Spent some time recently with a laptop that would see networks fine (although IP address acquisition via DHCP seemed slower than I’d expect), but which was unable to resolve names with DNS. This was affecting IE, Firefox, ping, basically anything that used the built-in Winsock calls such as gethostbyname(). NSLookup, on the other hand, worked [...]
My antivirus reported an infected file (setpwrcg.exe) this morning, with a file date of 7/19/2004.
There were a few things that struck me as odd about this:
It didn’t seem like a randomly-generated name,
Most viruses/worms don’t seem to bother to set their file dates, particularly not to 5 years ago,
I haven’t been doing anything likely to [...]
Here are photos of the process of opening my old Sony VAIO Z505JSK laptop and upgrading the hard drive. The pictures are linked to larger versions.
The pictures on this page should apply to most Sony VAIO Z505 laptop / notebook computers, as well as to [...]