This virus first appeared yesterday Jan 6th and my MS Security Essentials didn’t even know about it because it was so new.

What does it do?

About every 3 or 4th search on Google within Firefox 9 it would take me to an advertisement instead of the page Google intented. Sometimes it doesn’t go to an ad it take you to another virus.

What I am doing to clean my computer.

I disabled it on start up and deleted it in the directory, but it seems to be in the registry as well so that is what I am working on now.

If anyone figures out how to clean this off there Windows 7 system please let me know.

How I got rid of it

I did a restore from Jan 5th at 5am in the morning and that got rid of it.

Happened between 12/24 to 1/4/12

Google Gmail:

I am guessing that “50.16.179.243″ is backupify using amazon’s servers. And

These are the files they placed on my site:

* c
Wed Dec 28 23:14:18 2011 0 213.5.71.102 45 /home/learning/__check.html a _ i r learning ftp 1
* c
Wed Dec 28 23:14:22 2011 0 213.5.71.102 45 /home/learning/public_html/__check.html a _ i r learning ftp 1
* c
Wed Dec 28 23:14:24 2011 0 213.5.71.102 35057 /home/learning/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/utils/utils.php a _ i r learning ftp 1

OK, I am not a home builder but something seems odd here.

The person installing the window was very nice and did a nice job cleaning up but when I asked him if he was done he said yes, that was odd because I could see light coming through the window.

The small picture above is looking down at the bottom of the window and you can see a piece of paper that was pushed gently through the air gap from inside where the sealant was not fully applied.

I am not an expert but this not a replacement window, this is a brand new window in newly framed location, should it not have flashing around the exterior?

• I called Netflix and they said to call Microsoft SliverLight team
• I called Microsoft but they told me to call HP where I got the computer (they wanted to charge me for tech support.
• I didn’t call HP because I know what they are going to say

I logged in to Netflix and removed all my devices (5 of them) and then tried it but no luck. I then try it on my other 2 computers, but no luck.

Frustrating.

• Also I tried reverting back from Windows 7 SP1 because Netflix worked at that time before the SP was installed but that didn’t work.
• Also I called a friend that never used his Netflix on WMC, I asked him to set it up and try it and it didn’t work for him (we are both on Comcast).

If I find a fix I will post it here.

UPDATE 7/5/2011 It started working again all of a sudden.

With all the tests I did I really think this was a Netflix issue even though they blamed it on MS.

Would you be interested in selling some advertising on your vast array of sites to us?

If so, I have some advertisers who are interested, with budgets of potentially $1,000+ per month per site to you. Call or email to discuss further, and I’ll let you know what I had in mind.

Have a good one.

So I emailed back:

Hi Ryan,

Sure I am interested. Can you tell me what sites you are representing that would want to be on my sites?

Dave,

Out biggest advertiser right now is CafeMom.com.

[Company name] will supply your viewers with Interstitial Ads.  For Interstitial Ads, we pay on Cost Per View (CPV).  The revenue you gain should be incremental to any of the other advertising you have on your site.

The sign-up process literally takes minutes to complete.

One a side note, I  saw your video of dinner with Michael Chiarello and that is awesome.  I’m a big Food Network / Food TV and really enjoy his take on Italian cuisine.  I also liked his appearance on the Top Chef Celebrity edition last year.

If you have any questions, please contact me via phone or email.

I don’t want to waste my time so I write:

Ryan,

Before I sign up, how much do you pay – ballpark?

Looking at all the stats from those sites, you would be looking at $50-$100/day based on your numbers.  That would be incremental to the revenue you currently generate from ads currently on your site.

I looked at your advertiser’s site and I am not sure it is a good match for the niches I am in. What do you think?

Do we have any other advertisers besides CafeMom?  If not,  I will sell him on CaféMom.  I will pull up the demographics for CafeMom and make them look favorably for his sites.

Oops. I don’t think you intended this for me Ryan.

This site has embedded my youtube video, but when you click to play it, it appears to have a transparent layer that detects the ‘play’ click and shows you a pre-roll ad of their own (not from YT) before my video starts.

They make money and I have visitors watching my video thinking I am greedy by placing a pre-roll ad in front of the video.

I like to share my videos by allowing embeds, but I am not sure I like others thinking I am greedy.

Video

Pictures

Also my Adobe profile. (see if it gets cached.) Compare to PR4

Kevin’s Wiki profile (see if it gets cached.)

• Remove and reinstall Quicktime
• Disable Resample on all clips
• Lower the quality of the preview window
• Purge unused media to help free up resources
• Match Project Properties to your source media
• Disable all start programs from running
• Play around with the Split Screen button above the preview window
• In the Trimmer window, unselect the “Show Video Monitor” button
• Preferences Video Tab: Take your RAM preview to 0 megabytes.
• If you get green clips coming in, select all clips and bring them in to a new project file because the old one is corrupt.
• Make a new folder on your other hard drive and under preferences place all the temp files on there.
• Zoom out
• Press F5 to rebuild peaks, peaks have to be built before importing them on timeline
• Virtual memory to c: on not d: since d has the video files
• stay with 8bit editing and not 32bit. While 32bit editing can offer a tiny bit better visual quality when using plugins or transitions, it is extremely slow to edit as such.
• Set the preview quality (in the preview window) to “preview (auto)”.

photo credit: eflon