Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Ad hoc join switching not workable - removed
Apologies for the misleading post beginning 'I tried writing a query with a switchable ad hoc join...' that appeared here earlier, the issue was actually caused by an incompletely specified join in the second branch.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Removing Flash malware
Installing Flash has also put an update checking malware app onto my PC. Working towards eliminating this - using procexp on the nag screen I found it was running as "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_Plugin.exe", command line "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_Plugin.exe" -update plugin".
Deleting ..plugin.exe looks like it might, well, delete the browser plugin, so instead I've deleted C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe, will see if that works.
I can't work out how the malware is running, despite its name it isn't installed as a service so far as I can see.
The above entry was made on Aug 29th - since then the malware has somehow reinstalled itself. Deleted it again.
Deleting ..plugin.exe looks like it might, well, delete the browser plugin, so instead I've deleted C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe, will see if that works.
I can't work out how the malware is running, despite its name it isn't installed as a service so far as I can see.
The above entry was made on Aug 29th - since then the malware has somehow reinstalled itself. Deleted it again.
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