I am in Melbourne!

Hello everyone who cares:

This is going to be very short, because I don't have my own internet connection yet, and I am using an internet access in my residence area, and it is very expensive!

So for this update, I am only going to give some of my important contact details, as I promised.

Update: Mobile phone number removed.
Update: House phone number: 03- 93458295

Note:1. if calling from outside Australia, please call [mobile phone number removed].

2. Please observe the time difference. (haha, I don't look forward to receiving calls at 4 am, okay?) From now until the last Sunday of March, Melbourne is running daylight saving time which is equivalent to GMT +11. In other words, it's 3 hours ahead of Malaysian time. After that, it would be GMT +10 or 2 hours ahead of Malaysian time.

3. House phone will normally be engaged since I am using dial up for the internet connection. Therefore please call me between 7 to 9 pm Melbourne time (when I would normally be cooking) to get through. Otherwise, please contact me thru mobile phone and I will disconnect from the Internet to allow the landline usage. Thank you.

Update: This section is no longer valid as of year 2007.

Postal Address: [Censored due to privacy concerns. Contact me via e-mails]

For those in Australia, I am using Optus prepaid, so no excuses for not calling me ya! :-D

I will update all of you the next time!

I am leaving Malaysia today...

The title says it all. The counter is counting 18 hours right now, and it's still going like a race...

Well, I haven't been able to log much about my life in these few days, because of all hard works packing up and last minute preparations. Basically I have all my luggage done, and tomorrow I will be at KLIA at 6 pm and flying at 9.30.

I will put on more pictures of friend's departure and my own departure once I have settled everything and have time for it. I can't give you a time, it might be 3 days, it might be one week, or even two weeks. Who knows... :-)

But you can still post some message at the chatterbox to your left. Even when I don't have time at all, I will still come in and check the messages once in a while (in fact, at least once a day, you know, such an incurable Internet addict). So if there are anything you wish to tell me, just leave a note.

That's all for today. In fact I shouldn't be wide awake at my last night in Malaysia. But I am. Haha... See ya!

Update: Handcuffs.pif Virus

Well, it seemed like the Bropia variant virus is spreading like a wild fire in the cyberspace.. Since I blogged about this virus 2 days ago, this blog has been getting hundreds of incoming visits, all courtesy of keywords like handcuffs.pif, handcuffs.pif virus removal and so on.

Many websites having linking towards this removal tool for the virus. If you suspect that you are infected, have a try.

Update: Someone posted this easy and working solution. See if it's working.

alright i fixed my computer. all you have to do is go into your task manager and under the running processes section you'll find a file called what i belive is asr.rnt running. stop it and go into your system 32 folder and delet it. everything works fine on my comp now so good luck to you all :)

Weird Weighing Method

Alvin, sorry, I can't help but to highlight this... :-P

What a way to weigh a baggage! We should tell all major airports to change their weighing machines... LOL

Now in KL

I arrived safely and soundly in KL yesterday night. It was a 5 hour drive, a long and tiring one.

Au Revoir, Alor Star!

Leaving you for 9 months, dear PC... Don't miss me, and remember to behave well ya!

So this is the last night I am spending here in my cosy house, tomorrow this afternoon I will be on my way down to my brother's house in Kuala Lumpur. See you, friends, and thanks for all the thousand wishes (and the good-wish angpows) from my siblings and relatives. I shall be living my life to the fullest when I am in Melbourne then! Keep your fingers crossed.

Almost asleep.. then.. Virus strikes!

Yup, I almost disconnected when two of my friends in MSN messenger sent this to me and disconnected immediately.

wtf.... http://members.home.nl/marnixstaal/handcuffs.pif :-D

WARNING: Please don't follow the link above. It's a VIRUS

Well, I almost clicked on the link. What happens is, when you click on the link, you will be downloading a self executable file (just like .exe files). While downloading the file doesn't do any harm, running it does. If I am not mistaken, once you run it, you will be spreading the same message to your MSN contacts, hence spreading the virus! There are other havocs in your pc too, but I am not sure what they are.

Anyway, what happens behind this is, virus always capitalise on common folk's curiosity and sexuality. Well, some variations of this virus have a description that it's a picture of a handcuffed girl. I think if a guy is computer illiterate and think from his lower part, he would have been fooled into downloading it.

Well, here I wish to share a few rules of thumb:

1. When your friend tries to send you a file through MSN, Yahoo messenger or other IM applications, confirm with him / her before you proceed.

2. Picture files never ends with .pif, dude! The common extensions of pictures online are only .gif, .jpg, and .png. I think many people must have confused that pif stands for "pics". Nope, there's only .pic extension which is nearly obsolte now, and .pif stands for Program Information File, a kind of MS-DOS extension.

3. Never accept files transferred online which ends with .scr, .pif, .vbs! Apart from that, always practice precaution while transferring files that end with .exe, .doc, .xls, .dot etc, they may contain virus if your friend is already infected. Make sure you scan these files before opening them.

4. Last but not least, if possible, dump IE for a safer and more convenient browser! Follow this article for the reason and rationale behind it.

p/s: For those who are infected with this virus and need to find the remedy, google for handcuffs.pic removal. There are a few informative links, one of them is this one.