Remove Orkut Virus - W32.Scrapkut

So you have been hit by the orkut virus, you know which i just posted in my previous post here, so here is a way of removing orkut virus, namely w32.scrapkut.

1.Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP).

Right Click "My Computer" , then select "Properties".
Go to "System Restore" tab .
Then Click/ Check "Turn off System Restore", then click OK and restart your system .

2. Update the virus definitions.

3.Backup your system registry.

Go to "Start" menu,
Select "Run", then type "regedit" .
Windows Registry will open ,
Go to "File" menu then select "Export".
Create a new folder . e.g; "Registry-Backup" .
Then type a filename which includes current date , this will help you in future maintanace of your Operating System . e.g; "Reg-Backup-21-01-2008"

4.Restart your system in safe mode.

During BootUp process Press F8 , then the BootUp selection screen will display.
Use Arrow Up+Down to select SafeMode on the selections menu.
Hit Enter to proceed.

5. Run a full system scan.

6. Delete these values added to theregistry.

Windows operating has an in built "Registry Editor" to edit Registry.
To open system registry ..
Go to "Run" on start menu , then type "regedit"
Press 'Ctrl+F' to Search/Find any Values or strings in registry .
Press 'F3' to "Find Next".

NB: Use this Symantec Tool to reset shell\open\command registry keys if regedit (Registry editor)is not accessible .

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Partizan\"Group" = "Boot But Extender"

You have to delete the above registry value, Thats it folks... search it for you so you dont have to but dont forget to read about this damn virus more here, and must always use orkut without javascript, have a very nice orkuting ahead my friends.. Click Here to Read more!

W32.Scrapkut Orkut Worm spreading to millions of users

Friends how many of you have fallen victim to a worm, which apparently looks like this in your scrapbook, but let me warn you its a deadly worm, recently renamed to W32.Scrapkut, uses active code injection as a vehicle to propagate to the Orkut friends of its unfortunate victim.

Wondering how this thing happens, heres the whole story about it:
> a malicious scrap is posted to the victim’s scrapbook, containing a link to what appears to be a YouTube video
> When a victim clicks on the link, they are redirected to an external site which prompts them to download the file “flashx_player_9.8.0.exe”.
> When executed, flashx_player_9.8.0.exe retrieves the files windosremote.exe, logservicess.exe and win32chekupdate.exe from http://[REMOVED].ifastnet.com. These files download additional files that perform a variety of malicious actions, but logservicess.exe is the main executable for further propagation. Logservicess.exe first copies itself as maindwxp.exe to four different locations on the system to ensure it is executed on startup.
> Maindwxp.exe then checks in with the command and control server via a GET request with specific parameter values. Interestingly, the page returned simply contains the word “Rastreados” followed by a number. In Portuguese, “rastreados” means “crawled” - at last check the number was 13559.
> Maindwxp.exe then executes and begins checking for an active browser window, waiting for the victim to visit Orkut. Once the victim is in an authenticated Orkut session, maindwxp.exe injects Javascript code into the active Orkut web session.
> This Javascript code which is actually based on a popular Greasemonkey script is then executed within the context of the Orkut domain and the user’s authenticated session, resulting in the malicious scrapbook entry being sent to all the victims’ friends, and the cycle begins again.

This way the malicious worm is spreading virally on the orkut, So how you can be saved from this malicious worm now, well in past i have posted about "how to surf orkut without javascript" which would help in prevention from such viruses and always remember not to use any javascript that are posted in your scrap even by your trusted friends...

Edit: So here is a way to remove this virus, Click Here Click Here to Read more!

Hitting the Wall !

Hey Friends,
I guess many of you may have run marathon race, some may not have, well but i was watching this movie "run fatboy run" in which they said that "there comes a time in the race when u cant breathe and cant run anymore and u just say quit"... but only a few people take another step ahead the wall, and then everything becomes easy,,.. whats the relevance of it on orkut champ, ahhh... i guess in my life , my blogs and my attitude for self improvement i have hit this wall, from the last one month i was taking life causally was not keeping my promises, was not blogging, just eating and watching movies and sleeping, ahhh... for few days it was good then it just starts becoming a very very bad habit. Every time i thought i should blog now, i just got myself starting another movie to watch and gosh.... thats thw way last month have been... but finally i took the courage to get over this wall and start running again, this blog and u have always been with me, i hope to see u guys watch the new look n feel on this blog in few days :) Click Here to Read more!

New Friends Map at Orkut

Dear friends, in a spree of many new changes in orkut, the team has added a unique friends map feature in orkut, this feature will display a world map in which your friends will be shown. you can zoom in and out depending upon the concentration of your friends, to access this feature all you need to do is.
Go to the profile of person whose friends map you want to view, now simply click on view friends, and in the middle of his friends and mutual friends, you will now see this new feature "friends map". This one is very cool feature added by orkut team, we would cross our fingers to see more like this coming soon. Click Here to Read more!

Orkut applications coming soon, its official now

Hey friends, a few days back i posted about Orkut applications to go public, now Official Orkut Blog has also confirmed this news and posted about this...

Official Orkut Blog:

Back in November, we announced that orkut was open to developers. Developers have been building exciting new social applications over the last few months that will make the orkut experience even better. This is why we're excited to announce that apps will be available to a subset of orkut users starting in a couple weeks, and to all orkut users several weeks after that.

So we might just have to wait for few weeks more to get these great orkut applications to play with... we can wait this much... as we are quite busy orkuting... right friends! Click Here to Read more!

Hack to Add More than 1000 Friends on Orkut

Thanks to the New Group Friend Manage feature on orkut, hack to add more than 1000 friends on orkut is working again. So if you are very famous on orkut and have reached the 1000 limit, do not worry, now you can add more friends too... how? just follow these few simple steps :)

> Go to This page : http://www.orkut.com/Invite.aspx
>> In the field Email Address to Invite, Write the email address of your friends on orkut whom you have still not added or cannot add because you have reached the limit. (please note that the email address should be the one which they have used to create their account and which is usually the one which you found on their profile page).

>> Write your message.
>> Enter the Captcha .
>> Click Submit

> Now you will see the following when they are accepted and you just choose the category and click yes to add them as friend.
Kindly Note that this bug can be fixed any time, so use it till the time it is available, you might also like to subscribe to us for receiving these hacks on time.

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Manage Your Friends Easily on Orkut

Friends, I have been facing a little problem, i think a serious feature was missing from orkut which would help us in organizing our orkut accounts, because many of my school and college friend's name are same, just today orkut added this new feature which have solved my this problem lately and have made organizing friends very easier, as i have been saying in my previous posts that 2008 will be the year for many new orkut modifications and voila i just love this new feature for managing friends. Here is what Official Orkut Blog have to say about this...

Friend groups have been on orkut for some time now, but we're now making them more accessible throughout the site to make it easier for you to create new groups or add new friends to them. Here's what's changed: when you add a new friend or accept a friend request, you can now select which group(s) you want to add them to. You can also modify these groups (rename them, remove them or add new ones) either when you add or accept a friend, or on the friend management page. And we've turned friendship levels into groups for you, so that you can send messages to all your best friends, or see all the friends on orkut that you haven't met offline yet.

These guys at orkut are surely working at their best to give us all improved orkuting and latest features to manage our friends and social networking, my sincere wishes and hats off to these guys... they rock :)

Well you might also like to check out Orkut Trends, Content Privacy in Orkut Communities, save your orkut account from being hacked! Click Here to Read more!

Orkut Applications soon to go public

Well as i have mentioned in my previous posts that 2008 stores many new changes for the orkut. This is about to be true with google planning to release many applications that were being tested on Orkut Sandbox,
Official Google Blog

Starting this month, we're enabling developers to make their social applications available to orkut users. We'll start ramping up to more than 50 million people over the next few weeks.

To prepare for this growth, we're now accepting social applications. For a while now, developers have been able to write, test, and play with applications on orkut. Later this month, however, we're going to start rolling them out to orkut users. OpenSocial developers can submit their completed applications.

Well it would definitely be very interesting to see many new applications for the orkut, the site which really rocks the world!!!
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Orkut Trends now Rank the State of Orkuters

Well friends,we all wonder how many people from the world are on orkut, well sometime we wonder how many people from our state are on orkut. A question came up in the orkut trends community: What is the distribution of orkut users among the different states in the US?
and according to Official Orkut Blog, the results are:
No.1 California - 20% of US orkuters
2. New York - 11 %
3. Florida - 8 %
4. Texas - 7 %
5. Massachusetts
Rounding out the top ten were New Jersey -- referred to by some as "Joisey" -- at 6%, my home state of Illinois (4%), Georgia (2.5%), Pennsylvania (2.5%) and Virginia (2.4%). Other states making up more than 1% of our US user base were Washington (2.3%), Michigan (2%), Ohio (2%), Connecticut (1.9%), Maryland (1.7%), North Carolina (1.6%), Arizona (1.4%), Minnesota (1.1%), and Colorado (1%). Least represented were the sparsely populated states of North Dakota (.07%), South Dakota (.07%), and Wyoming (.06%).

Interesting stats, may they roll out one for India too... Click Here to Read more!

Upload Photos Easily on Orkut - Officially Now

Friends, remember that i made a tutorial about UPLOAD MULTIPLE PHOTOS On ORKUT now Official Orkut Blog have also posted about this feature here is what they have said
Official Orkut Blog

Back from a vacation? Had a party? Surely you must have a ton of photos to share with your orkut friends. Well, we're happy to tell you that we've made sharing those photos with your orkut friends even easier. We have increased the photo limit, so now you can share up to 1,000 photos, and made the upload experience faster for Internet Explorer users.

If you're on orkut with Internet Explorer, click on the link for "New! Upload multiple photos" on your albums page. It takes you through an instructions page for installing the application needed to upload multiple photos at once.

Well its seems that we were proactive on this feature than orkut blog, nice going for us, lets keep it going :) Click Here to Read more!