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Perdana Park, Kota Kinabalu

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What a beautiful place to hang out. Located next to airport Terminal 2, it would not be difficult to find.

Recently, brought my family to visit this place. Although came in late evening, crowd was all over the place. The water display was fantastic. Kids playground was huge.

For jogger like me, this place is great. The track is similar to athlete track at the stadium. Running on it is great, you won't injure yourself.

If you have opportunity to visit KK, stop by.
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Festival of Praise Kawasan Tamparuli

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Last night was festival of praise held by SIB Kawasan Tamparuli. It was great. The attendance was around 200 plus. The crowd were mostly muda-mudi.

The event kicked off at 8pm. The praise and worship team was loud and excited. Song selection were mostly indonesian, however it's great because the crowd was equally good at singing.

Although they're some minor technical error but that not important because i was enjoying the praise and worship session.

Well done to the organising commitee.
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Kutu Sampah

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Recently, i went to Damai near Upperstar and i saw this two ladies. The jokers were ransacking the tong sampah searching for valuable items. To me, they're looked normal but searching something in that foul area was abnormal.

It just happened that i parked my car next to them, and i snapped a pic just to share with you. I overheard their conversation and guess what - it's Dusun.
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Jambatan Gantung Koung Ratau

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Recently I returned to my kampung (village) using this bridge. I was wondering the length of this bridge since it hang across Kadamaian river and a piece of land (maybe an acre).

How did i measured it, well not a conventional measuring tool but using a GPS. I fired up Oruxmaps on my android phone, reset and track the bridge from one end to the other end. Although my GPS unit measured in KM but I get the exact length. It is 210 metres.
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Task Manager has been disabled

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Dial a Fix (DAF) is fantastic nifty software. It was developed by DjLizard. The software helps you fixing some Windows  problem gleaned info from MS Knowledgebase and other forums. It did helped me to fix some problem of my client's PCs and Laptops especially when their task manager is locked. Have you ever seen this - when you press Ctrl+Alt+DEL, the task manager won't show? it says "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator" and in fact, you're logon is administrator mode. DAF will fix this in a single click, plus, it can do other useful fixes like Windows Installer, Window Update, SSL/HTTPS/Cryptography and Registration Center.




I have gleaned info of how to unlock the task manager on the Internet, and I found some other utilities that do about the same job. Task Manager Fix is another great freeware utility that could save your day. 

Also, you can do this - click Start -> run -> type "regedit" press Enter. Search for 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

look for DisableTaskMgr, delete it. Close the regedit window.




What is Autorun.inf?

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Autorun.inf is a small configuration text file that runs when you insert flashdrive or CD/DVDROM into computer. Initially, it is used to automate CD software installation or presentation. The automation was good but hackers saw the potential to run malicious program into victim's computer. Autorun file is always stored in the root of media. If you browse the media, you will see the file autorun.inf. However, hacker will hide this program. If you want to check whether autorun.inf file is inside your flashdrive, you can do a few things:

  1. First, open Windows Explorer. Check the drive of your media (Flashdrive, CDROM).
  2. Click Start button -> run -> type "cmd" (without qoute) and press Enter.
  3. You will see Command line console. Now type "X:" (without qoute) and press Enter (assume X is your drive)
  4. Type "dir" (without quote) press Enter. Now, it lists all files on the drive. Do you see "autorun.inf"?
  5. If you can't see, it might be hidden. Now to see if it's there, type "dir /ah" (without quote) press Enter.

  6. This time it will show you the hidden files. "/ah" is attribute hidden. 
  7. If autorun.inf is exist, you can unhide it by typing this command "attrib -h -r -s autorun.inf" (without quote) press Enter. This command tells you to -h (minus/remove hide), -r (remove readonly), and -s (remove system). 
  8. The file shows up.

Why I use "-s" and "-r" in my attrib parameter? You can't delete system file. Hacker will set autorun.inf attribute to system. That's the reason we remove the system attribute. 

or 

Open Windows Explorer, Tools menu,  Folder Options. From there choose View and choose Show hidden files and folders.

You will unhide the autorun.inf. 

This technique will inform you the existence of the virus/malware by reading command in autorun.inf. 

Warning: Do not double click inf file. It will run or install program behind our back. Open notepad (click start -> run -> type "notepad", then open autorun.inf from there) or if your command line console is running, type "notepad autorun.inf" press Enter.

This is the basic content of autorun.inf

[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=icon.ico

When user inserts the media into computer, it will open/run setup.exe. Icon.ico is the icon of your media.

Now, hacker will write autorun.inf like this:
(hacker named YaHaa)

[autorun]
shellexecute=wscript.exe autoupdate.dll.vbs

This command will execute VBScript that contain malicious script.

This is part of the script (autoupdate.dll.vbs)

'VB Worm v1 By YaHaa
on error resume next
dim mysource,winpath,flashdrive,fs,mf,atr,tf,rg,nt,check,sd
atr = "[autorun]"&vbcrlf&"shellexecute=wscript.exe autoupdate.dll.vbs"
set fs = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set mf = fs.getfile(Wscript.ScriptFullname)
dim text,size
size = mf.size
check = mf.drive.drivetype
set text=mf.openastextstream(1,-2)
do while not text.atendofstream
mysource=mysource&text.readline
mysource=mysource & vbcrlf
loop
do
Set winpath = fs.getspecialfolder(0)
set tf = fs.getfile(winpath & "\autoupdate.dll.vbs")
tf.attributes = 32
.....

How to get rid of the malware. If it already in the system you can install a good antivirus like Avira. You can download it from www.free-av.com. Another good anti spyware that you can install is the Ad-Aware. You can download from www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php 

One program dedicated to guard your flashdrive is called FlashGuard. It is developed by Davis Software and you can download it here http://www.davisr.com/cgi-bin/content/downloads.htm. This nifty software saves my laptop from malicious program that use autorun.inf. It removes the autorun.inf before it acts.






How to fix "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services" Problem

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I was having this problem while accessing the Internet for the past 3 days. After few minutes to hours connected to the Internet, the screen above will popped out. Clicking at "click here" will display the Error signature shown below. After clicking "Send Error Report" or "Don't Send", browsers could not display any page. Checked my Internet connection, everything look fine, it not disconnected or whatsoever.
 

I searched the net and found out that there were many computers affected or having the same problem as mine and it was happening 2 years ago and still happening!

What is happening here? It seems that some malware or anything related to it trying to exploit the open ports of your computer. Which ports to close? Port 135 and port 445. What is port 135 for? Well, this port should not exposed to the Internet. Hacker will use it to expoit DCOM-related server/service running  on user's computer. Port 445 is about Microsoft Directory Services. Opening this port is vulnerable to hacker attack. They are able to upload their malicous files and execute it by using a program like psExec. The worst part are, they can do ANYTHING on your computer. It is very simple to solve this. You just close the door (port), that's it. I use Firewall Leak Tester (www.firewallleaktester.com/wwdc.htm) to close them. Pretty simple but it works, at least for me :)


Bonus: 
Do you know what is registry? Find out and save your PC from calamity.