Let’s work together and stop spam email starting right now!

If you can’t unsubscribe from somebody’s emails that keep flooding your inbox, that’s spam! Usually an honest email marketer such as myself will have a place at the bottom of each email to unsubscribe from their email list. If you don’t have the option to unsubscribe (opt out) then this is blatant SPAM!

When you get any unwanted emails that don’t allow you to unsubscribe, use the following link with the FTC to file a complaint.

http://www.ftc.gov/spam/

https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

After you do this a couple times, setup this link to start the process immediately:
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en

Hopefully the FTC can smoke out these criminal spammers and shut them down for life.

Please let me know what success you have with this approach or any other ways you are having success stopping spam email?

Regards, Jared Blake

P.S. I tried the forwarding spam emails directly to spam@uce.gov as described on the FTC home page but they don’t seem to be getting through the system to the FTC.

To DISABLE XP’s zip support, perform the following steps:
Select Run from the Start menu.
At the open prompt type:
regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
Click OK.
Restart the computer.

To ENABLE XP’s zip support, perform the following steps:
Select Run from the Start menu.
At the open prompt type:
Regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
Click OK.
Restart the computer

Regards, Jared Blake

Solution: Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) Reg hack.

1. Expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Office\ 9.0\ Common\ General.

2. If any of these branches aren’t there, just create them – one by one – by selecting New and then Key from the Edit menu.

3. Once you’ve highlighted the General key, select New and then DWORD Value from the Edit menu. As the name of this new key, type AcbControl. Double-click on the new value, select Decimal, type 1 in the Value Data field, and click Ok when you’re done.

This change should take effect immediately.

Congratulations, that annoying pesky little clipboard is still working but now hidden!

Regards, Jared Blake

The following code within my blog CSS file was dictating my link color format:

a,a:visited,a:hover {
color:#777777;
text-decoration:none;
}

I wanted my menu links to be a different color from the links within my blog page.

The solution was to add the following code within my CSS file and then using the h6 reference to change the link color within the menu:

h6 a {color: #CCCCCC;}
h6 a:visited {color:#CCCCCC;}
h6 a:hover {color: #CCCCCC;}
h6 a:active { color:#CCCCCC;}

Note it doesn’t have to be h6 it just needs to be unique to the rest of the CSS file.

Regards, Jared Blake

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Regards, Jared Blake

The Symptom: When you open a folder that is configured to show a thumbnail view of .jpg files, you see an outline of the thumbnail and a small program icon rather then the image that should be displayed.

Note: before doing the following steps, make sure you make a backup copy of the registry.

To resolve this issue, use Regedit to re-associate the .jpg file extension in the registry:
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Locate and click the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg registry key.
3. Right-click the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg registry key, point to New, and then click Key. Name the new key ShellEx.
4. Right-click the ShellEx registry key that you created, point to New, and then click Key. Name the new key {BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}.
5. Click the {BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1} registry key that you created, right-click the Default value in the right pane, click Modify, and then type the following value data in the Value data box: {7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}

Reboot…That’s it…

Regards, Jared Blake

First I called my web hosting service and asked them to scan my blog for viruses. I was told they don’t do that. So I downloaded my current blog files and scanned all the files locally and did not find any viruses. Just as I suspected, this might be a false positive virus detection.

I searched the entire internet for any information on this issue and didn’t find anything directly related to my specific problem. So I decided to completely remove my blog and install a fresh new downloaded copy of WordPress version 2.x and, after all that, I still found I was getting the same Downloader virus detection caused by the wp-stats[1].htm file.

Now I was completely frustrated to no end. For some crazy lucky reason I decided to go through all my blog option settings and when I deleted the Blog address (URL): found under Options then the General tab within WordPress administration and then saved my updated settings. Wordpress automatically populates the blog address field back in upon saving. This fixed the false positive Downloader virus detection that was occurring anytime somebody visited my blog and was using Symantec Antivirus and maybe any other antivirus software.

My guess is that I must have mistyped the blog address url entry at some point and that was causing the problem.

CORRECTION: The issue returned shortly after I posted this blog entry. So I went back through my blog piece by piece and located an entry in one of my blog postings that looks like what is posted at this link:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/151888

It is a traffic statistics script that was inserted into one of my blog postings.

I removed this entry from my post and the downloader virus detection issue went away.

If this information helps anyone else experiencing this issue please leave a comment on our blog to let us know. Thank you!

Regards, Jared Blake

You must place the following code within your WordPress pages were you want your tags to display, such as: index.php, single.php, etc.

You may have to experiment a little, to find the exact location you want to place this code.

This command gives you the default comma separated format that looks like this:

Tags: tag1, tag2, tag3, tag4

For other formats of displaying your tags, check out the following WordPress help page at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_tags

Regards, Jared Blake

Does Accessories and Utilities currently show in the add/remove Windows Components Wizard.? If yes then click on details and see if games appears. If it does then you can uncheck to remove it and then click OK.

Otherwise Modify the following file – c:\winnt\inf\sysoc.inf

Now Accessories and Utilities should show in the Windows Components Wizard.

You can now select details and remove games!

You should not be able to run the following game files now:
C:\WINNT\System32\freecell.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\sol.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\winmine.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball\PINBALL.EXE

Note: there maybe copies of these files located in the following directory:
C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache

Regards, Jared Blake

A browser hijacker modifies your browser settings so when you type in a URL you are redirected to another site.

Off the top I was thinking you should try the following steps:

1. Delete all temporary internet files and browsing history.
2. Run a full system scan using Symantec Antivirus with the latest NAV def’s.
3. Run a full system scan using Ad-aware by Lavasoft with the latest updated def’s.

One of my tech friends suggested using Spyware Doctor by pc-tools and run the scan.

Follow any directions given by Symantec if a virus/trojan/hijacker is found. This may include modifying the registry or running a fix file found on Symantec’s website.

The last time my wife’s computer was infected with a bad virus I had to rebuild it. Meaning I saved all her data then completely formatted the hard drive thus removing everything. Then I re-installed the operating system and all her applications and of course her special fonts. :) Then I restored all her data. Very time consuming but of course this completely eliminated the virus.

Regards, Jared Blake