Slip

One, two, three
The clock ticks, the mind flicks
Splendid tales of then
Pieces of paper today..
Crumble.
The sand drains out,
Slowly, swiftly…
Slipping out of hands
The hourglass demands…
Time up.
Trying to catch up,
Stagnant, sluggish clan
Laborious attempts to
Complain and fight back
Fade out.

How to get rid of tavo.exe, kavo.exe trojan

Most frivolous Windows users would have had their antivirus shouting at some point of time with a message “Alert! A virus was found” and then popping windows that mention “kavo.exe”. kavo.exe is a smart trojan that installs and autorun.inf in your C:\ making sure it updates itself everytime you connect to the internet. The bad news is that this can be quite irritating and painful as most antivirus software fail to remove it. The good news is that a little bit of common sense can help!
So lets go ahead and get rid of the kavos and tavos on our own!

• First and foremost check for an autorun.inf file in C:\. Open the file and check if has references to kavo or tavo. Delete such a file.
• Delete all files in C:\ that have a “.com” extension.
• Goto C:\Windows\system32\
• Search for “kavo”, you would get results like kavo.exe, kavo.dll, kavo0.dll, kavo1.dll. Go ahead and delete kavo.dll and then kavo.exe. Then try to delete the other kavo dll files. If you get a message that the file are in use and cannot be deleted restart your computer and try deleting them again. In this manner delete all “kavo” files from system32.
• Search for “tavo” and repeat the procedure explained for kavo.
• Now all your bad files are gone and you just need to remove the registry entries.
• Hit Windows+Run and type “regedit”. Browse to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete entries that have the name kava and tava. More easily download CCleaner and run the registry scan from it. This will show you all unwanted registry entries. kava and tava would also be listed as we have removed the exes related to them. Click on “Fix selected issues” and do not take a backup of the registry.
• Now delete all weirdly named files from C:\. Typically they would belong to the list below:

• Autorun.inf
• o.exe
• nxvhpc.exe
• ff1q0gw.bat
• i8.com
• e6ieg.exe
• 6qe.com
• cfv90h.com
• ab.cmd
• k2.cmd
• h2.com
• u.exe
• fufb6tq3.cmd
• ekf6dbg0.com
• h2.com
• rtnlpipu.com
• 1i.com
• c18vk.exe
• ntphyy.com

Your system is all clean now.

Doors

Four walls make a universe,
They enclose and enthrall
virtues, vices, duties, egos,
“Evolution” as they call.

Doors, to stop evolving
Doors, to runaway
Doors, to welcome you with open arms
Doors, to kick them all away

To step out and feel the breezy winds
To walk with your head held high
To seek shelter when the same winds chill
And hide when they look at you and sigh.

To peep in when you want to know
Or put your desperate ear to hear
To shut them when you want no more
All alone, in relief, in peace.

Four walls make a universe,
They enclose and enthrall
virtues, vices, duties, egos,
And doors play with them all.

Elisa - The Open Media Center

I’m not sure if too many people know about Elisa, quite frankly it is quite amazing that something as wonderful as Elisa is not in the limelight(as yet!). For a quick and brief introduction, Elisa is a sleek next generation media center where you can watch videos, browse pictures, manage music etc.

Read ahead for a quick list of features:

MUSIC:

Elisa finds music and arranges it by artist, by album and by folder. It includes all the album art to give you a very interesting interface to play with. Elisa has been designed in a extensible manner by which adding plugins can enhance features. It currently bundles the shoutcast radio plugin.

VIDEOS:

Elisa arranges videos and allows you to play them. It also has a youtube plugin that can be used to browse youtube videos!

PICTURES:

Elisa finds pictures from the default folders. The picasa extension allows you to browse pictures uploaded to your web album.

All locations that Elisa can look into can be defined in home/~user~/.elisa/elisa.conf. Whats better is that the file locations, network urls, anything!

Elisa works on both Windows and Linux, though on Windows its still an alpha release.

Some tips to install Elisa on Ubuntu:

Elisa is packaged with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) To install and get it working properly with all plugins do:

$ sudo apt-get install elisa

$ sudo apt-get install elisa-plugins-bad elisa-plugins-ugly

$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-fluendo-*

$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

$ elisa

Here’s a link to install Elisa on earlier versions of Ubuntu: http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766012

SpikeWAMP - Part ii

It was not too long ago that I blogged about SpikeWAMP here, SpikeSource has made a release for SpikeWAMP 1.4 beta recently. This time, they have gone one step ahead and created application installers for Drupal, Gallery and phpBB. These application installers do not limit its users to one app but allow installation of the other two through the updater. So the users don’t need to download the stack each time.

Right now they are out with 3 application with more in the pipeline. Significant changes for this releases are:

• Application installers (Drupal, phpBB, Gallery and more coming soon!)
• Support for Windows Server 2008 and Vista.
• Significant changes on the platform.
• Works with Windows Server 2008 certification ready!
• Latest versions of Apache and PHP
• New crisp look.

For more information about SpikeWAMP, click here. What’s more? They are available for free download here.

With a continued effort from by SpikeSource, opensource software is now ready to take off on the Windows platform too. These quality installers are worth giving a try!