This blog is a place used for notes and writing about various technical problems and projects worked on. Quite often the posts will be incomplete and some are likely to remain incomplete forever.
Hopefully some of it may be of passing interest, or maybe provide some assistance.
Please leave a comment. Or if you feel generous, click on an ad or two
I just cleaned up another virus infected Vista box using my usual tool – MalwareBytes. I then installed MS Security Essentials. Between the two of them, they found and removed a couple of hundred infected items. I repeated full system scans with both of them until they passed the box as clean.
However Windows Update would still not work – Error: 80072efe
Kaspersky to the rescue. Their TDSSkiller root kit removal tool found “Rootkit.Win32.TDSS.tdl3″ in
C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\SMB.SYS
After removing this, Windows Update worked fine.
I think maybe I’ll use this tool on all cleanups from now on.
Kaspersky’s Root Kit killer download it here
Outlook 2010′s IMAP support is an improvement over Outlook 2007 and previous versions.
The most important improvement is how it handles deleting emails. If you click on the “More Settings” button in the account settings, You find a tab where you can now set up a Trash folder and have deleted items just move to it.
To get your folder structure working right with Courier IMAP, in this “More Settings” dialog, on the tab where you set the port numbers etc., there is a box called Root Folder Path which should be set to INBOX.
This “Root Folder Path” is also available in Outlook 2003/7 and Outlook Express.
I don’t recall having to configure it when connecting to Dovecot IMAP.
And finally could someone please tell MS to stop changing the user interface around or at least give us a skin where us old dogs can get a good old drop down menu instead of multiple oversized new trickish toolbars. It seems that when you use MS Office nowadays, 30% of the screen is the document you are working on, while the remaining 70% is taken up with toolbars built to the same philosophy as Dublin’s docklands. Cost the price of a small country’s economy to build, very flash and impressive looking, but with no actual real value.