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Sarath Lakshman

Posted on June 30, 2007 - by Sarath

0rkut blocking Worm Removal tool /Fix

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It was fun with a windows worm named Heap41a / win32.USBworm. I hadn’t been to M$ Windows for a couple of months. When I was surfing through web, I happended to hear about an interesting worm that affects orkut.com, Mozilla fireox and youtube.com :) . I responded to this piece of news as oh..poor handicapped M$ windows !.

After two or three days one of my friends, Sidharth rang me and told that he was affected by a virus. He explained its features. It blocks orkut.com, youtube.com and mozilla fireox. It gives the message :

“Orkut IS BANNED, orkut is banned you fool The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? r r MUHAHAHA!! “

Even though I’m a M$ Windows hater, I thought of fixing it for him since I’m always interested in this sort of hacking. I went through the web and learned about the worm.

It spreads through USB pendrives and removable storage devices. I found that there wasn’t any free fixing tool avaliable for remove the worm. There were some manual removal instructions.

Lets see what this worm does

It runs a exe file which is name MicrosoftPowerpoint.exe which is located in the USB disk. The autorun.inf runs this file when double clicked. Once this program is run you are infected. It hides all your hidden folders, runs the process in the memory, makes the worm to start with windows and pops those annoying messages. This worm doesn’t destroy any system files. It just infects other USB drives and spreads to new hosts.

Non-avaliability of a free removal tool urged me to write one of my own.

Before I write a fix I wanted to make my machine infected of the worm. and hence i was in need for the worm. I instructed sidharth to make zipped copy of the worm and he mailed to me. Cheers !

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Here is the fix for Orkut, Youtube, Fireox Blocker (Heap41a / win32.USBWorm)

This tool can be used to remove the Blocker worm as well as prevent the Worm further to get infected on the same machine.

Click here to download.

Usage Instructions:

1) Download the fix and run on infected machine.
2) It will ask for a re login.
3) After logging again run the fix again. The worm will be removed succesully.
4) Log to www.sarathlakshman.com and comment here :D

UPDATE: Here is an update howto remove worm from pen drive.
1. Remove the file autorun.inf
2. Re-insert the pendrive.
3. Format it

There is only a permanent method to avoid all sort of worms / viruses. -> Use Gnu/Linux operating system and rock your desktop !

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 30th, 2007 at 12:50 am and is filed under General, Hacks, Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    July 3, 2007

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    Ashish said:

    Hello sarath!
    Good to see ur Worm removal tool here
    But I think the game is not over yet.

    I got this worm in my Pc via USB Drive.
    I scanned my computer with AVG Antivirus(it found nothing)
    I scanned my computer with Spy Subtract(it also found nothing)

    Then,I found on the internet a way to remove it from Pc.
    Acc to it, just find the folder “C:\Heap1a” and delete it.
    I did that using Hijack This.
    It removed and PC was fine.

    But inspite of removal from Pc,it stays in my Pen Drive.

    I used tool provided by you also.But it just gave a message that the worm is removed but didnt remove it from the pen drive.

    then i scanned PC with Norton Antivirus 2005 (It found it,but failed to delete it)

    It says:

    The compressed file Install.txt within H:\MicrosoftPowerPoint.exe is infected with the Trojan Horse virus

    (H: drive is Pen Drive)

    Please tell a way to get it removed from the pen drive also

    Thanks

    Ashish

    mail: ashishaggarwal007@yahoo.com



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    July 3, 2007

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    Ashish said:

    Hello sarath!
    Good to see ur Worm removal tool here
    But I think the game is not over yet.

    I got this worm in my Pc via USB Drive.
    I scanned my computer with AVG Antivirus(it found nothing)
    I scanned my computer with Spy Subtract(it also found nothing)

    Then,I found on the internet a way to remove it from Pc.
    Acc to it, just find the folder “C:\Heap1a” and delete it.
    I did that using Hijack This.
    It removed and PC was fine.

    But inspite of removal from Pc,it stays in my Pen Drive.

    I used tool provided by you also.But it just gave a message that the worm is removed but didnt remove it from the pen drive.

    then i scanned PC with Norton Antivirus 2005 (It found it,but failed to delete it)

    It says:

    The compressed file Install.txt within H:\MicrosoftPowerPoint.exe is infected with the Trojan Horse virus

    (H: drive is Pen Drive)

    Please tell a way to get it removed from the pen drive also

    Thanks

    Ashish

    mail: ashishaggarwal007@yahoo.com

    Just want to make sure that u got the message



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    July 6, 2007

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    Sarath said:

    Hi ashish,

    To remove it from USB drive.. just manually remove autorun.inf from your pendrive.

    OK. I would add a feature soon to do that in my fix.



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    July 6, 2007

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    Naveen said:

    Dear Sarath,

    Really you have done a great job by finding orkut worm killer. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work.

    Best regaards,
    Anil.



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    July 11, 2007

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    Ramesh Balaganchi said:

    Hey Sharath,
    thanks a lot. This is pretty cool. The guy who had a bit of fun devicing this sinister play must be grwoling at you. I really don’t know how i got this into my system. May be through a flash drive. Pls let me know if i can use the flash drive in my system without infecting it again? Can i have an aswer from you?
    regards
    Ramesh



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    July 13, 2007

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    vkp said:

    Not able to find autorun.inf in the removal storage. but when right click it show the option for ‘autorun’ if i again click on this it will replicate.
    please tell me what to do? for removing from the external storage (USB Stick)

    Regards
    VPK



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    July 13, 2007

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    Manas Bhatnagar said:

    Hi Sarath,

    Thanx a lot for ur but…but still I am facing one problem…I can access my yahoo mail on mozilla but I cannot see the contents of the mail…however when I open yahoo mail on IE, I am easily able to all the mail content…the problem is occuring only when I access yahoo mail on mozilla…do u have any solution to it?

    Help will be highly appriciated



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    July 14, 2007

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    murugesan said:

    it works well after running the tool. thanks, satish



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    July 16, 2007

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    Anil said:

    You’ve done a gr8 job. thanx.



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    July 16, 2007

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    aayush said:

    hi yaar
    i dont know u but u r a great technician i must say
    i just got the worm from the pen drive of my friend
    and was feeling helpless…..

    i made a search on google and den i found you..

    i am doing engg. from rajasthan univ. in alwar
    in INFORMATION TECH.

    so sup….if u r in orkut i would like to add u as my friend
    so do let me know on my email
    thanx a lot u did a great job.



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    July 17, 2007

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    Saptarshi Chattopadhyay said:

    Hi Sarath:

    Thx for your web service giving the possible solution to fix up the bug. It was a pain in neck while operating Mozilla….

    U do diserve a lot of thanks and credit….

    Regards,
    Sap



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    July 20, 2007

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    VPK said:

    hi i got the solution .. how to remove from usb also… :)



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    July 20, 2007

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    Rajesh said:

    Hi sarath,

    Gr8 job……saved me!!! I have same funny pop-ups when i used mozilla ………is there any fix for that….

    Thanks in Advance!!!



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    August 11, 2007

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    Nayan said:

    Hi Sarath! thanks for the tool… But please help me to get rid of it from my pen drive… Its an Intex drive if that helps….



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    August 12, 2007

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    David said:

    I killed the worms but yet i cant browse Youtube. Any solution?



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    August 12, 2007

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    sandeep said:

    thanks man… thanks a lot for this ..
    another favour,my friend has hacked my orkut account,i have challenged him tat i will get my account back by account.. pls help me..



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    August 15, 2007

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    Rodrigo Oliveira said:

    Hello Sarath!!!

    I´m from Brazil. Thanks for you.
    You does a good job. You are the best.



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    August 17, 2007

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    sunil said:

    hello,

    last night da same virus infected my laptop.i open process explorer n i found to unknow file svchost.exe thn i got da location heap41a but it was hidden n cant open da folder.thn i hav searched for that folder with include hidden & system file thn i got heap41a folder and same way i searched in my pen drive i removed autorun.inf search for all files n pen drive n i removed microsoftpowerpoint.exe n my pendrive has been healed from tat virus. n need to format da pen drive haaan.
    electronic projects



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    August 18, 2007

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    gp nanda said:

    Hi, thanks fgor the advice.
    i removed from my system and pen drive and mobile removable disk.

    thanks



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    August 23, 2007

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    Gunesh said:

    hiii……thanx a lot for this removal tool…
    our entire lab is infected by this.
    thanx again.



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    August 23, 2007

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    Francisco Sousa said:

    Hey Sarath,

    Amazing Work…
    Cheers to you



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    August 24, 2007

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    ros said:

    Dear Sarath….

    pls help me..i cant file the autorun.inf anywhere…
    pls anyone…i really appreciated ur help



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    August 24, 2007

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    Om said:

    Dude u r genius unlike others and u understand .

    Thats I will communicate with only u.

    For those nopt able to delete inf from Pendrives, format the drives.

    Now sharath, tell me whether u took into account the scripts it adds to registry
    u will find the scrips in the C:\heap41a folder that can be manually accesd by typing in the address bar.

    Now tell me whether ur tool restors the default values in reg.

    Also the virus runs under a process called svchost.exe that is not system but u cannot distinguish it as u can not see names in process manager
    So u need Hijack this
    So ur tool must be ending the processes MSpowerpoint and svchost

    Now a copy of the autorun.inf is placed in all the folders we navigate and the script is therefore loaded again and again as we open any folder so therefore reguistry is not resored

    This causes:
    -to run the virus propcess again as windows starts even if we disable
    -to add the malicious keys to be added again in registry even if expert like me deletes them by finding the values in MUI cache and Heap and powerpoint name sttrings



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    August 24, 2007

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    Alfred said:

    Hi Sarath,

    You have done a spendid job on the orkut Virus. It worked just fine on my systeme and pen drive. Like they say in that Coke ad… Thoosi great ho..

    Keep the good work up and may you tribe multiply.

    Thanks and God Bless.



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    August 26, 2007

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    ros said:

    sorry again..

    is it really working for pendrive when all i need to do is just format it?
    because i couldn’t find any autorun.inf in my pendrive.

    thanks



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    August 27, 2007

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    Amit said:

    Hi,
    you have done a great job………..thanx for all the help



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    August 30, 2007

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    Shinoj said:

    Hi ,
    Your program is very seccessfull to remove the virus and very thanks to do this job. Wishing you a great future.
    I am from Dubai and working here as computer hardware engineer.



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    August 31, 2007

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    syed said:

    hi man

    Now here is the serious problem. “orkut is banned”
    and more over my taskmanager also banned. when i open task manager it says “task manager has been disabled by your administrator”. and i used your orkut worm fix tool before it worked first but task manager was accessible . Now your tool just shows that ” worm has been removed” but no the same problem still accurs.. please find a solution..
    (sorry about my english, its not that good)
    thanks



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    September 1, 2007

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    Mahima said:

    Hi!
    I had the same nagging virus and I used your fix. It has actually fixed the goddamned thing. Thanks a lot.
    But now I have another problem. Whenever I double click on my pen drive in My Computer, it says “Access Denied”.
    On scanning with Kaspersky I found a little something called “autorun.inf” which is not present on my friend’s healthy pen drive. I am in a fix. I have formatted my pen drive N number of times and it keeps coming back. Probably, the computer is infected. What do I do? Please help….
    Thanks



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    September 2, 2007

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    Umesh Parikh said:

    Hi Sarath,

    Had a prob with AHKHeap. Removed from PC, could not remove from pen drive. Did not even show up in explorer. Ran the CMD command in Start=>RUN, and dir too did not show the file. Tried dir/AH, saw the damned microsoftPowerPoint.exe!

    Tried deleting it, nothing worked.

    Finally, I went to e: (in dos) and did the following;
    ATTRIB -a -h -r -s MicrosoftPowerPoint.exe

    It seems to work.



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    September 3, 2007

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    Hari said:

    HI Sarath thnks a lot i got it fixed



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    September 3, 2007

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    Karthikeyan said:

    Hi,
    Working good but not in all the time. First time i scanned it was deleted and next time its showing the same virus is infected. Do something for complete fixing.



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    September 6, 2007

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    Muffadal said:

    This is awesome. Thanks a lot!!
    One problem though. This worm also disabled my Task Manager. Also the “Folder Options” icon in the control panel is removed. Anyway to restore these?



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    September 8, 2007

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    prakash said:

    Hi i got this virus microsoftpowerpoint.exe in my Pc and my Kingston pendrive, it has slowed my pen drive and everything i copy in it gets corrupted and several folder are automatically created with same name similar to 0000.00.
    what should i do to clean the pen drive and the PC.



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    September 9, 2007

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    Eches » Blog Archive » How to remove Heap41a/win32.USBworm said:

    [...] Do the steps look creepy for you to try? Ok, here’s another solution made by sarathlakshman. Download this file, unzip it, run the program and press the remove button. Done! [...]



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    September 10, 2007

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    kaigo said:

    u r da man !!!!!
    usb worm has been killed !!
    t q v m !!



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    September 10, 2007

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    sid said:

    thanks..a lot i had removed..that worm by ur tool..
    and also i found that power point folder ..that was hidden..i had seen .that in that..its coding was also thr..with a svchost file..
    i deleted that..and get free frm that…..
    thanks…..once again



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    September 11, 2007

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    Nirmal said:

    tHANX A LOT MANNNNNNN………..U R A REAL GOOD MAN

    I WOULD LIK 2 B U R FRND…..PLZ CONTACT ME @

    nirmalms_007@yahoo.com or visit this Orkut page
    http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=16962346226749797173



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    September 11, 2007

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    Types Of Computer Viruses said:

    Types Of Computer Viruses

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting



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    September 12, 2007

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    Tuxedo said:

    The Ashish’s tip at the top and your tool are just fine. I kicked that lame ass virus out of my pc and pen-drive.

    Thanks !



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    September 13, 2007

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    sanjoy debanath said:

    Dear,
    Sarath, Thanks a lot….

    “YOU” donot know what you have done for me .

    I am suffering from this problem since 2 month.
    At last i find your fix. And if works. Thanks Thanks..



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    September 17, 2007

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    Vinu said:

    Thanks a ton mate…cheers to u….



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    September 19, 2007

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    Computer Security Tips said:

    Computer Security Tips

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting



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    September 23, 2007

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    Ganesh Inguva said:

    Hi,

    I am unable to dlete autorun.inf from my pen drive. Tried ‘del’ through command prompt also. But still did not work. I have formatted the PEN Drive. But the file remains. Can you suggest me what to do ?

    Ganesh



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    September 23, 2007

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    siva said:

    HI,

    In my system it is the problem showing always on right side of the tool bar……. suggest me..

    ; IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT GETTING STARTED: Lines that start with a
    ; semicolon, such as this one, are comments. They are not executed.

    ; This script has a special filename and path because it is automatically
    ; launched when you run the program directly. Also, any text file whose
    ; name ends in .ahk is associated with the program, which means that it
    ; can be launched simply by double-clicking it. You can have as many .ahk
    ; files as you want, located in any folder. You can also run more than
    ; one ahk file simultaneously and each will get its own tray icon.

    ; Please read the QUICK-START TUTORIAL near the top of the help file.
    ; It explains how to perform common automation tasks such as sending
    ; keystrokes and mouse clicks. It also explains how to use hotkeys.

    ; SAMPLE HOTKEYS: Below are two sample hotkeys. The first is Win+Z and it
    ; launches a web site in the default browser. The second is Control+Alt+N
    ; and it launches a new Notepad window (or activates an existing one). To
    ; try out these hotkeys, run AutoHotkey again, which will load this file.

    #z::Run http://www.autohotkey.com

    ^!n::
    IfWinExist Untitled – Notepad
    WinActivate
    else
    Run Notepad
    return

    ; Note: From now on whenever you run AutoHotkey directly, this script
    ; will be loaded. So feel free to customize it to suit your needs.
    …………………………………………………….
    title of the page:C:/heap41a\script1.txt – autokey v1.0.46.08

    Script lines most recently executed (oldest first). Press [F5] to refresh. The seconds elapsed between a line and the one after it is in parentheses to the right (if not 0). The bottommost line’s elapsed time is the number of seconds since it executed.

    020: Return (8.73)

    Press [F5] to refresh.



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    September 24, 2007

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    Anil Reddy said:

    Hi,

    after i have tried every antivirus as a remedy for this worm,
    i have just come to know about u form my friend, i downloaded ur file and the problem in my system has gone.

    Thanx a lot for your great effort.



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    September 25, 2007

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    Anti Virus Software said:

    Anti Virus Software

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting



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    September 25, 2007

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    KALAI said:

    Its a safe practice to press and hold the Shift button before inserting any usb drives to avoid the autorun feature from being activated. For newbies, hold the shift button until any LED lights on the usb drive stops flashing. Then open My Computer and right click your drive which should be the last alphabet anyway. Use the open menu and check for any auto.inf files (it might be hidden)and delete it. Mind you, these files if any, have no business in the USB drive in the first place!



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    October 1, 2007

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    Suresh said:

    Hi
    sharath
    How to orkut ban?

    suresh



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    October 3, 2007

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    samrit said:

    hey man.. thanks for the tool.. anyway, what happens when my pc shuts down automaticly?? like in the middle of something, it just shuts down… no warning, no countdown nothing.. need help.. mail me please..



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    October 4, 2007

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    Ravin said:

    sharath,
    Wow,
    what a man !
    what a man !!
    what a man !!!
    u r . It helped me.
    Thanks & Great Work
    Keep Doing !



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    October 5, 2007

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    Daniel said:

    sarath, thanks!
    you did a great job.
    congratulations.



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    October 6, 2007

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    Akbar said:

    Hi, How r u?

    Can you send some useful links to me…

    Can you send me some public proxy ip address & the port no.

    thx

    Akbar



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    October 6, 2007

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    sobhan said:

    Sarath,

    I have tried it,but the problem has not solved.Please reply me.My ID is sobhan_klnv@yahoo.com



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    October 7, 2007

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    Annu said:

    Hi,
    u really are intelligent maN :)
    solved the problem which was bugging me .
    I even was going for a format.
    Thanx for the soln
    Best of luck :)



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    October 9, 2007

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    Phoenix said:

    hiya.. does any one know how to stop this worm from entering the system in the first place…
    ‘Coz it gets very annoying to do the rigma roll each and every time..and am a frequent user of my pen drive.



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    October 9, 2007

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    Tom Lim said:

    Thanks for the solution. Keep up the good work!



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    October 12, 2007

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    Computer Network Security said:

    Computer Network Security

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting



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    October 13, 2007

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    deadly said:

    the file is removed????

    link is dead…pls give a proper link :)



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    October 18, 2007

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    Phunu said:

    Hi Sarath,
    I m glad that i can get into orkut due to your solution. My pendrive got this file autorun.inf
    from my friend’s laptop and is removed now but, created such a problem. Thanks man for such a help. Cheers!:)



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    October 18, 2007

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    Virus Removal and Computer Security said:

    Virus Removal and Computer Security

    Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)



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    October 25, 2007

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    busy_writer said:

    amazing thing!
    thank you soo much!! :)
    m now back to orkutting! :)

    cheers!
    and hehe, take a bow :)



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    October 31, 2007

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    achintya palit said:

    hello
    i downloaded the worm-fix.exe, but after clicking the remove button some relogging window came, but to see more instruction i canceled the operation, but when pressed the remove button, its saying removed sucessfully but a run time
    60 , and current thread will exit message is comming, plz lnform me hw to fix the problem?
    achintya



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    November 2, 2007

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    Ishan said:

    HI brother

    Dats really great job. U have done……..
    Thanks a lot.
    Keep it UP!!!! for da shake of Orkut user..and computer lerner’s
    pla can u send me da programming of dat tool u made I’ll be thankful for dat..



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    November 4, 2007

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    Vinodkumar G B said:

    Hi,

    Great work brother!! none of the big named companies have left the removal tool for this.
    Good Job :)



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    November 5, 2007

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    kumarjit from manipur, imphal said:

    sarath,

    Thanks a lot.
    USB worm has been killed !!
    Keep doing your hard job.

    But there R many……… to request you



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    November 8, 2007

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    Gaurav said:

    Your’re a life saver buddy .. i did the virus removing manually but your software did it faster and it kinda confirmed the virus was gone .. Thanxz
    I like your work
    tc



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    November 13, 2007

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    Sankar Mohan said:

    hai sarath

    i have only one word to say ” Kidilan” great job man



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    November 13, 2007

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    Shankar said:

    hello sarath

    I had a problem with my memory stick. Somehow it had a folder MUSIC which was not copied by me but it is shown in the Stick. When I attempt to delete it is coming again and again. I identified that it is a AUTORUN.inf file. I am unable to use this stick now. Pls pass a solution to my mail ID.

    regards
    shankar sb



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    November 24, 2007

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    Cheap Custom Built Computers said:

    Cheap Custom Built Computers

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting



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    December 4, 2007

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    Sudhir said:

    Hi Sarath,

    Good tool, I tried deleting this heap41a from safe mode and from reovery console, but still i had access denied, i was just curious, to if you had deleted the folder with system account, as the svchost.exe would not get deleted or is it the folder thats, that’s not allowing to get access.

    I was also intrested in know which open soruce is best for home use to browse internet?

    your help is appreciated,

    Thanks
    Sudhir.



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    December 5, 2007

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    yamini said:

    hi
    well u’ve done a great job but m still having problem opening my pendrive…when ever i right click on h:icon it prompts……..”this drive is not accessble or is unreadable”
    Plz help
    n plz tell me if i cn use the pen drive again



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    December 6, 2007

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    Free Software Downloads said:

    Free Software Downloads

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting



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    December 7, 2007

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    Cheap and Free Computer Software said:

    Cheap and Free Computer Software

    Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)



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    Brian Longo said:

    Sarath,

    Great removal tool. One thing, if you could integrate into the tool, would be to clean out the user’s temporary file folder. I have seen this worm settle in there and, after a cleaning, re-emerge because it was caught in the Temp folder. Just a suggestion if it’s not that difficult. Again, thanks for the tool!



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    John Campos said:

    Thanks Sarath. Great fix.



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    anish said:

    thanx dear



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    January 4, 2008

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    TOM said:

    HEY HOW THE THE HELL DID YU DESIGN THIS SOFTWARE, IS IT YOU WHO DEVELOPED THIS FCKING VIRUS DON’T LIE. NON OF THE BIG ANTI VIRUS APPLICATION DOES NOT DETECT THIS AND YOU DEVELOPED THE REMOVER



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    Brian said:

    Tom,

    Nice useless, defamatory post. You should post that on Symantec and McAfee.

    The “big antivirus applications” do feeble attempts to clean/protect computers anyhow. I can’t tell you how many computers I see in the shop I work in that come in with Norton, McAfee, F-Secure, etc. that are badly infected with malware. Besides, those “big companies” don’t exactly scan for less destructive forms of malware or detect their signatures. They’re looking more for stronger, destructive virus signatures.

    While this is classified as a “worm”, truly, IMHO, it’s not. It’s a self-replicating piece of malware, so while, technically, it *IS* a virus by its very definition, it’s relatively harmless, rather an annoyance kind of along the lines of the old W97 Marker worms that used macros to infect Office 97 documents way back when.



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    Broda said:

    Hello sarath

    Thanks so much for this tool

    Works VERY Well on my infected machines



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    January 15, 2008

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    madhu said:

    Done.
    Congrat sarath
    threat is over for the time being.
    thank you



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    February 4, 2008

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    Jana said:

    Hello Sarath
    Thanks a lot!
    I’m so glad your tool helped me to get rid of it! :-)



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    February 5, 2008

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    Veera said:

    Greetings Sarath,

    I need help to get rid of “Hacked by Moozilla” Virus.
    I you have a cure for it. Thank You.



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    Prabhath Nair said:

    sir,
    this is amazing tool, i cannect exect before using this



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    February 27, 2008

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    alleykat said:

    Thanks a lot, seems to have helped me too!



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    March 15, 2008

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    Arup Ghosh said:

    My daughter came home with her Laptop infected by that worm which blocks access to Orkut. First I tried installing Firefox. That worm would not allow me do that. Then I saw mention of your Worm-fix. I downloaded it and now it works fine. Many thanks.

    The other thing that the worm (or maybe some other virus) has done to her Laptop is that Ctrl+Alt+Del, Task Manager, Regedit etc all has been disabled. Trying to find a solution that now.

    Thanks again.



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    rakesh said:

    dear sarath,
    first thing first…a BIG thank you for creating this fix that let me surf orkut again on my system … i had not been able to open orkut since last two months…and today i bumped into ur blog and it helped me…..
    i endorse ur open source movement….and embracing Linux would be great thing…..



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    March 30, 2008

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    Ramesh said:

    i successfully removed the heap41a virus, but still i am not able to see the hidden files. i want a permanent solution for this, how to see the hidden files, can u help me

    ur help will be highly appriciated

    regards
    Ramesh



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    Abbas said:

    hey. i opened the removal tool n it clicked on remove.it says worm removed successfully, but i still find the same thing happening when i try to open orkut or youtube.



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    April 9, 2008

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    kaushik said:

    thanx a ton pal!! great job done!! keep it up.



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    amit said:

    hi sarath !
    i tried the worm fixer , but its not working . i am not able to open orkut .wheever i try the orkut.com ; there comes orkut.com/block.aspx n the page closes.
    even i click on the link from gmail the page opens n closes in fraction of second.
    pl. help
    regards
    amit



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    Prashant said:

    Hi Sarath,
    Tired your fix….worked just fine.



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    April 17, 2008

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    shatrughan said:

    thanks

    for the removal tool

    around 10 people are infected by this virus in our colony



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    manu said:

    Thanks a lot for the tool man!

    Usually I won’t need it (I don’t use Windows, and can do it without a tool anyway), but today it helped me (remotely) remove virus from my friend’s computer.



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    Babin lonston said:

    Dear sarath u r great very help full for me many cousetemer were asking this problem but now i fixed they r fully satisfied u did a great job thanks a lot friend



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    lakshmi menon said:

    Dear Friend am having the same orkut virus prob in my pc.i searched the net and tried to remove the worm.but i could not open the task manager.then i tried a method to open task manger(goin to application templates,system,ctl+alt+dtl and disable the remove tsk mgr/) still task manager is nt opening for me…so i type c:/heap41a in run and was able to delete all files includin mp3 vrythn excep svchost.exe :( n in some sites its written to open run n type regedit but that is also nt wokrin in my case as it is nt opening for mr.now the worm is still there without muhahah voice n withou virus code.but nobody has told a case of task mangr disabled after doin the method n my regedit alo disabled?am really tensd…as there is no net connection to ma pc .so i cnt download ny antivirus also.please gimme a good solution..



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    Mohd.Abdul Rafi said:

    How to remove this type of virose

    Script lines most recently executed (oldest first). Press [F5] to refresh. The seconds elapsed between a line and the one after it is in parentheses to the right (if not 0). The bottommost line’s elapsed time is the number of seconds since it executed.

    020: Return (45752.47)

    Press [F5] to refresh.



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    Anirban said:

    Thank you Mr. Sarath . I am an I.T. student form Kolkata. I thought that I could get a lot more information and help on getting around with such other virus attacks and on how to code such programs . I need ur help and hope that u will help me definitely … waiting for ur reply !



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    Abhimanyu.Raman said:

    hi sarath

    the tool you designed is great. but i don’t know how to clean my pendrive(transcend jetflash v30 512mb).
    Please tell me how

    thanx,
    Abhi



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    Internet Security said:

    Internet Security

    If your looking for even more information on PC security then I would head over here as they have plenty of stuff on identity theft, antivirus software etc.



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    Sandeep said:

    Hi Sharat,

    Great Work yaar..

    Congrats…



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    August 5, 2008

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    Ravindran said:

    Good job.

    Thank you very much



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    arpi said:

    i tried this tool. it gave the message “virus removed succesfully. thank you”. but when i tried to open orkut i found that the worm was still there!!!!!!! please help me urgently!11111111



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    sundeep said:

    grat work dude…..keep d great work goin…thanx



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    September 19, 2008

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    Dan said:

    Just wanted to say hellol



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    September 20, 2008

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    ravi said:

    hi saarthak,
    how does it works yaar?
    pls send some thing extra



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    Deepk said:

    hey sarath lakshman, thanx lot buddy. it is excellent. i thought i would have 2 format my pc but u saved my time. thanks once agin. too good. Keep it up.



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    Sumit said:

    Hi,

    Thanks a lot man. This is so effective.
    Great work.



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    ajay devgun said:

    Hey sarath
    thanx alot, but dude i cant get a way to remove it from the pendrive
    just let me know how to do it



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    Najaz said:

    Hi sarath, i think a newer orkut blocking worm is there… my friends pc was infected with that n cant remove with ur software..can u pls help me…



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    lomy said:

    thank you



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    madhi said:

    hi sarath the removal tool works well, thanks for the effect
    gr888



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    Arshad said:

    hi frnd ,
    i have some probs in opening the hotmail website. well it is happening since 3 days it says error on page . and 2 nd probs is that there is some virus named newfolder its size is 602 kb , i tried to delete it but doesnt get deleted it is also present in my pendrive ,i tried deleting it but no chance . plz guide me frnd.



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    Ershad said:

    Congrats, from where could i get its source code ?



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    Anishpsla said:

    There is only a permanent method to avoid all sort of worms / viruses. -> Use Gnu/Linux operating system and rock your desktop !

    No just login to Windows as limited user not as admin. In Windows, default account type is Admin. In Linux, it’s user without root access. Iy you login as limited user, you can save your system from affecting most of the viruses. I think the author also know it. So please don’t blog such wrong comments. Thease days, the no of linux viruses are growing. Just google for more info.



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    Randal Bryan said:

    Hi, thanks for the kind words, and yes, feel free to post this on your blog. It’s always nice to get conversation and links from others interested in the same things.Very special!



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