Paradise Philippines Code Generator Still Offline

Waahhh I really want to experience the SEO contest even if I'm not that good yet in SEO, i really want to join the recent Paradise Philippines SEO Keyword Contest but still BAYANIHANSEO.COM is still offline maybe tomorrow it will be Ok, so I need to wait. Hope I can learn more about SEO later and be one of the top 100 (even in rank 100 ASA! ) of the Paradise Philippines rank!

For the Philippines! 

Paradise Philippines : SEO Keyword Ranking Contest

I've read a P600,000 SEO contest launched by MACALUA.COM, and I'm really interested to join so I can gain more experience in SEO (I'm still young in SEO at about 6 months old but I'm old already at the age of 29, hehehe). To win the contest you need to be at the top 100 of the major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN for the keyword: Paradise Philippines. MACALUA.COM contains all the mechanics in joining the said contest. Me, I'm not yet officially a contestant for the said contest because I still don't have the Contest Code for the said event, but I will join later even if I'll be ranked 101 only hehehe, I know there so many SEO experts that will join and I'm glad that we Filipinos are really world wide competitive when it comes to SEO. 

I'll try to make a web page not later than September before the first check-up hopefully after I finished something at school.

Paradise Philippines SEO Keyword Ranking Contest here I come kahit maging kulelat (even I'll be left behind by others), for experience and participation sake! - Mabuhay!

Removing Autorun.inf Virus & Viruses that uses Autorun.INF

I have an updated article on this autorun.inf virus which can be found at http://www.bleuken.com/2008/07/01/preventing-and-removing-autoruninf-virus/. Please read it instead!

There are several viruses that uses the autorun.inf to spread itself such as the Bacalid (hides itself in ctfmon.exe) and the RavMon.EXE. These viruses set its file attributes to System+Hidden+Read-Only attributes so some anti-viruses will have a hard time detecting or finding them. These viruses save itself in the root directory of every available drives of the current infected computer and runs itself every time you Double-Click the drive. In USB Sticks and CDs that are infected by the virus runs automatically especially if drive autorun is enabled for the current drives (which is usually by default, autorun for drives are enabled). 

Autorun.INF is usually used by CD Installers to autoplay their installations but Hard disks by default should not have AUTORUN.INF in the drive.

Now, it is possible that your computer is infected by those viruses if you try to display the content of  the your computer through command prompt, using the dir /ah command. You will see the following window if you try this:

You will see from this window that drive C contains a hidden file autorun.inf, this is a possibility that the computer is infected. Now to erase this, restart your window to Safe Mode Command Prompt. (Do this by rebooting your computer and pressing F8 before windows go out and select from the boot menu). On drive C and other drives type the following commands: 1. attrib -h -r -s autorun.inf    2. del autorun.inf

Do this steps to other drives to disable the autorun.inf .

Disable AUTORUN from Registry 

Now you can disable the AUTORUN for all drives by configuring the registry. Open the registry by typing regedit.exe to the command prompt (if your still at the command prompt) or execute it in Run. Look for the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer as shown below:

Double-click the NoDriveAutorun DWORD entry and type the value HEX: FF (255 in Decimal). (If the NoDriveAutorun does not exists, you can creat it by right-clicking the right side area of the regedit window, then click New->DWord Value -> type NoDriveAutorun) Close the registry and restart the computer. This procedure will disable all the autorun for all drives of your computer and at least will prevent the autorun function of infected USB drives or CDs and avoid the infection of viruses like the Bacalid and RavMon.exe. 

Update: 

If you want to prevent viruses that uses autorun.inf  to infect your USB flash drive, try to do this:

1. Open your flash drive via Command Prompt (do this via Start->Run->cmd.exe) 

2. Change your logged drive to your USB flash drive (e.g. if your drive is at drive E: then type E: on the command prompt then press enter)

3. Create a folder named: AUTORUN.INF on the root directory of your flash drive. (to do this type the command: MD\AUTORUN.INF). If an error: a subdirectory already exists… shows, try to follow the instruction above to remove existing autorun.inf before doing this instruction.

The reason why this will avoid future infection is that autorun.inf viruses usually generates a file autorun.inf. Having an AUTORUN.INF folder on the root directory of your drives will make virus programs unable to create their own autorun.inf file, virus can’t even overwrite it because it’s a folder and not a file. See my point?  

Read also my current post on free tools on removing autorun.inf virus and other malware.

If this post helps you on your PC problem, please link back to this blog: http://bleuken.i.ph as a sign of your gratitude. Thank you! 

Linux Script that Adds New Samba Users

I did have a hard time looking for information regarding linux scripts that adds new samba users (many users) so I decided to log the script I made to add new samba users. I tried to use the method that some sites suggested that copies the /etc/passwd to /etc/samba/smbpasswd via cat < /etc/passwd | makesmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd, but this does not work. By the way, I'm using Samba 3.025d under OpenSuse 10.2

So i tried to figure it out by conducting a trial and error 'experiments' and luckily I did it. The things I've done are the following:

First I add 1000 UNIX users using the following scripts (unixusers.sh)

#—————————————————————————————————–

# Script: unixusers.sh - use for creating 1000 users by Felix 

#I declare 100 unique passwords in an array

declare apasswords[100]
apasswords[0]="password1"
apasswords[1]="pasword2"
apasswords[1]="… and so on… up to 100 unique passwords'

n=0
for ((i=1;i<=1000;i++))
do
    echo "user$i = ${apasswords[n]}" >> mypasswords.txt
    cuser="user$i"
    cpassword="${apasswords[n]}"
    echo "Wait creating user $cuser = $cpassword, please wait…"
    useradd $cuser -p $cpassword
    n=`expr $n + 1`
    if test $n -gt 100

    then
        n=0
    fi
done
#—————— unixusers.sh ends here ———————————-

The unixusers.sh script will create 1000 UNIX users with passwords.User ids and passwords are saved inside a text file name: mypasswords.txt, if in case you want to have print-out of the users and passwords.

Now, the following is the script that adds the 1000 UNIX users to SAMBA (/etc/samba/smbpasswd) 

#—————————————————————————————————–

# Script: sambausers.sh - use for creating 1000 SMB users by Felix

 #I declare 100 unique passwords in an array the same as the passwords on unixusers.sh

declare apasswords[100]
apasswords[0]="password1"
apasswords[1]="pasword2"
apasswords[1]="… and so on… up to 100 unique passwords'
 

n=0
for ((i=1;i<=1000;i++))
do
    rm temp.txt
    echo "${apasswords[n]}" >> temp.txt
    echo "${apasswords[n]}" >> temp.txt
    cuser="user$i"
    cpassword="${apasswords[n]}"
    echo "Wait creating user $cuser = $cpassword, please wait…"   
    smbpasswd -a $cuser -s < temp.txt
    n=`expr $n + 1`

    if test $n -gt 100   

    then
        n=0
    fi
done
 #—————— sambausers.sh ends here ———————————-

That's all folks! A script that adds new samba users (for SAMBA 3.025d in openSUSE 10.2).

Visual Foxpro’s Destiny

I'm really sad about the announcement of Microsoft that they will not continue developing Visual Foxpro. I was waiting this past few months if this facts will change and I guess its hopeless. And even petitions and appeals from different visual foxpro users all over the world to Microsoft can't really change their decisions on Visual Foxpro development.

I'm just hoping that Visual Foxpro can still survive after being abandoned by Microsoft. I hope Visual Foxpro will have an openFoxpro later that can be used in Linux/Unix-based systems.