Archive for November, 2009

Remote Process Kill via WMI. A Replacement to rkill.exe/wrkill.exe

25 Nov 2009 at 10:06

Terry Moore

AutoIT, Programming, Technical

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In the past I have use an application from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit called rkill.exe and its GUI counter part called wrkill.exe to remotely kill processes.  But lately I find that it is more and more unreliable and I get an error message “The RPC server is unavailable“.  So I decided to write a utility that uses Windows built-in WMI (Windows Management Instrument) to find and kill processes instead.  This application is freely available and I have included the source code released under the GPL v3 license.  The application is written in AutoIT. If you use this and like it please let me know in the comments. I find it useful when trying to remove spyware from people’s computers around the office.

Application: Remote Process Kill (392)
Source: Remote Process Kill Source (345)

RemoteProcKill.exe

RemoteProcKill.exe

Set Windows Applications to Always Be On Top

23 Nov 2009 at 19:48

Terry Moore

Ajax, Applications

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Here is an application that I wrote that will allow you to select a running application and keep the windows running on top of all of the other applications.   This has been tested on Windows XP/2003/7.  I assume that it will work on Vista.  There isn’t an installer just download the executable and run the application.  The application was written in AutoIT and I have included the source code.  It is release under the GPL v3 license.

Application: RunOnTop.exe (142)
Source: RunOnTop.exe Source (162)

Screen Shot of RunOnTop.exe

Screen Shot of RunOnTop.exe

How to: Get Adobe Air Working in Fedora 12

18 Nov 2009 at 20:50

Terry Moore

Fedora, How To, Linux, Technical

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So you just got Fedora 12 installed on your computer and you need to Tweet about it from Tweetdeck, right?  But wait you are having some issues. You have Adobe Air installed and every time you try to install Tweetdeck you get this error:

Application crashed with an unhandled SIGSEGV
Crashlog has been dumped in /tmp/airCrashLogs/1118_2022_uRpKSj

Here is how to fix it:

linux$ su -
Password:
linux# for c in /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt/*.0; do aucm -n $(basename $c) -t true; done

Thats it, here is the FedoraForum post where this came from.

Bugatti Veyron Crash Video

16 Nov 2009 at 14:54

Terry Moore

Awesome, Humor, Internet, Video

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I cant image ever driving a $1 million car, let alone wrecking one.  But that is what this millionaire did in Texas last week.  He is has blamed swerving to miss a pelecan for the cause of the accident, in anycase it makes laugh.  And in a world where everyone has a video camera you better believe it was caught on tape.

The Fun Theory

12 Nov 2009 at 16:41

Terry Moore

Awesome, Health, Other

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The Fun Theory is a project which is sponsored by Volkswagon that is testing the theory that they can change peoples behavior, for the better, just making a simple task more fun.  Below is a video done by the project where they have video taped a crowded subway station with a stair case and an eslcalator next to each other.  On first day they video taped people getting off the subway train and heading straight for the crowded escalator, leaving the stair case empty. Later that night, after all the people were gone, they came back and modified the stair case to look like a piano’s keyboard, complete with sound.  The next day when people got off the train and well, see the result for yourself.

Pretty amazing that something so small can change people behavior to start taking the stairs.  I wonder how long this behavior would continue or are they just using the stairs the first time that they see it looking like a piano or does the behavior continue.  My vote, they go back to the escalator.

On their website they have a few other video’s of changing human behavior. Check it out

iPhone Virus: iPhone/Privacy.A

11 Nov 2009 at 10:04

Terry Moore

Internet, iPhone, Mobile, Technical

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Earlier this week a hacker release an iPhone virus that didn’t do any damaged to your iPhone besides “Rick Rolling” your phone by add a picture of Rick Astley as your iPhone background.  Today someone has taken that relatively harmless code and modified it to steal you personal data.

Mac security vendor Intego calls the code “iPhone/Privacy.A.” It is a malicious tool hackers install on Windows, Mac, Unix or Linux systems, and even on iPhones, using those devices to scan for “jailbroken” iPhones, some of which are vulnerable to the malware.

If it finds a vulnerable iPhone within its range, the malware copies e-mail, contacts, SMS (Short Message Service) messages, calendar entries, photos, music, videos and any data recorded by an iPhone application, according to an advisory from Intego.

This only affects jailbroken phones running an SSH server with the default root password still set.  If you have a jailbroken phone and don’t know how to change the default root password, you can follow my easy step by step guide.

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