinemaMgr.exe
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:Program FilesJavajre1.5.0_01binnpjpi150_01.dll
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:Program FilesJavajre1.5.0_01binnpjpi150_01.dll
O9 - Extra button: Blog This - {219C3416-8CB2-491a-A3C7-D9FCDDC9D600} - C:Program FilesWindows LiveWriterWriterBrowserExtension.dll
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: &Blog This in Windows Live Writer - {219C3416-8CB2-491a-A3C7-D9FCDDC9D600} - C:Program FilesWindows LiveWriterWriterBrowserExtension.dll
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:WINDOWSNetwork Diagnosticxpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:WINDOWSNetwork Diagnosticxpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: fqxghn.dll nvqwtb.dll
O23 - Service: ANIWZCSd Service (ANIWZCSdService) - Wireless Service - C:Program FilesANIANIWZCS2 ServiceANIWZCSdS.exe
O23 - Service: Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWS
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:Program FilesCommon FilesInstallShieldDriver11Intel 32IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: O2Micro Flash Memory Card Service (o2flash) - O2Micro International - C:Program FilesO2Micro Flash Memory Card Drivero2flash.exe
O23 - Service: ProtexisLicensing - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWSsystem32PSIService.exe
O23 - Service: ReaConverter scheduler service (rcp_service) - ReaSoft - E:Program FilesReaConverter 5.5 Prorcp_scheduler.exe
O23 - Service: PC Tools Auxiliary Service (sdAuxService) - PC Tools - E:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsAuxs.exe
O23 - Service: PC Tools Security Service (sdCoreService) - PC Tools - E:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsSvc.exe
O23 - Service: WLTRYSVC - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWSSystem32wltrysvc.exe
O23 - Service: Automatic Updates (wuauserv) - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWS

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Don't Like It? Code it Yourself!

Have you ever considered paying for, or sponsoring, a

bug fix
new feature
plugin
small tweak to existing functionality

... for software that you use?

I don't mean waiting for a new release of the software, which will contain a bunch of new features you may or may not care about, along with all new bugs. I'm talking about making a very specific request for existing software happen through financial sponsorship.

Sure, if the software you're using happens to be open source, you can theoretically download the source code, roll up your sleeves, and code it yourself.

If you have a very strong desire to see a particular feature implemented, your odds of success of ultimately having it become a part of the tool are dramatically increased if instead of asking for it to be implemented, you check out a copy of the latest source code tree, code it yourself (even if slightly incomplete or somewhat buggy), and submit it for peer review by the existing developer pool. Other technical parties are far more likely to help you complete a worthwhile code enhancement that you've clearly put time and thought into than they are to remotely consider doing what you want from scratch just because you want it.

Of course, not all end-users have the technical acumen or programming experience to bring such things to reality. You have three options: a) find a programming friend that you can get excited about your idea and have him follow the above paragraph, b) live without the feature and enjoy the software you have been provided free and proves useful to many others, or c) find a different software package that does do what you want.

But how realistic is this for the average user? Heck, how realistic is this for the average programmer? Even if you're the type of macho, gung-ho programmer who can master an alien code base just to get some small pet feature or bugfix in -- do you honestly have the kind of time it would take to do that?

Sometimes, when people say this:

The source code is freely available. If you feel so strongly about this bugfix/tweak/feature/plugin, why don't you code it yourself?

They're really saying this:

F**k you.

That seems a bit harsh to me. Surely there's something between the extremes of "give up" and "code it yourself."

Why isn't there a service to aggregate and pool funds to sponsor programming particular features or bugfixes in open source software?

There are many end-users willing to pay for improvements to free software and writing new programs. There are also many talented programmers wanting to get paid to work on free software. Allow end-users to escrow payments that are pooled together to pay developers for implementing features / writing software. A panel of well-known free software experts is needed to vet new ideas before payment is escrowed for them, and to review programmer work having met the target.

I realize that using financial incentives on open source projects can have some unintended consequences. But a sort of attention and interest aggregation service for existing projects -- one backed by real money, so you know the interested parties are serious -- seems like a worthwhile cause. It might even attract the interest of other programmers if the pool got large enough.

To me, at least, sponsorship seems like a constructive way for people who are unable or unwilling to write code to affect the direction of a project. For example, I've sponsored several bugfixes in a key .NET open source library that we use for Stack Overflow. These are bugfixes they considered low priority, but were serious issues for our site. I was happy to give back to the project, and it was certainly a more realistic option than us carving out a chunk of our own development time to contribute the bugfixes ourselves.

That said, I am concerned that this sort of aggregated sponsorship system hasn't naturally evolved on its own by now. Is it not sustainible, or incompatible with the kind of intrinsic motivations that drive most open source development?

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How To Bypass Your ISP And/or Your Country Restrictions

“Site is blocked”, “the administrator has blocked this site”, “Error 403 Forbidden Unauthorized”. All of this is just example of the frustrated error messages you get if you were trying to access website that has been blocked, may be you at work and the administrator is blocking some cretin sites, or may be your ISP [...]

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I am so confused about how to assign pointers to char arrays. If we have a charcter string stored in an array as
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then can we define a pointer like char *x; x=s[0]; ?
and will this pointer point to the starting point of the array ?
if in the next statement is
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Code:
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$sql = "SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `XXX` = '$YYY'";
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$info = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
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I've got this part down, and it works well enough, where I'm confused, however, is how PHP handles it if MySQL sends back more than one row. Does it create a multi-dimensional array (e.g. $info[1][id], $info[2][id]), or does it treat it some other way? How can I pick through the results sent back from MySQL to find the specific row I want at the moment without modifying the initial call?

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When I use this bit of code it displays the title as literally "$title" which is obviously not what I'm trying to do. I would like it to display the variable of the title. Here's the code that I'm working with in it's entirety [Note - I'm working with Magpie RSS]:

Code:
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$rss = fetch_rss('http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news');

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It pains me to see developers who let themselves get locked into some particular toolchain ghetto, without at least peripheral awareness of what else is going on in the programming world around them.

Good programmers are interested in everything -- and that's exactly the kind of talk Clay and I intend to deliver.

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global $currentPost, $currentText, $currentGuidAttrs;
if ($name == 'item') {
$currentPost = new post();
$currentPost->categories = array();
}
elseif ($name == 'guid') {
$currentGuidAttrs = $attrs;
}
$currentText = '';
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
global $currentPost, $currentText;

switch ($name) {
case 'title': case 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# title':
$currentPost->title = $currentText;
break;

case 'content:encoded': case 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/ encoded':
$currentPost->content = $currentText;
break;

case 'description': case 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# description':
// content:encoded trumps description, so only save the description
// if there's no content already
if (!isset($currentPost->content) || !strlen($currentPost->content)) {
$currentPost->content = $currentText;
}
break;

case 'pubDate':
$currentPost->createDate = parseDateRFC822($currentText);
break;

case 'dc:date': case 'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ date':
$currentPost->createDate = parseDateISO8601($currentText);
break;

case 'dcterms:modified': case 'http://purl.org/dc/terms/ modified':
$currentPost->modDate = parseDateISO8601($currentText);
break;

case 'category': case 'dc:subject': case 'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ subject':
$currentPost->categories[] = $currentText;
break;

case 'guid':
if (isset($currentGuidAttrs['isPermaLink']) && $currentGuidAttrs['isPermaLink'] == 'true') {
$currentPost->permalink = $currentText;
}
$currentPost->guid = $currentText;
break;

case 'item': case 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# item':
processPost($currentPost);
$currentPost = null;
break;
}

$currentText = '';
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
global $currentText;
$currentText .= $data;
}

// WordPress-specific code

$post_author = 'admin';

require_once('../wp-config.php');
require_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/template-functions.php');
require_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/functions.php');
require_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/vars.php');

if ($kCreateModDateField && !$kTakeNoAction) {
require_once(ABSPATH.'/wp-admin/install-helper.php');
$res = '';
$tablename = $tableposts;
$ddl = "ALTER TABLE $tableposts ADD COLUMN post_modified datetime";
maybe_add_column($tablename, 'post_modified', $ddl);
if (check_column($tablename, 'post_modified', 'datetime')) {
$res .= $tablename . ' - ok
'."\n";
} else {
$res .= 'There was a problem with ' . $tablename . '
'."\n";
//++$error_count;
}
echo $res;
}

function processPost(&$post) {
global $kSetModDateField, $kUpdatePostsAlways, $kUpdatePostsIfNewer, $kTakeNoAction;

//print_r($post);

// Filter out (ignore) posts having categories that are all listed as "excluded"
// If a post has no categories, or at least one non-excluded category, it is still
// included.
if (sizeof($post->categories)) {
$gotIncludedCategory = false;
foreach ($post->categories as $categoryName) {
if (!isset($kExcludedCategories[$categoryName])) {
$gotIncludedCategory = true;
break;
}
}
if (!$gotIncludedCategory) {
return;
}
}

global $post_author, $kExcludeCategories;
global $wpdb;
global $tableusers, $tableposts, $tablepost2cat, $tablecategories;

$post_author_ID = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $tableusers WHERE user_login = '$post_author'");

$post_content = $post->content;
$post_content = str_replace('
', '
', $post_content); // XHTMLify
tags

/* Un-word-wrap the content, because
tags will be added at display time
for line breaks, and RSS feeds are often already soft-wrapped. Replace \n and \r
with spaces.

However, we don't want to remove word wrapping inside

 tags. Stopping short

    of a full HTML parser, we only un-wrap those sections not inside  tag pairs.

    (This code could be misled by things that look like  tags wrapped in HTML comments,

    but oh well.)

    */

    /*$pos = $lastpos = 0;

    while ($lastpos !== false && ($pos = strpos($post_content, '', $lastpos)) !== false) {

        $post_content = substr($post_content, 0, $lastpos)

            . str_replace("\n", ' ', str_replace("\r", ' ', substr($post_content, $lastpos, $pos - $lastpos)))

            . substr($post_content, $pos);

        $lastpos = strpos($post_content, '', $pos);

    }

    if ($lastpos !== false) {

        $post_content = substr($post_content, 0, $lastpos)

            . str_replace("\n", ' ', str_replace("\r", ' ', substr($post_content, $lastpos)));

    }

    */

    

    $post_content = addslashes($post_content);

    

    #$post_content = str_replace("\r", ' ', $post_content);

    #$post_content = str_replace("\n", ' ', $post_content);

    $post_date = addslashes($post->createDate);

    $post_title = addslashes($post->title);

    $post_modified = $kSetModDateField ? addslashes($post->modDate) : '';

    $post_name = '';

    if (isset($post->permalink) && strlen($post->permalink)) {

        $matches = array();

        if (preg_match('|/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/([A-Za-z0-9_-]*)/?|', $post->permalink, $matches)) {

            $post_name = $matches[1];

            $post_name = mysql_escape_string($post_name);

        }

    }

        

    

    $categoryIDList = array();

    foreach ($post->categories as $categoryName) {

        if (isset($kExcludedCategories[$categoryName])) {

            continue;

        }

        $categoryID = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT cat_ID FROM $tablecategories WHERE cat_name = '".mysql_escape_string($categoryName)."'");

        if (!$categoryID) {

            if ($kTakeNoAction) {

                echo "Would have inserted new category '$categoryName'.";

                $categoryID = 0;

            }

            else {

                $categoryNiceName = sanitize_title($categoryName);

                $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $tablecategories

                    (cat_name, category_nicename)

                  VALUES

                    ('".mysql_escape_string($categoryName)."','".mysql_escape_string($categoryNiceName)."')");

                $categoryID = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()");

            }

        }

        else {

            // category already exists; could update its nicename here if it tended not to be correct already.

            //$wpdb->query("UPDATE $tablecategories SET category_nicename = '".mysql_escape_string(sanitize_title($categoryName))."' WHERE cat_ID = ".intval($categoryID));

        }

        $categoryIDList[] = $categoryID;

    }

    

    

    // Quick-n-dirty check for dups:

    if ($kUpdatePostsIfNewer) {

        $dupcheck = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID,post_date,post_title,post_modified FROM $tableposts WHERE post_date='$post_date' AND post_title='$post_title' LIMIT 1",ARRAY_A);

    }

    else {

        $dupcheck = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID,post_date,post_title FROM $tableposts WHERE post_date='$post_date' AND post_title='$post_title' LIMIT 1",ARRAY_A);

    }

    if ($dupcheck[0]['ID']) {

        // post already exists

        if ($kUpdatePostsAlways || ($kUpdatePostsIfNewer && $kSetModDateField && $dupcheck[0]['post_modified'] < $post_modified)) {

            print "
\n\nUpdating post, ID = '" . $dupcheck[0]['ID'] . "'
\n";

            print "Timestamp: " . $post_date . "
\n";

            print "Post Title: '" . stripslashes($post_title) . "'
\n";

            if (!$kTakeNoAction) {

                $postID = $dupcheck[0]['ID'];

                $result = $wpdb->query("

                UPDATE $tableposts

                    SET post_author = '$post_author_ID', post_date = '$post_date',

                    ".($kSetModDateField ? "post_modified = '$post_modified', " : "")."

                    post_content='$post_content',

                    post_title = '$post_title', post_name = '$post_name' WHERE ID = ".intval($postID));

                //echo "DELETE FROM $tablepost2cat WHERE post_id = ".intval($postID);

                $result = $wpdb->query("DELETE FROM $tablepost2cat WHERE post_id = ".intval($postID));

                foreach ($categoryIDList as $categoryID) {

                    $result = $wpdb->query("

                        INSERT INTO $tablepost2cat

                            (post_id, category_id)

                        VALUES

                            (".intval($postID).",".intval($categoryID).")

                        ");

                }

            }

        }

        else {  

            print "
\n\nSkipping duplicate post, ID = '" . $dupcheck[0]['ID'] . "'
\n";

            print "Timestamp: " . $post_date . "
\n";

            print "Post Title: '" . stripslashes($post_title) . "'
\n";

        }

    }

    else {

        print "
\nInserting new post.
\n";

        print "Timestamp: " . $post_date . "
\n";

        print "Post Title: '" . stripslashes($post_title) . "'
\n";

        if (!$kTakeNoAction) {

            $result = $wpdb->query("

            INSERT INTO $tableposts

                (post_author,post_date,post_content,post_title,post_name,post_category".($post_modified ? ",post_modified" : "").")

            VALUES

                ('$post_author_ID','$post_date','$post_content','$post_title','$post_name','1'".($post_modified ? ",'$post_modified'" : "").")

            ");

            $postID = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID();");

            if ($postID) {

                foreach ($categoryIDList as $categoryID) {

                    $result = $wpdb->query("

                    INSERT INTO $tablepost2cat

                        (post_id, category_id)

                    VALUES

                        (".intval($postID).",".intval($categoryID).")

                    ");

                }

            }

        }

    }

}



// XML parsing code

function importRSSFile($filePath) {

    if (function_exists('xml_parser_create_ns')) {

        $xml_parser = xml_parser_create_ns('iso-8859-1',' ');    // space sep for namespace URI

    }

    else {

        $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

    }

    // make sure to turn off case-folding; XML 1.0 is case-sensitive

    xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, false);

    xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");

    xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

    if (!($fp = fopen($filePath, "r"))) {

        die("could not open XML input");

    }

    

    while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {

        if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {

            die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",

                        xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),

                        xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));

        }

    }

    xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

    fclose($fp);

}



function importBlogArchive($dirPath) {

    $startYear = 1980;

    $endYear = intval(strftime('%Y'));

    for ($testYear = $startYear; $testYear <= $endYear; $testYear++) {

        for ($testMonth = 1; $testMonth <= 12; $testMonth++) {

            $rssFilePath = $dirPath.'/'.$testYear.'/'.($testMonth < 10 ? '0' : '').$testMonth.'.xml';

            if (is_file($rssFilePath)) {

                importRSSFile($rssFilePath);

            }

        }

    }

}





if (is_dir($path)) {

    importBlogArchive($path);

}

else {

    importRSSFile($path);

}



/*echo '';

print_r($EZSQL_ERROR);

echo '';

*/



?>

---------

I want to do this with certain feeds through Twitter. What I am foreseeing is a possible ridiculous sized database, but the feed that I will be grabbing will be a specific hashtag. This should keep the database size reasonable.


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Registry closes after 10 seconds

Hello Ozzu,

I have a problem with a Windows XP SP2 system that has demonstrated several irregularities. Regedit will open and after 10 seconds it would close automatically. Additionally, after doing a Google search, I would click on a link and end up going to a random website. It doesnt happen everytime but enough to get my attention. Additionally, chkdsk doesnt run after rebooting. I ran Spyware Doctor in Safe Mode and all the problems mentioned happened in Safe Mode as well.

Ive run the following programs in order to try and find a virus, adware or spyware:

Spyware Doctor 6.0.0.386
http://www.trendmicro.com/housecall
EZTrust 7.0 Virus Scan
sfc /scannow
Advanced System Care 3

Ive also followed the directions from your "Steps to Take Before Posting":

I went to Add/Remove Programs and did not find any of the listed applications. I also went through and removed any programs that seemed out of place
Ran Spybot - Search and Destroy in Safe Mode - found a few things but all were cookies
Rebooted to Safe Mode
Ran Ad-Aware and only found one cookie
Rebooted to Desktop
Ran Regedit again and window closed after 10 seconds

Here is the HiJackThis log file:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 1:08:00 PM, on 3/25/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32Ati2evxx.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32cisvc.exe
D:Program FilesDiskeeper CorporationDiskeeperDkService.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:Program FilesCAeTrust AntivirusInoRpc.exe
C:Program FilesCAeTrust AntivirusInoRT.exe
C:Program FilesCAeTrust AntivirusInoTask.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedVS7DEBUGMDM.EXE
C:Program FilesReflectionrtsserv.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32r_server.exe
C:WINDOWSProPatchesSchedulerstSchedEx.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:Program FilesRealVNCVNC4WinVNC4.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32MsPMSPSv.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32Ati2evxx.exe
C:WINDOWSExplorer.EXE
C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWorks SharedWkUFind.exe
C:Program FilesHewlett-PackardPhotoSmartPhoto ImagingHpi_Monitor.exe
C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_01binjusched.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe
C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 6.0Distillracrotray.exe
C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_01binjucheck.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32cidaemon.exe
C:Documents and Settingsitadmin.bhtnDesktopHiJackThis.exe

R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page =
R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Local Page =
R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerToolbar,LinksFolderName =
R3 - Default URLSearchHook is missing
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_01binssv.dll
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Logitech Hardware Abstraction Layer] KHALMNPR.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Microsoft Works Update Detection] C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWorks SharedWkUFind.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [CXMon] "C:Program FilesHewlett-PackardPhotoSmartPhoto ImagingHpi_Monitor.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_01binjusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Ad-Watch] C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-AwareAAWTray.exe
O4 - HKCU..Run: [Advanced SystemCare 3] "C:Program FilesIObitAdvanced SystemCare 3AWC.exe" /startup
O4 - HKCU..Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKUSS-1-5-18..RunOnce: [RunNarrator] Narrator.exe (User SYSTEM)
O4 - HKUSS-1-5-18..RunOnce: [TSClientMSIUninstaller] cmd.exe /C "cscript %systemroot%InstallerTSClientMsiTranstscuinst.vbs" (User SYSTEM)
O4 - HKUSS-1-5-18..RunOnce: [] (User SYSTEM)
O4 - HKUS.DEFAULT..RunOnce: [RunNarrator] Narrator.exe (User Default user)
O4 - Global Startup: Acrobat Assistant.lnk = C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 6.0Distillracrotray.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Reader Speed Launch.lnk = C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 7.0Readerreader_sl.exe
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_01binssv.dll
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_01binssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:PROGRA~1MICROS~2OFFICE11REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O16 - DPF: {17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700} (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39204
O16 - DPF: {1ED48504-8834-11D5-AC75-0008C73FD642} (ProductView Express) - file://D:ptcproei486_ntobjpvx_install.exe
O16 - DPF: {215B8138-A3CF-44C5-803F-8226143CFC0A} (Trend Micro ActiveX Scan Agent 6.6) - http://ushousecall02.trendmicro.com/hou ... hcImpl.cab
O16 - DPF: {44C7F862-906C-11D3-A8ED-0008C75B3588} (IEPAPI Class) - http://docs1/CyberDOCS/Plugins/papibrdg.cab
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupda ... 1182576871
O16 - DPF: {6B75345B-AA36-438A-BBE6-4078B4C6984D} (HpProductDetection Class) - http://h20270.www2.hp.com/ediags/gmn2/i ... ection.cab
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftup ... 1186971069
O16 - DPF: {72C23FEC-3AF9-48FC-9597-241A8EBDFE0A} (InstallShield International Setup Player) - http://docs1/CyberDOCS/Plugins/isetupml.cab
O16 - DPF: {78AF2F24-A9C3-11D3-BF8C-0060B0FCC122} (AcDcToday Control) - file://C:Program FilesAcadm 6AcDcToday.ocx
O16 - DPF: {AE563720-B4F5-11D4-A415-00108302FDFD} (NOXLATE-BANR) - file://C:Program FilesAcadm 6InstBanr.ocx
O16 - DPF: {C6637286-300D-11D4-AE0A-0010830243BD} (InstaFred) - file://C:Program FilesAcadm 6InstFred.ocx
O16 - DPF: {F281A59C-7B65-11D3-8617-0010830243BD} (AcPreview Control) - file://C:Program FilesAcadm 6AcPreview.ocx
O16 - DPF: {F694EA1F-2EC1-445D-8988-1862AD0CC4C8} (pvvercheck_ie Control) - http://31s004.bushhog.local/Windchill/w ... eck_ie.cab
O17 - HKLMSystemCCSServicesTcpipParameters: Domain = BHTN.local
O17 - HKLMSoftware..Telephony: DomainName = bhtn.local
O17 - HKLMSystemCS1ServicesTcpipParameters: Domain = BHTN.local
O17 - HKLMSystemCS1ServicesTcpipParameters: SearchList = bhtn.local,bushhog.local
O17 - HKLMSystemCS2ServicesTcpipParameters: Domain = BHTN.local
O17 - HKLMSystemCS2ServicesTcpipParameters: SearchList = bhtn.local,bushhog.local
O17 - HKLMSystemCCSServicesTcpipParameters: SearchList = bhtn.local,bushhog.local
O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. - C:WINDOWSsystem32Ati2evxx.exe
O23 - Service: Diskeeper - Diskeeper Corporation - D:Program FilesDiskeeper CorporationDiskeeperDkService.exe
O23 - Service: eTrust Antivirus RPC Server (InoRPC) - Computer Associates International, Inc. - C:Program FilesCAeTrust AntivirusInoRpc.exe
O23 - Service: eTrust Antivirus Realtime Server (InoRT) - Computer Associates International, Inc. - C:Program FilesCAeTrust AntivirusInoRT.exe
O23 - Service: eTrust Antivirus Job Server (InoTask) - Computer Associates International, Inc. - C:Program FilesCAeTrust AntivirusInoTask.exe
O23 - Service: Lavasoft Ad-Aware Service - Lavasoft - C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-AwareAAWService.exe
O23 - Service: Reflection TimeSync - WRQ, Inc. - C:Program FilesReflectionrtsserv.exe
O23 - Service: Remote Administrator Service (r_server) - Unknown owner - C:WINDOWSsystem32r_server.exe
O23 - Service: PC Tools Auxiliary Service (sdAuxService) - PC Tools - C:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsAuxs.exe
O23 - Service: PC Tools Security Service (sdCoreService) - PC Tools - C:Program FilesSpyware DoctorpctsSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Shavlik Remote Scheduler Service (Shavlik Scheduler) - Shavlik Technologies - C:WINDOWSProPatchesSchedulerstSchedEx.exe
O23 - Service: VNC Server Version 4 (WinVNC4) - RealVNC Ltd. - C:Program FilesRealVNCVNC4WinVNC4.exe

--
End of file - 7548 bytes

Any help would be greatly appreciated - of course

Windows xp boot cd freezes

hi

am having problems with the windows xp boot cd . here is how it all started

I had three partitions in my hard disk

1.ubuntu hardy in ext2
2.windows xp in ntfs
3.ntfs data

i made an attempt to format the hardy partition and installed fedora 10 from my usb drive which went successful. but after my installation i was unable to boot into the windows os which gave me the error

"system32/hall.dll corrupt or missing"

to solve this i am now tryin to boot from my xp boot cd , which freezes at the step "detecting hardware config of ur system"

can anyone please suggest me how to solve this problem? am pretty sure that my cd drive is fine and so is my xp disk!!

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Need help please! HijackThis Log..

Hey, I am new to this forum and in need of some help. My computer is infected and I cant find the problem as task manager has been crippled. I cant open task manager in any way or regedit. Here is my log file... If anyone knows what to delete please help
Thanks in advance!

Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSExplorer.exe
C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-AwareAAWService.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exe
C:Program FilesJavajre6binjqs.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lxcfcoms.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32nvsvc32.exe
C:WINDOWSSOUNDMAN.EXE
C:Program FilesJavajre6binjusched.exe
C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-AwareAAWTray.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSTEMPwininiu.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32NOTEPAD.EXE
C:Program FilesTrend MicroHijackThisHijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page = http://www.google.ca/

F2 - REG:system.ini: Shell=Explorer.exe "C:DOCUME~1PAUL&N~1LOCALS~1TempwinJQQR4VQfZkz4I.exe"

O2 - BHO: AcroIEHelperStub - {18DF081C-E8AD-4283-A596-FA578C2EBDC3} - C:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeAcrobatActiveXAcroIEHelperShim.dll

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {6BA8BF5B-1C3C-45AA-B024-7563486E5162} - C:WINDOWSsystem32gpeditd.dll

O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In SSV Helper - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:Program FilesJavajre6binssv.dll

O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Notifier BHO - {AF69DE43-7D58-4638-B6FA-CE66B5AD205D} - C:Program FilesGoogleGoogleToolbarNotifier5.0.926.3450swg.dll

O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:Program FilesJavajre6binjp2ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: JQSIEStartDetectorImpl - {E7E6F031-17CE-4C07-BC86-EABFE594F69C} - C:Program FilesJavajre6libdeployjqsiejqs_plugin.dll
O4 - HKLM..Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:WINDOWSsystem32NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM..Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM..Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:WINDOWSsystem32NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SoundMan] SOUNDMAN.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [ak267ive] C:WINDOWSsystem32ak267ive.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [WindowsHive] C:WINDOWSsystem32rpcc.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Adobe Reader Speed Launcher] "C:Program FilesAdobeReader 9.0ReaderReader_sl.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:Program FilesJavajre6binjusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [WinampAgent] "C:Program FilesWinampwinampa.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [LXCFCATS] rundll32 C:WINDOWSSystem32spoolDRIVERSW32X863LXCFtime.dll,_RunDLLEntry@16
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Ad-Watch] C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-AwareAAWTray.exe
O4 - HKCU..Run: [ak267ive] C:WINDOWSsystem32ak267ive.exe
O4 - HKCU..Run: [MSMSGS] "C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe" /background
O4 - HKUSS-1-5-19..Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:WINDOWSsystem32CTFMON.EXE (User LOCAL SERVICE)
O4 - HKUSS-1-5-20..Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:WINDOWSsystem32CTFMON.EXE (User NETWORK SERVICE)
O4 - HKUSS-1-5-18..Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:WINDOWSsystem32CTFMON.EXE (User SYSTEM)
O4 - HKUS.DEFAULT..Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:WINDOWSsystem32CTFMON.EXE (User Default user)
O4 - Startup: LimeWire On Startup.lnk = C:Program FilesLimeWireLimeWire.exe
O7 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem, DisableRegedit=1
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:WINDOWSNetwork Diagnosticxpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:WINDOWSNetwork Diagnosticxpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra Tools menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe
O17 - HKLMSystemCCSServicesTcpip..{C2E09C21-B70D-4113-855A-0873A04EA5A1}: NameServer = 142.166.145.137 142.177.2.130
O23 - Service: Google Software Updater (gusvc) - Google - C:Program FilesGoogleCommonGoogle UpdaterGoogleUpdaterService.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:Program FilesJavajre6binjqs.exe
O23 - Service: Lavasoft Ad-Aware Service - Lavasoft - C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-AwareAAWService.exe
O23 - Service: lxcf_device - - C:WINDOWSsystem32lxcfcoms.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:WINDOWSsystem32nvsvc32.exe

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